Howdy travelers,

As I predicted, we did indeed beat the record number of solvers this week - six people submitted correct solutions, doubling our previous high.

You were asked to identify "a hit song from 1971". How did the successful solvers achieve this?

Six answers self-identified as meta clues, with no other identifying information. These had to be solved using the crossing entries in the grid:

47D) Meta clue 1a - ROSE LEE

26D) Meta clue 1b - MOTH

35D) Meta clue 2a - HOBO

5A) Meta clue 2b - HUSSY

53A) Meta clue 3a - OF HEARTS

24A) Meta clue 3b - TO CATCH A

Each numbered pair of clues suggests a word:

ROSE LEE and MOTH - Gypsies

HOBO and HUSSY - Tramps

_____ OF HEARTS and TO CATCH A _____ - Thieves

So the meta answer could only be Cher's "Gypsys [sic], Tramps and Thieves". The title "Share and Share Alike" was just a simple pun on the singer's name.