59. Prime Directive
Little to say here today, except I'm off to watch the Cubs in the London baseball classic! (And catch up on a bunch of other metas.)
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1. Puzzle #58 answer: SOLSTICE
Correct entries: 47
Gridmaster coming in hot!
Shortest explanation: Five clues contain "summer," and those five clues also start with a musical note. Append the musical note to the answer (i.e., Do + UGH = DOUGH), and find an alternate clue to define the new word (i.e. "Moolah"). Note the new answer to that (i.e., CASH). Take those five initial letters in grid order to get STICE, and then append one piece of the metanism again: the only 3-letter musical note "sol" to give us SOLSTICE, the 8-letter meta answer.
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2. Leaderboard (through five weeks):
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3. This puzzle is a Week 4 in the month, but it will likelier trend a bit downward to Week 3.5. Thanks to Jay, Peter, Tamara, and Tom once again for their puzzle-solving insights!
Keep on puzzling, and may all your solves be beautiful!
Mikey G
The answer to the meta is a numerical expression.
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