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A Different Kind Of Golf - April Contest Midi

◆◆ · By theparocine · Published 2024-04-14T13:15:37.506Z

Meta Prompt
Just like a golf course - this puzzle has a hole. A missing something where something should be. Can you find it?
My entry for the April midi contest that I so VERY nearly disqualified myself from by publishing it a little too early for a few minutes. I originally tested this idea in a 15x15 grid - it was hard to squeeze everything in! Also - note that while arguably there are two possible meta solutions, only one of them is actually a word (Though it's pretty easy to get the right solution once you have the other, wrong one).
Hints:
  1. A lot of the words in this puzzle are quite short, aren't they?
  2. Some of them are even spelled really similarly...
  3. What does 26A have to do with the meta? What's the banner image supposed to be? And why is the puzzle named like that?
  4. Maybe there's a kind of golf you can do with words?
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  • Tyger solved 2024-04-14T16:03:34.301Z
  • heron solved 2024-04-15T02:43:06.898Z

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  • theparocine constructor · 2024-04-14T13:22:39.322Z
    Meta solve - 26A, the crossword title, and the banner image (of ladder golf) all refer to word ladders, also known as word links or word golf. You can rearrange every four-letter clue in the crossword to form a single word ladder with one word missing (being 38A 48A 6D 9A 9D 27D 27A 34D 1A 1D ?? 41A 25D 28D 33A 12A 20D 50A 10D 37D). This single word, SHIT (or CHOT, which isn't a word), is the "missing something where something should be".
    • theparocine constructor · 2024-04-14T13:24:50.657Z
      I hope you've enjoyed doing this! This is the first time I've ever set a meta, and the idea was just to good to give up when I made the golf - word ladder association, especially with a number of them now appearing on this site!
      • Tyger 10:42 · 2024-04-14T16:04:58.091Z
        Bahaha! This was fantastic. I am still a novice solver, so while I couldn't work through the entire grid without check/reveal, the hints really helped me solve the meta! You had me jotting down all the words in a notepad trying to figure out how they all link. Well done!
        • heron 4:23 · 2024-04-15T02:43:30.404Z
          what a journey haha
          Play today's daily mini crossword
          1A
          Celtic cat-spirit (and Final Fantasy character) __ Sith
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Celtic cat-spirit (and Final Fantasy character) __ Sith
          2. 3A
            Number of the Postage Stamp?
          3. 7A
            Makers of the Golf car, for short
          4. 9A
            A hole too small for golfing?
          5. 12A
            As opposed to a wood
          6. 14A
            "__ that __" - God to Moses
          7. 15A
            Two under
          8. 16A
            The most frustrating place on the hole the ball could land on
          9. 17A
            Hole-in-one
          10. 19A
            Tex-__
          11. 21A
            Quagmire
          12. 22A
            Golfer Alcott who started the Dinah Shore winner's tradition of jumping into a nearby pond
          13. 24A
            You can bank on it
          14. 26A
            Coastal course (and, in another sense, what you should be looking for for the meta)
          15. 27A
            Split
          16. 29A
            Probably just a weather balloon
          17. 32A
            __-up (golf has these too!)
          18. 33A
            Particle accelerator suffix
          19. 34A
            Prison guard abbrev.
          20. 35A
            Drive box?
          21. 36A
            Pop artist Lichtenstein (who painted a golf ball once)
          22. 38A
            Legendary golfer __ McIIlroy of the 21st century
          23. 41A
            Basic golf action
          24. 44A
            As opposed to snail
          25. 47A
            Has 40 cards for 3 players
          26. 48A
            Major or May?
          27. 49A
            Golfer group
          28. 50A
            Soviet secret police
          Down
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            Chat partner?
          2. 2D
            Uno, due, ___
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            PNG or JPEG, etc.
          4. 5D
            Neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire
          5. 6D
            Split
          6. 8D
            Stenographer stat
          7. 9D
            Peel (down)
          8. 10D
            Harbinger
          9. 11D
            Makers of the PGA Tour series of games
          10. 12D
            Kind
          11. 13D
            Veto
          12. 17D
            Tiger Woods shattered his pretty recently
          13. 18D
            Spoken shortening for the Masters tourney
          14. 19D
            TV character Smith (who's often with his grand-dad Sanchez)
          15. 20D
            "Look, ma! __ __ TV!"
          16. 21D
            Can come in bird and swine forms
          17. 22D
            Silent speaking?
          18. 23D
            "Woohoo!"
          19. 25D
            __ Shit, Megan Thee Stallion single
          20. 27D
            Golfer goals
          21. 28D
            Faster than a walk, slower than a run
          22. 30D
            "Watch out!"
          23. 31D
            Fifth round, e.g.
          24. 34D
            Can be for groceries as well
          25. 37D
            Invitational alternative
          26. 39D
            Legendary golfer Ted __ of the 20th century
          27. 40D
            Bark (and when plural, a twitching tendency that golfers much malign)
          28. 42D
            Lot of landlords
          29. 43D
            "Dude!"
          30. 45D
            Guy
          31. 46D
            Other half of BT
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