The Odd Couple
◆ · By Ben Chenoweth & Cap'n Rick · Published by Capn Rick · Published 2024-04-17T04:01:26.928Z
Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a hyphenated 12-letter term.
Ahoy!
It's great to be back on MEOW and this time with a special treat - a collaboration puzzle with everybody's favorite Aussie - @benchen71! One of the best things about creating meta puzzles is the occasional opportunity to team up with another constructor - particularly one as talented as Ben. Now if you've solved some of our past metas you may have noticed a few differences in our respective styles and techniques. This puzzle, which was rejected at MMM and even at SSS (by that new anal-retentive editor over there :lol:), reflects and even highlights some of those differences. Ben and I hope that you have as much fun solving as we did constructing!
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It was fun to take a walk on the wild side!
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Wooden shoes
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Across
- 1AWooden shoes
- 6AIn need of directions
- 10ATime for action
- 14AAdvantage
- 15A"Ain't so!" reply
- 17A"So that's your little game!"
- 18AEven more strange (like the right side of this grid)
- 19ASgt., for one
- 20ACharacter for Alanis Morrisette in a 1999 movie
- 21ASalt Lake City athletes
- 22AGive heed
- 24AFiction sub-classification that would encompass "The Hunger Games" and "The Fault In Our Stars", for short
- 25A"It's all right!"
- 27AReferendum response
- 29AGift-box decorations
- 31A"Decorated", as a last day of school prank perhaps
- 34AAngus cattle features
- 37AWas it a car or ___ I saw?
- 40A"Old Macdonald" vowels
- 41ANe'er-do-well
- 44AChaps
- 45ASuffix with human or fact
- 46AMan who realised Nirvana at age 35, so it is said
- 47ASellout sign
- 48AFinish
- 49ASelf-effacing
- 50ASch. founded by Jefferson
- 52AHypothetical situation
- 54AHigh points
- 56ADisney collectible
- 58APrime minister between Major and Brown
- 61ACalculator ancestor
- 63AEntertainers Cheryl and Alan
- 64AMandlíková of tennis
- 65A___ Baba
- 66AWhigs' opponents
- 67ADirectionally swirling water
- 68AOn deck
- 69ARoad curve
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- 1DSun block
- 2DResulted in
- 3DPoet Nash
- 4DAccommodations for visitors
- 5DIt starts in Mar.
- 6DCruise ships
- 7DHollywood award
- 8D"(What's the ___) Morning Glory?" (Oasis album with "Don't Look Back In Anger" on it)
- 9DIn the direction of
- 11DFollow relentlessly
- 12DTelephone response, according to Alexander Graham Bell
- 13D33 down speaker
- 16DFollow, as the rules of crossword construction (like the left side of this grid)
- 22DQuestion in response to "I need this in a hurry"
- 23DTrapeze artist's "plan B"
- 26D"Star Trek: T.N.G." Klingon
- 28DKeeps the economy going, apparently
- 30DWhere to find a bowler
- 32DOctagonal
- 33D"No! Try not. ___. Or ___ not. There is no try."
- 34DSheepskin boots
- 35DSullen
- 36D"Excuse me?"
- 37DPlus
- 38DCobalt's symbol
- 39DSound of a large book landing on the floor
- 42DMake the butt of jokes
- 43D"1, 2, 3, 4, ___ a thumb war!"
- 48DComfort
- 51DMay 8, 1945
- 53DCartoon cat
- 54DTennis great Arthur
- 55DDressed
- 57D"___ Monde" (French newspaper)
- 58DAmorphous mass
- 59DPoint after deuce
- 60DBlog feed letters
- 62DTook off