Idiomatic (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2023-06-06T06:00:49.032Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a three word phrase
If you can complete the grid, and I've tried to make that as straight-forward as possible, I think you will find this meta on the easy side. The answer to the meta is a three word phrase. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=132452#p132452
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19th letter of the alphabet
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- 1A19th letter of the alphabet
- 4ARegarding
- 8ASymbols on a page of music that you won't hear no matter how hard you try
- 13ARefuse to choose
- 15ARisky situation
- 17AMusical composition of established popularity
- 18APayment for use of a quay
- 19ARomanian-French avant-garde playwright, Eugene ___
- 20ARespond prematurely
- 21AWhat justify the means, for some
- 22A"That's a good joke!"
- 24A"Thanks for baking this bread." "Oh, it's the ___ I could do." (for pun-lovers everywhere!)
- 25ASpeak without restraint
- 27ASpeak with restraint
- 31A"I'm onto you!"
- 37AAll good
- 40AEye specialist
- 41AJoanne Harris novel involving Vianne and her daughter Anouk
- 43AToy bricks that you really don't want to step on
- 44AJam without written music
- 47AWhat present-day Jennifer says when she comes face to face with herself in "Back to the Future II"
- 52AScaloppine meat
- 53A"Don't worry, it'll all ___"
- 57AEasily bruised thing for half the world
- 59AVianne in 41 across, for example
- 61AConcealed
- 62AFail spectacularly
- 63AIroquois tribe
- 64A"That's a fact" rebuttal
- 65ADada artist, Max ___
- 66AItalian wine region
- 67ABambi's aunt
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- 1DShort form of Esther, Estelle, Celeste, Leslie, or Esmeralda
- 2DUse as a chair
- 3DGet to one's feet
- 4D&&&
- 5DFacial hair that can be twirled if you are a pantomime villain, for short
- 6DLarynx locale
- 7DMultivolume ref. featured in "The Surgeon of Crowthorne"
- 8DStreaming player brand
- 9DAdversary
- 10DCool giant star with approximately equal quantities of carbon and oxygen in its atmosphere
- 11D"They went ___-way!"
- 12DAudible breaths
- 14DSingles
- 16DNair rival (and in the UK, an apt acronym for someone Not in Education, Employment or Training)
- 20DOscar winning song from "Slumdog Millionaire"
- 23DMenopause treatment (abbr.)
- 25DFrontman for "Thirty Seconds to Mars", Jared ___
- 26DBench-press muscle
- 27D9 down of a hobbit
- 28D"Umbrella" singer, to fans
- 29DBefore now
- 30DActive ingredient in marijuana
- 32DChristmas in ___, an Australian winter event for some
- 33D___-de-France
- 34DMusician's booking
- 35DAussie slang for being stuck at home during a pandemic
- 36DGPS lines
- 38DMont Blanc, for example
- 39DArtillery outburst
- 42DInventor's monogram (although he is becoming more well known for stealing the work of others)
- 45D"Gulliver's Travels" primitives
- 46DWhat the plumber did to remove the air in the radiator: he ___
- 47D"It seems to me", online
- 48DNortheasternmost U.S. state
- 49DFuture Jennifer, compared to the present-day Jennifer (cf. 47 across)
- 50DDid an usher's job
- 51DAdam Sandler movie, "Mr. ___"
- 53DArrow shooters
- 54DLunar crater named after a Swedish botanist
- 55DMost widely cultivated species of the genus Allium
- 56DTraditional song, "Froggie ___-Courtin'"
- 58DTiny pest
- 60DRoasted, on French menus
- 62DSignoff in a group chat (abbr.)