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My Word!

◆ · By woozy · Published 2023-04-15T05:23:32.849Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta has two parts: The first part is a word; the second part (which is five letters long) is what one does with my word (or any other word) [Either will be accepted but try to find both]
So I still haven't gotten the WSJ Meta Contest of 4/14/23 (I'll take a nudge) so this one is based on a rabbit hole I knew there was no point going down.
The metanism would be quite hard but I put in a lot of meta-meta suggestions to point you in the right direction. I think the grid works very well. As usual my clues run the gamut. I tried to be straightforward, but I can't help but get punchy.
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  • benchen71 solved 2023-04-15T07:04:04.138Z
  • Hector solved 2023-04-15T16:10:51.536Z
  • Meg solved 2023-04-15T16:52:56.084Z
  • Account solved 2023-04-19T11:49:04.584Z
  • KayW solved 2023-04-22T23:23:26.567Z
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  • benchen71 10:30 · 2023-04-15T07:06:43.701Z
    OK, so I was able to solve this one. But CAPNRICK's "Muggle", ALLE's "Genus" and LOOT's "Pillage" sure made for a lot of unnecessary noise. And I still don't know where the E came from!
    • woozy constructor · 2023-04-15T14:48:28.368Z
      Oh. "Alice mET A young one..."
      Entirely coincidental.
      Hmm.... I suspect you haven't actually figured out the significance of the meta- meta entry of 40A yet.
      You solved the meta, but have you figured what "my word" actually is?
      • benchen71 10:30 · 2023-04-15T22:37:57.352Z
        LOGOS
      • woozy constructor · 2023-04-15T14:34:47.139Z
        Well, as the clues are symmetric, the E must come for reflected equivalent as the place where the D came from.
        Well, the thing about noise... once I get the meta in place I then have to put in the rest of the clues as an afterthought. But it's on afterthought that makes up 85% of the final puzzle. Unintentional noise gets in. I can see the issue with "pillage" but what's wrong with "genus" of "muggle".
        • benchen71 10:30 · 2023-04-15T22:35:47.199Z
          I saw that symmetry was involved just after posting my comment.
        • woozy constructor · 2023-04-15T14:42:37.161Z
          Oh, Mu, nu, and pi.
          Yeah, I was afraid extras would slip in. But I figured there was simply no way to avoid that what with the frequency of two letter combinations and ETA. But I figure knowing there need to be five symmetrically spaced and the implicit idea they are hidden and not accidental that they'd have to be in word breaks.
          • woozy constructor · 2023-04-15T16:09:17.921Z
            After all, you can't spell META without ETA and what kind of meta would refuse you use "meta" in it's clues?
        • Meg 7s · 2023-04-15T16:54:21.690Z
          I went far from home looking for meta #1. Silly me. Nice puzzle, Wooze.
          • KayW 🤓9:43 · 2023-04-22T23:27:01.528Z
            I needed some remedial help to get there but a great meta. FINALLY saw LAMB-DAds and eventually all the rest. Loved the punny and cryptic cluing.
            • Abide 11:27 · 2023-04-26T03:29:34.614Z
              I got to Reads, but planET Arrakis led me to the D in Dune. Deciphering comments shows the CapnRickosity of it all.
              • woozy constructor · 2023-04-26T05:35:31.246Z
                Yeah. I figured false positives are impossible to avoid so I added hints to imply (hopefully) that only the out and out clear ones that fit in the grid symmetrically count.
              Play today's daily mini crossword
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              Lamb dads
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              Across
              1. 1A
                Lamb dads
              2. 5A
                Decrease sail size by folding and tying a portion away
              3. 9A
                Part of the puzzle that is not the grid
              4. 14A
                I --- - lot to CrossHare's auto-suggestions
              5. 15A
                A certain je ne sais quoi about one
              6. 16A
                The second Mrs. Trump blighted the largest city in Southern California
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                Indigenous North American third gender
              8. 19A
                Blackbird (var.)
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                Bby. Boomers for the most part now
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                Puzzle constructor who really prefers his meta clues to be evenly placed in the grid
              11. 23A
                What the Kosrae Flying Fox is to Micronesia
              12. 27A
                Sci-fi princess everyone seems to know too many details about
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                Born as
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                Cruciverbalists' favorite Irish singer (this year at least)
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                Where Curiosity and Perseverance are still going strong
              16. 35A
                Draw off liquid gradually or completely
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                Vegetable that grows kernels in ears on cobs
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                Winning four entertainment awards
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                What my word literally is
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                Amalgam material
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                Like Clue 40A
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                Species of the little auk
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                "I'll be down in two ---" said the hermaphrodite (Sorry...)
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                Durable fabric
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                Largest Saudi city
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                Hoofed ruminant mammal
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                Transnasal Esophagoscopy (which, interestingly, when spelled backwards is that type of doctor who might perform it)
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                Plunder and steal
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                Comic Ron White's "----- -- Public"
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                What 21A frequently requires his metas to have
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                Length of existence
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                "----- de de março": song that begins hauntingly with "É o pau, é a pedra, é o fim do caminho É um resto de toco, é um pouco sozinho" (Toss that into Google Translate)
              33. 61A
                "Did you catch that show?" "No....."
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                --- -- belabor a point, but making up clues is harder than it looks
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                Skin woe
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                The planet Arrakis, familiarly
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                Classical language that has its uses (such as for this puzzle)
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                Earth's solid surface
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                What Pepsi gmail spam is trying to sell
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                Jung guvf pyhr vf va (jvgu "13" nccraqrq gb vg)
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                "How darling!"
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                Between 2,000 and 35,786 km above sea lever. The medium distance above Earth for Orbitting objects (such as GPS satellites, the Hubble Telescope, or the Van Allen Belt)
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                President of the University of Florida and former Nebraska senator (or maybe what you include with a manuscript the first few day after the postal rates increase)
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                Dried grape. (I want to make a pun about ------ d'etre but I'm currantly drawing a blank)
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                That continent north of Afr. and west of Asia is 'ope-less
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                Sookie Stackhouse's Nordic vampire love interest. If that doesn't do it for you, then the manipulative character in "South Park"
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                Deadly
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                The doors open!
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                Internet graphic of former first lady Bush that gets shared a lot, perhaps?
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                Latin bears at Vassar's Undergraduate Research Summer Institute
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                Common util.
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                Polio vaccine developer
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                Spin doctors
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                Peace rally goal
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                Oil from the bitter orange
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                In a beloved manner
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                A recurring sequence of events
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                In the 90's, it could be used as a coaster
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                Tommy Lee Jones role in "Men In Black"
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                Corkscrew pasta
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                I wonder what that filament when he said the anther to pollination was this flowering plant organ.
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                What one hopes to find on Tinder (and then never look for again)
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                Tinged with a shade of red
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                Give it - ----; try it
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                Tom Waits says reality is for those who can't face these
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                Comes out fine, I guess
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                Eliminated; undid writing
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                Examination by tribunal
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                Requires
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                Intoned a melody
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                Bela Lugosi's role in "Son of Frankenstein"
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                Press a button to turn off the volume for a second
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                Young man, it's fun to stay here
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                Middle-aged couple, it's fun to stay here
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                Pair
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                Like the Beethoven Violin concerto that begins with four strong beats of the timpani
              39. 65D
                Afternoon social
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