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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. Nudges available here: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=182634#p182634
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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Leaderboard (updated hourly)

  • Berto solved 2024-10-22T11:41:31.645Z
  • Dave C solved 2024-10-22T15:48:22.905Z
  • Hector solved 2024-10-22T18:02:04.595Z
  • LarsCaine solved 2024-10-22T18:49:45.718Z

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  • Berto 1s · 2024-10-22T11:42:16.994Z
    Woohoo! Thought I’d (never) get there, but jumped out in the end! Thanks Ben!
    • Dave C 3s · 2024-10-22T15:49:17.657Z
      Got the first step right away then struggled a bit to find the synonyms. Nice one.
      Play today's daily mini crossword
      1A
      Breakfast cereal based on everyone's favourite crossword cookie
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      Across
      1. 1A
        Breakfast cereal based on everyone's favourite crossword cookie
      2. 7A
        Sensible?
      3. 10A
        Sin / Cos
      4. 13A
        Tangled?
      5. 15A
        "So adorable!"
      6. 17A
        Details of a person's life, education, and career
      7. 18A
        "Oh, but it just may be a ___ you're looking for" (lyric from Billy Joel's "You May Be Right")
      8. 19A
        Separated colour (like "cyan", for example)
      9. 20A
        Gift shop section (and also a song by Chris Lane if that helps)
      10. 22A
        Prove?
      11. 23A
        Chinook salmon
      12. 25A
        Chinese electric vehicle company
      13. 26A
        Cold-shoulder (with "out")
      14. 28A
        "I can ___ obstacles in my way" (lyric from a Johnny Nash song)
      15. 31A
        Play ___ (act)
      16. 35A
        Actor, Ron ___, who was in a relationship with his ER co-star Julianna Margulies from 1991 to 2003
      17. 38A
        1991 or 2003, for example
      18. 40A
        Morgue in a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
      19. 41A
        Confidence?
      20. 43A
        Describable?
      21. 45A
        Doubts that ___ exists (is a religious skeptic)
      22. 46A
        Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, ___
      23. 48A
        Do some grapplin'
      24. 49A
        Beginning stage
      25. 51A
        Matthew Broderick movie, "___ Blues"
      26. 53A
        Blog feed letters
      27. 55A
        How-___ (instructional books)
      28. 56A
        Japanese grapplin' (maybe that will help with 48 across)
      29. 60A
        Love?
      30. 63A
        Big laugh
      31. 66A
        Silly spy movie, "___ Secret!"
      32. 67A
        Chris Hemsworth and benchen71, for two
      33. 69A
        French meatloaf named after the pottery mold it's cooked in
      34. 71A
        Stinging plants
      35. 72A
        Neat?
      36. 73A
        "Mr. Blue Sky" band, for short
      37. 74A
        Reactive?
      38. 75A
        Common motel restriction (and given this entry contains the only negative in the entire puzzle - grid and clues - maybe you should do something about that!)
      Down
      1. 1D
        Planetary path
      2. 2D
        Day when you finally get to use all those things you saved, perhaps
      3. 3D
        Bring to mind, as a memory
      4. 4D
        UK multi-volume lexicon
      5. 5D
        Anna's "Frozen" snowman friend
      6. 6D
        Like the teeth of someone listening to fingernails on a blackboard
      7. 7D
        Tamarisk salt tree
      8. 8D
        "Flashdance" actor, Michael ___
      9. 9D
        Very long time
      10. 10D
        South African bishop, Desmond ___
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        Has ___ ear (is tone-deaf)
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        Puncture site in a vampire movie, perhaps
      13. 14D
        Character from the MTV animated series "Beavis and Butt-Head" who got her own self-titled spin-off
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        Pole tossed at the Highland Games
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        Transcendent
      16. 24D
        "La Bamba" actor, ___ Morales
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        Auto data company that sounds like a ridiculously superfluous communications accessory
      18. 29D
        Belonging to 50 down
      19. 30D
        "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" director, Ang ___
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        Eyes, poetically
      21. 33D
        Dormant period
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        Very wide shoe
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        Big name in toaster waffles
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        Wild animal of the African savannahs
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        Contents of a package from Netflix, once upon a time
      26. 39D
        Iconic 60's brand for those with naturally curly hair that relaunched recently
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        Family member, for short
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        Sale stipulation
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        Jedi foe
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        Young's accounting partner
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        Far from eager
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        Diaphanous
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        Practical
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        Noted painter of water lilies
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        Opinion pieces
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        Hamlet, for example
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        "The Clan of the Cave Bear" author
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        Ratio words
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        Helper (abbr.)
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        67 across's p.m.
      41. 68D
        ___-de-France
      42. 70D
        Workout unit
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