You Know the Score
◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2022-10-01T17:00:21.045Z
Meta Prompt
[Level 1] The answer to the meta is a sports term.
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What pity
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Across
- 1AWhat pity
- 7ABest, for a bit
- 13ASUNY college town whose 2nd through 5th letters consecutively spell out a noble gas (I had another noble gas puns, but the good ones argon)
- 15ACalled someone, especially if you're such a ham
- 16AHow you might try to solve this meta, especially because you have other things to do on a certain time of the week (hint hint)
- 18AInner: Prefix
- 19ARainer who claimed that winning two consecutive Oscars was the "worst possible thing" to occur to her
- 20AOodles
- 21AWearing the costume of
- 24AIsh
- 27ASome howlers and prowlers
- 31AUK record label
- 32AConjecture
- 38AGasteyer who was the Tree on "The Masked Singer"
- 39AWhen the pool enthusiast played billiards, he tried to ___ (a good goal for any sport!)
- 42ASeed that we hope germinates
- 43AUtensil that can be used to serve ice cream or clean Ginger's litter box (ideally two different kinds)
- 44AStats in the ring
- 45AHarriette : "Family Matters" : ___ : "Family Ties"
- 47A"Hollywood Squares" option
- 49A"The best is ___ come!"
- 51ABridges whose "Seinfeld" character said, "It's go time" ("Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!")
- 52AMake sum decisions LOL
- 54ATempe sch.
- 55AType of will
- 56APay stub?
- 59AWhen I woke up from anesthesia, my handwriting was ___
- 61AWhere it might come after you
- 63APatron
- 65ALassitude
- 66A"Now I see the meta!"
- 67AWhat you do if you have a life
- 68AThe captain was nice on the front of the boat, but when he took us to the back, he got ___
- 69AHale
- 70AWhat you should take in music class
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- 1DStrike that
- 2DWhat you might have if you're connected
- 3DBrief message
- 4D"Hmmm...that's peculiar" (words used when speaking to Mikey G)
- 5DWhen I parked at the US mint, I stopped ___ dime (I may have used this pun before, but it just makes cents)
- 6DPizzazz
- 7DEstablished
- 8DEnd of a professor's address
- 9D"Say it ___, Joe!"
- 10DKerfuffle
- 11D"Come On, I ___" (song sung by a tower in Pisa)
- 12DSome ice cream brand
- 14DSome computer brand (I spent so much time on these clues, can you tell?)
- 15D"Every ___ Has Its Thorn" (1980s power ballad that is not scientifically accurate)
- 17DPoetic contraction that anagrams to a more common synonymous contraction
- 22DBrand currently exhorting chefs to "Cook Like a Mother"
- 23DGuy who gets high?
- 24DRussell of "Felicity"
- 25D"Look what ___!" (cry from a child who is not the next da Vinci, no offense)
- 26D"Great job!"
- 28DI was so confident I would be approved for the loan that I ___
- 29DHow a ballerina might dance (I can't dance like one - that's tutu bad)
- 30DImpertinence
- 33DThey put the madness in "March Madness"
- 34D"blah blah blah"
- 35DHBO competitor
- 36DSome random acronym that describes how search engines optimize (I just gave it to you)
- 37DFill with disgust, like too many of these clues
- 40DActor who portrayed Walter Mitty and Hans Christian Andersen
- 41D"Just doing my job!"
- 46D"Don't be a stranger! Unless I don't know you, in which case get away from me"
- 48DWhat King Midas had
- 50DHyphenated phrase commonly used to criticize politicians
- 51DThe electrician gently fixed all our wiring: she has such a ___
- 52DGinger and others (not CATS but it should be)
- 53DSign in a museum you might not follow
- 57DBreak off, like a friendship
- 58DYeah, those are fine
- 60DBrita competitor
- 62DTuna you might find in Tahiti?
- 64DKitchenware brand that loses at tic-tac-toe