#200 (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2024-06-25T06:00:39.863Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a board game
Well, will you look at that: 200 metas! Goodness, I never thought I would see the day when I could say that. "Financial Downturn" (https://crosshare.org/crosswords/4DxgBqcHR4PwVbG4bkjA/financial-downturn-meta) doesn't feel like such a long time ago. Anyway, I'm not showing any signs of stopping, so here's to many more metas to come! Which brings us to this special, celebratory meta. There isn't much I can say about this one, so just jump in. The answer to the meta is a board game. (Note that this is not a tricky meta: your challenge is to try to solve the meta before you get to the bottom row!) Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=171345#p171345
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
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- 1AAnimation still
- 4ASpanish friend
- 7ALecherous look
- 13AUno, due, ___
- 14ANarrow aperture
- 15AApproved
- 16AOffshore structure
- 17AGaul or Briton, for example
- 18ABatman's butler
- 19AJohnny's character on "The Big Bang Theory"
- 21AActress ___ Darvish (who also happens to be Josh Gad's wife)
- 22AThe E in BCE
- 23AMake a decision
- 24AGerman inventor and musician who improved the flute's fingering system, Theobald ___
- 26ADo without
- 28AThird largest city in Zambia
- 30A"That's soooo gross!"
- 31ALentil dish
- 32APrefix meaning "large"
- 35AAustralian wild dog
- 36A"___ of Ingleside" (eighth of nine books in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery)
- 39AUp to, informally
- 40AUtter a profanity
- 42AThrough
- 43AHearty's partner
- 44AStops by
- 47ASprinkler connection
- 48APapal court
- 49ALacking vivacity
- 50AApt acronym for the African Youth Initiative (I haven't done one of these clues for a while!)
- 53A"It takes two" dance
- 54ADavid's weapon of choice
- 58APark mentioned in the song "Winds of Change" but transliterated from the Russian correctly
- 60AHow I like my steak
- 61AGrimes and Elon's third child
- 62ACalendar leading up to Christmas
- 63AImportant Jewish scribe and priest in the early Second Temple period
- 64AGreek vowel
- 65AWhat you have to do four times in this grid
- 66ADiary division
- 67AComfy shoe
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- 1DLower-left PC key
- 2DCrosswords' lake of lakes
- 3DDanish plastic block
- 4DWarn
- 5DBlue cheese feature
- 6DHairy TV cousin
- 7DProvoked
- 8DMusical for which "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" is the opening song
- 9DClumsy one
- 10D"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did ___ and gimble in the wabe"
- 11DEye provocatively
- 12DNorse epic
- 14DSuffix meaning "scenery"
- 20DNeighbour of Swed.
- 21DLithium-___ battery
- 24DLandlocked country of South America
- 25D"___ Handbook" (writer's style guide)
- 26D"Methinks" online
- 27DPossessed
- 28DLong-nosed fish
- 29DPlay the role of
- 30DNYT and WSJ VIPs
- 31D"___ or not ___. There is no try." (51 down)
- 33DReally annoy
- 34DFlamenco shout
- 36DPutting mortar in the spaces between tiles
- 37D___-Manuel Miranda
- 38D"___ Confidential" (James Ellroy novel)
- 41DCircumference segment
- 43DOwner of a moving castle
- 45DSeek divine guidance from
- 46DMath. ratio equal to Opposite over Hypotenuse
- 47DProphet who married Gomer
- 49DTruck, to a Brit
- 50D"I love a girl with ___ between her teeth" (Marc Jacobs)
- 51DSee 31 down
- 52DJournalist Kupcinet et al.
- 54DStrip in the Middle East
- 55DAny thing
- 56DOrg. with an alphabet
- 57DNacho topper, slangily
- 59DKestrel in "A Kestrel for a Knave"
- 60DColourful Taylor Swift album