Puzzle Twenty-Three: Cool Down (meta)

 

in my pandemic rave cave

Before we get started, I constructed this week's Spyscape puzzle, "Semper Occultus," and it's a pretty fun one with a little twist at the end. Give it a solve!

Now to the matter at hand: it's my second Quarantine Birthday today. To celebrate, there's a new contest meta. The answer to this week's meta is a three-letter word.

Submit your answer by clicking HERE. 

Submissions are due by Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST. 

Two winners – the first person to submit a correct answer and another person selected at random from the correct entries – will receive a Lexicon Devil sticker as well as the respect of their puzzling peers.  

If you have any issues submitting your answer, just put it in an email to lexicondevillive at outlook dot com with your name, preferred screen name / ID and email address and I'll add you in manually. 

Don't forget to sign up for the Lexicon Devil mailing list, where I distribute the metas by email before putting them on the site. If you have any issues signing up, just email lexicondevillive at outlook dot com with the subject line "subscribe."

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Before the applet, some musical hints to today's puzzle: