There's More To This (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2023-09-26T06:00:51.851Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a good additional ability for a seer to have
Here's a very recently constructed puzzle for you! I'm about 12 months ahead preparing MOATs, even after releasing the MOAT Music Meta Pack (which is still available here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html). But this is a special one so I've brought it forward. The answer to the meta is a good additional ability for a seer to have. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=143536#p143536
Future-proofing: If you think you know what you were supposed to do to solve this meta but it didn't work, that is, you constructed a tinyurl but it gave an error, just go straight to https://crosshare.org/crosswords/jPfNPHjXvwbJiy9AV7wd/than-meets-the-eyes which is where the tinyurl link would have taken you.
Check out "The MOAT MEOW Mashup Pack" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$10 gives you access to 14 metas that don't always abide by the "rules" of the game. You won't quite know what to expect: asymmetry, 2-letter words, uncrossed letters, sometimes all of those, and sometimes none! One thing is for sure, these are some of the more creative metas my brain has been able to come up with. And there's more: this time there's a mega-meta!
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Russian currency
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Across
- 1ARussian currency
- 6A"That's more than I need to know!" (in a text)
- 9ABoyfriends
- 14AConstruction girder shaped like a letter
- 15ALayer of an egg
- 16AMore
- 17AKeeps going just when you think everything's good and done
- 19AUnit of capacitance
- 20AMore than a peeve
- 21APrinting widths
- 22AMild-mannered
- 23ASchool on the Thames
- 24AAssociate justice of the Supreme Court of the US from 1965 to 1969
- 26ABed for a baby
- 28ALively dance
- 29AGrade-boosting course
- 32ABrown quickly leaving the inside nice and rare, as a steak (yum!)
- 34AVillage People song
- 38AMore or less
- 39AShortened link website that needs 9 more letters to function properly (with ".com/")
- 42A"What's more..."
- 43AWent flat, like a battery
- 45ANecessity
- 46AProtein building block, for short
- 48APeace of mind
- 50AAstonishment
- 51AObstacles on a golf course that might require the thick end of the wedge
- 55AProgramming instruction that can lead to spaghetti code
- 59AMouth moisture
- 60ATech. that tries to prevent piracy but just gets in the way of fair use
- 61AOnce more
- 62ASnoozing
- 63AWhat I tell my maths students should ring in their head when they see a negative sign
- 65AMore rational
- 66AGet ___ of (eliminate)
- 67ALord or Lady
- 68AMedical tube
- 69A"More later" on a sched.
- 70AFerret relative
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- 1DNouveau ___
- 2DWWI menace
- 3DBox of Japanese cuisine
- 4DDelay before a transfer of data begins (which is really annoying while playing an online game)
- 5DEarly Beatles label
- 6DHitchhiker's digit
- 7DReagan's attorney general
- 8DShoo-___ (sure things)
- 9DUseful preposition that means "right in front of"
- 10D"That's it!"
- 11DIndoor courtyards
- 12DRussian mountain range
- 13DBritish-Nigerian singer whose name is a gift to cruciverbalists everywhere (and, no, it's not TAIO)
- 18DWithout ice
- 22D"All the Light We Cannot See" author
- 25DCharlatan
- 27DMuesli grain
- 29DMuslim holiday
- 30D"___ live and breathe!"
- 31DThat girl
- 32DEmulate Billy Idol
- 33DWindow of the soul
- 35D"Avril" follower (and LAVIGNE won't fit, I assure you!)
- 36DAnderson Cooper's channel
- 37DBig bother
- 40DApp with pics, familiarly
- 41DWatson in the Holmes movies directed by Ritchie
- 44DInhabitant (but with dark overtones, seemingly)
- 47DQuantity of computer data able to store a million ones or zeros
- 49DCommercial, Down Under
- 50DYouTube genre focused on auditory stimuli (abbr.)
- 51DAnwar of Egypt
- 52DUnaccompanied
- 53DGo off script
- 54DThe devil's fashion label of choice, supposedly
- 56D"You're ___ talk!"
- 57D"I cannot ___ lie"
- 58DYoung barn bird
- 59DImpudence
- 63DIllustrations
- 64DPeaks in a range (abbr.)