174. Just What the Puzzler Ordered

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Hello hello! Cubs' offense is as mercurial as ever, sometimes scoring a bundle of runs and other times squandering a great quality start by the opening pitcher. It's a long season, folks.

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Puzzle #173 answer: EQUINOX

Correct entries: 70


Shortest explanation: Take the word immediately before the animal, concatenating and reparsing with spaces as needed to form a new phrase. Find an alternate for that in the grid and, in animal order, you'll get EQUIN. Append the 2-letter animal "OX" to get EQUINOX, the apropos answer to our meta!

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I really do think this is a Level 2. We will see what happens? We always do, haha.

Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!

Mikey G

The answer to the meta is a 4-letter string in alphabetical order.

 

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