This is another "rabbit hole meta" where the mechanism is one I thought of while trying to solve another meta. Despite the title, I'd rate this a 2 or a 3.
Okay. I had a dream about Matt Gaffney's Weekly Crossword Contest #877.
I had no idea how to solve it but I dreamt that ... well, I dreamt it had the mechanism and answer of this one. It had nothing of the sort so this won't help you at all in…
This is almost not a meta. But it is, but only barely. It should be straightforward. The hardest part is probably realizing that, yeah, it really is that and any attempt to treat it as a standard meta won't work. Maybe I should say it's not a…
Okay. So sometimes you are solving or constructing a meta and you see or come up with an idea and you think it has potential to be applied gain in different circumstances. But then you realize you can't redo a…