OWL (3)

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Knowledge embodiment?! (3)

&lit: knOWLedge, owls as a symbol of knowledge/wisdom

Submitted by Firetruck

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8742 Knowledge embodiment?! (3) &lit: knOWLedge, owls as a symbol of knowledge/wisdom Firetruck 3
8752 Scrabble reference includes acknowledgements? Just the opposite! (3, abbr.) "includes... just the opposite!" indicates that the answer is contained in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (and not vice versa)
Scrabble reference = definition (abbreviation for Official Word List)
Tortoise 1
8753 wolf beat out the beginning of FRACTURE to create relevant contest (when combined with SUPERB) (3) def. “relevant contest (when combined with SUPERB)" (the Super Bowl being a contest)
wordplay: anagram of WOLF ("beat") without F_ ("out" "the beginning of F[RACTURE]); link "to create"
surface meaning: wolf almost got sniped by the FRACTURE (8) contest following the SUPERB (6) contest
bags 1
8761 In a reversal, the mealworm eats the late bird (3) The late bird = def (because owls are night owls)
Mealworm reversed contains OWL
biocuriousgeorgie 1
8763 Half of :lwojla:, reversed, is bird (3) (-alj)OWL< edderiofer 0
8771 Night flier sent back plywood regularly (3) _O_W_L_< dohz 0
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