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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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  • DJB solved 2022-08-10T10:32:18.639Z
  • Hector solved 2022-08-10T13:05:32.945Z
  • Darth solved 2022-08-10T14:42:00.139Z
  • Meg solved 2022-08-10T15:06:43.805Z
  • boharr solved 2022-08-10T16:01:31.106Z
  • hoover solved 2022-08-10T17:59:04.723Z
  • whimsy solved 2022-08-10T18:51:40.788Z
  • Gutman solved 2022-08-10T19:55:11.542Z
  • I K Snamhcok solved 2022-08-11T17:19:48.042Z
  • lbray53 solved 2022-08-11T18:01:51.571Z
  • DIS solved 2022-08-11T19:04:05.534Z
  • Cindy Heisler solved 2022-08-12T02:02:57.729Z
  • CPJohnson solved 2022-08-12T16:50:12.478Z
  • edestlin solved 2022-08-13T16:14:15.518Z
  • Mwoychick solved 2022-08-13T17:01:09.032Z
  • Ergcat solved 2022-08-13T19:38:22.518Z
  • Laura M solved 2022-08-13T20:09:24.282Z
  • Dow Jones solved 2022-08-14T00:43:05.573Z
  • Wendy S HeadinHome solved 2022-08-14T03:34:35.893Z
  • BrennerTJ solved 2022-08-14T05:12:44.006Z
  • ReB solved 2022-08-14T20:28:05.512Z
  • rjy solved 2022-08-15T03:50:36.535Z
  • Mikey G solved 2022-08-15T16:50:56.335Z
  • Darrell solved 2022-08-17T00:56:18.010Z
  • sledge solved 2022-08-28T18:40:52.982Z

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  • Hector 2s · 2022-08-10T13:09:21.573Z
    NEPTUNE should be 2-9. Kinda wacky....Thanks, woozy!
    • woozy constructor · 2022-08-10T15:50:26.980Z
      You are correct. I have fixed it.
    • Meg 2s · 2022-08-10T15:18:23.568Z
      OMG! I just discovered the added zing in the first words of the clues!
      • woozy constructor · 2022-08-10T17:14:26.703Z
        My Very Elegant Mother Just Sat Upon Needles.
        In my youth it was My Very Elegant Mother Just Sat Upon Nine Porcupines although Just Served Us Nine Pizzas was also common. The mnemonic hasn't be consistently updated. Perhaps I'm taking an unfair shortcut in declaring it is Needles she sat upon rather than Noodles or Newspaper or Nails are Napkins but....
        • whimsy 22:13 · 2022-08-10T19:18:52.947Z
          I had She Makes Very Easy Meals; Just Say U Never Play drummed into me.
        • whimsy 22:13 · 2022-08-10T19:16:36.030Z
          Wow! I see it now -- explains some of the "wackiness!" And I like 2D [1-5] and 3D [2, 4-5] -- although not scientifically accurate, I guess. :)
          • woozy constructor · 2022-08-10T20:10:15.961Z
            Oh, wow! Coincidence I'm afraid. But love the idea of it.
        • whimsy 22:13 · 2022-08-10T19:17:17.614Z
          Great to have you MEOW-ing, woozy!
          • I K Snamhcok 1s · 2022-08-11T17:21:36.719Z
            Out of this world! (Sorry.) Seriously, though, this is a fun puzzle. Very involving. Thanks, woozy!
            • Cindy Heisler 3s · 2022-08-12T02:04:53.754Z
              Would have gotten it sooner if I didn't have a word spelled wrong!! Thanks, Woozy.
              • Ergcat 22:41 · 2022-08-13T19:39:47.098Z
                Finally! I was muddled for a long time!! Nudges helped but only after I realized there are only 8 planets now!! Haha! I’m of the age when we learned 9 planets!
                • woozy constructor · 2022-08-13T22:59:51.878Z
                  Nine Porcupines!
                • Laura M 20:30 · 2022-08-13T20:11:06.679Z
                  Good one! I was confused by the numbers in brackets and needed all the hints, but it all made sense in the end!
                  • Dow Jones 3s · 2022-08-14T00:48:35.985Z
                    Good meta, woozy. It took me a long time to figure out the word. I finally had to use an anagram solver. Well done!!
                    • woozy constructor · 2022-08-14T02:21:32.077Z
                      But if you put them in order of the planets....
                    • Wendy S HeadinHome 47s · 2022-08-14T03:42:03.670Z
                      Had to do a reveal for the NW corner (and took quite a while to figure out JUPI needed to be JUPE so VENIPUNCTURE would have to become venepuncture, which still does not look right to me….). ANYhoo, I had given up the meta in frustration, thinking the odd clues were cryptograms (do NOT like cryptograms…), but later the presence of so many nudges at Muggles site gave me confidence to go at this again, and glad I did! I am the mnemonic QUEEN, because, well, the title. I can list lots of English painters, centuries of changing dynasties in the middle east, and many other very useless and obscure lists from history, because of mnemonics that have stuck in my head for years. Also the signs of cancer (C-A-U-T-I-O-N mnemonic, which I made up a tune to). Fun puzzle, after all!
