Lonely Negatives (Meta)
◆◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2024-10-22T05:00:38.061Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a movie
Well, I know I've bitten off slightly more than I can chew with this one, which is why I'm running it as a "week 4". But I think I've left you enough to find your way to the meta answer, which is a movie. And let's do the prize thing again! If you check the box during submission, your name will go into the draw for the latest MOAT pack, the MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=183071#p183071
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
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Breakfast cereal based on everyone's favourite crossword cookie
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Across
- 1ABreakfast cereal based on everyone's favourite crossword cookie
- 7ASensible?
- 10ASin / Cos
- 13ATangled?
- 15A"So adorable!"
- 17ADetails of a person's life, education, and career
- 18A"Oh, but it just may be a ___ you're looking for" (lyric from Billy Joel's "You May Be Right")
- 19ASeparated colour (like "cyan", for example)
- 20AGift shop section (and also a song by Chris Lane if that helps)
- 22AProve?
- 23AChinook salmon
- 25AChinese electric vehicle company
- 26ACold-shoulder (with "out")
- 28A"I can ___ obstacles in my way" (lyric from a Johnny Nash song)
- 31APlay ___ (act)
- 35AActor, Ron ___, who was in a relationship with his ER co-star Julianna Margulies from 1991 to 2003
- 38A1991 or 2003, for example
- 40AMorgue in a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- 41AConfidence?
- 43ADescribable?
- 45ADoubts that ___ exists (is a religious skeptic)
- 46AUno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, ___
- 48ADo some grapplin'
- 49ABeginning stage
- 51AMatthew Broderick movie, "___ Blues"
- 53ABlog feed letters
- 55AHow-___ (instructional books)
- 56AJapanese grapplin' (maybe that will help with 48 across)
- 60ALove?
- 63ABig laugh
- 66ASilly spy movie, "___ Secret!"
- 67AChris Hemsworth and benchen71, for two
- 69AFrench meatloaf named after the pottery mold it's cooked in
- 71AStinging plants
- 72ANeat?
- 73A"Mr. Blue Sky" band, for short
- 74AReactive?
- 75ACommon motel restriction (and given this entry contains the only negative in the entire puzzle - grid and clues - maybe you should do something about that!)
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- 1DPlanetary path
- 2DDay when you finally get to use all those things you saved, perhaps
- 3DBring to mind, as a memory
- 4DUK multi-volume lexicon
- 5DAnna's "Frozen" snowman friend
- 6DLike the teeth of someone listening to fingernails on a blackboard
- 7DTamarisk salt tree
- 8D"Flashdance" actor, Michael ___
- 9DVery long time
- 10DSouth African bishop, Desmond ___
- 11DHas ___ ear (is tone-deaf)
- 12DPuncture site in a vampire movie, perhaps
- 14DCharacter from the MTV animated series "Beavis and Butt-Head" who got her own self-titled spin-off
- 16DPole tossed at the Highland Games
- 21DTranscendent
- 24D"La Bamba" actor, ___ Morales
- 27DAuto data company that sounds like a ridiculously superfluous communications accessory
- 29DBelonging to 50 down
- 30D"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" director, Ang ___
- 32DEyes, poetically
- 33DDormant period
- 34DVery wide shoe
- 35DBig name in toaster waffles
- 36DWild animal of the African savannahs
- 37DContents of a package from Netflix, once upon a time
- 39DIconic 60's brand for those with naturally curly hair that relaunched recently
- 42DFamily member, for short
- 44DSale stipulation
- 47DJedi foe
- 50DYoung's accounting partner
- 52DFar from eager
- 54DDiaphanous
- 57DPractical
- 58DNoted painter of water lilies
- 59DOpinion pieces
- 60DHamlet, for example
- 61D"The Clan of the Cave Bear" author
- 62DRatio words
- 64DHelper (abbr.)
- 65D67 across's p.m.
- 68D___-de-France
- 70DWorkout unit