Famous Last Words (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2023-09-19T06:00:14.094Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a two-word phrase
Oscar Wilde's last words were, "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do." Apparently, the wallpaper won out, although it was changed soon afterwards. Of course Groucho Marx couldn't resist one last quip either: "This is no way to live!" he is reputed to have said. And, if you do it right, you'll find the famous last words encoded in this meta puzzle: an apt two-word phrase. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=142976#p142976
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Fun one!
Very clever ! Thanks, Ben!1A
Fancy party
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Across
- 1AFancy party
- 5AMade off with
- 9AEntr'___
- 13AHans Gruber portrayer, ___ Rickman
- 14AMarie ___, with two Nobel prizes
- 15ACompany founded by Gwyneth Paltrow
- 16AWork place
- 17AOperative
- 18A"I'm so annoyed with you I won't even open my mouth!"
- 19AWhere you find this verse: "But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!"
- 22ABest Original Screenplay Oscar winner
- 24AKarate level
- 25ALike Fran Drescher's voice
- 26A(0,0) on a graph
- 28AExpel
- 30AClose but no cigar
- 32AIt comes before Thur
- 35AYemeni port
- 36AGorilla or orangutan
- 37AFolk singer, ___ Guthrie
- 38A'80s video-game console
- 39ATV show that launched the careers of Neve Campbell and Lacey Chabert
- 43AEnid Blyton creation
- 44ALeg-iron
- 45AC. J. Dennis book, "The Songs of a Sentimental ___"
- 47AActress, ___ de Armas
- 48A"To ___ is human"
- 49ADystopian work by Aldous Huxley
- 53AIntense anger
- 54ASuffix for techn- or plut-
- 55ALots and lots of time
- 58AEarth sci.
- 59A"___ a dream"
- 60AMove in the breeze
- 61AJulia Robert's character in "Ocean's Eleven"
- 62ALowdown
- 63A90's sequel to 38 across
Down
- 1DVoice of Olaf, Josh ___
- 2DType of beer brewed using a warm fermentation method that results in a sweet, full-bodied and fruity taste
- 3DExtreme unction
- 4DWhat Death wears on a necklace in Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman"
- 5DPull at, as a sleeve
- 6DCookie brand
- 7DSty sound
- 8DChemicals that your liver produces when it breaks down fats
- 9D"I am agog! I am ___! Is Marius in love at last?" (lyrics from "Les Miserables")
- 10D,
- 11D"Fiddler on the Roof" star
- 12DErythropoietin-producing human hepatocellular receptors, for short
- 14D___ boy, male attendant who serves guests on a beach
- 20DMake revisions to
- 21DFiction's opposite
- 22D"Crocodile Dundee" star, Paul ___
- 23DUndermine, as confidence
- 27DTonic's partner (make mine a double!)
- 28DE on a fuel gauge
- 29D"Friends" spin-off series
- 31DCooking fat
- 32DReduce the nominal value of stock or goods
- 33DYoung eel
- 34D"All the Light We Cannot See" author, Anthony ___
- 37DBack on a boat
- 39DPig in a ___
- 40DTonsil's neighbour
- 41DWidely known
- 42DPhobia
- 43DLong stories
- 45D"See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a ___ of kinsmen." (The Prince in "Romeo and Juliet")
- 46DNigeria's largest city
- 47D"With just ___ of my magic wand, Your troubles will soon be gone" (Fairy Godmother song in "Shrek 2")
- 49DJemaine's partner in the duo "Flight of the Conchords"
- 50DWhat comes back to you when you call out in a canyon
- 51DFinish filming
- 52D"More" in a popular saying about writing
- 56D"No," said the Scot
- 57DBetting strategy, for short