42. These Puns Go to Eleven

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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.)

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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 - just how I was able to get the document to work this time.

Until next time, happy puzzling!

Mikey G

The 11-letter answer to the meta is a word that describes how I write my clues.