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Heart of Gold (meta)

· By comp · Published 2021-12-29T05:08:06.264Z

Meta Prompt
The meta is hidden (8 letters long)
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  • CAe39 20:13 · 2021-12-29T16:55:12.199Z
    Well done! Thanks for sharing your puzzle.
    • Holmes 22:58 · 2021-12-30T01:44:26.838Z
      I enjoyed that one, thanks!
      • benchen71 🤓9:28 · 2022-01-31T06:03:36.566Z
        X marks the spot! Nice, even if I had to reveal the answer.
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        Featherless biped, according to Plato
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Featherless biped, according to Plato
        2. 4A
          Quite wonky
        3. 8A
          U.S. medical privacy law
        4. 10A
          "Gesundheit" prompt
        5. 11A
          Authoritarian
        6. 14A
          Speech with a rising inflection (it's prominent in "Valley girl speak")
        7. 15A
          What ∎ means in mathematical writing
        8. 16A
          "Just ___ and do this weird thing that makes no sense, please?"
        9. 18A
          Letter represented by ⠞
        10. 19A
          In Minecraft, half a (stone, wood, etc.) block
        11. 21A
          Sleep problem due to the movement of air
        12. 22A
          Sibling's nickname
        13. 23A
          In English, ARRÊT, PARE, or 止まれ
        14. 25A
          $, €, £, or ¥ dispenser
        15. 26A
          Letters on a sunscreen bottle
        16. 27A
          Like shoots and leaves, to a panda (you know, like the joke where one walks into a bar?)
        17. 29A
          Prefix for tourism or terrorism
        18. 30A
          For instance, "missing closing parentheses in 3 + cos(2π"
        19. 33A
          Mentions, as on Twitter or Discord
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          Mesoamerican dish that can be hot
        21. 35A
          Eleventh graders, for short
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          Attaches to an email
        23. 37A
          They hold up the pitch?
        24. 39A
          Collar wearer
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          Lazes around (like me on the weekends)
        26. 42A
          Actress Cameron who voiced Princess Fiona in "Shrek"
        27. 44A
          They can be porcelain, or perhaps medical?
        28. 45A
          Like most of Japan geographically, or like most of Japan during the sakoku period
        29. 47A
          CBS cop show
        30. 48A
          Such as the nerve pinch or 🖖
        31. 50A
          Genre for avoiding reality (can't wait for virtual reality tech to get better)
        32. 52A
          Demand, such as via the Treaty of Tordesillas which divided the world for Portugal and Spain (still used to this day‽)
        33. 53A
          Type of pool
        34. 54A
          They recently published the Yakuza video game series
        35. 55A
          "Watch me ___ ___"
        Down
        1. 1D
          Records the War of 1812 to have started in 1821, say
        2. 2D
          Software, for short
        3. 3D
          Sodium hydroxide, symbolically
        4. 4D
          Behave
        5. 5D
          Blog and book written by Randall Munroe of XKCD, where he explores scientific inquiries to absurd degrees
        6. 6D
          Romeo and Juliet, for two
        7. 7D
          Oxen's harness
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          Where heads are over
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          Polynesian deity (I only know this from playing Danganronpa V3...)
        10. 10D
          Such as 🦧
        11. 11D
          Excludes from a tournament abbr.
        12. 12D
          Tame Australian band
        13. 13D
          Surrounding information to help you read between the lines or infer unknown words (such as this grid, its title, and the prompt in relation to the meta)
        14. 14D
          Actress Thurman of "Pulp Fiction"
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          Sleep stage
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          Tattoos or piercings, for example
        17. 22D
          Wound, on a spindle
        18. 24D
          Several ⅛s of a gallon
        19. 26D
          Like all the crosswords we've built but decided to not finish for some reason
        20. 28D
          K-pop group
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          "Uhhhhhhh..."
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          Painting holders
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          Plot in "Macbeth" and also "The Lion King"
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          Sleep problem due to the movement through air
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          Predecessor to DVDs
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          Impertinent
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          French hen (also, French chicken but remove the 18A)
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          Adventurer's respite
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          Burn down Rome, perhaps
        30. 43D
          Nickelodeon's "Invader ___"
        31. 44D
          Plastic pipe materials abbr.
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          "I think, therefore ___"
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          It would be ironic if it happened on your wedding day; I honestly don't know what ironic means anymore
        34. 49D
          Coup-d'etat-in-Latin-America org.
        35. 51D
          Old handheld device inits.
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