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◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2024-10-15T05:00:36.668Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is an author
It's time to play "name that author". I've had this idea in my notes for a while. After coming up with the themers I thought filling in the rest of the grid would be a snap. Not so! Good luck as you jump into the grid and attempt to solve the meta. The answer to the meta is an author.
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
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  • Berto 1:00 · 2024-10-15T11:08:54.420Z
    Wow, it was right there staring at me lol. Nice one Ben!
    • benchen71 constructor · 2024-10-15T11:16:20.278Z
      I'm just glad I found a way to get KRADACKLEDACK into a puzzle!
    • hoover 7s · 2024-10-15T12:58:07.993Z
      I had never heard that style of stache called a KRADACKLEDACK, and I had never heard of the relevant series or author, but you left quite a few breadcrumbs so I got there anyway. Thanks for the puzzle!
      • woozy 12:37 · 2024-10-15T15:50:17.243Z
        If you never heard of the author or the series how on earth did you google it????
        • hoover 7s · 2024-10-15T17:47:22.094Z
          I googled DARK RISING AUTHOR. Plus, the first two across entries are COO-PER and the last two are SUE-SAN.
        • Pair O Ducks 5:24 · 2024-10-15T17:50:14.810Z
          Ditto for me. Lost count of how many variants I googled before I got here. Of course, I'm just now catching the last name across the top of the grid! Wonder what else went over my head.
          • woozy 12:37 · 2024-10-15T19:26:07.483Z
            THere's dark.. and it's in positions. But I'd never think to specifically say "rising" (although in hind-sight that's a second meaning for the title. Small d'oh). I just thought of all phrases with dark ("dark and stormy night" "Left (because they are backwards) hand of darkness" "heart of darkness") and it took me a long time to think of "The dark is rising" which, had I not been familiar with the book (I loved it when I was in my kid-lit teenage phase-- not sure how I'd feel about it now) I never would have phased it that way.
        • MatthewL 🤓16:23 · 2024-10-15T16:04:21.659Z
          Absolutely loved this series as a kid. All the Welsh and Arthurian mythology was fascinating. The movie was disappointing though. Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
          • woozy 12:37 · 2024-10-15T16:01:56.452Z
            D'OH! Just saw the slammer!
            • Steve M 19:23 · 2024-10-15T15:44:31.136Z
              Thanks for the puzzle. Fun one!
              • woozy 12:37 · 2024-10-15T15:59:16.065Z
                Whew. After Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ursula LeGuins "Left Hand of Darkness", Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", Bill Inge's "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs", and even Stephen King's "The Dark Tower", suddenly "The Dark is Rising" came to me and that just felt right. But is there a way to solve this other than guessing. I'd assume the series is too obscure for common knowledge. Or people just generally good at visual puns? I love visual puns but when I don't get them, gosh, am I lost at see.
                • hoover 7s · 2024-10-15T20:18:58.415Z
                  To be fair, my first attempt at googling was for DARK UP or UP DARK before I figured that maybe RISING had a better ring.
                • KayW 🤓11:35 · 2024-10-15T20:45:28.621Z
                  VERY nicely constructed! I confess I did not know the author or the series - tho I may have heard the phrase somewhere because I eventually thought to google it.
                  • whimsy 13:10 · 2024-10-15T21:19:05.193Z
                    Totally missed the NW and SE gimme's! I solved "the old-fashioned way; I earned it." (Thank you, John Houseman!😄) Glad you managed to pull off the grid, Ben -- it certainly increased my vocabulary! Thanks!
                    • Bird Lives 3s · 2024-10-15T22:53:39.317Z
                      Never heard of her, but as soon as I finished the grid, I knew what to Google. Thanks for one I could solve. Now about my moustache. . . .
                      • lbray53 2s · 2024-10-15T21:31:28.883Z
                        Google lists 596 books with DARK in the title. Lucky for me the correct one was number 12.
                        Play today's daily mini crossword
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                          Make like a dove
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                          For each
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                          Rollerblade
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                          Cash source, for short
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                          File format for digital books
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                          Dairy cow from a British Channel Island
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                          More attractive
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                          Friend of Jerry, George, and Kosmo
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                          Echolocation device
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                          Spa day garment
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                          Fathers
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                          Small, for a rapper
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                          "Scrubs" role played by Judy
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                          Quick kiss
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                          Distasteful
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                          Glaswegians, for example
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                          United ___ Emirates
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                          Damage somewhat
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                          Feast of Booths that (entirely coincidentally) occurs this week
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                          California peninsula
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                          Absence of light
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                          Use a surgical beam
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                          House-exterior material
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                          Expected
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                          Pentathlete's sword
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                          Toy truck brand
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                          German automaker
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                          Face of a gauge
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                          Rn
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                          "___ Jam" (video game)
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                          West Coast wine valley
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                          "Frozen" snow queen
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                          Archimedes' ___ (earliest hydraulic machine)
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                          Wears away
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                          Cocktail shot made of equal parts vodka, triple sec, and lime juice
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                          In jeopardy
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                          Left-handed Israelite (cf. Judges 3)
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                          Hospital scan (abbr.)
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                          Type of tea often said to be orange
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                          "A Boy Named ___" (Johnny Cash song)
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                          Spanish saint
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                          ___Lock (key above Shift)
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                          "Another" word in Spanish
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                          Prophetic sign
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                          Dish in a lab
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                          Dermal opening?
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                          Person with regrets
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                          Parisian salt
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                          Large, yet neatly trimmed moustache popular in the 1980s (think Tom Selleck in "Magnum P.I.")
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                          Largest continent
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                          Look after
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                          Mr. Potato Head features, appropriately
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                          Canadian-born professional ice hockey forward who was the first player without Korean ancestry to play on the South Korean national team
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                          Derisive shout
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                          Interactive broadcast medium that enables listeners to speak on-air to program hosts or their guests
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                          Port Phillip, for example
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                          Puzzle-platform video game developed by Playdead (it's awesome!)
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                          Baton Rouge college (abbr.)
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                          Blue Ribbon brewer
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                          Muse of poetry
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                          Spicy cuisine (mmm, gumbo!)
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                          Coolidge's nickname
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                          Zebra giraffe
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                          "A sailor went to ___"
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                          Iron alloy
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                          Yarn measure (or a cryptographic hash function, if that's more your thing)
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                          President after JAG
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                          Pioneering ISP
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                          Queen's "We Will Rock You", for example
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                          Half-moon tide
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                          22 across on a farm
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                          Nehemiah prequel?
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                          Burgundy, to Berliners
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                          Nationality suffix
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                          With 66 down: Loose dress of Hawaiian origin
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