The Last of Us (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2024-04-02T05:00:21.996Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta will be patently obvious to fans of "The Last of Us"
I created this puzzle in 2023 shortly after the final episode of season 1 of "The Last of Us" aired. Here's hoping that when this puzzle is published in April of 2024, season 2 comes out so that this puzzle appears amazingly relevant! [April 2024 edit: Nope! Season 2 isn't coming out until 2025. Ah well, them's the breaks when you construct so far ahead.] The answer to the meta will be patently obvious to fans of "The Last of Us". Nudges available here: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=162269#p162269
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Generic American beer?
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Across
- 1AGeneric American beer?
- 6AAtkins diet no-no
- 10A"Law & Order: SVU" actor
- 14ASpiral
- 15APi times radius squared, for a circle
- 16AAnkle-length skirt
- 17AMake a speech (and my first word in Wordle, fyi)
- 18AExtended family
- 19AEric Kastner's 1929 novel "___ and the Detectives"
- 20AJapanese affirmative
- 21AShrine dedicated to the R&B singer of "Yeah!"?
- 24ABee's ___ (best quality)
- 25ACrops up
- 26AAs originally placed
- 29ASomali-born supermodel
- 30ALine of gold in quartz, perhaps
- 31AWallop
- 34AOozes
- 38AUnit of corn
- 39ABono's solo side project?
- 41A"Slumdog Millionaire" actor ___ Patel
- 42AOktoberfest souvenir
- 44ADragon companion in an animated Disney movie
- 45AFill up
- 46AGreek colonnade
- 48AAnagram of 9 down who's definitely not chicken
- 50ARag maker
- 53ASeconds-in-command
- 55ARegular MOAT-crossing destination?
- 57ATribute in verse
- 60AMend, as socks
- 61ATouched down
- 62ACounter in a debate
- 64AMatured, like a crumbly cheddar
- 65ATheater section
- 66AOld-time news source
- 67ANot his
- 68ATransmissive optical device that focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction
- 69A"Move it!" yelled the Cockney drill sergeant?
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- 1D"This doesn't look good..."
- 2DWith 2 down: "Que ___"
- 3DJai ___ (ball game)
- 4DIlluminated
- 5DDirection for stage-leaving actors
- 6DSecret supply
- 7DCity where Van Gogh painted "The Night Cafe"
- 8DTail end
- 9DAnagram of 48 across that's a type of chicken
- 10DSelf-centered-sounding Beatles song
- 11DTent locales
- 12DNapoleon on Elba, for example
- 13DScrabble items
- 22DEveryone's childhood doctor
- 23DWipe clean
- 24DRelatives
- 26D"As I was going to St. ___"
- 27DWithout ice
- 28DKingly address
- 29DAussie rapper ___ Azalea
- 32DFormer Italian money
- 33DItalian word preceding "zia", perhaps
- 35DDutch cheese
- 36DAnimal rights org.
- 37DKristoff's "Frozen" sidekick
- 39DSting song from the "Kate and Leopold" soundtrack
- 40DMotown or Polygram
- 43DLands surrounded by water
- 45DGPS lines
- 47DAvailable, as a doctor
- 49DBon mot
- 50D4th son of Jacob and Leah
- 51D"August: ___ County" (play by Tracy Letts)
- 52D"But ___, and higher, and greater will be / Our wonder, our transport when Jesus we see." (from the 3rd verse of the hymn "To God Be The Glory")
- 53DChurchill's trademark gesture
- 54DDiminutive suffixes
- 56DLotion additive
- 57DNews item about someone who's late
- 58DDispute ender, once
- 59DWord in the French translation of Hamlet's famous soliloquy
- 63DBusy places in hospitals