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A list of movies

◆ · By woozy · Published 2023-03-31T01:30:21.074Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta are the type of people who are most likely to solve this meta
This may be a hard grid and the meta may be hard to piece together but I think if you can get through the grid, the metanism should jump at you. (It's a bit of work piecing it together-- not hard; just long)
I guess I should point out, not all references to movies and television are meta clues. Sometimes you just can't avoid movie and TV clues.
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  • KayW solved 2023-03-31T03:10:51.581Z
  • whimsy solved 2023-03-31T03:34:40.049Z

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  • KayW 🤓14:12 · 2023-03-31T03:12:06.212Z
    Wowza!!! You were absolutely right. I had to do lots of googling to get it - but it was all google-able. Very cool metanism and that you found so many ordinal movies. Thanks!
    • whimsy 28:31 · 2023-03-31T03:37:24.312Z
      Quite an accomplishment, woozy! (On both our ends, since I'm distinctly not one :) Had fun learning and confirming -- Thanks for the entertainment!
      • benchen71 14:07 · 2023-03-31T08:04:16.292Z
        Well, I found the list of movies and arranged them in order but never thought to just take the first letter of the relevant clues. I did look at the 1st letter of the first clue, and the 2nd letter of the second clue, etc... So close!
        • woozy constructor · 2023-03-31T17:09:22.248Z
          Wow! I never thought to do that! That would have been cleaner and neater. And harder.
        • dplass 58s · 2023-03-31T13:55:35.873Z
          Never gonna happen. I mashed "reveal"
          • woozy constructor · 2023-03-31T17:05:30.736Z
            Argh.... forgot to put the delay reveal for a week.
          Play today's daily mini crossword
          1A
          Sing praises of
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Sing praises of
          2. 6A
            Video game franchise where you play a criminal trying to advanced in organized crime... except in a universe where automobiles were never invented and donkeys are used instead
          3. 9A
            "Incidentally" in text
          4. 12A
            Embellished resume lands Maya Vargas (Jennifer Lopez) a prestigious job
          5. 15A
            What remains after you throw the chopping tool into the fire?
          6. 16A
            Atmospheric prefix that's an anagram of 17A
          7. 17A
            Time period that's an anagram of 16A
          8. 18A
            I've never actually played this card game
          9. 19A
            "I see dead people" movie
          10. 20A
            Classroom instructor
          11. 22A
            Number of fingers most people have. (We need softballs every now and then)
          12. 23A
            Limited supply: only one --- customer
          13. 24A
            "You -------"; Sarah Palin catchphrase (that, if you think about it, is redundant. But then again so was Sarah Palin)
          14. 25A
            Love of money vis a vis all evil
          15. 27A
            Elude
          16. 30A
            Ian Hood saves the world from bad science. This was actually two different TV series; one with Patrick Stewart and the other with Rufus Sewell. It's also the name of an unrelated Kim Bassinger movie about adopting a baby on the black market.
          17. 31A
            What sum meant to Descartes
          18. 32A
            Limited mobility Vietnam veteran becomes an human rights activist in "Born on ------"
          19. 33A
            Telepathy
          20. 34A
            Non-written exams
          21. 37A
            In agreement
          22. 39A
            Early(ish) host of the "Tonight Show"
          23. 42A
            Terminal member of a foot
          24. 43A
            Thus you and I arrive at an archaic spelling for a female pig
          25. 44A
            Number 1 on the Mohs scale
          26. 45A
            Gershwin who wrote the words
          27. 46A
            Pale
          28. 49A
            Evil aliens try to conquer the universe but are countered by a brain surgeon, rock musician: "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across----"
          29. 52A
            Where Roger Rabbit was framed
          30. 53A
            Shortstop who dated J-Lo looses five hundred and becomes disinterested in dating anyone
          31. 54A
            In the web comic "Skin Horse", Leo the genetically engineered sapient lion talks in his sleep about this lioness. "Oh ----, .... but what will ... SNRRK... Simba say?"
          32. 55A
            Soft cheese
          33. 57A
            Animal doc
          34. 58A
            Nasty creature. (No, not the guy who made this puzzle)
          35. 59A
            Heros from fairy-tales exist in a parallel universe in this 2000 TV mini-series
          36. 62A
            Dine from (as with a table or dishes)
          37. 64A
            NYC subway org. (I'm sorry about all the TLAs in this puzzle)
          38. 66A
            "Things Fall Apart" author Achebe
          39. 68A
            Load (Homonym of 26D)
          40. 69A
            Tempo
          41. 70A
            Manages to say aloud
          42. 71A
            Animal vermicelli resembles
          43. 72A
            Settle in-- maybe with a tent, some sleeping bags, instant hot cocoa....
