Pun of a Kind

Update (4/25, 9:30 am): Correct PDF now posted - sorry about that!! PDF  /  PUZ Hello, puzzlers of the world! We're closing (not on a house, just on the month), which means it's meta time!   1. March recap: March answer:  LITTLE WOMEN Correct entries:  20 Winners:  BarbaraK and Matt  - congrats!! I hope to have more literary metas in the future! I'm a big bookworm, although I hadn't read this one! It's almost universal knowledge that Beth, Meg, Amy, and Jo are the sisters in LITTLE WOMEN , this meta's answer. The bonus  was that the surname of all four sisters is...March, fitting for the March meta! A special shout-out to C=64 , who also  tested this month's meta and cracked that bonus!! He wins...the satisfaction of a job well done (gee, thanks).   2.  Today's puzzle has a Level of  1.5 , maybe of 5. I'm hoping to have some redemption here for a previous meta and if you know, you know.   The answer to the meta is a p...

PDF / PUZ Hello, crossworld! I hope we are off to a great spring, a fantastic season because a) we can finally start to solve our crosswords outside and b) baseball!!!!!  It's hard to study the full scope of American history (though technically the sport is based on the British activity of rounders) without examining the indelible impact of this amazing, iconic pastime. In case you're wondering where my allegiance lies, my household bleeds Cubbie blue, and the 2016 World Series victory is still one of the happiest memories we cherish to the this day. And as a result, today's puzzle...has nothing to do with baseball, whoops (maybe soon!). Special thanks to kormad for the deep, incisive test run! Happy solving! Mikey G