Expanding Brackets (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2021-08-31T06:00:42.690Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is an eight letter word
Here's my second meta crossword. No two letter words and it's fully interlocking this time! To avoid anyone going down rabbit holes, while the title of this meta is "Expanding brackets", please ignore all of the brackets in the clues. I just like writing fun clues and that often includes bracketed asides. They have nothing to do with the meta, I promise! Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1164&p=67816#p66774
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Linguistic typology used by English
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- 1ALinguistic typology used by English
- 4AHow to refer to the time before Jesus, but the secular way
- 7ARan in the wash
- 11ARussian pancakes that are absolutely delicious, especially with creamy mushrooms and bacon
- 13AHawaiian island that often pops up in crosswords because of all those beautiful vowels
- 14AWhat you 66 across down
- 15AWhole number greater than one million?
- 17AWhat the slithy toves did in the wabe (with "and gimble")
- 18A___ like a bg in a rg
- 19AAbbreviation for a grammatical mood indicating that a certain action is not known to have happened at that moment
- 20AUtensil used to cook lots of delicious Asian cuisine
- 22ASound the weasel makes when the money goes
- 23AWhat Nahash wanted to do to the right eyes of everyone in Jabesh Gilead (with "them out")
- 25AMaterial made from doing things to wood pulp
- 27AFictional relationship between two amounts?
- 31A___, Joy of Man's Desiring
- 34APoem by Langston Hughes (never read it, only ever seen it in crosswords)
- 35A"Bro, I've got a problem with you..."
- 38AIt is common for couples to write their own these days
- 39AWhat many mins together make
- 40A"In addition..."
- 41ASanta's surname, apparently
- 43AUntouchable Eliot
- 45AWhere a prisoner is kept
- 46AImperial measurement involving chance?
- 49A___ vortex
- 50A"This puzzle is too hard!" (var. but 26 down should be obvious, so we're good)
- 53AROY G ___
- 54AGermans use this word when they are feeling good
- 56AUnits for a song's tempo
- 57AThe rating every company aspires to
- 59ADirection of sunrise
- 61AChange in danger levels?
- 64ASumerian god of wisdom, mentioned in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (I didn't need to add that reference, but it's a brilliant book!)
- 65AFoie ___
- 66AEat quickly
- 67AHelpful acronym for expanding brackets
- 68A___ out a living
- 69AWhat you would hear lots of if you visited an ashram (or so I'm told)
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- 1DDavid used one to knock Goliath out (not a stone, the other thing)
- 2DAragorn's portrayer
- 3DDemonic creature from Japanese mythology
- 4DCollective term for all of the things you shot and killed on a hunt
- 5DWhat you do with the fat
- 6DOne of the four moons of Jupiter that Galileo saw after he invented the telescope
- 7DThe ___, a book by Roald Dahl that includes fart jokes and the queen of England
- 8DThose who have not been ordained
- 9D"___, does not compute!"
- 10DUnderground, but way down
- 11DEarly networking software (really early)
- 12DFirst name of the Spaniard fixated on finding a six-fingered man
- 13DPoetic preposition
- 16DFountain that features in Roman Holiday
- 21DI was sure this was how Inspector Clouseau's manservant's name was spelt, but I was wrong
- 24DCruel and ___ punishment
- 26DPokemon who moonlights as a detective
- 28DPrefix added to "musicology" and "centrism"
- 29D___ ipsum dolor sit amet...
- 30DPortia de ___
- 31DElectronics company that comes in handy playing Scrabble (or constructing crosswords!)
- 32DControl character typed using the ENTER key
- 33DAustrian company known for its crystal jewelry
- 36DThe American equivalent of Auslan
- 37D"I found that wryly amusing." (but in an SMS)
- 42DWhat we Australians call a sausage
- 44D"Quick, ___ pic before Bigfoot runs away!"
- 47DSomeone forced to do dull, meaningless work
- 48DPitches a tent
- 49DInstrument played by Bruce Hornsby (and lots of other people, but I like Bruce Hornsby)
- 51D___ Masala, a spice from India
- 52D"The very ___ of your head are numbered"
- 53DEnglish word derived from the French word for cooked cow
- 55DOne of the gorillas from Disney's Tarzan (look, if I had to look it up, why shouldn't you!)
- 56DK-pop group, and gift to crossword creators everywhere
- 58DSarcastic alien from an 80's sitcom
- 60DUp to, for short
- 62DA city on the north coast of Papua New Guinea
- 63D___-tourism, which must be good for the planet