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Quo Vadis?

◆ · By Daniel P · Published 2022-04-08T02:56:17.448Z

Meta Prompt
The solution is a Latin motto.
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  • benchen71 solved 2022-04-08T23:55:53.448Z

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  • Daniel P constructor · 2022-04-08T22:32:51.296Z
    Explanation: 4 Latin phrases suggest locations in the grid. After death/SUICIDE; in the middle; under penalty/REDCARD; before war/COLD. Writer STAN LEE and the state of NEW YORK are both associated with the same motto.
    • benchen71 🤓7:56 · 2022-04-08T23:58:29.038Z
      I love this meta! I decoded three of the four phrases, but IN MEDIAS RES had me stumped until I read your explanation. But it makes perfect sense! Well done, indeed.
      • Caroline 🤓7:23 · 2022-04-09T18:25:20.496Z
        Hmm. I still don’t quite follow. How are you meant to get to “Stan Lee” and “New York” from the info in the puzzle?
        • benchen71 🤓7:56 · 2022-04-09T22:43:35.778Z
          After SUICIDE comes STAN, then LEE is the middle of the puzzle; NEW is located under REDCARD, and YORK is before COLD (WAR).
      • Caroline 🤓7:23 · 2022-04-09T18:38:54.587Z
        Some nice clues! Stumped by the meta. I suspected something was up with 25A because of the way it was clued. But I connected 16A with 5A, and then I couldn’t find connections for 26A or 61A so I abandoned that train. I kept trying to tie in 36D thinking it must be relevant because of the oblique clue but I couldn’t make it work.
        • Philip Chow 🤓8:51 · 2023-09-05T05:38:31.543Z
          This was so damn good! The mechanism was so novel and intricate… I’m kicking myself for not translating all the phrases including the title… I hope you make more metas :)
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          Brand of peppermint pattie
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Brand of peppermint pattie
          2. 5A
            "Common" bug
          3. 9A
            42A más 42A
          4. 12A
            "He was ____, she was..." (Avril Lavigne opening lyric, if misspelled as in the song's title)
          5. 13A
            First name of Matisse & Toulouse-Lautrec (add a "k" for 52D)
          6. 15A
            Window shade?
          7. 16A
            Autopsy
          8. 18A
            Possess
          9. 19A
            Arsenic and Old ____
          10. 20A
            Intelligence
          11. 22A
            Fog
          12. 25A
            The Queen of Hearts or the Jack of Diamonds, but not the King of Spades
          13. 26A
            ____ res (storytelling device)
          14. 30A
            Recent
          15. 31A
            Greek goat-guy
          16. 32A
            Russian paper whose name means "truth"
          17. 34A
            Lose tension
          18. 37A
            Dance or dip
          19. 39A
            Director Spike or Ang
          20. 40A
            Canine cosmonaut
          21. 42A
            9A divided by 9A
          22. 43A
            City of Freud, Strauss, & Schubert
          23. 46A
            Pythagorean subject
          24. 47A
            Emilio Estevez, to Martin Sheen
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            Court summons
          26. 50A
            Supervillain "Squad"
          27. 54A
            Obsess over, as a celebrity
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            Personifies
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            Extensive
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            It can be main or mizzen
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            Era of rising tensions
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            Words before "Your Mother" and "Your Father" in a sitcom and its spinoff
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            Blue Ivy, to Solange
          34. 67A
            Kind of wolf or star
          35. 68A
            Be naughty (perhaps in Nevada)
          36. 69A
            Berkshire college
          37. 70A
            Currently, it's of the Tiger
          Down
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            Talk excessively
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            Charon's coin
          3. 3D
            Stephanie's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" role
          4. 4D
            Cooks' milieus
          5. 5D
            John of "Cowboy Bebop" & "Star Trek: Beyond"
          6. 6D
            Preposition for "the fields" or "the ramparts"
          7. 7D
            Stores that sell bedsheets & stuff (abbr.)
          8. 8D
            Gloom
          9. 9D
            Royal musical that swept the 2022 Razzies
          10. 10D
            How many things were taped, pre-TiVo
          11. 11D
            Rocinante, to Don Quixote
          12. 14D
            Loom, as doom
          13. 15D
            Broadcaster of "Charmed" and "Riverdale"
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            Fermented honey drink
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            Goal
          16. 23D
            90210, e.g.
          17. 24D
            Steve who sang "Hillbilly Highway"
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            In such an event
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            44D bread
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            Its 34D is a donkey
          21. 29D
            Composer Saint-____
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            The "morning (not-really-a) star"
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            11D's father
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            Comparable
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            Crazy (for)
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            Circumvent
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            In a Schoenberg-like manner
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            Chennai guy
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            Re:
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            Mr. Bakula or Sir Walter
          31. 49D
            Lay sidewalk
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            Trucks
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            Flavor word coined by Kikunae Ikeda
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            Namesake of a Norwegian drama award
          35. 53D
            Beginning of a rhyme about tiger trapping
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            "Leave it in."
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            Blackthorn fruit
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            Calvin's sandwich of choice for tiger trapping
          39. 62D
            Greta Thunberg's favorite prefix?
          40. 63D
            Obi-Wan's alias
          41. 64D
            La Méditerranée, par exemple
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