163. I Can't Find My Place

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Slight PDF/PUZ adjustment for 60-A if you're solving there: "Prestigious literary award (the one for fiction won by our meta answer!)

Hello hello! Cubs picked up Edward Cabrera as a pitcher, and I'm super pumped about that - but, first, we have football season. Go Broncos and Bears!

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1. Puzzle #162 answer: ALPHABET SOUP

Correct entries: 76

Shortest explanation: The challenge on my end was to create a pangrammatic set of soups in as few entrees as possible: we did it in 7! Note that all 7 soups (the word soup not mentioned in any clue!) contain the entire alphabet within them, implying our meta answer of ALPHABET SOUP.

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2. Happy birthday, Mike's mom! This puzzle is in her honor, and last week's played like a Level 1 anyway, so I think this will be a fair Level 1/2 also.

Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!

Mikey G

The answer to the meta is my mom's favorite novelist.