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◆ · By FiveCubed · Published 2023-03-29T01:24:16.965Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is the seven-word phrase which describes 30-Down. (Hint: you don't need to know 30-Down to figure out the phrase, but you need to know the answers to the Down entries above and below it.)
Thanks for taking the time to solve! :)
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  • Mr Tex 🤓13:51 · 2023-03-29T15:31:01.458Z
    Beautiful, tight grid with great clues. But just how does the meta work?
    • FiveCubed constructor · 2023-03-29T22:07:05.337Z
      I am always blown away at how people can get metas so I originally made it really hard, but I just updated it to hopefully give more information. The answer is between a rock and a hard place
      • frostyjhammer 12:53 · 2023-03-29T23:02:54.871Z
        Also very interested to know this. And how the meta answer relates to 30D.🧐
      • Abide 🤓16:14 · 2023-03-29T23:54:50.427Z
        Great standalone themeless. I think if the word META was at 30-D it might be gettable.
        • FiveCubed constructor · 2023-03-30T02:06:46.067Z
          Good feedback, thanks. originally I was going to have "BETWEENAROCK" and "ANDAHARDPLACE" be long entries, but I decided to make it a meta last minute even though I have uhh never done a meta before. Glad you liked the puzzle by itself!
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        1A
        Competition restrictors
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Competition restrictors
        2. 8A
          Put under hot water
        3. 15A
          It's crusty and made of sandwiches?
        4. 16A
          Diversion
        5. 17A
          Uses critical thinking
        6. 18A
          She made FDR more progressive
        7. 19A
          ___ City (artist behind "Fireflies" who released an album on Friday)
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          Washington airport
        9. 22A
          ET org.
        10. 23A
          To read, in Toledo
        11. 25A
          Synonym for "frenzied" whose "o" sounds like a "u"
        12. 26A
          Sloth affiliated with Scrat
        13. 27A
          Henry Clay, in three elections
        14. 29A
          Apt anagram of "rose"
        15. 31A
          Turn, in chess, say
        16. 32A
          Buck topper
        17. 34A
          Shoe parts that touch floors
        18. 36A
          Religious performing artists?
        19. 38A
          Court summon that just...doesn't matter anymore, I guess
        20. 41A
          Longs for
        21. 45A
          Those, to José
        22. 46A
          Soap bubbles
        23. 48A
          Occupied, as a desk
        24. 49A
          Three means thirty or dirty
        25. 50A
          One with 0 XP
        26. 52A
          Like edgy humor
        27. 53A
          Cake maker post-baker
        28. 55A
          Neutralize, as a home security system
        29. 57A
          Diamond stat
        30. 58A
          Pastries which may encase chicken tikka masala
        31. 60A
          Plant plight caused by overwatering
        32. 62A
          Exchange (a player) for
        33. 63A
          Old-fashioned contraction that's almost a palindrome
        34. 64A
          Like some Roman tragedies or Lake Erie residents
        35. 65A
          Legal football kicks
        Down
        1. 1D
          Best-selling Toyota
        2. 2D
          "you're still coming right?"
        3. 3D
          Least complex, mathematically
        4. 4D
          Long company document nobody actually reads: abbr.
        5. 5D
          Long verse
        6. 6D
          Start of an IRS form
        7. 7D
          Street referenced by a shirt that says "Everything I know I learned on the street"
        8. 8D
          Stand up with vocals?
        9. 9D
          One on the Mohs Scale
        10. 10D
          Due west from WSW
        11. 11D
          HHH
        12. 12D
          "The powerful scent of real clean"
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          Soul-stirring
        14. 14D
          Lampoons
        15. 21D
          T Bird competitors
        16. 24D
          Goes around and around again?
        17. 28D
          Nevada city west of Los Angeles
        18. 30D
          Left-brained disciplines, adoringly
        19. 31D
          Israeli intelligence agency
        20. 33D
          Caviar plethora
        21. 35D
          Hindu honorifics
        22. 37D
          As one
        23. 38D
          Misandrists, e.g.
        24. 39D
          Exercise caution
        25. 40D
          Baseball word with first, second or third
        26. 42D
          Had one's name in the biggest font in the playbill
        27. 43D
          Auditory ossicle
        28. 44D
          Island near Nevis
        29. 47D
          Reach, as new heights
        30. 51D
          An Ivy League
        31. 54D
          Went on a horse
        32. 55D
          Exceptional ones are outliers
        33. 56D
          "The Simpsons" tavern
        34. 59D
          "I'll be just a ___" (common lie)
        35. 61D
          Prefix with athlete
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