Head Out on the Road
◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2023-08-12T17:00:30.397Z
Meta Prompt
[Level 2] The answer to the meta is my message to you if you solve it.
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What good crossword constructors do to their clues (let me remember this)
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Across
- 1AWhat good crossword constructors do to their clues (let me remember this)
- 5AFelipe or Moises of baseball
- 9AMexican bread?
- 14AHis first breakthrough role was in the 1994 teen drama "My So-Called Life"
- 15AAphorisms
- 16AStag, in certain contexts
- 17ANot pepper (a meta throwback, kind of)
- 18AJohn Grisham's hypothetical novel about pottery: "A Time to ___"
- 19AAbout
- 20AThe works!
- 22ASome chemical suffix
- 24A"Put Your Records On" singer Corinne Bailey ___
- 25A"What a wild grammar lecture!" "Yeah, things got ___!"
- 27A"The ___ Sweater" (Scott Hilburn comic)
- 29ARobotic human (I promise I'm not one)
- 32AApprehend
- 34AA house with a stream behind it is prime ___ estate
- 35AOne of the first products distributed on this now-outdated PC medium was the Grolier Academic Encyclopedia (1986)
- 36A39 of 118
- 38AVane dir. (You're so vane, you probably think this compass is about you)
- 39ATipped off
- 41AMessage spelled out in my alphabet soup last week (oh, wait, it was my Cheerios)
- 44AWhat a crafty individual!
- 46A"Did you visit that fancy pizzeria?" "No, it's too upper ___ for me"
- 48AI planned to sign Paul to a songwriting contract, but then we had to drop ___
- 50ABand aid
- 51AAngle symbols in trigonometry (pardon the tangent, will you cosine my loan?)
- 52AAllay
- 54AThey're often worn over cholis
- 56ABig Bird's is 6
- 57AOne push-up, say (my limit for the year)
- 59ASurname of speaker who declares "that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet"
- 63ABuff that rhymes with a bird
- 65A"New to you," basically
- 67AThe entomologist just took out a ___ IRA
- 68ACheri who has hundreds of cameos in crosswords
- 69AAmount of ice cream I'll gladly eat
- 70APlasm prefix
- 71AImport
- 72ARd., or any other common thoroughfare shortening (nobody's living on a "branch," "terrace," or "union" today, sorry)
- 73AOstracize
Down
- 1DGirl's name that anagrams to an aquatic mammal
- 2D"Want to play cards?" "You've got yourself a ___!"
- 3D"___ be fun!" (words said before one of Mikey G's lectures...by Mikey G)
- 4DTwo reassuring words from Glinda (made up of just two letters!)
- 5DType of price
- 6DFrench coffee additions
- 7DSaid one avian predator to another, "___ be seeing you!" (These puns are a hoot!)
- 8DAnnapolis sch.
- 9DHoosier hoopster
- 10DHigh priest of Shiloh
- 11D"Yeah, yours truly is no longer attending your calculus party, Mikey..."
- 12DStanding by
- 13DConger, e.g.
- 21DMathematician whose "last theorem," first posited in 1637, remained unproven until the mid-1990s
- 23DHockey player that really Buffaloes his opponents LOL
- 26DStings, perhaps
- 28DSteve Carell's "Despicable Me" character
- 29DIV amounts
- 30DNFL gains
- 31DDoesn't win...but doesn't lose either
- 33DFYI cousin
- 36DPolite assent
- 37DIt can help bring a lost Lassie back home
- 40DAuthor Moriarty of "Big Little Lies" and "Nine Perfect Strangers"
- 42DShe-bear, in Seville
- 43DNFL tiebreakers
- 45DDorm VIPs that are supposed to quiet the rager in the study hall and not join in (this may or may not have happened)
- 47DPicks up again
- 48DLos ___ (New Mexico city)
- 49DCountermand
- 51D"You said you were staying at home but you went to the stock exchange instead?? You ___!"
- 53DBanks of Chicago
- 55DAstringent
- 58DAdidas rival (and I'm not lion!)
- 60D"I can't get into this Scottish lake anymore." "They must have changed the ___"
- 61D"Come on, Brutus, aren't you done betraying me in these crosswords by now?"
- 62DMath-a-___ (this is an actual thing, apparently; its volunteers make sum difference)
- 64DIV areas
- 66DType of story