Sends Light Anguish (Meta)
■ · By benchen71 · Published 2024-12-10T05:00:36.608Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a story book character
I have a feeling I will need to explain the title of this puzzle in the comments! I woke up with this meta idea in my head, and I really couldn't wait to see if I could get it all into a grid. The answer to that is "yes", but it took a few different grids (and a couple of drinks!) to achieve. (If you're interested, the images above were generated by DALL-E using the prompt "Sends light anguish".) The answer to the meta is a story book character. Answer & explanation (& the story read to you on YouTube!) here: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=188218#p188218
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Across
- 1ANumber of fingers held up to indicate "first word" when playing Charades
- 4A"Mean Girls" actress Lindsay ___
- 9ADrive back
- 14ARecycling receptacle
- 15A6 down singer
- 16AFill with joy
- 17ABack in time
- 18ADisney heroine who longs for "more than this provincial life"
- 19AWindows release after XP
- 20ADame Nellie ___
- 22AServe the first course, perhaps
- 24AMorning rouser
- 25AYello song featured in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
- 26ATummy muscles
- 28ADeeply regretful reply
- 32AThe Pied Piper, for example
- 38ASource of acorns
- 39ADull pain
- 40AFrom the Orient
- 41A"Another" Spanish word
- 42A35 down's boss
- 43AExceptionally bad fortune
- 45ARoving adventurously, like a knight
- 48ATop colour in a traffic light
- 49A"___ entered on his head, a helmet on each foot, a sandal in his hand he had, his trusty sword to boot" (at least, I think that's where the punctuation goes)
- 53AExposed wood in a ceiling
- 57ARing of stones marking the site of a prehistoric dwelling
- 60AOne of eight popes
- 61AMoving day rental
- 62AAdversary
- 64A___-de-France
- 65ASip your "Old Fashioned" slowly
- 66AFast Amtrak train
- 67AConk out
- 68ADid a blacksmith's job
- 69ABig brawl
- 70ABody part touched by one's forefinger to indicate "sounds like" when playing Charades
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- 1D55 down's surname
- 2DActor ___ Hawthorne of "The Madness of King George III"
- 3DSherlock's younger sister in a Netflix movie series
- 4DLos Lobos song with a brilliant guitar solo
- 5DPoetic homage
- 6DChart topper in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia for 15 across
- 7DIslamic deity
- 8DImpoverished
- 9DUncover
- 10DElijah's successor
- 11DEl ___, Texas
- 12D"___, Brute? Then fall 49 across"
- 13D___ of faith
- 21DReinforce
- 23DSuccessful student
- 27DAppetizer
- 29DAnnual Prez. speech to Congress
- 30DDrug agent
- 31D"I heard you the first time!"
- 32DPolitical campaign
- 33DTaiwanese computer maker
- 34DHammer-wielding god
- 35DExec. who might have to resign in the wake of a data hack
- 36D4 down or 6 down, for example
- 37DHave a bite
- 41DMore mature
- 44DInterstellar clouds
- 46DPoint the finger at
- 47DPerformed perfectly
- 50D"Get lost!"
- 51DWonderland visitor
- 52DPaint the town 48 across
- 54DTolerate
- 55DSee 1 down
- 56DContemptuous look
- 57DAttila's army
- 58DInformal refusal
- 59DTropical tuber
- 63DBitter beverage
. In the same vein, here’s the concept, with French: the character “ Un petit d'un petit “ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d%27Heures:_Gousses,_Rames:_The_d%27Antin_Manuscript