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PCC#10 "Who's Missing?"

◆ · By Philip Chow · Published 2023-09-30T06:47:55.325Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 2.5] Meta prompt: The solution to the meta is twofold. Someone is missing from the party. You need to figure out who is running late and what they are bringing to the party. Format your answer in [guest] [what they're bringing]... For example, if my friend Yim were to bring her puppy Peanut, then the answer would be YIM PEANUT, and if my friend Tim were to bring his world-famous banana salad, then the answer would be TIM BANANA SALAD
Hint #1: there are a lot of girl's names in the grid... surely you've heard of some of them to know what media franchise they belong to...
Hint #2: 15-Across and 37-Across don't count
Hint #3: 50-Down is the latest one (at time of this puzzle's publication)... find the one that's missing... don't be afraid to use Google or ask your kids/grandkids for help 😜
Hint #4: 4-Across hints at how to arrange the 13 princesses
Hint #5: consider the first letters of the relevant clues
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Leaderboard (updated hourly)

  • ian king solved 2023-09-30T11:48:22.326Z
  • Waann solved 2023-09-30T14:53:13.041Z
  • Shivangi solved 2023-09-30T17:38:20.877Z
  • FrankieHeck solved 2023-09-30T18:02:21.813Z
  • kurtalert solved 2023-09-30T21:27:16.891Z
  • Hector solved 2023-10-01T17:05:30.170Z
  • damefox solved 2023-10-05T23:33:28.639Z
  • Darrell solved 2023-12-06T11:18:11.871Z
  • Flora Wynn solved 2024-01-22T04:10:09.103Z
  • Anonym00se solved 2024-03-20T06:41:54.918Z
  • Laura M solved 2024-04-26T22:59:56.399Z
  • woozy solved 2024-04-26T23:42:58.797Z
  • I K Snamhcok solved 2024-04-27T13:51:05.852Z

