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◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2024-01-23T05:00:16.441Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is an Aussie phrase
The above image is a still from a clip of what has to be the most ocker Australian ever to be caught on film! You can watch part of the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD2h5PYV8ng. That clip may or may not help you with finding the answer to the meta, which is an Aussie phrase. Answer & explanation (& short political statement!) here: https://xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=155125#p155125
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- As a fellow Melbournian, this was DEADSET trivial! I appreciate Radelaide's prominent representation in the grid art.
- Hey, I was born there, so that was an easy decision!
- Okay. Googled "aussie slang dead set" and got that it is considered aissie slang for "serious". Which I guess makes sense as when anyone else uses the term they usually mean "determined" which is slightly different than serious.
- SamKat9 🤓9:58 · 2024-01-23T08:03:53.424ZI enjoyed this puzzle heaps and scads! Ta! (I'm new at this)
- Cindy Heisler 2s · 2024-01-23T13:22:46.652ZI don't know many Aussie slang words, but was able to get the answer from what I do know. Deadset had me stumped for a bit. Thanks, Ben. Fun to learn new words.
- So happy you could lean into - and not apologize for - your Aussie-isms. Really great concept and execution, lack of symmetry notwithstanding
- I will take up the lack-of-symmetry thing with whatever geological process was responsible for the shape of Australia. ;-)
- Ace! Thanks, Ben. Enjoyed it! (Solved without Google, and guessing half the lot.)
- MatthewL 🤓18:55 · 2024-01-23T15:27:47.660ZEnjoyed this one (as I do all the Aussie-themed puzzles you occasionally put out). Got hung up on DEADSET as well, because that seems like a non-Aussie slang word/phrase, but Google got me sorted. Thanks for the puzzle!
- Fun one, Ben! I also got hung up on DEADSET, but I knew it couldn't be DO!
- Carolyn 3s · 2024-01-23T16:09:07.597ZLots of fun!
- Admit I had to backsolve a bit to separate words that didn't seem overly Aussie (DEADSET) from ones I didn't know (FOXED). But once I decided that AVO was in and got MATE, the rest was simple enough with some google help. Fun one, thanks.
- hoover 2s · 2024-01-23T17:07:29.623ZAt first I included TOT and ODDTOED, but once I saw GROUSE and DEADSET, I knew where it was going and that I had a couple of extra pieces.
- I figured the slangs were slangs for the clue given and not just words that happened to be slang. Sure Foxed and Oddtoed sound like they could have been slang for something but as the clues were legitimate they weren't. Similarly if the clue for GROUSE had been about the bird or to complain it wouldn't count.But I did wonder if I should include TOT which isn't that common slang and is probably more common in cockney-influenced regions. I definitely overlooked DEADSET as it's the legitimate word for "determined" and "determined" and "serious" seemed similar enough at first that I didn't really notice the difference.
- HeadinHome 🤓2:01 · 2024-01-27T14:38:03.183ZWow - my Carolina comment got posted in the wrong place!) - sorry.
- HeadinHome 🤓2:01 · 2024-01-27T14:36:55.499Z(I lived in Charlotte now, and these friends are from eastern S.C., and one from Savannah).
- Ergcat 🤓15:05 · 2024-01-23T17:20:47.643ZLove the grid art! And nice metanism that even this Yank could solve! Thanks, Ben!
- whimsy 18:01 · 2024-01-23T17:34:11.912ZGreat grid and fun meta! Thanks, Ben!
- HeadinHome 🤓2:01 · 2024-01-23T18:51:55.471ZClassic! Great fun. I’m wondering whether you people would say ARVO differently from AVO… do they sound the same to you? (If ARVO shortens “afternoon,” then I assume you don’t say the R… so how is it not just like AVO?). Anyhoo, you people are… colorful, but come the the southern US and we’ll give you a run for your money!
- Berto 🤓3:59 · 2024-01-23T22:45:53.424ZCan’t speak for Ben/Aussies, but I say Arvo and pronounce the ‘r’ - as a Brit we also pronounce afternoon “arf-ter-noon” lol
- ARVO is pronounced differently to AVO. The "ARV" in ARVO is the same as "cARVe"; whereas the AV in AVO is the same as "AVenue". Fortunately, though, smashed AVO on toast is a breakfast dish, so it doesn't get mentioned much in the ARVO! ;-)
- HeadinHome 🤓2:01 · 2024-01-27T14:32:45.828ZThough I suspect to the non-Aussie ear, that R in arvo is hard to detect? (I’m just remembering a commercial in which Paul Hogan says something about shrimp on the barbee and it sounds to me like “bah-bee” not “bar-bee”.
- You didn't even go into the whole "bless your heart" Southernism! For those of you from North of the M/D line that is NOT a term of endearment. It is used like, "Did you hear about cousin Jim, he got 8-10 years for aggravated assault, bless his heart"
- HeadinHome 🤓2:01 · 2024-01-27T14:39:37.168ZHere it is in the right thread: “We lived in Charlotte now, and these friends are from eastern S.C., and one from Savannah.”
- HeadinHome 🤓2:01 · 2024-01-27T14:38:22.437ZWow - my Carolina comment got posted in the wrong place!)
