Think Outside The Box (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2021-12-14T05:00:15.271Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta should be obvious given the puzzle's title
Time to put your lateral thinking caps on and see if you can solve two puzzles at once: the one in 6 down, and the meta, the answer of which should be obvious given the puzzle's title. Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1349&p=76726#p76693
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At a ___ (and definitely not an imperial unit)
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- 1AAt a ___ (and definitely not an imperial unit)
- 5APlace of lodging, informally
- 8AType of exercise that gets your heart rate up and keeps it up (and definitely not rapper ___ B)
- 13AShorthand for New Orleans
- 14ADouble-___ experiment, that showed that light can behave like a wave
- 15ADrained of colour
- 16AFirst king of Israel
- 17AA loooooooooong time
- 18AH-bomb trial, for example
- 19A"May ___ be with you."
- 21AFive octave singer, ___ Carey
- 22AUsed a shovel
- 23AAbbr. for the place where I work (OK, that's not fair; it's Donvale Christian College)
- 25ANever, in German
- 26AHow things are decided in a democracy
- 29ALabel for an elderly person, but also a pun on the supermarket chain in 64 across
- 31AGo to rack and ___
- 32A"Or so ___"
- 34AShort form of the current name for the city formerly known as Leningrad
- 37AArithmetical value (and definitely not an earthy pigment)
- 39AApprox.
- 40ADirected towards the inside (and definitely not "All's fair ___ and love", which is wrong anyway)
- 42A___ kwon do
- 43ACity in Greece known for its oracle
- 46ALife of ___: what we all aspire to
- 47AFrankenstein's sidekick (but only in the movies, not the book)
- 48ASolicit, as business
- 50AFrench for Fri.
- 53A"That's ___ from me" (you're 20 down!)
- 54AWhat Pilate would have written in Latin if he neglected to specify who Jesus was king over (abbr.)
- 55ABrought to mind
- 58AChambers where people sleep
- 63ATwelfth studio album by American rapper Nas
- 64ASee 29 across
- 65A"Gone With the Wind" plantation
- 66AThor's answer when asked, "Whose eye patch is that?"
- 67A"___ anything," said the omnivore
- 68A___-bitsy spider
- 69ABecome apparent (and definitely not come together)
- 70AWhen repeated 4 times, Crash Test Dummies' biggest hit (but only outside of Canada, interestingly)
- 71APerson in charge of a meeting (and definitely not a spiced beverage)
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- 1DTech. school
- 2DJoan of Ark's husband?
- 3DWhat a detective looks for at a crime scene
- 4D50% completed
- 5D___-voting, the curse of Eurovision
- 6DName of the puzzle where you are told to link the vertices of a three by three grid using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen and without tracing the same line more than once, the solution of which is a hint for solving the meta
- 7DOnly K-pop group I know of
- 8DTown where Jesus turned water into wine
- 9DSci. of the stars
- 10DGerman river, in German
- 11D4th Prime Minister of India, Morarji ___
- 12D"The hero arrived ___ nick of time"
- 14DRachmaninoff's first name
- 20DWhat it means when the umpire raises their finger in cricket
- 21DMid 15th-century date
- 24DPerson of the ___ (priest)
- 26DVery dry, as champagne
- 27DWestern movie, "3:10 to ___"
- 28D"It's the ___ of the thing" (famous line from Australian movie "The Castle")
- 30DFirst name of a Ugandan dictator, who definitely gets way more exposure in crosswords than he deserves
- 33DHoneydew or cantaloupe
- 34DDid the first stage of a triathlon
- 35DMining town in west-central Moresby Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands off the North Coast of British Columbia (Google Maps here you come!)
- 36DFirst year of school in Australia, for short
- 38DNutritional stat.
- 41DEmotionally unstable
- 44D60 down from the time of the Scarlet Pimpernel, perhaps
- 45D"Hooray for me!"
- 49DTime off, for short
- 50DWhat it seems every animal in Australia is only too keen on injecting into you at the slightest opportunity
- 51DGet around
- 52DPolite refusal (or 63 across with one letter changed)
- 56DHead of state in a monarchy, perhaps
- 57DCeltic language
- 59DCheese that comes wrapped in red wax
- 60D44 down, for example
- 61DNickname for Mr. Armstrong's wife, perhaps
- 62D"Don't ___ didn't warn you!"
- 64DObjective