Better Together (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2 months ago
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a musical genre
The path from meta idea to the grid you see before you was not exactly an easy one. Let's just say that it really helps if you spell things correctly in your rough notes! Suffice to say the end result should be a good "week 3" meta. There might be some tricky entries in the grid, but I've endeavoured to provide you with assistance in the other direction. The answer to the meta is a musical genre. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=118391#p118391
Check out the "Rejected (Non-meta) MOAT Pack" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$5 gets you 10 themed crosswords, most of which were rejected by one crossword publisher or another. Were those editors right to reject them? You be the judge!
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- Laura M 🤓11:24 · 2 months agoGood one! Also love the books referenced in 60A60ANovel by Frances Hodgson Burnett in which Mary Lennox is sent to live at Misselthwaite Manor[---------------]and 44D44DThe Luggage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is made from ___ pearwood[-------].
- Dow Jones 3s · 2 months agoGrid was tough, but the meta was solvable.
- Cindy Heisler 2s · 2 months agoVery nice meta!
- Definitely a clever and original idea!But a week two. Very enjoyable. Love the clue for 44D44DThe Luggage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is made from ___ pearwood[-------]
- MatthewL 10:15 · 2 months agoTough grid, but gettable. Really liked the metanism (see what I did there). Nice puzzle!
- Ergcat 19:42 · 2 months agoGood one! You were right, the grid was a little tough but the “down” clues helped to fill it in! Thank you for fun solve!
- Dave C 2s · 2 months agoIt was fun.
- I K Snamhcok 2s · 2 months agoGneiss! (Sorry, I’m not coming up with an apt portmanteau to describe this ginormously fun puzzle.)
- Carolyn 4s · 2 months agoEnjoyed it!
- whimsy 14:58 · 2 months agoOnce I ditched the two grid spanners and realized what I was supposed to be looking at....:).... it went much more smoothly.Thanks, Ben! Gwork! (Good work -- but they probably already say that in Aussie; right after they say Gday.)
- ChrisCross 🤓8:17 · 2 months agoQuick one, which is what I was in the mood for after the WSJ and the MMM. Thanks!
- ChrisCross 🤓8:17 · 2 months agoI should have said: gaymer bromance sexercise backne firenado!(Boy, the list of portmanteaus on wikipedia is raunchy, and I'm not even talking about the ones I used.)
- KayW 9:38 · 2 months agoFantabulous!
- Reminds me of when my little sister was about 10 years old and somehow we trying to discuss what the word "Sappy" meant and she finally said "Oh, I know. It's a mixture of SAD and HAPPY". And dang if she wasn't right.
- Nice. I don't quite get FSA20AWith as much speed as possible (abbr.)[---]
- Full Speed Ahead
- ReB 5s · 2 months agoI think my brain is mashed up this week. Some weeks are just like that.
- Tough grid - I think the DOS or Homeland Security issues visas in the US and I never would (never did) get FSA20AWith as much speed as possible (abbr.)[---](assuming Full Speed Ahead) for that clue. I kept putting in ASA and with the DOS I kept wondering why ALLAORST was enthusiasm, I gave up an figured it was an Aussie thing since I had the puzzle solved by then. Fun idea for the meta though, as per usual, and not to overly taxing (though I am lucky I decided to write down the REAL words of the PORTMANTEAUS. Now the real interesting part is the word itself which means "stiff leather trunk or valise". Given that "coat" in French is a manteau and a Porte-manteau is a coat rack, one wonders if portmanteau came about to name somehting one carries one's coats in when travelling? Gotta love language.
- Qmark 4s · 2 months agoThanks Ben! Let it "simmer" for a few days...when I came back to it, the mechanism appeared. :)
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- 1ATeam spirit
- 7AAmateur newsletter, the very first of which was for "Star Trek"
- 14AGlossy coatings
- 16AWord following "Kyrie" in a Mr Mister song
- 17A"That's the same as ours!"
- 19AMany Buzzfeed posts
- 20AWith as much speed as possible (abbr.)
- 21AMedical drama starring Noah Wyle and Julianna Margulies
- 22AMulder & Scully and Troy & Abed, for example
- 24ARd intersectors
- 27APart of DJIA
- 29AMao ___-tung
- 30A"The Phantom Menace", with respect to "A New Hope"
- 32ANickel carbonate
- 34AGovernment office responsible for visas, often (abbr.)
- 35ALyft competitor
- 36AWord for words like "Slithy" or "mimsy" which is itself a 36 across36AWord for words like "Slithy" or "mimsy" which is itself a 36 across (how meta can you get!)[-----------](how meta can you get!)
- 40A"Tres ___!"
- 42AAssistance
- 43AOnes in charge (abbr.)
- 45ASteal a ride
- 47AFile extension that hopefully opens in Adobe Reader rather than Microsoft Edge
- 49A"Anna and the King" actress, ___ Ling
- 51APrinter's measures
- 52APrefix with -scope, as seen on 21 across21AMedical drama starring Noah Wyle and Julianna Margulies[--]
- 54A"I'm a Mac." "And I'm a ___"
- 55APriest during Samuel's boyhood
- 56ADisney computer-animated buddy cop movie starring a rabbit and a fox
- 60ANovel by Frances Hodgson Burnett in which Mary Lennox is sent to live at Misselthwaite Manor
- 64AStool, often
- 65AItems you might find in an auto repair shop
- 66AMindless followers, in slang
- 67APrefix meaning "stretchy"
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- 1DCried like a kitten
- 2DGolf club with a nearly vertical face
- 3DCollege cheers
- 4D"I ___ my wit's end!"
- 5DJeans maker, ___ Strauss
- 6DVotes into office
- 7DService charge
- 8DEnthusiastically supportive
- 9DOder-___ Line (German-Polish border)
- 10DVirus that can cause microcephaly
- 11DSuffix with expert
- 12D"There's ___ in 'team'!"
- 13DTolkien tree-person
- 15DFigure out
- 18DHomer's long-suffering neighbour
- 23D"Once ___ a time..."
- 24DMetropolitan locale
- 25DGolf ball holder
- 26DCamera type, for short
- 28DWindshield cleaners
- 29DRocky hill
- 31DCampus area, for short
- 33D"And" or "or" (abbr.)
- 34DFather
- 37DLike military manoeuvers
- 38DFilm directed by Steven Soderbergh starring Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey, "Magic ___"
- 39DSanta's helper
- 40DAbbr. used in really old dates
- 41DLOTR actor, ___ McKellen
- 44DThe Luggage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is made from ___ pearwood
- 46DClassic Keith Green song "___ in the Light"
- 47DInstagram upload
- 48D"___ Howser, M.D."
- 50DComeback to a skeptic
- 53DPhilosopher Lao-___
- 55D"Nobl___ oblige" (rich people have to fulfill their social responsibilities)
- 57D"That's a ___ order"
- 58DKiller whale
- 59DSmartphone forerunners
- 60DRecipe abbr.
- 61DDerisive laugh
- 62DBefore, poetically
- 63DNumbered hwy.
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