          44. 74A
            Home of the largest fortress in Värmland province (which was made obsolete by the Union of Sweden and Norway of 1814)
          45. 75A
            80A's birthday: --- 3rd.
          46. 76A
            Where unchangeable things are written
          47. 78A
            There are one hundred of them in this puzzle
          48. 80A
            Matt Gaffney's daughter
          49. 81A
            "Sluggo is ---" says Nancy while riding a hoverboard, holding a selfie stick, and wearing .... I don't know what those glasses are called. "Nancy"'s too hip for me these days.
          50. 82A
            Anything can be purchased on Vienna's black market. Harry Lyme (Orson Welles) sells stolen penicillin.
          51. 83A
            Land in France
          52. 84A
            Shortstop who dated J-Lo looses top grade and becomes.... a curtain holder? Yeah, okay. Whatever.
          53. 85A
            Annapolis grad.
          54. 86A
            I guess this is no longer the vulgarity it was when I was younger (half of 44D)
          55. 87A
            What the chickens come home to do
          Down
          1. 1D
            Gah! I can't stand the harsh sound of your voice! Must you ---- --?
          2. 2D
            Take the green character from Netflix's "Disenchantment" off the payroll?
          3. 3D
            Rembrandt
          4. 4D
            S... but spelled out
          5. 5D
            That girl
          6. 6D
            Perhaps the devil is real in this Johnny Depp thriller about a book dealer trying to determine a book's authenticity
          7. 7D
            Cut some cuspids
          8. 8D
            Circumpolar constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic and other constellations with the same name (if any)
          9. 9D
            Co-host of "The View" Joy; also the 32nd weekly Torah reading (usually read in May)
          10. 10D
            How many letters there are in a TLA if you speak Italian
          11. 11D
            "Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton is the basis of this Antonio Banderas movie
          12. 12D
            Self-acting
          13. 13D
            Tech review site
          14. 14D
            A weight that is not reversable
          15. 21D
            Canopies couples stand under in Jewish wedding ceremonies
          16. 24D
            How did that ship turn on its axis?
          17. 26D
            Boating need (Homonym of 68A)
          18. 28D
            Ale houses
          19. 29D
            Rambo movie
          20. 35D
            Tradition knowledge (not to be confused with Data)
          21. 36D
            Never play chess against a tall figure in black robes. I guess Max von Sydow never got the memo
          22. 38D
            To damage the surface a second time after it had been fixed? To comment upon without knowledge? Or maybe just the actor James (born on Dec 31. 1953... there are a lot of actors named James)
          23. 40D
            Statement of where one was (somewhere else) at the time in question
          24. 41D
            Involucre of an oak seed
          25. 44D
            The song is technically called "Dance: Ten, Looks: Three" but everyone refers to it by what this is an (sanitized) abbreviation for
          26. 46D
            Sleet storms in the Outback and unnaturally wet weather in Sydney prophesize the end of the world in this Peter Weir movie
          27. 47D
            Vicinity; field of expertise; length times width
          28. 48D
            Pretty good
          29. 50D
            Cosmic weapon played by Milla Jovovich is regenerated to save humanity in the 23rd century
          30. 51D
            Lady Olivia (Helen Bonham-Carter) falls for Viola (Imogen Stubbs) in this adaptation of the Shakespeare classic
          31. 56D
            Revise and correct
          32. 58D
            Eight furlongs
          33. 59D
            Samurai swords
          34. 60D
            On March 30, 2023 this exchanges for one (U.S.) dollar and nine cents.
          35. 61D
            Kills with intent
          36. 63D
            Hockey great who happens to be yet another homonym of 26D and 68 A
          37. 65D
            Home of UPS (the University of Puget Sound)
          38. 67D
            How one often buys dishes
          39. 69D
            Outdoes
          40. 71D
            Who controls the British Crown? Who keeps the metric system down? Who keeps Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps? Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
          41. 73D
            Department where guys can find clothes
          42. 75D
            Distant
          43. 77D
            Diarist who is seldom, if ever, assigned as middle-school reading
          44. 78D
            British academic journal of performing arts when abbreviated becomes middle of the road
          45. 79D
            Sapient lion from the web comic "Skin Horse" (I already told you the answer. "For an actual lion, you're easy to forget"-- Sweetheart Fancy)
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