If so, I must really really love golf
◆ · By woozy · Published 2024-04-13T15:00:27.236Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a phrase that describes golf
So this is my entry for https://crosshare.org/tags/midi-contest-04-24 The April Midi Contest and the theme of golf. I had mistakenly thought a midi was 7 x 7 rather than 11 x 11 and this was my first attempt: https://crosshare.org/crosswords/TwlTWPdsk8uPpCmNDgiP/par-for-the-course (Par for the Course). I figured I'd try to redo it it to a different size but.... somehow, it just didn't seem creative enough to just redo and it'd seem too heavy and too much in 11 x 11 size.
So I came up with an entirely new idea and puzzle. Cap'n Ricks (exceptional) Entry (https://crosshare.org/crosswords/oTjgVQpKs1Yw2LuOeNnu/a-matter-of-course) uses a quote about golf so I search another humorous description of golf. An that's what you have to find. Enjoy!
Now, I'm going to rate this as hard but I think I left enough clues (including the clue that it is hard) to make it guessable.
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- 1AFORE! Oedipus Rex's home
- 7ABellow like a lion
- 10AThe one in my kitchen runs hot and cold
- 12AMedia storage that I'm insisting is not as obsolete as people say it is
- 13AFirst Governor of the State of Alaska
- 14AIt's claimed golf has too much walking for a ____ and too much ____ for a walk
- 16AItemizes
- 18AMother of Horus in Egyptian mythology
- 20AU.S. Cabinet concerned with well-being of ex-military
- 21ACharged particle
- 23A"To the ___ degree"
- 25ASpain's Internet domain extension
- 26ADorm supervisors
- 27AAbout
- 28APlayful sea mammal once believed extinct until a small raft of them was rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of Big Sur
- 31AThe 12th tier of alphabetically ordered tiers
- 33ABee like
- 34AMy timorous response to "Who made such a convoluted meta?!"
- 35ADiscard, as hair or dead skin
- 36AAuto-generator of e-mails
- 37APleasant prefix
- 39AIt's a fact, a ratio immutable of circle round and width, produces geometry's deepest conundrum. For as the numerals stay random, No repeat lets out its presence, Yet it forever stretches forth. Nothing to eternity.
- 40AHonest president's nickname
- 42ACambridge schl.
- 43ALisa Simpson's instrument
- 44AA.A._____; author who claimed golf's popularity was simply because it was the meta answer
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- 1DNumber of strokes I took. (Which, if 44A was correct in his statement, means I must really love golf!)
- 2DFormer Church of God's Holy Wisdom in Istanbul
- 3DGreek aspirates
- 4DNot straight
- 5DNo-one remembers the sitcom with Elliott Gould but everyone remembers the medical drama with George Clooney... which would be fine except nobody remembers the medical drama with George Clooney.
- 6DSlayer of a dragon briefly. very briefly
- 7DKey to understanding the joke: "Here's one for the record. People born in '33 were 45 in '78"
- 8DApartment Cooler
- 9DHwys.
- 11DAs opposed to the "9Vouts" marking to remove my batteries from my smoke detector, my remote has this marking for me to insert my batteries. (Hey, it was either a clue like that or a clue about getting coverage for your car in New Zealand)
- 15DGerman article
- 17DSailor temptor
- 19DEntered with confidence
- 22DRowboat propeller
- 24DChop down
- 29DBind with string
- 30DAnd there! I sank my shot! (Which, admittedly in 1D strokes, is really nothing deserving of this reaction)
- 31DBranch of probability. The one that studies distributions. Large ones. The theory of those.
- 32DWhere to find Provedence
- 33DVenomous snakes
- 34DMoon of Jupiter
- 36DTo exist
- 38DShoshonean
- 41DJohnny Hart comic
- 42DOne thousand and fifty of these would be about 35 1/2 oz.