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Souper Bowl

· By Mikey G · Published 2023-02-04T18:00:33.968Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 2.5] The answer to the meta is a type of soup.
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  • Meg 3s · 2023-02-04T20:09:09.728Z
    Just a lucky guess. Now to find the path!
    • Mikey G constructor · 2023-02-04T20:28:40.375Z
      Good luck on reverse-engineering! I would've used LOBSTERBISQUE if I could have squeezed it in there, which is my all-time favorite.
      • Meg 3s · 2023-02-04T23:24:52.743Z
        Got it!! Nicely hidden, Mikey!
    • I K Snamhcok 1s · 2023-02-04T20:13:31.083Z
      Finished the grid … saw nothing … drifted off into a nap … awoke … and saw what’s going on almost immediately. Nice when that happens. Thanks, Mikey!
      • Mikey G constructor · 2023-02-11T17:01:13.018Z
        This has happened to me so many times in Metaland!
      • Carolyn 19s · 2023-02-04T20:45:06.730Z
        Delicious!
        • whimsy 19:33 · 2023-02-04T21:48:10.622Z
          I think it's nearly suppertime! Lots of fun, Mikey -- tanks a lot! Oh, and this Rhode Islander wants some clam cakes too.
          • benchen71 11:53 · 2023-02-04T22:20:47.337Z
            Nice one! I was thinking about why there seemed to be quite a lot of Os and Us and then I saw it.
            • boharr 5s · 2023-02-04T23:06:20.223Z
              Soup is in the bowl. Thanks Mikey
              • KayW 11:26 · 2023-02-04T22:57:40.611Z
                Another TASTY meta. Enjoyed the clues and the solve. And I think now I know what's for dinner tonight...
                • Tyrpmom 3s · 2023-02-05T03:57:13.867Z
                  Fun one. Thanks.
                  • Darth 🤓22:02 · 2023-02-05T05:38:45.559Z
                    Fun puz, MikeyG! I was doing a word search for a while until I 43A the pattern. Well-constructed. =)
                    • woozy 1:18:57 · 2023-02-05T06:45:39.485Z
                      Ah! Hard to read but totally worth it! Great puzzle.
                      • Dow Jones 3s · 2023-02-05T07:04:21.288Z
                        Great construction, Mikey. Thanks for the entertainment.
                        • woozy 1:18:57 · 2023-02-05T06:49:31.289Z
                          Gonna quibble that 38A isn't exactly a clone of Scrabble. Derivative and a successor but significant different to hold its own. (Of course "clone" can be a pretty broad term). Great puzzle. (33D is a heck of a stretch... but clever).
                          • Joe 🤓9:31 · 2023-02-05T17:31:38.076Z
                            I just got the WSJ and figured I was invincible, so I tucked into this one. And I was right! I'm invincible! (And now that I've angered the meta gods, I'll never solve another one ever again)
                            • Abide 🤓20:25 · 2023-02-05T22:29:23.005Z
                              I was spinning my wheels, but this site helped me https://boisvert42.github.io/mechapuzzle/
                              • TMart 🤓21:26 · 2023-02-06T01:39:18.640Z
                                Souperb!
                                • Cindy Heisler 1s · 2023-02-06T12:58:16.190Z
                                  Another great meta - just souper! And, as always, I loved the clues. Thanks, Mikey!
                                  • ChrisCross 🤓12:02 · 2023-02-06T19:50:38.162Z
                                    I don't even know I got this one. Usually I can remember the spark that revealed the metanism, but this one just happened. Nice!
                                    • Julie bookworm 🤓14:46 · 2023-02-09T21:42:58.830Z
                                      I'm so bad at metas that I can't even back-solve this one even though (like Meg) I had a lucky guess on the answer. (Subconsciously smelled something fishy, I guess...) I noticed an abundance of O and U, but can't quite get from there to the answer. Any hints to fish me out of the soup?
                                      • Julie bookworm 🤓14:46 · 2023-02-09T23:00:07.674Z
                                        never mind--my brilliant daughter figured it out! Very clever, Mikey!
                                        • JM 6s · 2023-02-10T19:21:21.616Z
                                          Rah, man!
                                          • DrTom 3s · 2023-02-10T20:58:21.044Z
                                            Wow, you had me WAY off base. I was desperately trying to "hang" the TINSEL and the ICICLE, two answers that seemed (1) too much related to be anything but a nudge (2) placed so that we might look between the top right and lower left. It was finally NAURU that got me on track; "Nobody uses that for an answer, given the host of other possibilities, unless it has something to do with the META. I will say though, nice scattered morsels of SOUP to keep you spooning though. So is it Manhattan, New England or just fish chowder? Oh, and yes please I'll take a large bowl. I have to say that TOADS threw me too, I was sure it was going to be TOADALLY.
                                            • HeadinHome 🤓4:11 · 2023-02-11T13:07:56.346Z
                                              Would have found the soup much sooner but those two “SOME”s at 1A and 1D kept shouting at me. They still make no sense to me (is this a cryptic sort of cluing? I don’t do cryptic). It was the unusual preponderance of Us that help focus me, and saw that S,O, and P were often in the vicinity of them… OHHHH… bowls! cute, and fun to solve once you see the pattern. Clam tonight, I think!
                                              • Mikey G constructor · 2023-02-11T17:00:55.636Z
                                                Sounds delicious!! The "some" is kind of just a dig at things like that being so ubiquitous in crosswords, even though I know nothing about it. Thanks for solving!!
