High Fives (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2023-10-24T05:00:24.697Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is where the action is
The first-ever high five appears to have happened in 1977 during a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros. It was the last game of the season, and Dodgers outfielder Dusty Baker had just hit a home run - his 30th of the season. The accomplishment made the Dodgers the first team in Major League history to have four players hit 30 homers. Baker's rookie teammate Glenn Burke was waiting for him on deck, and as Baker crossed home plate, Burke triumphantly lifted his hands in the air. "The way the legend goes… Glenn put his arm high in the air, and Dusty didn't know what to do, so he slapped it," Dodgers historian Mark Langill said in the ESPN documentary "The High Five." It caught the public's attention, so the Dodgers adopted it as a symbol of team pride and performed it regularly over the next few seasons, to the delight of the media and fans of the team. (cf. https://www.businessinsider.com/where-does-the-high-five-come-from-origin-2017-4.) All that to say, the answer to the meta is where the action is. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=146224#p146224
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Painter of melting clocks
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- 1APainter of melting clocks
- 5AHighly skilled
- 10A"Bury the ___!"
- 14ABroadway star and voice of Meg in Disney's "Hercules", Susan ___
- 15A"All Quiet On The Western Front" author, ___ Maria Remarque
- 16AEco-warrior role for Julia Roberts, ___ Brockovich
- 17AIngrid Bergman's "Casablanca" role, Ilsa ___
- 18AArya Stark's elder sister (that sounds like a Google search!)
- 19AHelper (abbr.)
- 20ADungeon restraint
- 22AFork points
- 24AItems that raise the pitch of all 6 guitar strings at once
- 26AConcorde, for example
- 27ANuts found in yummy pies
- 30ASpringfield's only minor league baseball team (obscure "The Simpsons" reference, check)
- 35A"Nick of Time" singer, Bonnie ___
- 36ACards held by a player
- 37APoetic form
- 38AMan Booker prize-nominated author, ___ Moshfegh
- 40AIncrease by a judge if the jury's award of damages is deemed insufficient (but not allowed in U.S. federal courts, apparently)
- 43AFive in Roman numerals (hint, hint)
- 44AFunky bass style
- 46AGood way to ship prawns
- 47AEschatological concern
- 50AFor mature audiences
- 51A"Hi," said the Dutchman
- 52ASacro-___ joint
- 54ASecond airing
- 56AUncertain in meaning
- 60AErase, as a whiteboard
- 61ADrug cops
- 64ACelestial bear that comes in major and minor varieties
- 65AGeometry calculation
- 66AChicago airport
- 67A"Feed the man ___" (Aussie ad slogan from the 70's that was intended to get people into butcher shops)
- 68AConked out
- 69A"The ___ of sin is death" (Rom. 6:23)
- 70AConveyor of air, gas, or liquid
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- 1D"The Farmer in the ___"
- 2DShivering fit
- 3D"Auld ___ Syne"
- 4DDirect attention to
- 5D"___ Fables"
- 6DClog-clearing brand
- 7D"Ich bin ___ Berliner"
- 8DMac alternatives
- 9D"How strange..."
- 10DCrude shelter
- 11DCeltic language
- 12DBad-mouth
- 13DTolkien tree creature
- 21DBlows off steam
- 23DBeliever's suffix
- 25D"Chandelier" singer (who comes from Adelaide, Australia, in case you were wondering)
- 27DShow to be right
- 28DGobbled up
- 29DQuoted, as a source
- 31DEvent also known as "the Blip" in the MCU (with "the")
- 32DWhat you do to a plant when you get home from the nursery
- 33DDraw forth
- 34DWithered, as land
- 36D___ and hearty
- 39DGilligan's boat
- 41DPhysicist, Paul ___, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
- 42DGrouped together
- 45D"___ was saying..."
- 48DDeposit of minerals that traces through rock
- 49DPromise to pay
- 50DWashes the suds off
- 53D"Filthy" money
- 54D"Umbrella" singer, to fans
- 55DHeaviest fencing blade
- 57D"... ___ saw Elba" (part of a famous palindrome)
- 58D"Now!"
- 59DAssess, with stars perhaps
- 60DRoll of bills
- 62D"Now I get the meta!"
- 63DJoplin composition