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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
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            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
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            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
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            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
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            Pirate's pet
          10. 10D
            One of five in "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme"
          11. 11D
            "Religio Laici" poet
          12. 12D
            Debtor's note
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            Opposite of masc.
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            Black History Month mo.
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            Own
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            Actress Ward
          17. 23D
            Org. for high traffic situations?
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            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
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            Night school subj.
          28. 41D
            Actor Reiner of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
          29. 42D
            Crunchy salad vegetables
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            Thx partner
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            Narrow inlet
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            Frequently, in verse
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            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
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            "___ a trap!"
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            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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