The morse code spells out "IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. THIS ROUND HID ELEVEN FRIENDS AWAY. THE FAB DO NOT COUNT."
This is an allusion to The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and how each puzzle mentions (in groups of one or two) a total of eleven celebrities that are pictured on the cover of that album. By row, these individual or paired celebrities spell the answer RIME in Morse code.
| Celebrity | Puzzle | Morse | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mae West (3) | Indecipherable | Dot | R |
| Edgar Allan Poe (6) and W. C. Fields (8) | On The Road | Dash | |
| Fred Astaire (9) | Quilt By Association | Dot | |
| Marilyn Monroe (25) | Feel The Music | Dot | I |
| Stan Laurel (28) | The Case of the Dangerous Game | Dot | |
| Marlon Brando (39) and Oscar Wilde (41) | Crimes Against Cruciverbalism | Dash | M |
| Tyrone Power (42) and Johnny Weissmuller (45) | Meet the Loremipsumstanis | Dash | |
| Albert Einstein (61) | ASCII Characters | Dot | E |