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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Reindeer herder (I have a lot of words to clue, and I'm Blitzen to get them all done)
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Across
- 1AReindeer herder (I have a lot of words to clue, and I'm Blitzen to get them all done)
- 5A"Squawk Box" network
- 9AL'il Abner creator
- 13ACome to
- 18AWith 76-Across, "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" host
- 19ASinger of "Fame" fame
- 20AWhen I talked to this artist, time just melted
- 21ASong with line "Yesterday my life was filled with rain"
- 22ADrive casually (4)
- 24ASouth Carolina college (5)
- 26AAdjective in at least two countries' names
- 27ASon of Adam
- 29ABack bones
- 30ASaid the ram to his mate, "I love ___!"
- 31AWaldorf's wife in "The Muppets" ("This puzzle isn't half bad!" "Yeah, it's all bad!")
- 33AIt's often made of cotton
- 35ALead-tin alloy
- 37AChemical suffix of many hydrocarbons with a double bond ("Wow, thanks, Mikey!")
- 39A"Caste" author Wilkerson
- 41AUnlikely lint trap?
- 44A"Breaking news!" (5)
- 50ATriage pro
- 52APro ___
- 53A"___, Loompa, doom-pa-dee-dawesome / Dwight is now gone, which is totally awesome" - Andy, from "The Office"
- 54AGraph that plots voltage over time: Abbr.
- 55A"Really, though?"
- 56ACalls forth
- 58A___-law
- 59ABritish singer-songwriter Lewis
- 61ANickname for US's 66th Secretary of State
- 63ACPR pro
- 64A14 pounds
- 65ABelieve
- 67AZoo features first used at Germany's Tierpark Hagenbeck
- 69ABelfry location
- 72AGeneral whose good at taking orders LOL
- 73ACrazy
- 76ASee 18-Across
- 77ACoca-Cola's short-lived answer to Mountain Dew in the 1990s
- 79ASierra ___
- 81A[I'm trying to bark and sound ferocious, but you think I'm so cute and that bothers me!]
- 84AActress whose first name is phonetically pronounced SUR-shuh
- 86AI had a pun to make about these types of sandwiches, but it was really cheesy
- 88AThey might give you a brain freeze
- 89AFields of gold
- 91A"I thought you said you were going to fix that overhang on the roof." "___ me alone!"
- 93APopeye's girlfriend
- 94ALow tides
- 95A"That makes sense to me now"
- 96A"Gymnopedies" composer
- 98APart of a famed 18th century alert (4)
- 100AGreek letter that often represents angles
- 102AIt covers the eye (my optometry jokes are cornea)
- 104AGame developed by Ohio barber Merle Robbins in the 1970s
- 105AMajor vessels
- 107AMaking all that maple syrup really ___ my energy
- 109AMinnesota Fats' portrayer in 1961's "The Hustler"
- 115AIf you break it, it runs
- 117A"___ Serve Somebody" (1979 Bob Dylan tune)
- 119A"Dancing with the Stars" pro Murgatroyd
- 121ABring about
- 122ALilliputian (4)
- 125A"Wheels" to refer to "a car," for example (4)
- 127AUndo
- 128AJohnson of "Laugh-In" (I saw a few of these and did not laugh, for what it's worth)
- 129ARadius partner
- 130ADropped a routine fly, say
- 131ADo not disturb (good advice - allow me to read)
- 132AMomentum divided by velocity
- 133AOne fruit that sounds like two
- 134ADoes
Down
- 1DDetroit football team, if you want to call it that (I'm sorry)
- 2DComparable to a fiddle
- 3DType of finish
- 4DKitchen gadget
- 5DIV amounts
- 6DDrifts off
- 7DSoft cheeses
- 8DFaces a lose-lose situation
- 9DSummer hrs. in the Midwestern paradise I live in
- 10DSounds heard from someone solving a relaxing Level 1 meta
- 11D"Hello!"
- 12DType of wind
- 13DSonora, por ejemplo
- 14DSine ___ non
- 15DTry
- 16DAgain
- 17DCountry singer Lovett
- 18DOrinoco flow?
- 23DWhat I bid at the auction (I'll keep using this clue, thank you very much)
- 25DOnline abbrev. that means "face-to-face" (and is probably never used face-to-face)
- 28DOwns
- 32D"The Fault in Our Stars" actor Elgort
- 34DSweethearts, in contemporary slang (I thought these were bodies of water, but what do I know)
- 36DMark's replacement
- 38D"And so on and so forth..."
- 40D___-a-brac
- 42DCouple
- 43DOnly cardinal direction not in any US state names
- 44DPitch
- 45DOwls' howls
- 46DPossible response to "Stop giving away overt hints to the meta!"
- 47DIt's not quite a grand
- 48D1847 novel that begins "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day"
- 49DDr. Frankenstein's assistant
- 51DFragrant chest material
- 55D"Well, that's what yours truly thought, even though yours truly knows what happens when you do that..."
- 57DThere are 8 different kinds, from 1 to 12 (not 4, 8, 10, or 11)
- 60D"Aw, phooey!"
- 62DLikewise not
- 66DRipped
- 68DVoting rights activist Abrams
- 70DStratagems
- 71DGoodman of "Dancing with the Stars"
- 74DThey begin as seeds
- 75DFlapjack but make it fancy
- 78DIncandescence
- 80DShe, in Salerno
- 81DSlightly
- 82DUsing aloe too quickly might be a ___ decision
- 83DSubject of trade rumors (hey, a cross-reference to the last meta)
- 85DCatch
- 87D"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)
- 90D30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared
- 92DThey're in Volvos but not Hondas
- 97DTogether
- 98DProtects, like an injured knee
- 99DAdjective that describes one kind of 57-Down
- 101D"The ___ Sweater" (Scott Hilburn comic)
- 103DKnock
- 106DPull
- 108DPizzazz
- 110DOver (see, I can write short clues)
- 111DDig, in a way
- 112DBolivian capital (you've got a 50:50 chance)
- 113DYellowish brown
- 114DOne might be pressing
- 115DLatin abbrev. that's back late (I'm sorry)
- 116DType of pool
- 118DThey have a crumby diet
- 120DMost famous Karenina
- 123DWorn-down pencil
- 124D"Awesome! I'm almost done cluing this puzzle!"
- 126DSite for a canal