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It's not "The Last Time I saw Richard"

◆◆ · By woozy · Published 2024-02-28T16:43:27.862Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a Joni Mitchell song (actually a Joni Mitchell song is the answer to everything)
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.
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  • kurtalert 11:24 · 2024-03-01T20:28:54.236Z
    The grid was, in fact, gruesome! But yes, the meta was pretty easy. Thanks woozy!
    • KayW 🤓10:50 · 2024-03-03T01:10:53.289Z
      ...and thanks!
      • KayW 🤓10:50 · 2024-03-03T01:09:44.554Z
        LOL. Spot on description. The grid was.... tough!! But hallelujah I got the meta. And it's even a song I know. BTW I didn't know "The Last Time I Saw Richard" but I looked it up just in case it held a key to the meta.
        • woozy constructor · 2024-03-03T23:39:59.702Z
          I can't remember why I thought itd be so funny to specify it wasnt "tltisr". I was having a hard time thinking of a title. There just wasn't one. And phrases were just coming to her. And somehow I remembered reading somewhere that LTISR really registered with with the most people. (I always liked the line about marrying a figure skater and buying a coffee perculator). So I thought. Hey the meta is easy enough why not just toss out an off the wall unrelated observation.
          It seemed funny at the time.
        • whimsy 17:49 · 2024-03-07T17:17:43.857Z
          I see what you mean! -- Then half way thru I remembered and noticed the easy meta business, and it got a lot easier to fill. :-) That center east was still a bear so I happily used reveal. Thank you crosshare and thank you, woozy!
          • hoover 7s · 2024-03-10T17:15:29.529Z
            The grid wasn't that bad. I had to get help on two squares, where 32A crosses 34D and 35D. The meta, on the other hand, was as advertised; I saw it before I was half done with the grid. And hey, thanks to a comment below, I just looked up "The Last Time I Saw Richard" and learned that it's not just a random six words thrown together.
            1A
            Sharp remark
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            Across
            1. 1A
              Sharp remark
            2. 5A
              Provide weapons to
            3. 8A
              Short description
            4. 13A
              Normally I'd try to avoid the cookie entry; but for this one I actively sought it out. I just had to, didn't I?
            5. 14A
              Meal preparer
            6. 16A
              One-up
            7. 17A
              Camping shelter
            8. 18A
              Red ----ing. (Not sure why I avoid straight-forward clues such as "German Mister" as much as I do.)
            9. 19A
              Nova Kane Swanneck-Wiggleworm's favorite is a chopped up chicken gizzard desiccated in the air-fryer
            10. 20A
              "Thirty days ---- September; All the rest I can't remember"
            11. 21A
              measurement of the time of ones existence
            12. 22A
              English pianist Dame Myra
            13. 23A
              Bambi's aunt
            14. 26A
              Being (Latin)
            15. 28A
              Confidential matters
            16. 32A
              That woman's sunfish
            17. 37A
              "What greeting should be employed? 'Salutations'? 'It's a pleasure'?" "If it were up to me, keep it short and casual. -'- --- '--'"
            18. 38A
              Egyptian beetles
            19. 39A
              Out of date; decommissioned
            20. 40A
              Gems ornamented with sunken design (pl. chiefly british)
            21. 41A
              When Uncle Henry was conked on the head during a cyclone, he became deluded and thought he was the geographical region just north of the Kansas border. When his wife asked what he was he answered "--, -'- -.--"
            22. 42A
              Departed from the quaint hotel? (Just go with it)
            23. 43A
              Rational graduate fellows?
            24. 44A
              This is a legitimate (albeit with unconventional spelling) girls name but Urban Dictionary, which I normal avoid violently, defines it as the DNA material responsible for moody rock music. If you are a video game fan, she's a character in Fallout IV. The side-quest where she takes a lover is notoriously buggy. There was also a murder victim in 1993 who was shot in her car outside a muffler shop. Otherwise, I really couldn't Google much. There's a perfume company, I suppose.....
            25. 45A
              Prefix for bone
            26. 47A
              Multiplicative identity
            27. 48A
              The shark has his teeth and he keeps them in his face. This guy has his knife, but in not such an obvious place.
            28. 51A
              Building wing that's a coming alternative to eye water.
            29. 53A
              NCOs
            30. 57A
              The last time I saw Richard was the news in 74 And he told me, "I'm not a quitter, But you won't let me complete the term of office to which you elected me, Someday cynical and drunk you'll know if the President does it it is not a crime..." (or words to that effect... and that ruins that song for me))
            31. 58A
              Units of pressure
            32. 60A
              Any member of a class of words that typically can be combined with determiners to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural, can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept
            33. 61A
              Just a sec'
            34. 62A
              Fine river deposit
            35. 63A
              Home of the Kon-tiki museum
            36. 64A
              She's a survivor
            37. 65A
              How long you've been working on this grid, it would seem
            38. 66A
              "What a relief! You've completed the grid"
            Down
            1. 1D
              All two of them
            2. 2D
              Region
            3. 3D
              Lease out
            4. 4D
              Irritating
            5. 5D
              "Oh, I 18A was such a schrecklicher clue!"
            6. 6D
              Titan mother to the Olympian gods; sister/wife to Cronus
            7. 7D
              Come together
            8. 8D
              Irritation!
            9. 9D
              Entice
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              Shoshone tribesmen
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              Advised twentry-four hour permitted quantities
            12. 12D
              Frequent source of an e-mail
            13. 15D
              Uncured bacon
            14. 24D
              Has to be kept in the loop
            15. 25D
              Belonging to Greek goddess of wisdom
            16. 27D
              A moderately dry Disney clownfish?
            17. 28D
              Smaller dishes such as Fries, or Coleslaw, or baked Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic-Miso glaze
            18. 29D
              Abnormal plant swelling
            19. 30D
              Spice that gives a distinct flavor to adobo and to garam masala
            20. 31D
              Avoids and evades
            21. 33D
              Dust from Saharan sand storms caused this winter weather phenomenon in Eastern Europe that sounds like a tasty chilled dessert
            22. 34D
              Native costume worn especially in Africa and consisting typically of a long rectangular often brightly colored or decorated piece of cloth that is wrapped tightly about the torso with the ends usually falling free or that is used as a loincloth or undergarment
            23. 35D
              Small freshwater fish (var.)
            24. 36D
              The last edge of an octogon
            25. 46D
              The Borden cow
            26. 48D
              Small sized
            27. 49D
              Chopped
            28. 50D
              Glacier lake in Lombardy
            29. 52D
              Experiment 626's Hawaiian friend in a 2002 Disney film
            30. 54D
              "Oh, my. Well, that's something"
            31. 55D
              California freshwater marshland where giant sedge grow and hazardous thick ground fog forms on cold mornings.
            32. 56D
              White flakes (well, usually white)
            33. 57D
              Stat!
            34. 59D
              R.R. terminus
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