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Discard Pile

◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2023-05-06T17:00:29.393Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 3] The answer to the meta is often discarded.
Nudges: https://xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=129814#p129353 Answer/Reveal: https://xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=129814#p129814
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  • FrankieHeck solved 2023-05-06T18:09:40.028Z
  • Cindy Weatherman solved 2023-05-06T19:03:53.344Z
  • whimsy solved 2023-05-06T20:36:14.903Z
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  • oldjudge 35s · 2023-05-06T19:06:00.510Z
    Mike--I solved at about 10:40 PDT but do not see my name up. Is there a system issue?
    • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-06T20:36:51.449Z
      I'm not sure what's going on. This comment says you posted it 2 hours ago, but I refreshed last hour and didn't see it, so maybe?
    • whimsy 19:02 · 2023-05-06T20:43:33.165Z
      Lots of great clues -- many punny of course, some tricky and some informative. Thanks, Mikey!
      • I K Snamhcok 🤓19:59 · 2023-05-06T20:43:32.074Z
        Fun! Thanks, Mikey!
        • Abide 2s · 2023-05-06T21:06:43.292Z
          Took a little while to figure out to discard ALL the letters. And nice confirmation at 1-Across!
          • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-06T22:31:03.288Z
            Ugh, that was supposed to be clued as "Deride," haha. If that helped you, more power to you! (Matt had a similar situation before. SOS will have our test-solver brigade to catch that!)
          • Joe 🤓15:04 · 2023-05-06T21:20:20.073Z
            No joke. This was good.
            • boharr 3s · 2023-05-06T23:11:13.885Z
              Thanks Mikey
              • KayW 🤓13:16 · 2023-05-06T23:01:28.903Z
                Very clever -I am amazed that you found entries that worked so well! Still chuckling over 36a. Thanks Mikey
                • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-06T23:34:30.359Z
                  Yeah, this was wild. I was thinking of having the letters in any order, which was less than ideal. I realized when I saw SPICEOFLIFE go to "SCOFF" that I was like, "Whoa!" So I hammered away from that angle. I think OILPASTEL was the last to drop since "OAST" was crossword-esy, and I was kind of like, "Meh," but the fact that that made KILN worked was a win!
                • Hector 🤓11:27 · 2023-05-06T23:40:10.832Z
                  Cool!
                  • benchen71 11s · 2023-05-06T23:29:43.154Z
                    I found the first step very quickly, but the second step took a bit longer. Good puzzle, though!
                    • woozy 22:21 · 2023-05-07T03:53:00.954Z
                      Cute. I didn't realize you would overkill.
                      • Bbaack 🤓28:34 · 2023-05-07T14:52:24.248Z
                        Wow, that must have taken awhile to find entries that worked. Nicely done!
                        • MatthewL 🤓14:16 · 2023-05-07T14:24:16.669Z
                          Very fun puzzle! Thanks Mikey.
                          • Pandora's Blocks Weekly Meta Crossword 3s · 2023-05-07T17:27:12.516Z
                            So good!! Did you use code to find these theme entries, or did you do it by hand? Either way, I loved it!
                            • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-08T22:11:44.203Z
                              This took some time, haha. I use Aaronson's Wordlisted, which is vital, but all of the parsing has to be done by hand. So I needed to find entries with PILE in it (Wordlisted did that), and then remove all letters in PILE, and then have the resulting words spell out something (I did that, haha). And this was all done manually and took a while! Think it was worth it - if only I could've made it a 15-by-15! Too much fill was not meant to be!
                              • DrTom 4s · 2023-05-19T03:30:52.256Z
                                Will, you are the master of using code to find your words. I think all of us (and I certainly am) are envious of that ability. I have spent MANY hours combing through words for something that fits certain constraints. You might have to teach us some day!!!!
                              • Toast 🤓2:47 · 2023-05-08T00:56:13.943Z
                                Very elegant! I enjoyed the trivia and punning definitions.
                                I wonder if I'm the only one who initially passed up "SCOFF" as an alternate solution for 1a "Deride". It felt like a slightly bumpy fit. You SCOFF either intransitively or at something, while you deride something. I can scoff something (an utterance or my good-byes), but then I'm not deriding what I'm scoffing. "Mock", maybe?
