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LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:

Title: “Happy Birthday to Her”
Prompt: This puzzle’s contest answer is how many years old my daughter turns today, as illustrated in *each* of the four theme entries (i.e. don’t add them up!)
Answer: TWO
Correct entries: 600, of which 583 were solo solves

Not the toughest meta, but high on the “awww” scale. Four wacky two-word phrases doubly concealed my daughter’s name:

17-A: [Las Vegas novelist who keeps the plot moving?] = READABLE NEVADA
25-A: [Statistics regarding swarm sizes, chirping volume, etc.?] = CICADA METADATA. Somewhere out there, there is someone who analyzes cicada metadata for a living. I’m guessing.
43-A: [Response to the question: “What tempo are you writing your concertos in lately”?] = ADAGIO NOWADAYS
57-A: [Your flight to Mecca got delayed or you’ve forgotten all your Arabic over the years, e.g.?] = RAMADAN HEADACHE

Two per entry, and Ada is indeed 2 years old now, making that number our meta answer.

TheRev. writes:

Happy birthday to my first baptism baby!

Reverend Sarah is a meta-solver and yes, Ada was her first baptize-ee.

KSE writes:

I hope they aren’t TOO terrible 😉

So far, so good…ish?

And JessShul writes:

Okay didn’t you JUST have this baby?? How is the answer not ONE?? I was sure it would be ONE. Tell her to stop. (My turned 17 recently; impossible.)

Time does indeed fly, everyone agrees. How are we on MGWCC #767? Speaking of which…

NOTE: Due to the delayed post, the deadline for submitting entries in this week is Wednesday, February 15th, at Noon ET.

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

No instructions give here since there are no-instructions options this week.

Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.