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Hey everyone, and welcome to Week 87!

This puzzle is going live on sundown, December 24th, as we have our first non-Christmas holiday puzzle! All of the great dreidel puzzles have already been written, so I hope this simple theme was please you for the next 8 days.

A couple of weeks ago, we had a meta puzzle for my return, so let’s have a recap.

The answer to the puzzle is a good two-word alternate title for this puzzle, and the PDF reveals 20 5×5 puzzles, just like those NYT minis.

After solving them, it should be clear that one letter hangs off the edge of each grid. The following picture should hopefully take you all the way.

WHAT GOOD THINGS COME IN clues SMALL PACKAGES, and that is the answer to this meta.

For the return of CW, a good number of you all submitted the correct answer, and some of y’all got close with things like CENTER SQUARE, but didn’t see the next step. Altogether, 48 readers submitted the right answer. Congrats to those who got it! This week’s randomly selected winner was Kathy Johnescu. He will join Jon Delfin, John L. Wilson, Jim Quinlan, Eric Maddy, Andy Keller, David Cole, Roger Barkan, Patricia Miga, Erik Agard, Charles Montpetit, Steve Blais, Mike Ruslander, Matthew Breen, David Stein, Justin Weinbaum, and Tyler Hinman in a future section of the site. Congrats Kathy!

Thanks everyone, and have a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, and any other holiday you celebrate around this time! Except for the Solstice one. That’s not a holiday. The fact you are looking at a website proves to me that you’re not attached to an agrarian culture.

See you in 8 days!

Christmas