                                In any case, thanks for de fun ride!
                                • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-08T22:09:40.118Z
                                  Yeah, looking now, due to the direct object/indirect object situation, that becomes a thorny one to deal with. I needed something with "J" and I was happy to find SPICEOFLIFE/SCOFF early on there. So I think I agree with you here. Thanks for solving, though! (Oh, "de fun ride" - that was good, haha.)
                                • Darth 🤓21:42 · 2023-05-08T03:12:41.195Z
                                  Of course, it's 53! What a perfect follow up to your last puz! Love those puns -- You're such a card! haha
                                  • Abide 2s · 2023-05-08T12:45:57.229Z
                                    Ahhh, I missed that bit of coolness. Now I’m prepping for the missing car puzzle in two weeks.
                                    • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-08T22:10:05.524Z
                                      It seriously almost was, haha.
                                    • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-08T22:09:58.954Z
                                      Good catch! Yeah, 52/53 were both card-related for those reasons!
                                    • Laura M 🤓14:21 · 2023-05-09T22:34:17.584Z
                                      Very cool!
                                      • Carolyn 6s · 2023-05-14T00:03:46.974Z
                                        Very nice! I had the right idea, but needed the nudges. Thanks
                                        • DrTom 4s · 2023-05-18T15:04:49.223Z
                                          Well that was wild! I had three speedbumps: (1) I like Comic Sans so it didn't occur to me (2) I had RELEASE for Let Out so I had a tough time with the fill there (3) I originally just removed the PILE, not all the letters that would be use to spell PILE and ended up with some odd combos (is CRAPP a word, I know it with a single P, or a Comic I am fond of without the R - CAPP). In the end it revealed itself! So from one joker to another joker's Joker - NICE JOB, you're a real card, I mean I was on the deck laughing over some of your clues, some were real diamonds and you probably could use them in a club if you could sign a deal. Well better shuffle off to my tasks of the day. So glad I saw this at the last moment.
                                          • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-18T18:01:48.193Z
                                            It was funny: when solving it, Will got to that clue about SANS and was like, "That's probably a joke - you saying you don't like someone is kind of off-brand for you," bahaha. Not the biggest fan of that font, though! (My favorite is Rockwell that all of my crossword programs are set to.) Thank you for solving!!!
                                          • Qmark 2s · 2023-05-20T14:43:08.858Z
                                            No nudges needed...Enjoyed it Mikey...thanks!
                                            • kurtalert 13:56 · 2023-06-02T02:53:40.790Z
                                              Fantastic puzzle!
                                              Play today's daily mini crossword
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                                              Across
                                              1. 1A
                                                Deride
                                              2. 5A
                                                John's is non-synoptic
                                              3. 11A
                                                A waiter might take yours
                                              4. 16A
                                                "Educating ___" (great book on one teacher's journey by ___ Raji Codell)
                                              5. 17A
                                                Every 3,600,000 seconds
                                              6. 18A
                                                Dove and others
                                              7. 19A
                                                Variety (or cinnamon, sometimes?), it's said
                                              8. 21A
                                                Sugar and bamboo, e.g.
                                              9. 22A
                                                Removes from a photo
                                              10. 23A
                                                "Let me ponder that one..."
                                              11. 24A
                                                Middle word of Crane's 1895 literary work
                                              12. 25A
                                                "Well, don't look at me!"
                                              13. 27A
                                                Samuel Fay patented the first in 1867 to attach tickets to fabric
                                              14. 30A
                                                "Awww"-some group, perhaps
                                              15. 33A
                                                "I'll pass"
                                              16. 34A
                                                Staff break?
                                              17. 35A
                                                Fan publication
                                              18. 36A
                                                "Where'd the statistician go?" "He went ___ way!"
                                              19. 38A
                                                Ruminates
                                              20. 40A
                                                Disney World's Summit Plummet, e.g.
                                              21. 42A
                                                Oodles
                                              22. 44A
                                                Forthwith
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                                                He works down on the farm
                                              24. 46A
                                                Misnamed insect until a group of scientists did unearth one with 1,306 legs in 2021
                                              25. 49A
                                                RN's colleague
                                              26. 52A
                                                "Want to resod the garden?" "I ___ it!"
