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Preparing Eggs

◆◆ · By woozy · Published 2024-03-13T00:00:51.356Z

Meta Prompt
In this puzzle are five ways to prepare eggs. Your job is to find them all. The meta answer is the fifth and last way.
Okay, this is a bit of a different one. Think outside the box as it were. Hopefully one thing will lead to another.
I decided to just run with some of the punchier clues. Don't be distracted in thinking some of the more detailed clues are part of the meta. I'm most cases I just put in more stuff to give more information to obscure clues.
Oh, also don't concern yourselves with the two 15 letter entries. It would have been hard to place symmetrically holes in them and not have the symmetry force two letter words. When Crosshare filled them in I was pleased with the results. That's all.
Nudges: Okay, there are five ways of preparing eggs and each one leads to the next
The first way is "Scrambled", so something scrambled will be a clue to a second type of egg preparation
What looks like it could by an anagram and of what?
That leads to a third and a third to a fourth
The fifth and last say it can be taken from DINGS
Isn't the word "representative" weird in the last clue
LAISEZ and NEZ, aren't that difficult French. Do you really think I think you will need google to translate those?
Isn't there an egg method right in the grid under the vacuum?
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  • woozy constructor · 2024-03-13T15:27:47.731Z
    So this is a treasure hunt where method leads to another:
    The first is given to you as SCRAMBLED. So the second will be found by scrambling something.
    SEEOVARY is an anagram of OVER EASY, so that's the second and it's a clue to the third.
    Taking EASY= EZ there are four places in the grid with the letter EZ[*] and the spots above them spell SOUS VIDE.
    SOUS VIDE literally translates to UNDER VACUUM. A HOOVER is a vacuum and under the entry HOOVER is POACHED just right out there bold as brass.
    POACHED definition refers to something being stolen and taken away.
    The last entry DINGS refers to the final way being taken (or poached) from the entry.
    "Representative markings on a surface" is D(RAW)INGS and so the final method is: RAW
    Play today's daily mini crossword
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    For the meta theme, SCRAMBLED has this position in the list
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    Across
    1. 1A
      For the meta theme, SCRAMBLED has this position in the list
    2. 6A
      Largest active volcano in Japan
    3. 9A
      "Dude!"
    4. 12A
      I had an argument with my cruciverbalist Star Wars hating brother-in-law when this entry occurred in a crossword. He thought that as it had a number you wouldn't spell the nick-name this way. That fan-fiction had been doing so for four decades held no sway for him.
    5. 14A
      Hat also called a tarboosh
    6. 15A
      Caveman Alley
    7. 16A
      Network that airs live coverage from the International Space Station
    8. 17A
      When Brazilian diplomat faced an unruly mob had them disperse by reading them this in an adroit and sensitive manner
    9. 19A
      Gnaw
    10. 21A
      Squirrel who lost his tail to Old Brown, the Owl
    11. 23A
      Oh... I assumed this was a streaming clause one needs before listening to music. Instead its a contract for athletes and teams. (Another sports question... sigh)
    12. 28A
      Body parts that sway
    13. 29A
      Desiccates
    14. 30A
      Units of work
    15. 31A
      Med. country est. 1948
    16. 32A
      Fruit juices for wine making
    17. 33A
      Drain away
    18. 34A
      40A in French. (How is your French? Maybe you need to Google to brush up)
    19. 36A
      Ousted royal who was the impetus for a hostage situation a while back
    20. 40A
      Allow
    21. 41A
      "What's this short message jotted down?" "That? That's - ----"
    22. 43A
      French for nose. (How is your French? Maybe you need to Google to brush up)
    23. 44A
      Photoshop's co. ticker symbol
    24. 46A
      Swahili for "boss"
    25. 47A
      Actress Rowlands. (Also a form of Ethiopian field hockey named for the Jan. 7 Christmas celebration. Did you know that? Me neither. That's why I went with the "Actress Rowlands" clue)
    26. 48A
      Southern Lights
    27. 51A
      Under the president, an economic vacuum occurred (ha, ha)
    28. 52A
      Ireland personified
    29. 53A
      Stolen away
    30. 56A
      What Punxsutawney 23D apparently never succumbs to (he's been at it since 1886)
    31. 60A
      "Fortunate Son" band
    32. 61A
      A laudatory ve ..... dammit! You could have at least let me finish the clue before filling it in!
    33. 62A
      36A's Capital city
    34. 63A
      Timorous
    35. 64A
      In 2007, this company released dispensers in the likeness of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Empress Elizabeth of Austria
    36. 65A
      Representative markings on a surface. The final way of preparing eggs is taken from here.
    Down
    1. 1D
      Enthusiast
    2. 2D
      Lyricist Gershwin. (If you replace the middle letter you get the name of a Brazilian singer.... just saying.....)
    3. 3D
      Matter for the courts
    4. 4D
      Actor Keach and his father are two for example
    5. 5D
      Precedes "Lighthouse", "Nth Degree", "Batcave", "Host and hostess" and others
    6. 6D
      "The wnd. is in frm. ___, lst. nght. I cdn't. sleep. It sr. is hrd. to lve. here, Carey, b this rlly. is not my home" (Geez, you do one Joni Mitchell based meta and you get earworms for the next three weeks)
    7. 7D
      Nove meno tre
    8. 8D
      Triple Oxygen molecules
    9. 9D
      Breakfast at sea. (Someone should register that portmanteau)
    10. 10D
      Automobile side reinforcement. (Not an oversight committee for pop stars)
    11. 11D
      Going for a choice
    12. 13D
      Not taken care of in time and still pending
    13. 18D
      When children full of grace are born (abbr.)
    14. 20D
      1977 Bowie and Eno collaboration based on a visit to Polland's capital
    15. 22D
      Maybe the operating systems of 45D
    16. 23D
      Punxsutawney groundhog and... you know, it can't be the same one after all this time, can it?
    17. 24D
      Saxophone loving Simpson
    18. 25D
      Jewelry attached by a pin to be worn in a Spring month. (A pity Easter is early this year...)
    19. 26D
      "Am-scray!"
    20. 27D
      Answer or reply
    21. 32D
      Winter hours for the western half of South Dakota
    22. 33D
      That girl
    23. 35D
      Observe an egg producer (in a mixed up sort of way)
    24. 37D
      Briskly moving along like a horse would
    25. 38D
      First word in a three-word boast
    26. 39D
      Belonging to Brazilian singer, Correia de Lima Lima
    27. 42D
      Flagstaff campus
    28. 44D
      I love this spa!
    29. 45D
      Computers in tandem?
    30. 46D
      Pub-crawl... only upright? .... and jumping?
    31. 47D
      Father of India who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize five times but never won
    32. 49D
      Big red button. (On my phone I have a real block as I can never remember if I'm supposed to press it to start taping or to stop taping. Find myself with long videos of my phone in its cover in my pocket.)
    33. 50D
      Irritate and enraged
    34. 54D
      Palindromic town in the Netherlands or Nigeria (if you replace the middle letter you get a file extension... but that's not going to help you with any other clue)
    35. 55D
      Assyrian tribe of Hakkari. (Possibly a nick-name for band leader Arnaz? Never heard of any-one calling him this but... it's feasible.)
    36. 57D
      Valiant son
    37. 58D
      A joke that goes both ways
    38. 59D
      This grid has 11 of them.
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