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· By kieranjboyd · Published 2022-12-15T00:15:25.879Z

Meta Prompt
Four entries tell you how to form the six-letter meta, literally - it's a lot.
Hint #1: The four entries are placed symmetrically in the grid.
Hint #2: Try writing out all the entries without spaces and reparsing.
Hint #3: The first entry is PANDA.
Hint #4: The second entry is RAFTER.
Hint #5: PANDA can be reinterpreted as "P and A", and RAFTER as "R after".
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"Let me clarify …"
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Across
  1. 1A
    "Let me clarify …"
  2. 6A
    Something that police take out on cars in TV shows (abbr.)
  3. 9A
    Creature that eats shoots and leaves (as per a grammar joke)
  4. 10A
    ___ Glass, American radio personality who hosts and produces 'This American Life'
  5. 11A
    Fights in which the competitors go mano a mano
  6. 13A
    High beam?
  7. 14A
    Opening for an stage performer?
  8. 17A
    ____ Fey, American actress and author of 'Bossypants'
  9. 18A
    From that point on
  10. 20A
    One from the Beaver State
  11. 24A
    Industrial rock band who sing 'Closer' and 'The Perfect Drug'
  12. 25A
    Allows to use
  13. 26A
    Slalom shape
  14. 27A
    Reality TV fuel
Down
  1. 1D
    Investor's preliminary opportunity? (abbr.)
  2. 2D
    "Jeez!"
  3. 3D
    I asked OpenAI for a crossword clue for this entry, and it suggested "Opposite of WSW" [I guess we're safe from the robots for now]
  4. 4D
    Devoted
  5. 5D
    Granny
  6. 6D
    "____ _ a stinker?" (grammatically incorrect line from Bugs Bunny)
  7. 7D
    Aptly use a vanity mirror
  8. 8D
    Iraq's third largest city, which acts as its main port
  9. 12D
    More frequently
  10. 14D
    Make up
  11. 15D
    One of three white dudes in the MCU [the other one's in the DCEU, which is slowly dying]
  12. 16D
    They were all born in the aughts
  13. 19D
    Temperature in July (in the Southern Hemisphere, at least)
  14. 21D
    __ _ pickle
  15. 22D
    What a captain may aspire to be (abbr.)
  16. 23D
    US surveillance organisation (abbr.)
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