                                              • Berto 🤓3:42 · 2023-02-11T13:48:22.723Z
                                                Very amusing, fun way to start the weekend!
                                                • Bbaack 5s · 2023-02-11T15:20:11.993Z
                                                  Great construction and a fun solve. Thanks!
                                                  • Mikey G constructor · 2023-02-13T18:31:39.178Z
                                                    • michaelm 🤓23:15 · 2023-02-19T19:53:25.750Z
                                                      Better late than never. You’re a Super duper, Mikey G!
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                                                      Some tech news site
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                                                      Across
                                                      1. 1A
                                                        Some tech news site
                                                      2. 5A
                                                        Hodges of baseball who my uncle was named after
                                                      3. 8A
                                                        It just hangs around in the wintertime
                                                      4. 14A
                                                        Place to be picked up, perhaps
                                                      5. 15A
                                                        Nail polish brand with the shade "We Seafood and Eat It"
                                                      6. 16A
                                                        This semi-pretentious literature lover's least favorite type of bookmark
                                                      7. 17A
                                                        Tampa Bay NFLers Brady will not be playing with until he's 50
                                                      8. 18A
                                                        Responses when deciding how to respond to my unfunny clues (so all of them)
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                                                        Consider it!
                                                      10. 20A
                                                        Publish a cruciverbal puzzle on more than one venue, for example
                                                      11. 23A
                                                        What your knowledge of mountains might eventually do
                                                      12. 24A
                                                        Jazz setting
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                                                        A great thing to have when the bases are loaded
                                                      14. 27A
                                                        Type of band
                                                      15. 29A
                                                        "You're a great wall support!" "I know, I'm such a ___"
                                                      16. 33A
                                                        Beginning of a path?
                                                      17. 36A
                                                        Sullivan and others
                                                      18. 37A
                                                        Response to "Have you gotten the meta yet???" because you've been busy digging rabbit holes
                                                      19. 38A
                                                        Scrabble clone that debuted in 1983
                                                      20. 40A
                                                        Conceals
                                                      21. 42A
                                                        Panegyrize
                                                      22. 43A
                                                        Aphorism
                                                      23. 45A
                                                        Some final bars, maybe
                                                      24. 46A
                                                        Patron saint of red Muppets
                                                      25. 47A
                                                        Pests in the garden (other than the neighbors you didn't invite)
                                                      26. 49A
                                                        It might have aloe vera ("Aloe to you too!")
                                                      27. 51A
                                                        14.79 ml, roughly
                                                      28. 55A
                                                        Neat as ___ (what my room is not)
                                                      29. 57A
                                                        When I didn't clean my room, I got a ___
                                                      30. 60A
                                                        What I won't be inviting over to my room any time soon (okay, enough of that)
                                                      31. 62A
                                                        Type of sauce consumed with sashimi
                                                      32. 63A
                                                        Together, in music (found from left to right, though not consecutively, in SAND DUNES)
                                                      33. 64A
                                                        "Those correspond to my exact sentiments!" (And basically a dupe of 53-Down)
                                                      34. 65A
                                                        Rapscallion
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                                                        Big bus.
                                                      36. 67A
                                                        You might hang it on your tree (or in a meta puzzle) at Christmastime
                                                      37. 68A
                                                        Course requirement
                                                      38. 69A
                                                        Star-___ (tuna brand - hey, did you know you can tune a piano but you can't keep using this same pun over and over so you'll have to think of something else, Mikey)
                                                      Down
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                                                        Some cable network for those who like to go to the market
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                                                        Country that has no capital (Yaren is its de facto one)
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                                                        Center of attraction?
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                                                        Romance novelist Bailey whose name is an accounting term reversed
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                                                        Increase
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                                                        The first model was released on June 29, 2007
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                                                        Supple
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                                                        SSNs, e.g.
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                                                        Appropriate
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                                                        "Well, that eviscerates my hypothesis"
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                                                        Michael who voiced Robin in "The LEGO Batman Movie"
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                                                        Dearth
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                                                        Poetic preposition that I've probably clued as "before, before" before
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                                                        Smith of a sort
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                                                        "Did you have fun watching all these amphibians?" "Oh, it's been ___"
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                                                        Like certain hooves
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                                                        Acknowledges silently
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                                                        Get the show on the road
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                                                        Fancy coif
                                                      20. 32D
                                                        First word in the state capital that translates to "from the monks"
                                                      21. 33D
                                                        "I can't find my October birthstone!" "___ yourself together!"
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                                                        Past participle of an aquatic verb that doesn't even sound like it's an actual word
                                                      23. 35D
                                                        They might be found in bullet journals
                                                      24. 38D
                                                        Glob or mod ending
                                                      25. 39D
                                                        Palatable
                                                      26. 41D
                                                        My knowledge about how to remove ferric oxide is a little ___
                                                      27. 44D
                                                        Response to a ring
                                                      28. 48D
                                                        "When ___..."
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                                                        How ballerinas dance (fine, you try cluing this)
                                                      30. 52D
                                                        "___ Cake" (2022 Charmaine Wilkerson novel)
                                                      31. 53D
                                                        "Those correspond to my exact sentiments!" (and basically a dupe of 64-Across)
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                                                        Decants
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                                                        Car company whose name comes from the Latin word for "listen"
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                                                        Drudge
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                                                        The inexperienced stenographer's blood was ___ O
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                                                        Didn't spoil
                                                      37. 60D
                                                        "Scram!"
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                                                        Fa-la link
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