I Hear You're Hosting
◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2023-11-11T18:00:41.504Z
Meta Prompt
[Level 3] The answer to the meta is a notable American personality.
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- 1AMean comment
- 5ACarney, Fleming, Garfunkel, or Linkletter
- 8AMinimal complexity
- 12ABring up
- 13AMovies' Clara
- 14AJust beat it!
- 15AItalian flower
- 16AMary's courter
- 17ASummers, for one
- 18AWhat many do at my lectures
- 21AMorphological contest
- 22AMiddle word in the name of a South American archipelago
- 23AGet off the fence
- 25AOne-___ (Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner," for one)
- 28AEntropy
- 29A"You ___!" ("Right on!")
- 31A___ punk (Mighty Mighty Bosstones genre)
- 32AMake certain
- 33ALike the last dance a couple often performs on "Dancing with the Stars" (Mark Ballas created some of my all-time favorites)
- 38AFormer US govt. agency whose acronym is one letter away from a continent
- 40A$, briefly
- 41AManed creatures
- 42A"Manfred" concluder
- 43AInventive initials
- 44AMarshy component
- 45AOnce, once
- 46AMajor charioteer
- 47AShih ___ (silky-haired toy dogs)
Down
- 1D"You always boast about disagreeing with me!" "I ___ to differ!"
- 2DDynamic introduction?
- 3DHarangue (if I complain about tart fruits, it's a lemon harangue)
- 4DWhen my chickens didn't lay any eggs, I ___ about it
- 5DHave ___ (live it up, ideally solving metas!)
- 6DCover-up in the courtroom?
- 7DBoss of years gone by
- 8DGenre my mom derisively calls "beeps and boops," for short
- 9DLast word in the title of 1962's Best Picture
- 10D"You betcha!"
- 11DHosts
- 19DTimes feature (this clue is just my type)
- 20DBushel's four
- 24DNovember 2022 invention that, when I just asked it for a pun about puzzles, gave me "The puzzle broke up with the dictionary because they had too many cross words!"
- 25DSuppose (you know the saying...)
- 26DThis guy had some Gaul LOL
- 27DSome promotional gimmicks
- 30DPrevaricators suffer from ___ decay
- 31DEvent that commonly begins with Kadeish (a blessing of the first cup of wine)
- 34DHe forgives Jacob in Genesis 33
- 35DCalifornia's Santa ___ Valley
- 36DIts name comes from the leaves of a stew often served at one
- 37DBallpark figs. (I prefer Ball Park franks but okay)
- 39D"Did your uncle approve of your becoming an entomologist?" "No, but my ___ did!"