Pun of a Kind

PDF  /  PUZ A belated happy Thanksgiving! I am stuffed (like my turkey). It was surreal to watch one of my dreams come true with my guest stop on MGWCC #755 last week, which I assume if you're reading this, you're reading that (though not necessarily the other way around!). I welcome the new puzzlers to my meta blog! You're JUST MY TYPE  (I had to, one last time). This blog was originally regular crosswords, but the meta bug bit me, and so metas seem to be the permanent law of the land, so I believe! 1.  Puzzle #42 recap Puzzle #42 answer: FACETIOUSLY Correct entries: 43 While I'm not the biggest fan of anagramming in a meta, since I like there to be a systematic way to spell out any meta answer, that was unavoidable here - but the last clue LESS implies that there are only 11 of something in this grid. The something in question are the letters themselves! Maybe a casual puzzle with a lot of common letters and crosswordese will get to 16-18 unique letters, but f...

PDF  /  PUZ It's roughly halfway through the month, so it's time for a mini-meta! And it is only 187 squares, compared to 225, so that counts! 1.  Puzzle #41 recap Puzzle #41 answer:  KIT KAT Correct entries:  31 Here's the plan of attack: a.  The title with TASTES in all caps obviously means something; combing the grid, you should discover six other entries (all six-letters) that all have that same ABCADC letter pattern. b. The first letter of each of the clues corresponding to those entries spells out KIT KAT , the answer to the meta and most certainly a "bar food" (har har). c. We also have an Easter egg, also symmetrical, featuring the words in the famed tagline: "Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar!" (Or Fancy Feast, if you're Andy Bernard.) --- 2.  This mini is about a Level 2 , I would conjecture. Let's see if any of those Kit Kats give you the energy needed to solve it! The PDF looks a bit different, but this is not meta-related - ju...