Give Me Five!
◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2023-08-26T17:00:48.699Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a 5-letter word.
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... i should've known the cat was a red herring... i spent way too long looking for cats in the puzzle... YESIAM almost had "siamese"... XER had a backwards "rex"... then i tried taking the central entry literally and think like a cat... what would a cat want? PLAIT contained lait (milk)... i really thought i was onto something 
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Cruciverbalist's favorite fashion monogram
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Across
- 1ACruciverbalist's favorite fashion monogram
- 4ASuffolk neighbor
- 9AShort order for lunch?
- 12AH
- 13A1 is one in the eastern United States
- 14AHis son Jeffrey works at the parks department on "Seinfeld" (HELLLOOO)
- 15AThe tiny pulsar dreamed one day of becoming a ___
- 17ALast step before the majors in MLB
- 18AWhat a concept!
- 19ABraves, on scoreboards
- 20A"Because of ___-Dixie" (2000 Kate DiCamillo book)
- 21AIs down, in a way
- 22ABritish author Len known for his Harry Palmer spy novel series
- 24AHe had a big part in the Pentateuch, pun intended
- 26AFinding a good pun about a steak is ___ (it's certainly not well-done)
- 27AICU drips
- 29AFootnote abbr.
- 33APlace to see a total eclipse (but not of the heart)
- 36ACollege sports network
- 37ABiblical character whose name rhymes with a piece of playground equipment
- 38ASecond word of both "The Raven" and "Run-Around" (Poe was a big Blues Traveler fan)
- 41AWong of Netflix's "Beef"
- 42ABest-selling, even "purr"-fect, Pam Johnson-Bennett book that will help you get inside your feline's brain
- 45ANoshes on
- 46ACatanian peak
- 47AGospel singer Winans
- 48APontificate
- 50ABel-___ (Italian cheese - leave my provolone!)
- 52AEscort to a higher floor, maybe
- 53AAd or Mad follower
- 54AP. R. part
- 56AAn arachnid who likes to help golfers is a ___ longlegs
- 61AManhattan thoroughfare, for short, that Kramer states is at the "nexus of the universe" in "Seinfeld"
- 65ANew, in some German city beginning with "N"
- 66AWrath, in the title of a classic hymn
- 67AS. Dak. neighbor
- 68ARed or Card
- 69ASounds made when I start talking about polynomials
- 70AHow you might win the competition if there's no competition
- 72A"Wow, you bought all that Velcro?" "Yeah, but it was kind of a ___-off"
- 73AEbro : Spain :: ___ : France
- 74AYou should use some for a hair-raising experience
- 75AGood connections
- 76A"Cosi fan ___" (Mozart opera)
- 77AWord I've clued as "before, before" before
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- 1D"Indeed, yours truly is!"
- 2DPlace with anchors, perhaps
- 3DPlaces for boutonnieres
- 4DThat interesting mistake is a breath of fresh ___
- 5D"'Tis a pity"
- 6DFamous mill (I rushed to write this clue)
- 7DAcademia's "But wait, there's more!"
- 8DMillennial's mom, maybe
- 9DInterconnected locks?
- 10DDigestion aid whose inventor won the Ig Nobel Prize (this is actually a thing) in 1991
- 11DStore that began as the Cleveland Fabric Shop in 1943
- 16DAbate
- 20DPiques
- 23DGood surname for a horticulturalist?
- 25DPoitier, to Lulu
- 28DSafe place
- 30DSpots in lots
- 31DInterweave
- 32D"Oh, very much so!"
- 33DAdjective that could describe magnets, horseshoes, or the letter "U" (kind of giving it to you there)
- 34D"Game of Thrones" actress Williams
- 35DDog house?
- 37DGroup character
- 39D"Want to go bowling later?" "___ there, done that!"
- 40DMammal also called a "zebra giraffe"
- 43D"Yeah, I don't need that half-finished book of meta crosswords, trust me"
- 44DBig heart?
- 49DSip
- 51DFox competitor
- 53D"Amazing!"
- 55D"___ believe this guy?"
- 57D"___ K: A Love Story" (2020 Jenny Lee novel that retells an 1877 classic)
- 58DInundation
- 59DHamilton, notably
- 60D"The King of all Sala-ma-Sond," in a Seuss tale
- 61DGuy on TV
- 62DBindi who won "Dancing with the Stars" in 2015
- 63DSpeaks hoarsely (I used to neigh a lot, but then my voice got horse)
- 64DAuthor of "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie"
- 70DShort order for lunch?
- 71DCharge