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  • Waann 🤓14:02 · 2023-09-30T14:53:34.722Z
    That was fun!
    • Philip Chow constructor · 2023-09-30T20:16:02.857Z
      thank you for solving!
    • Nick 🤓6:37 · 2023-09-30T19:10:45.264Z
      Really fun! So many themed answers packed in here. Very impressive :)
      • Philip Chow constructor · 2023-09-30T20:22:15.144Z
        thanks! quality of the fill is very iffy in some spots but overall decent enough i hope... i may have been too overly ambitious getting anna and elsa in there... asha is rumored to be the next princess with the movie "Wish" coming out later this year
        • Nick 🤓6:37 · 2023-09-30T23:03:57.529Z
          Felt like you left enough breadcrumbs and hints to allow for things to shake out even with some tricky fill. I enjoyed it!
      • kurtalert 🤓4:32 · 2023-09-30T21:27:56.915Z
        Super fun - very clever second half of the meta answer! Thanks Philip!
        • Philip Chow constructor · 2023-10-01T00:03:57.442Z
          Thanks Kurt! Thought I’d make you guys work for it instead of putting it in grid order for you 😝
        • Hector 🤓7:26 · 2023-10-01T17:09:13.432Z
          Cool, thank you! I am curious about the Elsa and Anna thing?
          • Philip Chow constructor · 2023-10-01T19:06:55.603Z
            i was curious too and this was what i was able to find online: the disney princess line was started to bring back and sell merchandise from some of their older movies... "frozen" is its own franchise and already popular on its own... it's all profit-driven... esmeralda from "hunchback of notre dame" used to be a princess but she wasn't selling well, so they removed her from the list... tinker bell from "peter pan" was an original princess, but was moved to a different franchise "disney fairies"
          • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓4:03 · 2023-10-01T22:55:44.887Z
            And 11D is a great bit of trivia!
            • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓4:03 · 2023-10-01T22:54:35.206Z
              So many theme answers! Clever meta, wish I had gotten further at least with the hints… and it's been too long since I've seen MULAN — either version!
              • Philip Chow constructor · 2023-10-02T14:52:56.009Z
                Thanks Sendhil! I watched the live action version when it came out and it was good but a little too serious for me - I much preferred the light-hearted Disney version with all the singing!
              • I K Snamhcok 2s · 2024-04-27T13:53:06.230Z
                What, is there a 35-year waiting period to make the Hall of Disney Princesses? Come on! Let’s get out there and campaign for Anna and Elsa! 🙂 Fun meta, Phil!
                Play today's daily mini crossword
                1A
                "___ voyage!"
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                Across
                1. 1A
                  "___ voyage!"
                2. 4A
                  Kind of order [that you must consider to solve the meta]
                3. 7A
                  Ice cream holder
                4. 10A
                  Intense dislike
                5. 11A
                  Arctic ___ (fish primarily found in the Arctic Ocean)
                6. 12A
                  Nursery rhyme tumbler
                7. 13A
                  Like a symbolically pure lily (hyph.)
                8. 15A
                  "Frozen" sister who, believe it or not, is NOT actually an official Disney Princess
                9. 16A
                  Word confused with "their" and "there"
                10. 17A
                  When Mardi Gras is celebrated
                11. 20A
                  French word for "goose" (also the French word for "liver" minus the initial f... hint: think "___ gras")
                12. 21A
                  "Get what I'm saying?" (2 words)
                13. 22A
                  Species of bellflower in the family Campanulaceae
                14. 26A
                  Smile of smugness
                15. 28A
                  Spanish word for "gold"
                16. 29A
                  Rupert ___ (Buffy the Vampire Slayer's mentor)
                17. 31A
                  Creep furtively
                18. 33A
                  Karaoke needs, briefly
                19. 35A
                  Little town situated just outside the city of Barcelona
                20. 37A
                  "Frozen" sister who, believe it or not, is NOT actually an official Disney Princess
                21. 38A
                  "...and world ___" (stereotypical pageant response popularized by Sandra Bullock in "Miss Congeniality")
                22. 40A
                  "Ocean" in Maori, Hawaiian, and most other Polynesian languages
                23. 42A
                  NFL team that won the Super Bowl in their home state of CA in 2021, on scoreboards
                24. 43A
                  ___ apso (Tibetan dog breed)
                25. 45A
                  Crank Yankers song about receiving correspondence (3 words)
                26. 47A
                  OPEC standard 42 gal. = ___ ___ (the first word is a number and the second word is a rather strange abbreviation for barrel)
                27. 49A
                  Great Plains tribe (found in "creek")
                28. 50A
                  What animals do in the wild (2 words)
                29. 52A
                  Only-visible-in-the-Northern-Hemisphere phenomenon ___ borealis
                30. 56A
                  "If I may be so bold ___ suggest..." (2 words)
                31. 57A
                  Tools a burglar uses to gain illegal entry into buildings (2 words)
                32. 60A
                  1955, for example (reading on the dashboard of the DeLorean in "Back to the Future")
                33. 61A
                  Swimming pool exercises
                34. 62A
                  Bhangra drum (anagram of "hold")
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                  Pop-up ___ (online annoyances)
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                  "To ___ is human; to forgive, divine"
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                  The donkey in "Shrek," for one
                Down
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                  ___ mi (Vietnamese sandwich)
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                  Great Plains tribe (found in "photo essay")
                3. 3D
                  What diets and beauticians may promise, with "a" (2 words)
                4. 4D
                  ___ tuna (fish primarily found in the Pacific Ocean)
                5. 5D
                  Louisville Slugger, for one
                6. 6D
                  Greek island home to the Minoan palace of Knossos
                7. 7D
                  Obscurity-to-success team, like the 1980 US Olympic hockey team
                8. 8D
                  Forearm bone
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                  Frolic
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                  President between FDR and DDE
                11. 11D
                  Cheddar square cracker brand whose crackers are not actually squares (they measure 1.02 x 0.94 inches, hyph.)
                12. 12D
                  Rice commonly served at Thai restaurants
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                  Squeeze dry
                14. 18D
                  NYC neighborhood that's on the opposite side of Central Park from UWS
                15. 19D
                  Shady trees
                16. 21D
                  Pest repellent applied on dogs whose active ingredients may include cedarwood or peppermint (2 words)
                17. 22D
                  Frolic
                18. 23D
                  Helper of Prospero in "The Tempest"
                19. 24D
                  Using the Powhatan language, it means "playful one"
                20. 25D
                  Single-___ (tourney format where if you lose you're out)
                21. 27D
                  "Honey and Clover" anime director Ken'ichi
                22. 30D
                  Unforeseen problem
                23. 32D
                  Designer Lagerfeld who left his beloved cat Choupette a whopping $1.5 million inheritance
                24. 34D
                  You can use Malwarebytes to ___ viruses (2 words)
                25. 36D
                  Arctic pullover hooded jackets which lent its name to a British slang term which refers to people who have strong interests, perhaps obsessive, in niche subjects (do crossword puzzles count?)
                26. 39D
                  Hebrew for "10" (anagram of "seer")
                27. 41D
                  Chowed down (2 words)
                28. 44D
                  "Honest" presidential nickname
                29. 46D
                  The capital city of Yucatán
                30. 48D
                  Notable girl at a ball
                31. 50D
                  A Christian peasant under the rule of the Ottoman Empire [meta hint: the 13th (and latest) to be inducted as of August 2022]
                32. 51D
                  Like hand-me-downs
                33. 53D
                  "I Ain't Marching Anymore" singer Phil
                34. 54D
                  Old theaters once owned by Howard Hughes
                35. 55D
                  Communication for the deaf: Abbr.
                36. 58D
                  Rowing need
                37. 59D
                  Lifesaving technique: Abbr.
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