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Almost Famous

◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2022-07-23T20:00:08.133Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is how you might feel when you get it.
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Leaderboard (updated hourly)

  • LesY solved at 20:53 on 7/23/2022
  • Hector solved at 21:44 on 7/23/2022
  • DJB solved at 0:16 on 7/24/2022
  • oldjudge solved at 0:17 on 7/24/2022
  • Meg solved at 1:04 on 7/24/2022
  • boharr solved at 3:12 on 7/24/2022
  • benchen71 solved at 4:51 on 7/24/2022
  • KayW solved at 13:40 on 7/24/2022
  • Gutman solved at 0:09 on 7/25/2022
  • RPardoe solved at 1:10 on 7/25/2022
  • Myelbow solved at 16:22 on 7/25/2022
  • FrankieHeck solved at 21:19 on 7/25/2022
  • spotter solved at 21:23 on 7/25/2022
  • whimsy solved at 2:54 on 7/26/2022
  • woozy solved at 4:51 on 7/26/2022
  • DIS solved at 16:58 on 7/26/2022
  • BrennerTJ solved at 18:16 on 7/27/2022
  • Cindy Heisler solved at 1:58 on 7/28/2022
  • Carolyn solved at 3:10 on 7/29/2022
  • Abide solved at 12:46 on 7/29/2022
  • edestlin solved at 21:33 on 7/29/2022

