Urban Familiarity
◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-07-30T16:20:28.581Z
Meta Prompt
The meta answer is the theme of this puzzle
The meta answer is ... the theme of this puzzle. How meta is that?
So this meta is fairly convoluted and hard and the grid is hard but I expect the AHA moment will snap when it comes.
Fair warning: I had to rely an a lot of convoluted entries that go from the sublime to the ridiculous to the completely absurd. (Freebie: In other metas when you see a multi-word unusual entry it's usually a themer. Not here!)
And in hind-sight the grid should have been smaller. I have figured out how to have a few long entries without forcing myself to have a lot of long entries. As a result the themers are sparsely distributed.
Checking for previous play data...
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Roadside Assist
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Across
- 1ARoadside Assist
- 4ADo Hawaiian geese (39A ) fly in this direction when they are caught short? (When you spend too long constructing puzzles your mind goes to weird places)
- 7ASee- ----- Margery Daw
- 10AAmerica's
- 18ASwiss Mountain
- 19ADeparts
- 20AAssociate degree from the procurement institute in Yemen
- 22ASalesperson, briefly
- 23AFrench summers
- 24AAnatomic tantric oaths women take
- 25AThe day Skol and Hati devour the sun and moon and Jormungandr rises from the sea and drowns the world
- 28ADiscolorations made upon leaving
- 29AGerman for grape
- 30AApple
- 33ABachelor of Library Science
- 34ASurface layer layer in a thermally stratified lake
- 36APortmanteau word for 25 grams
- 39AHawaiian geese
- 40ADennis and ---- sinned
- 41AHeer Van Asch van Wijck for example
- 44A"The Waste Land" monogram
- 45ARare blood type
- 46AOf
- 47ACity
- 50AAdjective for an IPA
- 51ARapper wrapper (not original, but hey, a good clue is a good clue)
- 52ADid you enter that Flemish city into your log book?
- 54AClassification system with no basis in religion
- 56ADidn't tell
- 59AZac who played Pizza Guy #1 in the pilot episode of "Heist"
- 60AMountain nymph
- 61APHILADELPHIA, CHARLESTON S.C., NEW YORK CITY, ATLANTIC CITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOS ANGELES
- 63AAn accumulated pile of sound waves
- 65AIn footwear
- 66AAnimation frame
- 69AWhere molten rock gets off the train
- 70AOne who does 70D, duh.
- 71AThe only weapon in (the original) CLUE that contains no metal
- 72ALaudatory poem to the Young Communist League
- 73AA figure of speech where the word for a part is used to imply the whole. E.g. "Sie leben alle unter einem Dach" where "Dach" stands in for "Haus"
- 75AConsumed
- 76Aa particular status or phase in which something appears or may be regarded
- 78A2006 Indian crime film based on Othello
- 80AMotor
- 84AAngels
- 86AWhat you have when you set aside a block of time to wait for the plumber
- 89AAll-
- 90AA long time
- 92AA ton of Broadway backers
- 93AMilk: prefix
- 94ACamera with accurate view-finder
- 95ABrotherly
- 96ATop of a clock
- 97AConsumed (so I used the same entry twice, big deal)
- 98AThe Cambric variety is a misnomer and caffeine-free
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- 1DSwiss River
- 2DAware; on top of things
- 3DEasy
- 4DBig
- 5DWhen the outdoor recreational company got married and changed its name, this phrase was used in the wedding announcement
- 6DCanadian gas brand
- 7DBlueberry Girl
- 8DProgramming Lovelace
- 9D12 tone composer who was shot while smoking a cigar
- 10D1/100th of a domestic servant (okay... this was an entry that just wouldn't fit....)
- 11DChuck
- 12DFinds a purpose for
- 13DThe following religious song dedicated the Danish physicist who modeled the atom
- 14DBeing a little out of it and goofy when traveling to the South Pacific island country midway between Hawaii and Australia
- 15DOpinion expressed comparing the Regional Mathematical Olympiad to public radio
- 16D...boring...
- 17DBacktalk
- 19DReal
- 21DMale water sprite
- 26DStares open-mouthed
- 27DPlayground
- 31DDog
- 32DAmerican Osteopathic Association
- 35DA penny for your thoughts
- 36DFormer Sprint rival
- 37DThin pancake
- 38DBelonging to the circular movement of water
- 41DLuxury bedding
- 42DErg
- 43D"I don't like that all the media equipment are in black. Doesn't this store have something in a brighter upbeat color?"
- 45DLarge flightless birds from the Southern Gilbert atoll whose name means "Gecko"
- 47DComfy footwear, for short
- 48DWhen scampering up its perch, the Australasian passerine's feet went ______-pat
- 49DGreek exclamation (often used when your cheese is on fire)
- 51DWhat World War Z and The Walking Dead really were if you look at it from another point of view
- 53DJordanian queen
- 54DErotic amphibians
- 55DMens ---- (guilty mind)
- 56DName meaning "order, harmony, beauty"
- 57D"Information super-highway" just sounded more sexy....
- 58DHousewife on the late Paleozoic supercontinent
- 62DJustin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, and Lance Bass
- 64DCable modem alternative
- 66DHelm of an airplane
- 67D1/10 of a homer; 1/5 a letek; or 36 xestes
- 68DMost wary (or the one most visibly lascivious)
- 70DWhat one does 70D with. (See what I did there?)
- 71DLove
- 73DStrtchy mterial
- 74DWhat the dormouse has on her front step?
- 76DCopying
- 77DTo utter words in musical tones and with musical inflections and modulations
- 79DCompanion of a rat in a classic children's book
- 80DCity south of Sacramento (and not that Ayn Rand character)
- 81DStench
- 82D--- del Mar: an idyllic beach in Gran Canaria
- 83DCygnus
- 85DLake near Orlando, FL
- 87DFrench hip hop duo Bigflo &----
- 88DWater Safety Instructor
- 91DGun Lobby