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
Checking for previous play data...
Fun meta, Phil!1A
"___ voyage!"
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- 1A"___ voyage!"
- 4AKind of order [that you must consider to solve the meta]
- 7AIce cream holder
- 10AIntense dislike
- 11AArctic ___ (fish primarily found in the Arctic Ocean)
- 12ANursery rhyme tumbler
- 13ALike a symbolically pure lily (hyph.)
- 15A"Frozen" sister who, believe it or not, is NOT actually an official Disney Princess
- 16AWord confused with "their" and "there"
- 17AWhen Mardi Gras is celebrated
- 20AFrench word for "goose" (also the French word for "liver" minus the initial letter... hint: think "___ gras")
- 21A"Get what I'm saying?" (2 words)
- 22ASpecies of bellflower in the family Campanulaceae
- 26ASmile of smugness
- 28ASpanish word for "gold"
- 29ARupert ___ (Buffy the Vampire Slayer's mentor)
- 31ACreep furtively
- 33AKaraoke needs, briefly
- 35ALittle town situated just outside the city of Barcelona
- 37A"Frozen" sister who, believe it or not, is NOT actually an official Disney Princess
- 38A"...and world ___" (stereotypical pageant response popularized by Sandra Bullock in "Miss Congeniality")
- 40A"Ocean" in Maori, Hawaiian, and most other Polynesian languages
- 42ANFL team that won the Super Bowl in their home state of CA in 2021, on scoreboards
- 43A___ apso (Tibetan dog breed)
- 45ACrank Yankers song about receiving correspondence (3 words)
- 47AOPEC standard 42 gal. = ___ ___ (the first word is a number and the second word is a rather strange abbreviation for barrel)
- 49AGreat Plains tribe (found in "creek")
- 50AWhat animals do in the wild (2 words)
- 52AOnly-visible-in-the-Northern-Hemisphere phenomenon ___ borealis
- 56A"If I may be so bold ___ suggest..." (2 words)
- 57ATools a burglar uses to gain illegal entry into buildings (2 words)
- 60A1955, for example (reading on the dashboard of the DeLorean in "Back to the Future")
- 61ASwimming pool exercises
- 62ABhangra drum (anagram of "hold")
- 63APop-up ___ (online annoyances)
- 64A"To ___ is human; to forgive, divine"
- 65AThe donkey in "Shrek," for one
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- 1D___ mi (Vietnamese sandwich)
- 2DGreat Plains tribe (found in "photo essay")
- 3DWhat diets and beauticians may promise, with "a" (2 words)
- 4D___ tuna (fish primarily found in the Pacific Ocean)
- 5DLouisville Slugger, for one
- 6DGreek island home to the Minoan palace of Knossos
- 7DObscurity-to-success team, like the 1980 US Olympic hockey team
- 8DForearm bone
- 9DFrolic
- 10DPresident between FDR and DDE
- 11DCheddar square cracker brand whose crackers are not actually squares (they measure 1.02 x 0.94 inches, hyph.)
- 12DRice commonly served at Thai restaurants
- 14DSqueeze dry
- 18DNYC neighborhood that's on the opposite side of Central Park from UWS
- 19DShady trees
- 21DPest repellent applied on dogs whose active ingredients may include cedarwood or peppermint (2 words)
- 22DFrolic
- 23DHelper of Prospero in "The Tempest"
- 24DUsing the Powhatan language, it means "playful one"
- 25DSingle-___ (tourney format where if you lose you're out)
- 27D"Honey and Clover" anime director Ken'ichi
- 30DUnforeseen problem
- 32DDesigner Lagerfeld who left his beloved cat Choupette a whopping $1.5 million inheritance
- 34DYou can use Malwarebytes to ___ viruses (2 words)
- 36DArctic 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?)
- 39DHebrew for "10" (anagram of "seer")
- 41DChowed down (2 words)
- 44D"Honest" presidential nickname
- 46DThe capital city of Yucatán
- 48DNotable girl at a ball
- 50DA Christian peasant under the rule of the Ottoman Empire [meta hint: the 13th (and latest) to be inducted as of August 2022]
- 51DLike hand-me-downs
- 53D"I Ain't Marching Anymore" singer Phil
- 54DOld theaters once owned by Howard Hughes
- 55DCommunication for the deaf: Abbr.
- 58DRowing need
- 59DLifesaving technique: Abbr.