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Let's meet for a Drink

◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-07-22T09:14:15.601Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a cocktail
Making a crossword grid was as impossible as I thought it'd be. However with software I was amused as to the hacky corners I could paint myself into and talk myself out of. As a meta this is flimsy maybe but I'm amused by its ability to make excuses for itself.
There are two alternative answers. One was the intended answer but through an oversight it doesn't actually fit the mechanism, so with a bit of googling I found a cocktail I had never heard of that did fit the mechansim... with a hack.
By the way. A cocktail need not be alcoholic although both meta answers are. Enjoy.
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  • whimsy 22:18 · 2022-07-23T00:23:15.261Z
    OK -- I peeked at the reveal -- which is a good thing because I would never have gotten either (although I do know of the second.) But I still have no clue how to arrive at either. I was trying with the names of the drinks in the grid, and in particular attempting to apply the numbers mentioned somehow. Anything to do with the ingredients?
    • woozy constructor · 2022-07-23T02:53:39.121Z
      Everything to do with the ingredients. You will have to google them.
    • benchen71 10:03 · 2022-07-23T01:49:54.326Z
      I enjoyed the creative clues and, shall we say, unusual grid entries! But of the meta, I have no idea. :-)
      • boharr 4s · 2022-07-23T01:51:50.146Z
        A doozy, woozy!
        • whimsy 22:18 · 2022-07-23T17:59:38.750Z
          Still not sure which are the themers -- per your nudges, perhaps they are all the drinks with tequila. I'm looking at Paloma, Margarita, Hurricane (just rum?) Clementi? Meta (which I only know because of the cluing) and even Shirley, (grenadine) bringing up the rear. ("A cocktail need not be alcoholic.") Then again, Paloma, Margarita, Meta, and Shirley all are women's names. Does something "meet" or was that a hint to look at META. Also, clues for 5 (not 4) of them have "artificially" contrived #s? Do we get the firing squad for the first answer from AOC? :)
          • woozy constructor · 2022-07-23T21:43:10.767Z
            The themers are the drinks. There are four of them and you named them all. The META refers to the actual answer and is not a drink in the grid. The artificially derived numbers were mainly to make it clear which were clearly defined drinks (in this day and age where some clever person has named everything a drink, for all I know there is a bar somewhere serving a "city limit" and an "animosity"). The have a secondary purpose to but you don't really need them.
            Yes. Things meet. What meet in this grid? what does "meet" usually mean in a crossword grid
          Play today's daily mini crossword
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          Two in Latin
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          1. 1A
            Two in Latin
          2. 4A
            The 5th major 23A of fourteen years ago; also the designer daughter of Pablo Picasso who had one fewer than 5 children
          3. 10A
            See 25D but this spin-off takes place in the body of water near Tacoma.
          4. 12A
            Fashion designer Ronay, city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, Hungarian Volleyball player Dobi, and a city on the coast of Liberia (but not apparently not the singer Menzel who played Elphaba in Wicked... I really am a terrible speller).
          5. 13A
            Capital of Tibet
          6. 14A
            Goes on and on and on.
          7. 15A
            A singular wrapper for an Einstein-Inspired Notation Operations function (You know, you should maybe just ignore this entire upper right hand corner....)
          8. 16A
            Best way to make coffee.
          9. 17A
            Ford two-seaters.
          10. 19A
            Who knew the Bond villain was lying about his credentials? (or that he was French?)
          11. 20A
            Belonging to the Comedy ensemble show.
          12. 21A
            NYC congresswoman (you know who I mean)
          13. 22A
            Black; dark. Or a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Or "Cucumis metuliferus"
          14. 23A
            Atlantic tropical cyclone. Last year Zeta was the 7th major one.
          15. 26A
            Antagonism
          16. 27A
            The edge of town
          17. 28A
            Tantric zone
          18. 31A
            The ---- is Silent, by Raymond Smullyen (Don't say "The --- shuts up" to his face.)
          19. 32A
            The digital rodent that demonstrated.
          20. 36A
            Nancy's friend who is someone better off financially than Sluggo.
          21. 37A
            Approves.
          22. 38A
            (Not including bitters) It has 3 ingredients.
          23. 39A
            "Hedda Gabler" playwright
          24. 40A
            Decorations for the sloped walkway leading to the fortification of the portion of the male sheep.
          25. 42A
            Lizardy suffix missing its thundery prefix.
          26. 43A
            Second president of Ireland post- second World War.
          27. 44A
            Grad. increasing in vol.
          28. 45A
            Perfume by Guerlain.
          29. 46A
            The baseball equivalent of OREO
          Down
          1. 1D
            Rigg who played the Veronica on "The Detectivists"
          2. 2D
            The sluggard says he'll be this but don't believe him.
          3. 3D
            You want it immediately? Yeah, not going to happen.
          4. 4D
            8D means this in English.
          5. 5D
            Mngr.
          6. 6D
            So when the metal restraints were weak and easy to break out of, it was the fault of these guys (sadly this is not the most contrived entry in this puzzle)
          7. 7D
            "A Chorus Line" finale.
          8. 8D
            Bianca Castafiore's most famed role from the opera "Faust" (which has 5 acts).
          9. 9D
            When discussing opening lines with Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Madeleine L'Engle acknowledged that his night was probably darker but her night was just --- as his.
          10. 10D
            Fourth Pope (and abbreviated orange)
          11. 11D
            Former American ambassador to Czechoslovakia who began an acting career when she was 3.
          12. 14D
            NFL gains.
          13. 18D
            Freely, in music
          14. 22D
            Physically wound the port city of Honshu?
          15. 24D
            Sincerely
          16. 25D
            The umpteenth spin-off of that CBS forensic crime drama that takes place in the rubber tire capital of the world.
          17. 28D
            The vegetarian alternative to 30D
          18. 29D
            Tasmania's capital
          19. 30D
            An alternative to dining in the open air where instead of going outside you cover yourself in beef fat (don't knock it until you've tried it; then ... for God's sake, knock it).
          20. 33D
            Sphere of influence.
          21. 34D
            A European family-owned business specializing in the design, manufacture and installation of joinery solutions (where would we be without GOOGLE?)
          22. 35D
            Make lace by tying knots.
          23. 41D
            About what I think of this clue...
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