Movie Trilogy (Meta)
■ · By benchen71 · Published 2023-09-12T06:00:45.989Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is an ice-cream
Ah, movie trilogies: the best things in life come in threes! Well, sometimes. Hopefully, your knowledge of movies will assist you to the meta answer which is an ice-cream. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=142230#p142230
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- 1ASpanish bull
- 5ASheep in the Oscar winning animated movie "A Close Shave" who went on to have his own TV show
- 10ALike some martinis
- 13ATreat with disdain
- 14A"Never in the field of human conflict was so much ___ by so many ___ so few" (Churchill)
- 15AIt's north of Afr.
- 16ACharitable gifts
- 17AMade fun of
- 18ASit-up muscles
- 19AKanga's kid
- 20AChampagne name
- 21A"___ or not, here I come!"
- 23AWorker skilled in the manufacture especially of wooden objects
- 25AMuesli morsel
- 26A"Let me think about that..."
- 27ARevolving revolutionary (cryptic clue that's missing the definition part)
- 30ATruck, to a Brit
- 34ASound of thunder
- 36AInterjection in the Psalms, the precise meaning of which is unknown
- 38A"No," said the German
- 39AAscend
- 40AItalian hors d'oeuvre, anti___
- 41AEast of Spain
- 42AIvan Skavinsky Skavar's opponent, Abdul Abulbul ___
- 43AWintry coating
- 44AFur on fruit like the one in the Henry Selick movie "James and the Giant Peach"
- 45ADyeing technique that originated in Java, Indonesia
- 47ASpecial treatment, for short
- 48AIn favour of
- 49ASanta ___ winds
- 51ACorporate shuffles, for short
- 54AMore washed out
- 56AHay bundle
- 57AParisian summer
- 59AEither one of two Spice Girls
- 60ASteven Spielberg movie starring Tom Cruise, "War of the ___"
- 62AAdam and Eve's grandson
- 63ASelf-importance
- 64A"Futbol" chant
- 65ATV series starring Mark Harmon
- 66AIt's just a number, apparently
- 67AFight with foils, epees or sabres
- 68AArt ___ (retro style)
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- 1DRussian ruler of old
- 2DSimmering
- 3DAdele song that she has described as a "sort of bluesy-pop stomping song"
- 4D"Doing the ___" (vital sign monitoring in an Aussie hospital)
- 5DChildhood ___ (person you loved when you were much younger)
- 6DOven output
- 7DTV commercials
- 8D"In ___" (Nirvana album)
- 9D"I can't agree to that"
- 10DLike the poets in the title of a Robin Williams movie
- 11DRed gemstone
- 12DDecade divs.
- 14D"Alternatively..." (in an SMS)
- 20DStudio with a lion mascot
- 22DDo something that shows that you are repentant
- 24DHaughty and majestic
- 28DThe sun in Spain (shines mainly on the plain?)
- 29DChildren's string game
- 31DRevival after a period of lesser popularity
- 32DCracker introduced by Nabisco in 1934
- 33DCalifornia's Santa ___ Valley
- 34DCancer (the constellation, not the disease)
- 35DCapital of Peru
- 36DLetters on a bottle of sunscreen
- 37DMarilyn Monroe movie about the St. Valentines Day massacre, "Some Like It ___"
- 46DWas familiar with
- 48DEnemy
- 50DPlay ___ (act)
- 52DIf...then... ___ (programming construction)
- 53DStiff-upper-lip type
- 54D7th in an alphabetised line of cribbage pieces, perhaps?
- 55DSkin soother
- 56DVoting group
- 58DCanadian gas brand
- 59D___ culpa ("My bad!")
- 61DStimpy's pal
- 62DThe last movie in a trilogy brings everything to an ___