Sounds Like A Simpsons Holiday Special (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2023-11-21T05:00:05.915Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is something you might see on a laden table at this time of year (in the US)
Successful solvers should be able to work out what the seed entry was for this puzzle. Actually, you might be able to work that out even if you don't solve the meta, the answer to which is something you might see on a laden table at this time of year (in the US). Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=148752#p148752
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Floor-cleaning robot
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Across
- 1AFloor-cleaning robot
- 7AThickening agent
- 11AWeight statistic (abbr.)
- 14AMideast marketplace
- 15AJapanese wrestling
- 16A"Apollo 13" director, ___ Howard
- 17A"I'm loving this party!" (for younger solvers) / "This room has great lighting!" (for older solvers)
- 18AUnpaid TV ads
- 19AFirst computer programmer, ___ Lovelace
- 20APossible Cambridge (the US one) ad slogan directed at potential students
- 23AWords set to music
- 26ANotable time
- 27A"When in ___" (just go along with local customs)
- 28AReason for coming together around a laden table at this time of year (in the US)
- 33ASmall battery
- 34ACryptanalyst, ___ Turing
- 35APrepared to lade a table
- 39AOld-school online chat option, briefly
- 40ASweetie
- 41A"Ouch!" relative
- 42APlural form of "am"
- 43A"I love the smell of ___ in the morning." ("Apocalypse Now" quote)
- 45ARole for Jodie opposite Chow Yun-Fat
- 46AComputers connected to a router, collectively (abbr.)
- 47AAnxiety felt by those who consider themselves gourmands
- 50AInstrument that must be an absolute pain to play in a marching band
- 53A"Mad About You" cousin
- 54AOut of the wind
- 55AWhat a Herman Melville fan might say while pointing at dark bread (which they detest)
- 60APlural form of "my"
- 61ACharlize Theron film, "___ Flux"
- 62APuccini opera, "La ___"
- 66AOpposite of post-
- 67ABlunder
- 68A___ truck (good for towing and carrying heavy loads)
- 69AUnhappy
- 70A45 down, for example
- 71AOnline investing site
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- 1DBaseball stat. known as a "ribeye"
- 2DMilk source for the lactose intolerant
- 3DBirth announcement abbr.
- 4DSpeak ill of
- 5D___-and-switch
- 6DPatron of the ___ (cultural funder)
- 7DHeadache remedy derived from willow bark
- 8D"The Planets" composer, ___ Holst
- 9DEastern nanny
- 10D___-coloured glasses (optimism idiom)
- 11D"Well done!"
- 12DWhat you need to connect a 46 across to the internet
- 13DNonsensical
- 21DRapper, ___ Thee Stallion
- 22DBest Picture movie directed by (and starring) Ben Affleck
- 23DBlotch
- 24D"Gone With the Wind" protagonist, Scarlett ___
- 25DCivil rights org.
- 29DMexican artist, Frida ___
- 30DSporting replay speed, for short
- 31DClickable desktop images
- 32D"Jack Sprat could eat ___"
- 36DSuperman's real name
- 37DDelete the contents of a harddisk
- 38DTightly packed
- 41DActress Tatum (or her father, Ryan) ___
- 44DWhere the Three Kings of Orient traverse
- 45DHomes that function as hotels
- 48DBecome extinct
- 49DSingle strip of bacon
- 50DCar roofs with removable panels on each side of a rigid bar
- 51DCharacter portrayed by Celia Rose Gooding in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds"
- 52DUncovered
- 56DNadal's nickname
- 57D"You stepped on my tail!" (but in dog-speak)
- 58DInstrument Father Gabriel plays in "The Mission"
- 59D"___ You Be My Neighbor?"
- 63D"When will you get here?" (abbr.)
- 64DComputer game addon that changes the functionality in some way
- 65D67.5 degrees on a compass