Horror Movie Trope II (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2022-10-25T05:00:20.588Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a horror movie trope
It's that time of year again. To mark the occasion here's another meta puzzle that seeks to illustrate a horror movie trope. Nudges are here: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=110075#p110075
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I guess this just goes to show that Metas care if you let them.1A
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- 1AGave a damn
- 6AExcellent use of avos
- 10ASimba's uncle
- 14A___ of Eratosthenes, an algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to a given limit
- 15ATrent Reznor's band, "Nine ___ Nails"
- 16A___ d'Azur (French Riviera)
- 17AHow expert crossword solvers complete grids
- 18AIndian butter
- 19APersia, now
- 20ATrio, in Japanese (clearly a borrowed word)
- 22ASnowman in "Frozen"
- 24A"Yes, but is it ___?"
- 25AItalian physicist and scientific director at the European XFEL
- 28AZambian neighbors
- 31AWhat the conquistadors sought
- 32ANew York mother
- 33AOscar Isaac's "Star Wars" character's first name
- 34ACapital of Ethiopia, Addis ___
- 38AWorld's easiest pasta, according to Francine Segan
- 41AEnglish poet who penned the most notorious erotic poem of the 17th century, "A Rapture"
- 42AAsian gambling mecca
- 43A"I can feel it coming in the ___ tonight"
- 45AMiddle word of the Napoleonic palindrome
- 46AIronically funny
- 48AMeandered
- 51AArchipelago east of Madagascar consisting of Reunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues
- 54AA lot of time (and spelled the US way)
- 55AActress who played Helen Kimble in "The Fugitive" (mostly in flashbacks, it has to be said), ___ Ward
- 56AProlonged attack
- 59AMove in water without drowning
- 61ATraditional knowledge
- 63AGuitarist (either ___ Eddy or ___ Allman, take your pick)
- 65A"___ la vie!"
- 66A"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the ___ of war"
- 67AG. I. Gurdjieff quotation: "Only help him who is not an ___"
- 68AGreek god of war
- 69AJob detail, briefly
- 70APuccini opera about an opera singer (how meta!)
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- 1DCBS forensic drama
- 2DBugs Bunny quotation: "___ I a stinker!"
- 3D"___ Man" (1984 movie, starring Harry Dean Stanton)
- 4DExceedingly
- 5D"It wasn't me," for example
- 6DBooking for a band
- 7DMao Tse Tung quotation: "He who is not afraid of death by a thousand cuts dares to ___ the emperor"
- 8DAmtrak train
- 9DCut-rate, slangily
- 10DChem. or Phys., for example
- 11DNovel by R. M. Ballantyne, "The ___ Island"
- 12DArcade pioneer
- 13DRegular payment for the use of property
- 21DRelative of the giraffe
- 23D___ Pahlavi, widow of the last Shah of 19 across
- 26D"I have one card left in this game we are playing!"
- 27DTimber wolf
- 28DTwo-band, as a radio
- 29DCockney exclamation, "Bloody ___!"
- 30DAuto financing co. (and for my Australian solvers, there's a model aircraft club in Greensborough not far from where I grew up that uses this acronym)
- 35DHome of Iowa State
- 36DIn the altogether
- 37DBowled over
- 39DSurface for (outdoor) bowling
- 40DAttracts
- 41DType of fat that humans should avoid, apparently
- 43DOn the loose
- 44DPolitical force in Belfast
- 47DCapitulates
- 49DOpposite of 5 down, for example
- 50DPrefix meaning "false"
- 51DWhat you need to trim your 39 down
- 52DOuzo flavoring
- 53DSingle-masted boat
- 54DFleshy growth from an anglerfish's head that 40 downs its prey
- 57DGuys' partners
- 58DMark that demonstrates a product has been certified (across the pond from the US)
- 60DPeaks (abbr.)
- 62DKey that might open up an in-game menu, perhaps
- 64DSignificant period of history