The Playbill is a year-long crossword metapuzzle suite consisting of 24 metapuzzles (12 standard, 12 cryptic) each honoring Tony Award-winning Broadway musicals and the iconic musical numbers they feature.

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There are two puzzles published every month, one on the 1st and one on the 15th (14th in February). The first set of puzzles (#1 - #12) will be standard metapuzzles, the answers to which will be musicals that has won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The second set of puzzles (#A - #L) will be cryptic (and possibly variety) metapuzzles, and the answers to those will be songs featured in musical solutions to the standard puzzles from the same month.

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The puzzles at the end of the year (#12 and #L) are "mega-metas," Like the other pairs, the solution to #12 is a musical, and the solution to #L is a song from that musical. However, unlike other pairs, these can be solved prior to their publication, if solvers correctly detect a common throughout all of the puzzles published. 

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Upon publication, solvers have one week time limit to submit their answers to the metapuzzles, in order to receive credit and wind up on the leaderboard.

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Happy solving!