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Level One

· By Mikey G · Published 2024-01-06T18:00:06.998Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 1] The answer to the meta is how you might describe a Level 1 puzzle.
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  • Mikey G constructor · 2024-01-06T18:00:06.998Z
    Answer: CHILD'S PLAY
    Explanation: Ten across entries have ONE within them; while words, these do not satisfy the clues. For example, DONE should be DC (some two-letter words get a chance to shine!). Once those ten amendments are made, the replaced letters spell CHILD'S PLAY, the meta answer.
    • Meg 2:26 · 2024-01-06T18:15:12.823Z
      Got the first 2 letters and my guess was fine! Nicely done, Mikey.
      • JM 10:41 · 2024-01-06T18:27:33.842Z
        No Bone—that was fun. (Crosshare didn’t like the apostrophe).
        • Mikey G constructor · 2024-01-06T20:11:42.071Z
          Yeah, Crosshare claims the apostrophe doesn't matter? But apparently things get wonky with it sometimes.
          • Mike D 2s · 2024-01-06T21:43:23.001Z
            Ack! It looks like a bug - I see what’s going on and will try to get it fixed up during the snowstorm tomorrow :)
            • DIS 🤓11:19 · 2024-01-08T14:43:49.791Z
              Looks like you fixed it -- it worked for me.
          • Philip Chow 🤓10:20 · 2024-01-06T20:51:19.027Z
            Same - first submission with apostrophe got rejected 😰
          • Hector 8:33 · 2024-01-06T18:19:16.253Z
            Honey! Not boned!
            • Mikey G constructor · 2024-01-07T02:32:35.775Z
              This took me a second. 🤣
            • boharr 4s · 2024-01-06T19:09:38.922Z
              Clues are always a riot. Thanks, Mikey.
              • KayW 🤓9:21 · 2024-01-06T19:36:32.422Z
                Great clueing and meta as always. Fun one - thanks Mikey!
                • SamKat9 🤓16:20 · 2024-01-06T20:23:07.735Z
                  Loved the clues, thanks Mikey!
                  • whimsy 26:27 · 2024-01-06T20:09:03.170Z
                    Let's hear it for roly poly tater tots! :-) And Mikey! Thanks!
                    • Mikey G constructor · 2024-01-07T02:32:50.672Z
                      Part of a balanced diet! (I balance it on my plate.)
                      • DrTom 4s · 2024-01-10T18:20:20.320Z
                        Yes I tried to enter TATERTOT as well...curses!
                      • Carolyn 3s · 2024-01-06T21:05:03.541Z
                        Lots of fun!
                        • Abide 🤓11:37 · 2024-01-06T21:10:48.152Z
                          A-one!
                          • Darth 48:38 · 2024-01-06T22:34:03.981Z
                            Nice ONE, Mikey! ;)
                            • benchen71 13:57 · 2024-01-06T22:46:20.455Z
                              The mechanism made the grid tough for me, but the meta played nice! Good one!!
                              • Mikey G constructor · 2024-01-07T02:33:35.170Z
                                Yeah, I'm glad this is having a quick turnout, but I definitely think the crunchiness pushes it into 1.25/1.5 territory.
                              • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓5:44 · 2024-01-06T23:22:02.537Z
                                I solved a meta, I'm so excited! Thanks, that was fun :)
                                • Mikey G constructor · 2024-01-07T02:33:50.880Z
                                  That's awesome! Once the meta bug bit me, I never looked back! :D
                                • HeadinHome 🤓1:22 · 2024-01-06T23:36:02.238Z
                                  Oh MAN that grid was driving me bonkers!! Then it became FUN when I figured out what the what was going on. Great challenge! (And I suspect a really hard one to construct!)
                                  • Capn Rick 11:09 · 2024-01-07T00:01:46.196Z
                                    Good one, Mikey! Looking forward to the next "one"!
                                    • Sam S 🤓15:50 · 2024-01-07T01:08:35.604Z
                                      Great puzzle, thank you!
                                      • Laura M 🤓12:02 · 2024-01-07T02:13:58.292Z
                                        Loved it, thanks!
                                        • ReB 4s · 2024-01-07T03:21:07.696Z
                                          Good number one one for 2024! Had to 14D with the grid quite a bit until I finally went ahONE!
                                          • Joe 🤓11:14 · 2024-01-07T04:17:59.307Z
                                            Thanks, Mikey! Always love your puzzles. And for whatever reason, my apostrophe didn't cause any problems.
                                            • Mike D 2s · 2024-01-07T18:58:09.791Z
                                              I think the problem is that certain operating system / browser combos automatically replace a typed ' character with a "smart"/curly apostrophe: - Crosshare isn't filtering out the latter when it checks to see if an answer is correct. So depending on what kind you used when you submitted it'd either work correctly or not. I've updated that code so the behavior should be fixed shortly.
                                              • DrTom 4s · 2024-01-10T18:23:59.751Z
                                                Thanks Mike for always being so responsive! Shameless plug coming...SOLVERS/CONSTRUCTORS if for no other reason, this type of responsiveness from a site/app administrator is an EXCELLENT reason to support Crosshare with a donation.