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  • LesY 2s · 2022-07-23T20:54:50.227Z
    Stellar!! Love music metas -- and super-sized grids!
    • DJB 6s · 2022-07-24T00:16:32.765Z
      Loved this one!
      • oldjudge 1:24 · 2022-07-24T00:30:36.318Z
        I literally never heard of any of the songs. Who would name a song Orinoco Flow? Is that like a modern version of Old Man River? That said, a fun and challenging puzzle—thanks Mikey!
        • RPardoe 🤓2:24 · 2022-07-25T01:10:58.812Z
          And that as my toehold to the second step as I know the song well (listened to it way too many times in college.)
          • Mikey G constructor · 2022-07-25T14:55:27.376Z
            And, now, the comment that will not endear me to anyone: I was born the year that song came out.
          • Mikey G constructor · 2022-07-25T14:54:48.439Z
            I think I might have been listening to "Orinoco Flow" when I came up with the idea for the meta, actually! Thanks for your kind words!
          • Hector 59s · 2022-07-24T00:12:56.247Z
            This is the perfect example of a meta with two substantive steps. OCHEr and SPINet are going to have some rabbit chasers... Thanks for the consistently fun puzzles!
            • Meg 9s · 2022-07-24T01:06:59.423Z
              Thanks to Oldjudge, who shoved me down the meta Orinoco River. Nicely done, Mikey!
              • boharr 4s · 2022-07-24T03:13:47.581Z
                Good one Mikey
                • benchen71 🤓17:30 · 2022-07-24T04:51:29.193Z
                  Great aha moment!
                  • Gutman 2s · 2022-07-25T00:11:45.091Z
                    Great grid. I thought Sad(e) was a good answer until I got a nudge.
                    • whimsy 🤓33:30 · 2022-07-26T02:57:47.529Z
                      Wonderful solve! Tough-going but fun. Before I tweaked the letter order I was feeling as though the answer could be Beat Up!
                      • Mikey G constructor · 2022-07-26T16:18:57.579Z
                        Bahahaha, I've felt that way with some metas before!
                      • woozy 42:43 · 2022-07-26T04:53:56.546Z
                        Wow. I can not believe I knew enough about popular singers to get this!
                        But I don't know much about there songs. I got three of them and was able to guess the remaining three letters.
                        Very well done.
                        • Mikey G constructor · 2022-07-28T17:56:23.931Z
                          Nicely done!!
                        • Cindy Heisler 2s · 2022-07-28T02:00:31.998Z
                          Except for the Cher song, I have never heard the others. Fun puzzle, though. With great clues, as usual!
                          • Mikey G constructor · 2022-07-28T17:56:15.370Z
                            I think I overestimated the number who have heard of "Orinoco Flow"! Thanks!!
                            • woozy 42:43 · 2022-07-28T22:04:59.933Z
                              Considering you think a song from 1988 can qualify as a "classic", I think you overestimated a lot of things. :)
                          • Carolyn 3s · 2022-07-29T03:12:41.317Z
                            Wow! Just found this puzzle today and what a puzzle it was. Definitely needed Google since I don't know these artists at all. I guess I'm too old. Thanks for the entertainment.
                            • Abide 3s · 2022-07-29T12:49:49.194Z
                              I was stuck on step one since Sunday. KEGLAR? PASSEC? (grr) Then this morning my eyes noticed "Orinoco flow?" and I was off to the races. Great puzzle!
                              Play today's daily mini crossword
                              1A
                              Reindeer herder (I have a lot of words to clue, and I'm Blitzen to get them all done)
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                              Across
                              1. 1A
                                Reindeer herder (I have a lot of words to clue, and I'm Blitzen to get them all done)
                              2. 5A
                                "Squawk Box" network
                              3. 9A
                                L'il Abner creator
                              4. 13A
                                Come to
                              5. 18A
                                With 76-Across76ASee 18-Across[-----], "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" host
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                                Singer of "Fame" fame
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                                When I talked to this artist, time just melted
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                                Song with line "Yesterday my life was filled with rain"
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                                Drive casually (4)
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                                South Carolina college (5)
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                                Adjective in at least two countries' names
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                                Son of Adam
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                                Back bones
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                                Said the ram to his mate, "I love ___!"
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                                Waldorf's wife in "The Muppets" ("This puzzle isn't half bad!" "Yeah, it's all bad!")
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                                It's often made of cotton
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                                Lead-tin alloy
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                                Chemical suffix of many hydrocarbons with a double bond ("Wow, thanks, Mikey!")
                              19. 39A
                                "Caste" author Wilkerson
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                                Unlikely lint trap?
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                                "Breaking news!" (5)
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                                Triage pro
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                                Pro ___
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                                "___, Loompa, doom-pa-dee-dawesome / Dwight is now gone, which is totally awesome" - Andy, from "The Office"
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                                Graph that plots voltage over time: Abbr.
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                                "Really, though?"
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                                Calls forth
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                                ___-law
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                                British singer-songwriter Lewis
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                                Nickname for US's 66th Secretary of State
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                                CPR pro
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                                14 pounds
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                                Believe
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                                Zoo features first used at Germany's Tierpark Hagenbeck
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                                Belfry location
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                                General whose good at taking orders LOL
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                                Crazy
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                                See 18-Across18AWith 76-Across, "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" host[-----]
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                                Coca-Cola's short-lived answer to Mountain Dew in the 1990s
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                                Sierra ___
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                                [I'm trying to bark and sound ferocious, but you think I'm so cute and that bothers me!]
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                                Actress whose first name is phonetically pronounced SUR-shuh
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                                I had a pun to make about these types of sandwiches, but it was really cheesy
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                                They might give you a brain freeze
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                                Fields of gold
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                                "I thought you said you were going to fix that overhang on the roof." "___ me alone!"
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                                Popeye's girlfriend
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                                Low tides
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                                "That makes sense to me now"
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                                "Gymnopedies" composer
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                                Part of a famed 18th century alert (4)
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                                Greek letter that often represents angles
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                                It covers the eye (my optometry jokes are cornea)
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                                Game developed by Ohio barber Merle Robbins in the 1970s
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                                Major vessels
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                                Making all that maple syrup really ___ my energy
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                                Minnesota Fats' portrayer in 1961's "The Hustler"
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                                If you break it, it runs
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                                "___ Serve Somebody" (1979 Bob Dylan tune)
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                                "Dancing with the Stars" pro Murgatroyd
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                                Bring about
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                                Lilliputian (4)
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                                "Wheels" to refer to "a car," for example (4)
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                                Undo
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                                Johnson of "Laugh-In" (I saw a few of these and did not laugh, for what it's worth)
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                                Radius partner
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                                Dropped a routine fly, say
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                                Do not disturb (good advice - allow me to read)
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                                Momentum divided by velocity
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                                One fruit that sounds like two
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                                Does
                              Down
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                                Detroit football team, if you want to call it that (I'm sorry)
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                                Comparable to a fiddle
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                                Type of finish
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                                Kitchen gadget
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                                IV amounts
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                                Drifts off
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                                Soft cheeses
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                                Faces a lose-lose situation
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                                Summer hrs. in the Midwestern paradise I live in
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                                Sounds heard from someone solving a relaxing Level 1 meta
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                                "Hello!"
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                                Type of wind
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                                Sonora, por ejemplo
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                                Sine ___ non
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                                Try
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                                Again
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                                Country singer Lovett
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                                Orinoco flow?
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                                What I bid at the auction (I'll keep using this clue, thank you very much)
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                                Online abbrev. that means "face-to-face" (and is probably never used face-to-face)
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                                Owns
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                                "The Fault in Our Stars" actor Elgort
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                                Sweethearts, in contemporary slang (I thought these were bodies of water, but what do I know)
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                                Mark's replacement
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                                "And so on and so forth..."
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                                ___-a-brac
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                                Couple
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                                Only cardinal direction not in any US state names
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                                Pitch
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                                Owls' howls
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                                Possible response to "Stop giving away overt hints to the meta!"
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                                It's not quite a grand
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                                1847 novel that begins "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day"
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                                Dr. Frankenstein's assistant
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                                Fragrant chest material
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                                "Well, that's what yours truly thought, even though yours truly knows what happens when you do that..."
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                                There are 8 different kinds, from 1 to 12 (not 4, 8, 10, or 11)
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                                "Aw, phooey!"
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                                Likewise not
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                                Ripped
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                                Voting rights activist Abrams
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                                Stratagems
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                                Goodman of "Dancing with the Stars"
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                                They begin as seeds
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                                Flapjack but make it fancy
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                                Incandescence
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                                She, in Salerno
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                                Slightly
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                                Using aloe too quickly might be a ___ decision
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                                Subject of trade rumors (hey, a cross-reference to the last meta)
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                                Catch
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                                "And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook...and his ___ was in his hand" (1 Samuel 17:40)
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                                30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared
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                                They're in Volvos but not Hondas
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                                Together
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                                Protects, like an injured knee
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                                Adjective that describes one kind of 57-Down57DThere are 8 different kinds, from 1 to 12 (not 4, 8, 10, or 11)[--------]
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                                "The ___ Sweater" (Scott Hilburn comic)
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                                Knock
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                                Pull
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                                Pizzazz
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                                Over (see, I can write short clues)
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                                Dig, in a way
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                                Bolivian capital (you've got a 50:50 chance)
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                                Yellowish brown
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                                One might be pressing
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                                Latin abbrev. that's back late (I'm sorry)
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                                Type of pool
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                                They have a crumby diet
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                                Most famous Karenina
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                                Worn-down pencil
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                                "Awesome! I'm almost done cluing this puzzle!"
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                                Site for a canal
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