Somewhere Over the Rainbow
◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2022-06-25T17:00:15.265Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a 7-letter word.
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"Fame" actress who you might ask to hurry up by saying "Come on, Irene"
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Across
- 1A"Fame" actress who you might ask to hurry up by saying "Come on, Irene"
- 5AWorld capital whose name comes from the Arabic for "roundness"
- 9AScorch
- 13ANorwegian king (you at least know the first three letters)
- 14ACrude organization (I'm hilarious)
- 15ACanonized fifth-cen. pope who told Attila not to attack Rome, and then Attila was all like "Okay"
- 16A1962 Gene Pitney song with refrain "No, it isn't very pretty what a [title] can do" (4)
- 19AWall, e.g.
- 20ALocation
- 21ASee 44-Down
- 22AJust pitch it
- 24A"Hey, you didn't shuffle the cards right!" "Come on, Mr. Roosevelt, you're always asking for a ___" (5)
- 26ABach's "Mass ___ Minor" (that was the answer to an impossible Gaffney meta a while back!)
- 29AThat's slick!
- 31ANarrow inlet
- 32A"Come on, I know where the puzzles can be found!" (5)
- 35AUp, basically
- 39A"This just in: tea prices are ___"
- 40A"Blah blah blah"
- 42AIt launched April 1, 2004
- 43ASome landscaping gizmo
- 45AIf you mismanage mine, you'll incur my Roth: Abbr.
- 47AEnd of a problem?
- 48APulitzer Prize-winning author of 1988's "Breathing Lessons" (4)
- 51ARank below marquis
- 54ACapp, Pacino, and others
- 55AEndure
- 58AMichael who said "I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do"
- 60ANumber of even primes
- 62ABaker, for one
- 64AQuick star sightings?
- 66AHow you can experience your first crossword puzzle (5)
- 68ALittle worker
- 69A"___ is me!" (Something I say often, as a Cubs fan)
- 70APuzzled interjections
- 71AWhen you're in one, snit happens (2)
- 75AYoung fellows
- 78AH
- 79ABeige shade
- 81AGive
- 85AClimate change concern (2)
- 88AIn shape ("I'm in shape - a nice oval")
- 89AThis is on the house!
- 90A"Glamour"-ous rival
- 91ASound of the energy going out of a room when I enter it
- 92AOld Fords
- 93AGolden ___
Down
- 1DBeds in 22-Acrosses
- 2D"Look at all these cars I bought!" "Wow, that's ___"
- 3D[I'm such a scary dinosaur!]
- 4D"Fried Green Tomatoes" director Jon
- 5D"HOW ABOUT YOU COMPLETE THE TASK IMMEDIATELY THIS TIME"
- 6DChoose
- 7DSarcastic chuckles
- 8DYou can toss it
- 9DIndy 500 sponsor
- 10DSkip over
- 11DSome insurance company
- 12D2015 World Series champion athlete who was the "king" of the baseball diamond that year, hint hint
- 15DWhen the goulash wasn't ready for dinner yet, I was ___
- 17DTeensy
- 18DIn ___ (not yet born)
- 23DMagazine whose first issue in 1923 asserted, "There is a new kind of literature abroad in the land, whose only obvious fault is that no one can understand it"
- 25DDolphin featured in music video for Hootie and the Blowfish's "Only Wanna Be with You"
- 26DUncertainties
- 27DG but not H, for example
- 28DRan in the wash
- 30D1945 song written by Cahn and Styne amid a California heat wave
- 33DThey take care of suits
- 34DWilling to listen
- 36DDown, perhaps
- 37DTop of the clock
- 38DR&B group who admonished in 1994, "Don't go chasing waterfalls"
- 41DHave a bawl
- 44D21-Across, but with thymine replaced with uracil
- 46DCopying
- 49D"Don't Bring Me Down" and name this 1970s rock group led by songwriters Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood
- 50DWebsite that was not initially created to sell Pez dispensers, despite the widely propagated myth
- 51DPC panic button that I could use in real life, let me tell you
- 52DObamacare, at least initially
- 53DCD-___, storage acronym few of my students have ever heard of (some haven't even heard of CDs)
- 56D36-Down in public
- 57DEngrave
- 59DI was going to tell you a joke about infinity, but it would annoy ___
- 61DCrosswordese carbon compound that, when spelled backward, means "solitary"
- 63DPresidential nominee monogram that, when spelled backward, is a body of water (we're trying here, folks)
- 65DYou can have a share of it
- 67DIntros
- 71DOutdoes
- 72DWhat a Dumas character
- 73DPuts in stitches?
- 74D"I need a hammer! I need a hammer! This is not a ___!"
- 76DGrumpy coworker
- 77DScornful expression
- 80D___ circle (trigonometry concept)
- 82DCivil rights org. whose letters are in alphabetical order
- 83DStarbucks size that's a bit of a misnomer (like I need to be more caffeinated)
- 84DSword that's 75% vowels
- 86DWhat "y" becomes in plurals
- 87DTest first given in 1942 by the U.S. Armed Forces Institute