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◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2022-06-14T06:00:40.005Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is something associated with 42 across
Because we all shop online these days, you shouldn't have any trouble solving this meta, the answer for which is something associated with 42 across. Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=96831#p96831
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  • SporcleMirror solved 2022-06-14T07:54:54.680Z
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  • SporcleMirror 9:26 · 2022-06-14T08:18:32.010Z
    This was a blast! I love how
    ON E) the ROSO/OUR crossing felt so awkward and easily change-able into ROSE-EUR unless it had to do with the meta somehow
    T WO) you could have done this without the 6 with a singular answer, but you included it anyway
    TH REE) the SIX requires an X, and that section ends up having two more Xs with just a bit of EXTRA crosswordese (and no completely made up stuff like "IT'S "NA" ")
    F OUR) the grid ends up hiding a SEVEN backwards, between ONION and EVES overlapping with the ONE (thankfully that didn't come into play)
    FI VE) I massively overthought this looking at the numbers (Roman numerals) in IJOHN and ROCKYV and then trying to do something with all the Is and Vs in the grid, and even the Xs
    SI X) the first number I actually noticed is the totally accidental TEN backwards within ARNETT.
    • benchen71 constructor · 2022-06-14T11:24:35.101Z
      I was conscious of the roman numerals, but left them in basically to make the grid as easy as possible; but as you noticed, plenty of crossowordese still made it in. I was completely oblivious to the backward numbers! So glad you enjoyed it.
      • dplass 6:53 · 2022-06-16T11:09:22.971Z
        I also got thrown by the SEVEN and the TEN
      • Darth 🤓5:09 · 2022-06-14T13:08:06.283Z
        Fun puzzle and well-constructed! Thanks for the mention in 36D! ;)
        • benchen71 constructor · 2022-06-14T21:23:07.141Z
          You're very welcome!
        • Hector 3s · 2022-06-14T14:33:07.362Z
          Nice one, Ben! It was a step-2 intensive meta for me as there were so many ways the numbers could translate to letters.
          • DIS 🤓6:27 · 2022-06-14T14:45:27.171Z
            I dig it!
            • I K Snamhcok 2s · 2022-06-14T15:23:01.269Z
              Ben, I loved this one! WSJCC or MGWCC worthy, I’d say. Thanks!
              • KayW 🤓8:32 · 2022-06-15T23:44:33.686Z
                Very clever! And LOL even after the nudges, at I first counted only to FIVE. Before the nudges I was trying the Is and Os (looking for letters that either they were following, or were following them) and roman numerals.
                • whimsy 🤓18:07 · 2022-06-16T00:15:18.193Z
                  Thanks for that last nudge, Ben -- just what I needed to stop looking at the squares with those numbers in them!
                  • DrTom 5s · 2022-06-16T05:47:14.023Z
                    Well DARN I had all the numbers but left one out in solving so I got ORDER not ORDERS - silly rabbit! Nicely hidden Ben!
                    • dplass 6:53 · 2022-06-16T11:10:40.052Z
                      Thanks for the shove. I would have never gotten it otherwise. I just never wild have thought to look at the first letter in the grid...maybe that's why it has played so tough?
                      • Bird Lives 3s · 2022-06-16T15:16:53.900Z
                        I saw the TWO early on, but for some reason disregarded it till the nudge refocused my attention. Very clever.
                        • Cindy Heisler 6s · 2022-06-16T17:43:01.392Z
                          Had part of it, but needed the final nudge. Thanks, Ben!
                          • Tyrpmom 2s · 2022-06-17T03:18:02.595Z
                            Led astray by numbers in clues and Roman numerals. Nudges required.
                            Play today's daily mini crossword
                            1A
                            Madonna song, "La ___ Bonita"
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                            Across
                            1. 1A
                              Madonna song, "La ___ Bonita"
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                              Take a break
                            3. 9A
                              Creatures that aerate soil
                            4. 14A
                              When repeated, a Jim Carrey movie in which he plays a lawyer who can only tell the truth
                            5. 15A
                              "I'm ___ you!"
                            6. 16A
                              Concluding words of 1982's "The Scarlet Pimpernel": "Sink me, the lady is ___"
                            7. 17A
                              Sports cable channel
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                              Sports factoid, for short
                            9. 19A
                              "What's the symbol for sodium?" "___"
                            10. 20A
                              What connects vertices in a polygon
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                              "The ___ Ra", the feminine counterpart to the sun god Ra
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                              First person plural possessive determiner
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                              Avenger played by an Aussie
                            14. 27A
                              "___ and it will be given to you; seek and you will find" (Matt. 7:7)
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                              English cathedral city in Devon
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                              Sound you make when punched in the gut (either literally or metaphorically)
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                              Band, ___ Surf, whose song "Always Love" is an absolute killer track
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                              Someone born in the 70s, for short
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                              New Testament book containing: "Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth."
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                              Greek letters preceding kappas
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                              What you need to monitor your packages, and to solve the meta
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                              Rosters
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                              Puts in the fridge
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                              Railway stop (abbr.)
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                              Neural transmitter
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                              Movie directed by Seth MacFarlane in which he also provides the voice of the titular character
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                              Specific ends of a bunch of magnets
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                              When repeated, an African spreader of sleeping sickness
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                              Caffeine-free coffee substitute manufactured by Nestle
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                              Winter malady
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                              Business edge of a saw
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                              Birthday wishes received via email
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                              Drummer for the Fab Four, ___ Starr
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                              Internet-based telephony (abbr.)
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                              Leg joint
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                              Tear-jerker, for some
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                              Days before important celebrations
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                              "Follow what I'm saying?" (slangily)
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                              Manage somehow
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                              Mortgage adjustment, for short
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                              South African grassland
                            Down
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                              1 across, but plural and in French
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                              "Yes, yes," replied Juan
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                              Law enforcement for a major West Coast city (abbr.)
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                              Actor who plays 66 down, Will ___
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                              Monsters Inc. employee who nags Mike to get his paperwork in
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                              Go in
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                              Delay, as an execution
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                              Carryall bag
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                              Underfed street children in Dickensian times, perhaps
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                              Choose
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                              Italian for "rose" (but it's a masculine rose, for some reason)
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                              List of available dishes
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                              The Sun, for example
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                              Bedouin leaders
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                              Clumsy person
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                              "Insecure" actress, Yvonne ___ (hey, I'm just glad it's not Issa Rae - she pops up in crosswords all the time!)
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                              Door component
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                              Additional
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                              Photocopier company that invented the GUI
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                              Marguerite's muse, perhaps? (see 16 across)
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                              Cry of dread
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                              ___ account (never)
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                              "This is only ___" (so you can safely ignore it)
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                              Sith title that we all thought was a first name
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                              Multiple grps.
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                              "___ upon a time..."
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                              What the grunt means after a particularly strenuous weights session
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                              Is unable to (as in "I ___ even!")
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                              Forearm bone
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                              Concert souvenir, perhaps (especially if it was fired out of a cannon!)
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                              Fifth movie for Stallone's Balboa
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                              ___ faced (emotionless)
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                              Tribal leader
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                              Tadpole when it's all grown up
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                              U2 album, "No ___ On The Horizon"
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                              Metre or kilogram, for example
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                              "... And they lived happily, ___ after."
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                              Creator of the Moomins, ___ Jansson
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                              Short name for "Baby Driver" actor, Elgort, perhaps?
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                              Barn dance tune
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                              A good one does not go unpunished, supposedly
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                              "Arrested Development" magician
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                              Imperial 57 down for pressure, still surprisingly in use in Australia
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