                                            • MatthewL 🤓7:25 · 2024-01-07T15:55:59.401Z
                                              Nice (ahem) "one" Mikey! Although I was grumbling quite a bit as I completed the grid thinking you had lost your mind on the cluing. Should've known better. Thanks for the puzzle!
                                              • DrTom 4s · 2024-01-10T18:26:27.624Z
                                                For the record, great cluing and mental instability are not mutually exclusive!😊
                                              • Cate C 14:45 · 2024-01-07T16:51:32.786Z
                                                One of the few times I can say I had an easier time with the meta than the grid 😅 A great start to the year!
                                                • Seattle DB 14s · 2024-01-07T21:28:43.974Z
                                                  This is my first Meta-Solve ever! (Yay me!) And I hope I win something to put in my empty trophy case...(sob).
                                                  • kurtalert 🤓9:49 · 2024-01-08T17:44:59.413Z
                                                    Loved it, thanks Mikey!
                                                    • DrTom 4s · 2024-01-10T18:16:59.215Z
                                                      Fun start to the year from the punisher! I knew what it was going to be from about the third, "WHAT?" but, like a Dan Brown novel, I had to finish it just to see how the master would weave the web. I am embarrassed to say I did not recognize that the ONE words made REAL words until I was well into it. Clever mechanism my friend. Great breakfast (well late breakfast) accompaniment.
                                                      1A
                                                      They go bananas for bananas (they have a peel!)
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                                                      Across
                                                      1. 1A
                                                        They go bananas for bananas (they have a peel!)
                                                      2. 5A
                                                        I take care of my Honda: it's my ___ duty!
                                                      3. 10A
                                                        Some bunts, for short
                                                      4. 14A
                                                        Smithsonian site, briefly
                                                      5. 15A
                                                        ___ 9000 (famed computer of science fiction)
                                                      6. 16A
                                                        "Take ___!" ("Congrats!")
                                                      7. 17A
                                                        "Gimme ___!"
                                                      8. 18A
                                                        Where the action is
                                                      9. 19A
                                                        It's approximated by 22/7 (or, better yet!, 355/113)
                                                      10. 20A
                                                        Band Claudette Robinson was a member of from 1957 to 1972
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                                                        Standing
                                                      12. 24A
                                                        Cards, on scorecards
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                                                        Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head's newborn?
                                                      14. 26A
                                                        When Fido spins around, does that make him the ___ dog?
                                                      15. 28A
                                                        Now-antiquated musical invention of 1979, briefly
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                                                        X-ray cousin
                                                      17. 30A
                                                        Pops' partners, perhaps
                                                      18. 33A
                                                        @@@
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                                                        "My wife's dragging me to this party; it's a ___ accompli" (Latin puns, there's a first...and maybe a last)
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                                                        Prohibition, e.g.
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                                                        Beat it!
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                                                        Not just any
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                                                        What my GPS does when I don't listen to it (often)
                                                      24. 42A
                                                        Jungfrau, e.g.
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                                                        Poly's predecessor
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                                                        It's not an easy place to drive from
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                                                        Wall St. debuts, not the hoppy brews (I still get them confused)
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                                                        Good, in Genoa
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                                                        "Serves you right!"
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                                                        "___ Kleine Nachtmusik"
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                                                        Aptly named tangelos
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                                                        L. M. Montgomery's loquacious heroine
                                                      33. 57A
                                                        "You want to hear some jokes about napping?" "Oh, give it a ___!"
                                                      34. 58A
                                                        Diffident
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                                                        "Did you get what you asked Santa for?" "No, he always ___ with me!"
                                                      Down
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                                                        He claimed the US vice presidency was "the most insignificant office" ever created
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                                                        Hypothesize
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                                                        5 : mayo :: 1 : ___
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                                                        Lines that pass through two points of a circle
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                                                        A pesky insect that is the most efficient of anthracite is a gnat king ___
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                                                        Memo starter I've never seen outside of crosswords
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                                                        Vivid pair?
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                                                        "Atonement" author McEwan
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                                                        Licorice stick, in slang
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                                                        Maudlin
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                                                        Mine on "Pun of a Kind" says "I also enjoy...MY GINGER CAT"
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                                                        Twist
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                                                        Sugar substitute?
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                                                        Big cheese, briefly
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                                                        67.5 deg. (new year, same compass directions)
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                                                        Roughly 907.2 kilograms
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                                                        Vehicle in which people have a rocking good time (solving crosswords, of course)
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                                                        URL ending
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                                                        The more, the this!
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                                                        Crumbly black-and-white dessert
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                                                        Strands (in dark red paint, perhaps?)
                                                      22. 34D
                                                        Mardi Gras., e.g.: Abbr.
                                                      23. 35D
                                                        Bowler, for one
                                                      24. 37D
                                                        Deserved
                                                      25. 39D
                                                        Hornswoggled
                                                      26. 41D
                                                        Incipiency
                                                      27. 43D
                                                        College town of crosswords that isn't Ames, Eton, or Utica
                                                      28. 44D
                                                        Au pair
                                                      29. 45D
                                                        Swords of crosswords
                                                      30. 47D
                                                        Steering the Millennium Falcon is a ___ effort
                                                      31. 48D
                                                        Have ___ (be connected)
                                                      32. 49D
                                                        Wow, that smells
                                                      33. 52D
                                                        "This tastes awful!" ("Right, it's a crossword")
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