What A Relief! (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2024-08-27T06:00:47.390Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a two-word answer to the question "How do you make letters stand out in a crowd?"
Oh no, it's time for another "week 4" puzzle! Having said that I'm hoping you will exclaim "what a relief!" after you get to the answer without too much trouble. (At the very least I hope you have less trouble than my daughters trying to get tickets to 29 across 29 across 8 down for more than three hours today. But they were one of the lucky ones and by the time this puzzle comes out they will have gone to that concert months ago!) The answer to the meta is a two-word answer to the question "How do you make letters stand out in a crowd?" Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=177504#p177504
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"___ was I ere I saw Elba"
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- 1A"___ was I ere I saw Elba"
- 5ACrow's cry
- 8APicks up with a fork
- 13AThe miner's rebellion of 1854 took place in Ballarat at the Eureka ___
- 15ANative American people on the California-Nevada border
- 16AQuarantined
- 17AMost prudent
- 18AActress ___ de Armas
- 19ABreak in friendly relations
- 20A@@@
- 24AWest Indies island often paired with Barbuda
- 28AJazz pianist with "Space is the Place"
- 29AWith 29 across: Nickname for the singer-songwriter whose surname is 8 down
- 31AGare du ___ (Paris railway station)
- 32A"A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away...."
- 33AHad second thoughts about
- 35A"... the better ___ of our nature." (Abraham Lincoln)
- 37ATony Danza sitcom, and a vague hint for something that happens four times in the grid ("where" would definitely have been more helpful!)
- 40ARoles like Dame Judy Dench's Queen Elizabeth in "Shakespeare in Love"
- 42AHeavy burden
- 43ADirt + water
- 46AEddie Murphy's iconic fast-talker ___ Foley
- 47AAuthor Umberto ___
- 48ATibetan capital
- 50ABowlers' targets
- 53A"The boy ___ the burning deck... "
- 55A"Knock it off!"
- 56AIt's north of Afr.
- 57A"Witches ___" (12th Discworld novel)
- 60AGive an account of in words
- 65ASouth Korean capital
- 66AStrong or aggressive masculine pride
- 67ABe of ___ (assist)
- 68ASellout letters
- 69AMedicinal amount
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- 1D"Just ___ suspected!"
- 2DBoy band that originated in 65 across
- 3DAussie WC
- 4DCream-filled dessert
- 5D"Settlers of ___" (board game)
- 6DCitrus drink
- 7DHump day, for short
- 8DSee 29 across
- 9DFun times at a winery
- 10DEnding for an enzyme
- 11DBahamas in ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- 12DW.C. Fields persona
- 14DAnimal on the Australian coat of arms
- 17D___ at all costs (competitive mindset)
- 19DSci-fi weapon
- 20DActor ___ Butterfield
- 21DHarbour vessel
- 22DWinter sculptures involving carrots, perhaps
- 23DProofreader's mark
- 25DFlips out
- 26DWWW address
- 27DTV commercials
- 30DFor this purpose only
- 34DStar Trek "Enterprise" preceder
- 35DAladdin's partner in crime
- 36DAdept
- 38DLends a hand
- 39DAdam's grandson who makes it into a disproportionate number of crosswords
- 40DMouser, hopefully
- 41D"You have my sword." "And my bow." " And my ___."
- 44DWWII entertainers
- 45DOne of Jacob's sons
- 47DPsychic's claim
- 49DLast word of a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a little girl
- 51DNovelist ___ Calvino
- 52DAuction action
- 54DBritish supermarket chain
- 57DTempe campus (abbr.)
- 58DEgyptian deity of music, merriment, and childbirth (what a combination!)
- 59DSturgeon eggs
- 60DContacts privately on Twitter, for short
- 61DCockney's "shell like"
- 62DIn a state of being 16 across, for short
- 63DBemis Company on the NYSE
- 64DFair-hiring letters