PCC#23 "Three-Course Meal"
■ · By Philip Chow · Published 2024-01-27T15:54:40.627Z
Meta Prompt
[Level 2.5] Meta prompt: The answer to the meta is something that DJ Khaled does (that I hope you do too)
Meta puzzle and mechanism by Kelly McMahon. Crossword puzzle and clues by Philip Chow.
Hint #1: the meta answer is three letters long
Hint #2: please don't waste your food
Hint #3: 36-A and 69-A are hints as to what to do with the three courses and their respective ingredients
Hint #4: to make JELLO (the first course), combine JOIN + CELLO = JELLO... the leftover letters give you OIN + C which can be recycled to make COIN
Hint#5: if you employ the strategy in hint #4 to all three courses, you end up with the words COIN, COHERE, and WHERE
Hint#6: use the same trick from hint #4 on the three words from hint #5
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Pilgrimage to Mecca (Var.)
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Across
- 1APilgrimage to Mecca (Var.)
- 5ACustardy dessert [Second course]
- 9A"___ 'em!" (command to a guard dog)
- 12ASpanish for "celery" (found in "tapioca")
- 13A"Pan's Labyrinth" director Guillermo del ___
- 14AMomentary instance of forgetfulness
- 16AYou can order chocolate or rainbow ones with your ice cream [Third course]
- 18ALucy's neighbor in "I Love Lucy"
- 19APeter Abelard's "Sic ___" (Medieval Latin for "Yes and No")
- 20AItem sold in a classic tongue twister
- 22A"Every kiss begins with ___" (jewelry chain's slogan)
- 23A"Don't worry, I didn't care much for it anyway"
- 25ACity from where the hottest girls flew from, in DJ Khaled's song "Victory"
- 26APC corner key
- 27APalindromic file extension
- 28A"Hallelujah" songwriter Leonard [Second course ingredient]
- 31A"Everything Everywhere All at Once" Oscar winner Michelle
- 33AVacuum tube with three components
- 36AWord like "brunch" (breakfast + lunch) or "tangelo" (tangerine + pomelo)
- 40A"If you ___ you, then we'd all be a bit less we" ("Winnie-the-Pooh" Disney quote)
- 41AExplosives used in blasting
- 44AJiggly dessert [First course]
- 46A"___ Mubarak" (end of Ramadan greeting)
- 49AOne of seven (in a week)
- 50ATia Fuller's instrument in Pixar's "Soul," for short
- 51A"I'm Every Woman" comedian ___ Morgan
- 54AHallelujah trio?
- 55ACrow's feet, for example [Third course ingredient]
- 58ARoadside distress signal [Second course ingredient]
- 60AImage commonly seen in a kindergartner's coloring book "I is for..." worksheet
- 61ASlogan that emphasizes sexual consent
- 64A"How Doth the Little Crocodile" and "Jabberwocky"
- 65AMlle. : French :: ___ : Spanish
- 66AHigh-fat, low-carb diet
- 67ADenouement
- 68AIt will take just shy of 798 decades before we reach a 5-digit one
- 69ADish made of recycling chopped-up leftovers
Down
- 1DOwns
- 2DMake happy
- 3DFilm trope seen in Denzel Washington's character in "Training Day" and Matt Damon's character in "The Departed"
- 4DEnlist in [First course ingredient]
- 5DGold vault located in KY
- 6DROTFLMAO alternative
- 7DJoe Cocker's "You ___ Beautiful"
- 8D"Booped" body parts
- 9DRound 3D shape [Third course ingredient]
- 10DAntagonist in "The Manchurian Candidate" portrayed by Angela Lansbury
- 11DString quartet instrument [First course ingredient]
- 14DVictor Hugo's "___ Misérables"
- 15DThe first "A" in NCAA: Abbr.
- 17DHow many oysters remained at the end of Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
- 21DFormal neckwear
- 22D___ lime pie
- 24DDJ Snake's "___ Love You" ft. Justin Bieber
- 29DLaudatory verse
- 30D"If you can't stand the ___, get out of the kitchen"
- 32DWolf's cry
- 34DParticipated in a half-marathon, say
- 35D"Where do you see yourself ___ years?" (interview question I hate answering because how the heck would I know... do I look like a fortune teller to you?)
- 37DFamily member: Abbr.
- 38DTroublemaker in fairy tales or online forums
- 39DLike the cities Atlantis and Bikini Bottom
- 42DSpecial skills
- 43D___ admin (who to contact when you get can't resolve the error message "Problem occurred in the server. Please try again.")
- 44DSpecialized vocabulary
- 45DBanished
- 47D"I Live ___" (Kurosawa drama about a factory owner driven to madness over terrors of a nuclear attack)
- 48DCrème ___ crème
- 50DSnatch, like the last cookie from the cookie jar
- 52DExtremely tiny, informally
- 53DStick out like ___ thumb
- 56DOm ___ ("Cut the Rope" character that happily devours candy)
- 57DIsland of the Dodecanese
- 59DAncient Egyptian symbol of life
- 62DNYC subway overseer
- 63D"Wow... impressive"
I've been seeing this quote attributed to Carroll a lot lately. I wonder who came up with it.