Choices (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2021-09-13T09:00:10.892Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a Harry Styles song
I think this one might be tricky, but hopefully still doable. I've toned down the chatty clues (mostly!) in favour of shorter, pithier ones. In life, we all face choices of various kinds. I trust that you will be able to navigate the choices in this puzzle and arrive at the meta answer, the title of a Harry Styles song. Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1189&p=68573#p68231
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Reward or Shout or Cove
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Across
- 1AReward or Shout or Cove
- 4A___ man (used in a weak argument)
- 9AGraceful aquatic bird
- 13A"Just one of its many ___"
- 15ACultural capital of Japan
- 16AOriginal voice of Timon
- 17AImperial measurement still in use today
- 18ABelow
- 19AContributes
- 20AHoppy brews with lower alcohol levels
- 22ARedirect or Occupy or Humans
- 24AOlder spreadsheet file extension
- 25AWhiteness of a surface (but more than one)
- 26AShut or Near or Including
- 30AMake it ___
- 31ARussian for salad
- 32A"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ___"
- 33AHockey great Phil, for short (apologies to my Aussie solvers, but you'll have a distinct advantage with 1 across so it should even out!)
- 37APoem by Robert Frost involving a yellow wood
- 40AEvidence of sell outs (abbr.)
- 41AOmen
- 42ACompose a letter
- 43AWhat you up to increase the stakes
- 44ACaring or Type or Come in
- 45ACharges for easy money access
- 49ANevertheless, ___ persisted
- 51ABush or Eliot or Famous loch
- 52APrevent access
- 57AUnwanted spots
- 58AVictorian mountain, ___ Buang
- 60ACricket term for when the bowler really misses the mark
- 61ACool in the 90's
- 62ABe
- 63AEntrance
- 64AWhat you use to 14 down
- 65ADesert fruit
- 66AItalian for three
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- 1D___ in the road (minor problem)
- 2DLargest continent
- 3DCry out loud
- 4DBrain protector
- 5DProngs on a fork (alt.)
- 6DSensors in your 64 across
- 7DPut away, as food
- 8DHelpful tool when constructing crosswords
- 9DBoba Fett's spaceship (with "I")
- 10D___ into the fray (but in the past)
- 11DPrefix meaning "male"
- 12D"Foxes have holes and birds have ___, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
- 14DWhat you use 64 across to do
- 21DTake an ___ (destroy)
- 23DPart of an Arabic name that means "son of"
- 25DMoses' brother
- 26DEuropean/Russian design for getting people into low Earth orbit (abbr.)
- 27DCowardly Lion portrayer
- 28DColloquial name for margarine
- 29DEpidemic from the early 2000s, now seriously overshadowed by COVID-19
- 30DBruce Hornsby's first band, who together recorded 37 across on their album "Scenes From The Southside" (with "The")
- 32DPolishes prose
- 33DBring home
- 34DShort play
- 35D"Oh, for ___'s sake!"
- 36DUnique (in the UK)
- 38DPrescription direction (with "take")
- 39DTwitter follower
- 43DArm of the Med.
- 45DThe most important of C. S. Lewis' Four Loves
- 46DComputer expert, slangily
- 47D"ArchAndroid" singer, Janelle
- 48DWhat the neck of a guitar has lots of
- 49DFeel
- 50DWarms up
- 52DHeal, as bones
- 53DEmail abbr.
- 54DDemonstration that gets out of hand
- 55DNasty smell
- 56D"A ___ formality!"
- 59DPrefix indicating the presence of oxygen in a compound