- HeadinHome 🤓2:01 · 2024-01-27T14:35:52.070ZOh it is a strange language down here, and odd pronunciations too. I’m from Virginia so I have very little of it, but some of my friends here are hysterical. “Oil” is “awl,” you “mash the button” in an elevator, and when giving a friend a little gift just because, that gift is called a “surcee” …
- HeadinHome 🤓2:01 · 2024-01-23T18:52:58.478ZAlso - Macca’s is MickeyD’s where I’m from.
- Berto 🤓3:59 · 2024-01-23T22:46:34.812ZYes!
- Laura M 🤓8:02 · 2024-01-23T20:31:45.769ZBonzer!
- LB800 3s · 2024-01-23T22:38:42.055ZMy trip to your country was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I loved it there so much!
- Hope you get a chance to return sometime. :-)
- LB800 3s · 2024-01-25T19:25:10.831ZI hope so, too! I was in Perth competing in World Outdoor Track Championships and only got to see that area. I need to see the other side of your country. It's quite a long trip for us from Syracuse, NY!
- Berto 🤓3:59 · 2024-01-23T22:50:16.015ZWas expecting to see “Sheila”, “snag”, “barbie “ (not the movie lol), “cobber”, but learnt a few new ones! Nice one mate!
- Rufus T Firefly 2s · 2024-01-24T00:25:25.317ZThe D clue was a little dodgy, if you ask me....and you didn't!Have a fun Australia Day this weekend!
- Crickey that was harder than I thought, probably because deadset also means serious to me. I was not chok-a-bloc of ideas for the last letter but eventually said "don't be a drongo, it has to be DEADSET". Good on ya Ben!
- ReB 5s · 2024-01-25T22:26:52.914ZNice effort. I don't think of DEAD SET as a slang term, so needed all the nudges. (And crosshare didn't like g'day)
- I can't wait until Crosshare fixes the apostrophe problem!
- Sharkicicles 8:54 · 2024-01-27T23:31:15.111ZCame for the fantastic video, stayed for the great puzzle.
- Qmark 3s · 2024-02-03T22:32:26.965Zplaying catchup...only got to this puzzle today, but I wanted ot thank you Ben and congrats on the great construction...I had a couple of incorrect submissions because I thought for sure you had an extra A in "G'Daay" to approximate the pronunciation (an A from Ashes and an A from Arvo)...but I now see that just the 2nd one is based on aussie slang...thanks again!
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"End of the week!"
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Across
- 1A"End of the week!"
- 5AFood on a cob
- 6ANo ifs, ands, ___ buts
- 8AUngulates of the order Perissodactyla
- 11AFib
- 12AHigh cards
- 13A"It came ___ a midnight clear"
- 15ABorder
- 17ARailway stop, for short
- 18AApprox.
- 19ABreak the wax on an envelope
- 21AFish delicacy (egg sac, to be more precise)
- 23ACitrus drink
- 24AP.M.
- 26ASault ___ Marie
- 27AMale child
- 28ARoman robes
- 30AOppose boldly
- 32ASocial strata
- 34ACat's front foot
- 36ACode for an airport near the Golden Gate bridge
- 37A@
- 38ALeave for a bit
- 40APetty quarrel
- 42APopular
- 43A"___? Don't talk to me about ___" (Marvin the Paranoid Android quote)
- 45AGolden arches restaurant chain
- 47ASubterfuge
- 49AFruit smashed on toast at breakfast
- 50AExcessive excitement
- 51AGarden frameworks
- 54ARun out
- 56ARuth's mother-in-law
- 58AAutomobile
- 59ACooler for a 53 down, perhaps
- 60ATypes in again
- 62AChange the colour of something
- 63ABird that Carl sends Russell off to find in "Up"
- 64AAffirmative answer
- 65AOath word
- 67ANBC medical drama
Down
- 1DQuantity of rum
- 2DExcellent
- 3DClumsy
- 4D"I don't know"
- 5DSuccessors of LPs
- 7DEsteem
- 8DTwice tetra-
- 9DCompletely serious
- 10DPerform (an action)
- 11DFrench musical, "___ Miserables"
- 12DCricket trophy for the annual series of test matches between Australia and England (with "the")
- 14DProvide a clue for solving a meta
- 16DShoemaker's helpers in a fairytale
- 18DEternity
- 20DLowest tides
- 21DNot dynamic, as a verb
- 22DHerb that goes well with lamb
- 23DMain artery
- 25DMilitary authorities
- 26DLa ___ (Milan opera house)
- 28DBird with a big beak
- 29DTree fluid
- 31DAges and ages
- 33D"Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" monogram
- 34DCenters of attention
- 35DUnit of power
- 39DGlass sheet
- 41DMuscle of the upper arm
- 44DWorn, as an old book
- 46DGin flavouring
- 48DWords of concern
- 50DBoxer Tyson
- 52DIowa State city
- 53DBeer can
- 55D"Gangnam Style" artist
- 57D"You ___ here" (writing near an arrow on a map)
- 61DNeck decoration
- 65D"To ___ or not to ___"
- 66D12 mos.
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