                      • ReB 3s · 2022-08-14T22:17:18.820Z
                        Nice mechanism, definitely needed the nudge to get started. It seems though that NAURU ISLAND should be 1-2 rather than 1-5. Grid was quite difficult.
                        • woozy constructor · 2022-08-15T00:25:05.299Z
                          1-5 refers to the first to 5th letter of NUARU (in other words all of them) and the 1-2 refers to the first to 2ne letter in ISLAND (i.e. IS) so NUARU IS anagrams to URANUS + I.
                        • Mikey G 14:22 · 2022-08-15T16:52:30.436Z
                          Wow! Didn't catch the first words in the clues either - clever, clever, clever!!
                          "Did you try that pizza in space? The cheese wasn't great, but it sure was meteor!"
                          • woozy constructor · 2022-08-15T17:54:51.291Z
                            I ordered it to go. I don't like going to the pizza parlor. The food is good but there's no atmosphere.
                          Play today's daily mini crossword
                          1A
                          Very sage advice for a vampire (with 3D)[1-3]
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                          Across
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                            Very sage advice for a vampire (with 3D)[1-3]
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                            Singer with a hologram projection
                          3. 7A
                            Bringing home
                          4. 14A
                            IATA airport code for the Northeast Philadelphia Airport
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                            News agency headquartered in Miami
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                            Huffington of The Huffington Post
                          7. 17A
                            Bowling with hand-sized rubber balls and fewer things to knock down.
                          8. 19A
                            Supposed to be
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                            Needles may pierce a vein to allow bloodletting or IV feeding (var.) [2-9]
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                            Asian honorific
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                            List shortener
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                            When to eat hamantaschen
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                            Buster Keaton movie about a train (with "The")
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                            Pharmaceutical overseer
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                            "---- son tanto felice" (I really wanted the clue to be "She told you there'd be days like this" but... spelling matters. sigh)
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                            Flavor
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                            It's all around us
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                            Bergen, Poe, the Earl of Gloucester's first-born son, and the dog who replaced Farley in the comic strip "For better or worse"
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                            Developer of the "Resident Evil" video game franchise
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                            See 31 D [1-3]
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                            Supple
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                            Compositions in verse
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                            Broadcasting network owned by Paramount
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                            Klimt and Rodin both have works named this
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                            Jain monks
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                            The crime-solvers in the mystery novel "Three Bags Full"
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                            L'entrée de 49D en est l'indice
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                            Sat around in the original language [1-7]
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                            45 minutes for a taco
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                            Those who row
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                            He who flies
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                            French for 66A
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                            Anglais pour 65A
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                            Granular crystalline igneous rock commonly of acid plagioclase and hornblende, pyroxene, or biotite
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                            Football scores (...I guess.... The only football term I know is "Hand-off"... and apparently "applause")
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                            Code-cracking org.
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                            Screening ability rating (related to 1A)
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                            Where to get higher educs
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                            See 1A [1-3]
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                            Just a melee about a French skirt (or a Scottish tunic, or maybe about that SpaceX teeny dwelling rental) (with 58 D) [1-4]
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                            Anti-allergen autoinjector
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                            45 of these are too long to wait for a taco
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                            A striking blow to the side of the head
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                            Entrust (obsolete)
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                            Tear to pieces
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                            Upon the Micronesian nation you will find its capital-- Yaren-- and it's most populous city-- Denigomodu; pop. 2,827 (with 49D) [1-5]
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                            At work they think this sounds more cutting-edge than "meet" for some reason
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                            From rum to Jem
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                            --- zooks!
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                            A puzzle (like a good meta)
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                            Govt. agency for the preservation of historical records
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                            You can't make heads or tails of one of these if it's not in your mother's tongue
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                            Mother and other western madams [1-5]
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                            Noble name of the dog in the comic strip "Mutts"
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                            Note from the bank saying you are good for it
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                            My liquor I offer for clemency (with 41A)[1-5]
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                            Actress Uzo of "American Pastoral"
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                            Producer of "Gone With the Wind", "Doctor Zhivago", "Legally Blonde", and "Candyman"
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                            Discusses casually
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                            Rest in a chair
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                            Puts forward as fact
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                            Elegant venue for entertainment [2-7]
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                            Cut down
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                            Barely manages a 7A
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                            see 10D [1-2]
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                            One of two places where all's fair
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                            Urban 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)
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                            Its juice makes a Margarita citrusy
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                            Idyllic settings
                          34. 58D
                            See 4D [1-4]
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                            War god
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                            Like taking 45 minutes for a taco
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                            Edward Irving Wortis, author of "A Place Called Ugly" and over 60 other children's books
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                            I doubt I'm going to get a grant from these guys to create metas any time soon.
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