I'd forget my head if it weren't attached
◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-08-10T07:00:05.440Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is an 8-letter word
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Very sage advice for a vampire (with 3D)[1-3]
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- 1AVery sage advice for a vampire (with 3D)[1-3]
- 4ASinger with a hologram projection
- 7ABringing home
- 14AIATA airport code for the Northeast Philadelphia Airport
- 15ANews agency headquartered in Miami
- 16AHuffington of The Huffington Post
- 17ABowling with hand-sized rubber balls and fewer things to knock down.
- 19ASupposed to be
- 20ANeedles may pierce a vein to allow bloodletting or IV feeding (var.) [2-9]
- 22AAsian honorific
- 23AList shortener
- 24AWhen to eat hamantaschen
- 27ABuster Keaton movie about a train (with "The")
- 30APharmaceutical overseer
- 31A"---- son tanto felice" (I really wanted the clue to be "She told you there'd be days like this" but... spelling matters. sigh)
- 34AFlavor
- 36AIt's all around us
- 37ABergen, Poe, the Earl of Gloucester's first-born son, and the dog who replaced Farley in the comic strip "For better or worse"
- 39ADeveloper of the "Resident Evil" video game franchise
- 41ASee 31 D [1-3]
- 42ASupple
- 46ACompositions in verse
- 47ABroadcasting network owned by Paramount
- 48AKlimt and Rodin both have works named this
- 50AJain monks
- 53AThe crime-solvers in the mystery novel "Three Bags Full"
- 54AL'entrée de 49D en est l'indice
- 57ASat around in the original language [1-7]
- 60A45 minutes for a taco
- 62AThose who row
- 64AHe who flies
- 65AFrench for 66A
- 66AAnglais pour 65A
- 67AGranular crystalline igneous rock commonly of acid plagioclase and hornblende, pyroxene, or biotite
- 68AFootball scores (...I guess.... The only football term I know is "Hand-off"... and apparently "applause")
- 69ACode-cracking org.
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- 1DScreening ability rating (related to 1A)
- 2DWhere to get higher educs
- 3DSee 1A [1-3]
- 4DJust a melee about a French skirt (or a Scottish tunic, or maybe about that SpaceX teeny dwelling rental) (with 58 D) [1-4]
- 5DAnti-allergen autoinjector
- 6D45 of these are too long to wait for a taco
- 7DA striking blow to the side of the head
- 8DEntrust (obsolete)
- 9DTear to pieces
- 10DUpon the Micronesian nation you will find its capital-- Yaren-- and it's most populous city-- Denigomodu; pop. 2,827 (with 49D) [1-5]
- 11DAt work they think this sounds more cutting-edge than "meet" for some reason
- 12DFrom rum to Jem
- 13D--- zooks!
- 18DA puzzle (like a good meta)
- 21DGovt. agency for the preservation of historical records
- 25DYou can't make heads or tails of one of these if it's not in your mother's tongue
- 26DMother and other western madams [1-5]
- 28DNoble name of the dog in the comic strip "Mutts"
- 29DNote from the bank saying you are good for it
- 31DMy liquor I offer for clemency (with 41A)[1-5]
- 32DActress Uzo of "American Pastoral"
- 33DProducer of "Gone With the Wind", "Doctor Zhivago", "Legally Blonde", and "Candyman"
- 35DDiscusses casually
- 38DRest in a chair
- 40DPuts forward as fact
- 43DElegant venue for entertainment [2-7]
- 44DCut down
- 45DBarely manages a 7A
- 49Dsee 10D [1-2]
- 51DOne of two places where all's fair
- 52DUrban Dictionary says this is an informal plural for rank in a hierarchy (I really tried to edit this to something else but I had painted my self in a corner)
- 55DIts juice makes a Margarita citrusy
- 56DIdyllic settings
- 58DSee 4D [1-4]
- 59DWar god
- 60DLike taking 45 minutes for a taco
- 61DEdward Irving Wortis, author of "A Place Called Ugly" and over 60 other children's books
- 63DI doubt I'm going to get a grant from these guys to create metas any time soon.