Plane Sailing (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2022-03-02T08:00:27.403Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a mathematician
This puzzle came to me as I tried to fall asleep one night. This sort of thing has happened before, and when I get up the next morning to construct the grid I very quickly discover that what my sleep-deprived brain thought would work, doesn't in fact hold together in the cold, hard, light of day. But this one actually did work, much to my surprise! Good luck finding the answer to the meta, which is a mathematician. Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=85385#p85385
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1. The ___ answer starts at (2, -3)
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- 1A1. The ___ answer starts at (2, -3)
- 5ASomething associated with life and lemons
- 9A2. Go left, jumping one, then another, and then ___ squares, collecting letters as you go
- 14AObjective
- 15AActor who sang a duet with Nicole entitled "Come What May"
- 16AMovie about Keyser Soze, "The ___ Suspects"
- 17A"Ah yes, but does it pass the ___?"
- 19AOne of a 1492 trio
- 20AWhat there are eight of in a coxed eight
- 21AJennifer Lopez hit, "___ Funny"
- 22AFeature of marriages between older men and (much) younger women
- 26AShrill bark
- 28A3. You have ___ through one of these, so jump up to the other one
- 29AParts of an Eisenhower Jacket that are wide
- 30AGot together
- 32AMusk of SpaceX fame
- 33AScottish author, ___ M. Banks, of "The Culture" series of sci-fi novels
- 36ATennis player, Naomi ___
- 41AHorizontal graph line
- 43AMiss Piggy's favourite pronoun
- 44AThesaurus author
- 45AThus far
- 46A"Are you ___ out?" (Charlie's question to Rob in "High Fidelity")
- 48ALate-night host, Jay ___
- 49ABrain scan, for short
- 51AWord derived from a name
- 53A4. Continue moving in the same direction, jumping two squares to land on ___
- 57AWhat to put sugar in, according to the old song "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"
- 59ARigatoni and linguini, for two
- 60AThe one with the seven evil exes in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (and a really cool song by Beck)
- 62AElvis' middle name
- 64ABring together
- 65ABeing
- 70ALegal wrongs
- 71ASigourney Weaver movie, "Gorillas in the ___"
- 72ABro and sis
- 73A5. Of course you need to ___ the Origin
- 74ATakes advantage of
- 75A6. Follow the shape you have been creating, collecting the ___ 9 across letters of the answer as you go (because, by now you must know what the answer is!)
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- 1DBritish sports cars
- 2DLong, long time (US spelling)
- 3DDeep red-brown Pacific sea bream, eaten as a delicacy in Japan
- 4D"Alien Life Form" (for short)
- 5DFraternity founded at NYU in 1847
- 6DOft-painted porcelain jug
- 7DImpertinent
- 8DSubstance originally used as a yellow dye (its potential as an explosive was not recognized for three decades, mainly because it was too difficult to detonate)
- 9DIndigenous Brazilian people group, one of the most numerous before colonisation
- 10DFounder of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order, ___ Yun
- 11DBryan Adams song, "___ You"
- 12DDine at home
- 13DDelight
- 18DYoung horse
- 21DImitate
- 22DDisembodied voice of Amazon devices
- 23DBlack-tie affairs
- 24DStrong adhesive
- 25DRobin Williams' "Aladdin" character
- 27DPrenatal test, for short
- 31DCraggy peak
- 34DFriend, south of the border, down Mexico way
- 35DLithium-___ battery
- 37DShredding opportunities, for a lead guitarist
- 38DMaxwell Smart, for example
- 39DCountry in which you can find the Great Rift Valley
- 40DBuilding blocks of everything
- 42DIle ___-Helene, an island in the St. Lawrence river
- 47DShares again, on social media
- 50DGreek vowel
- 52DEmulate a hot dog
- 53D"Impractical Jokers" airer
- 54DMathematical puzzle, "Towers of ___" (that has a nifty recursive solution, if you're interested)
- 55DDubai dignitaries
- 56DTitular role for Travolta in which he played a mob boss in a movie that was nominated for six Razzies
- 58DVertical graph line
- 61DBird's construction
- 63DNumerator in the gradient formula
- 65DBird on the Australian coat of arms
- 66DSubj. for immigrants, often
- 67D"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" writer, ___ Vardalos (and did you know there's a third movie planned?)
- 68D"Survivor" network
- 69DPart of i.e.