                                              27. 53A
                                                Wiesel who said "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference"
                                              28. 54A
                                                Fair attractions
                                              29. 56A
                                                Cressida's love
                                              30. 60A
                                                A monomial has one
                                              31. 62A
                                                Relative you otter know
                                              32. 63A
                                                Comic that I'm not a fan of
                                              33. 64A
                                                Place for a hammer
                                              34. 66A
                                                Acts the middleman
                                              35. 68A
                                                Medium created in an early form in the the early 1920s by Rinzo Satake and Shuku Sasaki
                                              36. 71A
                                                Parrot
                                              37. 72A
                                                Bright lights
                                              38. 73A
                                                Name mentioned in "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (I need 45 more, Paul!)
                                              39. 75A
                                                Game played with 16 lettered cubes
                                              40. 79A
                                                Mortify
                                              41. 80A
                                                Major League Baseball averages about 5 of these a season
                                              42. 82A
                                                Dilly-dally
                                              43. 83A
                                                Act the couch potato (just hanging with my spuds)
                                              44. 84A
                                                On
                                              45. 85A
                                                Nobel, for one
                                              46. 86A
                                                Disney character originally named "Experiment 626"
                                              47. 87A
                                                Say it isn't so!
                                              Down
                                              1. 1D
                                                "___, Joy of Man's Desiring" (piece I'll get Bach to learning one day)
                                              2. 2D
                                                Its first letter stands for "Entertainment"
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                                                Radiate
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                                                Abjured
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                                                Cut off all contact, colloquially
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                                                "That's gotta hurt"
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                                                George Takei role
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                                                Gussy up
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                                                Danny who wrote the theme to "The Simpsons"
                                              10. 10D
                                                "Isn't this cleaner an acid?" "No! That's a ___!"
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                                                Word first used in an acceptance speech by Walt Disney
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                                                They'll help you with your shoulders
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                                                Hangs like an earring
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                                                He might get foiled again
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                                                Blog feed abbr.
                                              16. 20D
                                                Its third letter stands for 11-Down
                                              17. 24D
                                                "Yeah, I'm always runnin', but I'm always runnin' ___" (Tracy Lawrence lyric)
                                              18. 26D
                                                Completely
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                                                Place to crash
                                              20. 29D
                                                TD's six
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                                                Oven for drying
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                                                Still contending
                                              23. 32D
                                                Purloined
                                              24. 35D
                                                Half a Gabor
                                              25. 37D
                                                Like a certain tower (at which you might get a slice of Pisa)
                                              26. 39D
                                                Movie trailer?
                                              27. 41D
                                                First Best 11-Down winner Jannings
                                              28. 43D
                                                A pitch to join your latest get-rich-quick scheme is a ___ of fortune
                                              29. 47D
                                                "Well, maybe..."
                                              30. 48D
                                                Phantasmagoric
                                              31. 49D
                                                Brickell who sings "Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box" (and who's married to Paul Simon - just learned this!)
                                              32. 50D
                                                Department in a haberdashery
                                              33. 51D
                                                "You should know better than that!"
                                              34. 52D
                                                Having a proclivity toward
                                              35. 55D
                                                "The smile on my face is genuine!"
                                              36. 56D
                                                General to take out?
                                              37. 57D
                                                Curved path
                                              38. 58D
                                                Let out
                                              39. 59D
                                                ACT's rival
                                              40. 61D
                                                Source of Faulkner's title "The Sound and the Fury"
                                              41. 65D
                                                Feel contrition
                                              42. 67D
                                                A rabbit's favorite restaurant?
                                              43. 69D
                                                Something you can bat
                                              44. 70D
                                                "Year of ___" (what Nintendo dubbed 2013)
                                              45. 74D
                                                Detect
                                              46. 76D
                                                I want to get to my boarding site on time: I have ___ expectations
                                              47. 77D
                                                France's third largest city - honest!
                                              48. 78D
                                                Detect
                                              49. 79D
                                                Some radios on which I hear the Cubs games
                                              50. 80D
                                                Some other devices on which I watch the Cubs games
                                              51. 81D
                                                Director Jean-___ Godard
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