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Follow The Leader (Meta)

◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2022-04-26T06:00:55.313Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is what you need to solve the meta
Crosswords, particularly meta crosswords, are incredibly versatile. This grid will serve as an object lesson, but in what, you will only find out if you can solve the meta. And just to make things even more enigmatic, the answer to the meta is what you need to solve the meta. Good luck! (Edit: This is proving to be a difficult one, so the nudges have arrived early: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=91178#p91178) Answer and explanation here: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=91689#p91689
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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Leaderboard (updated hourly)

  • T. G. solved 2022-04-27T01:30:20.165Z
  • Hector solved 2022-04-28T14:22:16.113Z
  • Byron solved 2022-05-03T17:16:35.730Z

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  • T. G. 14:35 · 2022-04-27T01:30:26.417Z
    Very fun!!
    • Hector 🤓13:05 · 2022-04-28T15:05:29.986Z
      Thanks, Ben. I wouldn't say this mechanism was hard, really, but the cryptography themers definitely misdirected me -- one-time-pad decoders on the web, etc. Without those entries, you'd have had a normal pattern of correct solvers, I think.
      • benchen71 constructor · 2022-04-28T22:33:41.273Z
        Yes, I am definitely wishing I hadn't included ONETIMEPAD in the grid!
      Play today's daily mini crossword
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      Agency that protects Earth from extraterrestrial threats and uses neuralyzers to keep alien activity a secret, but then they make four movies about them so how secret is that? (abbr.)
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      Across
      1. 1A
        Agency that protects Earth from extraterrestrial threats and uses neuralyzers to keep alien activity a secret, but then they make four movies about them so how secret is that? (abbr.)
      2. 4A
        Hanukkah pancakes
      3. 10A
        Ex Caedman's Call member, currently working on a new project entitled "The Jesus Hypothesis", Derek ___
      4. 14A
        Definite article
      5. 15A
        Solo vocal piece, usually occurring in an opera or oratorio, falling somewhere between recitative and aria in style
      6. 16A
        Thornfield Hall governess, Jane ___
      7. 17A
        Process that sometimes requires a 54 across
      8. 19A
        Berlin refusal
      9. 20A
        Actor who plays Pete in "Pete's Dragon"
      10. 21A
        Orchestra's place
      11. 23A
        Yellow dot muncher, ___-Man
      12. 24A
        Layered cookie (OK, now I'm pandering to my US audience!)
      13. 25A
        "___ as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men" (Rom. 12:18, KJV)
      14. 28A
        Vietnamese-Australian painter with his own TV show, ___ Do
      15. 29A
        Summer hrs. in Denver, Colorado
      16. 30A
        Amazon smart speakers
      17. 31A
        Advice on a Wonderland cake
      18. 33A
        Put on one's chapeau
      19. 34A
        Tabitha's Greek name (Acts 9:36)
      20. 35A
        The practice of hiding a secret message in something shared openly, like this meta puzzle for example
      21. 38A
        How "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" originally came
      22. 39A
        Cowboy's rope
      23. 40A
        Member of Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys, Nicky ___
      24. 41A
        Get through to
      25. 42A
        Family man, familiarly
      26. 45A
        Triage tool for ERs
      27. 46A
        "My next guests ___ introduction..."
      28. 48A
        Mortgage adjustment, in realtor speak
      29. 49A
        Darkness hrs.
      30. 50A
        Movie rental, not that long ago
      31. 51A
        Dubious comfort word (when repeated)
      32. 52A
        UK singer known for "Dynamite", ___ Cruz
      33. 54A
        What this crossword is functioning as
      34. 58A
        "We still arguing?" (but in a text)
      35. 59A
        Obama's father, for one
      36. 60A
        Falsetto-voiced comedian, ___ Philips (Sample: "I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.")
      37. 61A
        "It's never too late to ___ your ways"
      38. 62A
        Scope
      39. 63A
        Ump
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      1. 1D
        Forge for the One Ring, for short
      2. 2D
        Start of some gossip
      3. 3D
        Who King Henry II was talking about when he said, "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"
      4. 4D
        Potato chips purveyor
      5. 5D
        Communication protocol used for discovering the number of a link layer (abbr., that happens to be the first three letters of 32 down)
      6. 6D
        ___ for tat
      7. 7D
        Ornamental pond fish
      8. 8D
        19th century popular summer residence for wealthy American families, on the west bank of the Hudson River
      9. 9D
        Tail's speedy hedgehog friend
      10. 10D
        Harmless cyst
      11. 11D
        What Magda, Petra's mother on "Jane the Virgin", sports
      12. 12D
        Queen's guitarist
      13. 13D
        Workspaces in toolsheds
      14. 18D
        ___ Speedwagon
      15. 22D
        Every Member of the House of Representatives must take ___ of allegiance
      16. 25D
        "I know ___"
      17. 26D
        Nickname for Ozzy Osbourne's wife, perhaps? (actually, no, if Wikipedia is to be believed)
      18. 27D
        Went for a drive
      19. 30D
        Country where you might hear someone say 25 down
      20. 32D
        US Defense group that established the first wide-area packet-switching network (abbr.)
      21. 33D
        Otolaryngologist who also works in ophthalmology (abbr.)
      22. 34D
        Harry's Hogwarts-based antagonist
      23. 35D
        Donkey Kong Country, for example
      24. 36D
        Someone born in Papeete
      25. 37D
        Composer, ___ Carlo Menotti
      26. 38D
        Large tissue layer located above the intra-peritoneal organs (or the product of an object's mass and velocity, but missing its first letter)
      27. 41D
        Swedish band that mixes country with modern dance music and very definitely leans into a particular American stereotype
      28. 42D
        Extending further down from the surface
      29. 43D
        Basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner
      30. 44D
        ___ consumption (what happened to Nicole Kidman's character in "Moulin Rouge" - spoiler alert!)
      31. 47D
        Bring to mind
      32. 48D
        Deprecated cm-gm-sec unit of fluidity
      33. 51D
        Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, or Michelangelo (for short)
      34. 53D
        Opposite of even
      35. 55D
        Tolkien tree-person
      36. 56D
        Actor, ___ Sheridan, who played Wade Watts in Spielberg's "Ready Player One"
      37. 57D
        Christ suffix
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