puzzle 6:53; meta: 5 minutes(Matt)
 

Title: “I’ve Received a Feeling” by Pete Muller and Andrew White
Immediate: The meta for this puzzle is successful music from 2021 that’s additionally the title of a well known album.
Reply: “Deja Vu” by Olivia Rodrigo (music) / and CSNY (album)

I’m actually on Pete’s wavelength these days — or relatively on Pete and co-constructor Andrew White’s wavelength. They co-author the very entertaining Washington Submit Each day Mini-Meta collectively, and teamed up for this meta as nicely.

Left-right symmetry on this grid, which, together with the title, made me surprise if we had been in search of letters positioned as mirror pictures of one another. Then I hit the reveal entry at 48-D and 50-D, clued simply as [Reflections]. Emboldened by this to proceed with my authentic thought, I checked for letters that seem as pairs on both aspect of the eighth column, and lo and behold, there it was! Generally the meta is the very first thing you consider. However fewer that 300 proper solutions simply earlier than deadline, so this was no gimme.

The streak continues! Time is brief so I’ll have to depart it there. See you subsequent month.