Difficulty level: 1... And I'm sticking with it. They don't get easier than this.
.... but the grid.... The grid may (or may not) be gruesome.
I once joked about a meta prompt being something like "The answer to the meta is a fifth track on the second side of Joni Mitchell's album 'Blue'". This isn't quite that but I think if it were it wouldn't significant lessen the ease of the meta. This might be one of those metas where the enjoyment is the same if you were just handed the answer.