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The Meta Crossword Effect

◆◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-09-21T00:06:01.253Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is a game
Not sure what to do with this one. There was a reason for the bars rather than squares. Constructing with bars show is different. It's far more flexible but somehow seems far less elegant. And hard to read. I may redo this with squares. I had a reason but I think I can work around it. I may get back to this one.
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  • sledge solved 2022-09-25T15:14:17.179Z
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  • benchen71 11:07 · 2022-10-01T04:14:27.311Z
    Sneaky! I thought SPINNER in the center was the meta hint, until I started thinking, "What are all these clues with weird characters at the start and end?" Hey, they're all adjacent to one another!
    • woozy constructor · 2022-10-01T15:40:51.807Z
      Well, spinner is a meta hint, but it's not the metanism.
    Play today's daily mini crossword
    1A
    :Me as well:
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    Across
    1. 1A
      :Me as well:
    2. 6A
      The Tin Woodman's needs
    3. 13A
      Vinyl collection
    4. 16A
      Antioxidant berry
    5. 17A
      Canadian magazine of politics, pop culture, and current events
    6. 18A
      Aachen abode
    7. 19A
      To search for again
    8. 20A
      Form birth to death
    9. 21A
      American nonprofit media organization
    10. 23A
      What am I to him, ---- to me?
    11. 24A
      Waterspout at Notre Dame
    12. 28A
      Relating to the sole
    13. 29A
      Essential to many an Alfred Hitchcock plot... wait? What exactly was it, again?
    14. 32A
      Large chau gong
    15. 33A
      :Tudor queen of Scotland:
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      Winter garments must be lined, So must slender Rosalind, If a hart doth lack a ----, let him seek out Rosalind. --- Burma-Shave
    17. 35A
      Black cuckoo
    18. 36A
      New Zealand's Great Barrier Island
    19. 39A
      :Sushi roll wrapper:
    20. 41A
      And therefore
    21. 42A
      Half a classic comedic duo
    22. 45A
      How moves are determined in some games
    23. 46A
      |Sleuth Wolfe|
    24. 49A
      Dora the Explorer's squirrel friend
    25. 51A
      Home town of Max Ernst
    26. 53A
      Belgian river; in WWI its sluices were opened to flood the fields as an obstacle to the advancing Germans
    27. 55A
      The watery parts of the world
    28. 56A
      Opposed
    29. 57A
      |Phrase particular to a specific language|
    30. 58A
      Belonging to that coastal Atlantic state
    31. 60A
      Dealt with the cost of residence for this month
    32. 62A
      Heat conduit (despite what one sees in movies, a terrible to escape or sneak by)
    33. 63A
      Steam-brewed coffee
    34. 66A
      :Dust bowl refugee:
    35. 67A
      Ovum
    36. 69A
      Phoenix Sun known as "CPE" and "The Point God", supposedly one of the greatest point guards of all time (whatever that means)
    37. 73A
      Major blood vessels
    38. 75A
      Heat to bubbling
    39. 76A
      Centers of rapid growth or activity
    40. 77A
      Book leaf
    41. 78A
      First Broadway play to star Mae West
    42. 79A
      In a Thurber story, when this is stolen Ophelia Oliver is embarrassed to say her name.
    43. 80A
      |Seeped slowly|
    Down
    1. 1D
      Stitch up
    2. 2D
      Mesembryanthemum (or "Dead Man's Fingers".... my grandmother hated this)
    3. 3D
      They are often responsible for teaching many introductory courses
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      Attach by rope
    5. 5D
      Southern Italian code of silence
    6. 6D
      :He tells us the simplest answer is best (Xword constructors should take note):
    7. 7D
      More sick
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      Floral neckware
    9. 9D
      Leaded
    10. 10D
      "Hmm, hon, have you ever heard of this word? It means a male ant" "Male Aunt? What do you mean?"
    11. 11D
      Public service organization promoting health and safety in the United States
    12. 12D
      Just below a goal
    13. 13D
      Frilly like a doily
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      Attracting
    15. 15D
      |135 degrees|
    16. 22D
      Best Actor winner Malek
    17. 24D
      Fed agent
    18. 25D
      Initialism (can't really imagine a meta without the concept)
    19. 26D
      "Is your printer SCSI? No, but my operating system is ---" Boy, that sure cracked me up in 1992.
    20. 27D
      |Inner (prefix)|
    21. 28D
      Educ. support groups
    22. 30D
      Goes round and round according to Humpty-Dumpty
    23. 31D
      Conflagration
    24. 33D
      Like registration cards of old
    25. 34D
      Billina, the Yellow One, named all her chicks either Dorothy or Daniel
    26. 37D
      ....shame
    27. 38D
      Lyric poem in which a long verse is followed by a shorter one
    28. 40D
      Anger
    29. 43D
      When Chekhov says a pistol should be hung on a wall
    30. 44D
      |What they say there is in team|
    31. 47D
      Become involved again
    32. 48D
      Malt kiln
    33. 49D
      Recording medium
    34. 50D
      Where the old woman with so many children lived
    35. 52D
      :Say ----, deny :
    36. 54D
      It flows through Turin and Ferrara
    37. 55D
      .Old dagger:
    38. 57D
      What I felt when Crosshare not only suggested the same entry twice, but had a bug that I couldn't publish without having the same entry twice.
    39. 58D
      |Gilbert and Sullivan emperor|
    40. 59D
      Melodic passage
    41. 61D
      To bore or drive a hole in
    42. 62D
      Early one who browsed the Web
    43. 64D
      --- fixe
    44. 65D
      Taint on character or reputation
    45. 68D
      Turned right on horseback
    46. 69D
      "60 Minutes" airer
    47. 70D
      H. Rider Haggard novel
    48. 71D
      Communications co.
    49. 72D
      Honshu port
    50. 74D
      Bugs' adversary who often appears as a cycle of dust
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