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And Another Thing... (meta)

◆ · By damefox · Published 2021-12-29T20:00:39.884Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a six-letter word.
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  • benchen71 🤓6:05 · 2021-12-30T02:21:45.984Z
    I revealed the meta answer and still have no idea what the mechanism is. I'd love a nudge!
    • Emma Oxford constructor · 2021-12-30T03:09:14.635Z
      Are you familiar with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? And its sequels?
      • benchen71 🤓6:05 · 2021-12-30T04:26:42.624Z
        Why yes, yes I am. I will take another look with that in mind...
    • Jason S 🤓4:49 · 2021-12-30T21:38:47.134Z
      One note: While the CharlieCard in 32D was named after "Charlie on the MTA", these days it's known as the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority).
      • Abide 3s · 2022-01-08T04:30:58.091Z
        Impressive grid with the 4 16s! So the secret to the universe is Radishes?
        • I K Snamhcok 🤓11:25 · 2022-01-11T21:59:02.389Z
          Yay! Yes, I had to use your spoiler, then google. But still fun! Thanks, Emma!
          Play today's daily mini crossword
          1A
          Astounds
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Astounds
          2. 5A
            "Not __!" ("Shh!")
          3. 10A
            "Back in ___!"
          4. 15A
            Periodic function
          5. 16A
            "I cannot ___ lie"
          6. 17A
            Australian cry
          7. 18A
            Particular type of double-jointedness, potentially useful for getting a ride
          8. 21A
            "She checks out Mozart while she does ___ Bo" ("Drops of Jupiter" lyric)
          9. 22A
            Kind of tea
          10. 23A
            Little lie
          11. 26A
            Harsh criticism
          12. 29A
            "Te ___" (hymn)
          13. 33A
            1969 comedy adapted from an Arlo Guthrie song
          14. 36A
            Voice below soprano
          15. 37A
            Message on a cellphone
          16. 38A
            Aleppo's country
          17. 39A
            Come clean, with "up"
          18. 41A
            Street ___
          19. 43A
            Some PhD possessors
          20. 46A
            Insurance co. for military families
          21. 48A
            Pennsylvania port city
          22. 52A
            2004 Carbon Leaf hit with the lyric "Well I hate to be a bother / But it's you and there's no other, I do believe" (talk about a middle-school anthem... this is really taking me back)
          23. 56A
            Fill completely
          24. 57A
            Reveal accidentally
          25. 58A
            Golf bag item
          26. 59A
            "And after that..."
          27. 61A
            Dir. opposite NNW
          28. 63A
            Response to "Is this going to work?"
          29. 71A
            Basic belief
          30. 72A
            Not tight
          31. 73A
            Composer Stravinsky
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            Students may be running on none of it
          33. 75A
            Most of the contents of Pandora's box
          34. 76A
            Residents of a dairy farm
          Down
          1. 1D
            Baseball bat wood
          2. 2D
            "Super Mario Galaxy" platform
          3. 3D
            Doc. to visit for a strep test
          4. 4D
            Breakaway group
          5. 5D
            Douglas Adams and Christopher Hitchens, for two
          6. 6D
            Architect I. M. ___
          7. 7D
            Deer relative
          8. 8D
            Certain poet
          9. 9D
            Pirate's pet
          10. 10D
            One of five in "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme"
          11. 11D
            "Religio Laici" poet
          12. 12D
            Debtor's note
          13. 13D
            Opposite of masc.
          14. 14D
            Black History Month mo.
          15. 19D
            Own
          16. 20D
            Actress Ward
          17. 23D
            Org. for high traffic situations?
          18. 24D
            Unwell
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            Took the bait
          20. 27D
            Very French?
          21. 28D
            "Oedipus ___" (song by Tom Lehrer... or, okay fine, a play by Sophocles, but I prefer the song)
          22. 30D
            A tin one isn't an asset for a musician
          23. 31D
            Prefix with verse or corn
          24. 32D
            Subway system where riders can pay with a CharlieCard
          25. 34D
            Plant that sounds like it grows the source of what students are probably running on instead of 74-Across
          26. 35D
            Employ
          27. 40D
            Night school subj.
          28. 41D
            Actor Reiner of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
          29. 42D
            Crunchy salad vegetables
          30. 43D
            Thx partner
          31. 44D
            Narrow inlet
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            Frequently, in verse
          33. 46D
            Sir Peter who won Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Spartacus"
          34. 47D
            "Help!"
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            Rodent often unfairly blamed for the Black Death
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            Anger
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            Part of a needle or a hurricane
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            Zeno's home (which happens to an anagram of another piece of crosswordese: ALEE)
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            Doddering
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            ___ facto
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            URL starter
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            Of Biblical proportions
          43. 63D
            "___ a trap!"
          44. 64D
            Animation frame
          45. 65D
            Hydrocarbon suffix
          46. 66D
            Law, in Lyon
          47. 67D
            High fashion monogram
          48. 68D
            Id's counterpart
          49. 69D
            Scatter, as seeds
          50. 70D
            Hosp. areas
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