You're Out of Your Element
◆ · By Mikey G
Meta Prompt
[Level 4] The answer to the meta is a 2-word plural noun.
It might as well be a Level 5, haha. Follow the nudges here: https://xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=3307
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- 1AHollywood hrs.
- 4ABeloved Mets center fielder Tommie Lee, who made two spectacular defensive plays in Game 3 of the 1969 World Series
- 8AOrders to some felines (not to Ginger Cat, of course!)
- 13AAlternative to "ear-related"
- 15APass the welcome mat
- 16A"Stop! Are you kidding me..."
- 17AClearly a small amount of letters - but when you find a pair that doesn't work, don't get rid of it!
- 20ACaustic cleaner
- 21AScurrying meerkat in "The Lion King"
- 22ANinole Hills on Hawaii are near Mauna ___ (50:50 chance!)
- 23AVersatile Nissan model
- 25ANew words are frequently added to this: Abbr.
- 26AFedEx, e.g.
- 27ACommon cold feature?
- 29ACurved movement through the air (look before you do it!)
- 31AGamma coding and ___-pair encoding: two forms of data compression (the statistician went data way!)
- 34A"Seen my charged particle lately?" "No, but I'll keep an ___ it"
- 36AKrispy Kreme residue, if, like, a bunch of liquefied Krispy Kreme donuts are suddenly oozing out of the factory (donut mind me)
- 40ABond rating (insert some James Bond pun here)
- 41A"NBC Nightly Brews," Starbucks, and other bistros, for example (I just made the first one up)
- 43ATCM has movies for all to see / But if it showed the wrong one, then it ___ on TV
- 44ARushing outside to see the first snowfall, with regard to winter, perhaps
- 47A"Again let me try that..."
- 48ACDs of "The Lion King" soundtrack would feature his song "Be Prepared"
- 49AInstrumental gin flavoring ("Pour it already!" "I have to go ___")
- 50ASnack (is it a breath mint? a candy mint?) sold until 2018
- 51ASbarro's "Slices for ___" campaign (previous initiative with St. Jude's)
- 52ATedious musical syllables, perhaps
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- 1DHomes where frogs have their bachelor pads
- 2DHectic place at the holidays
- 3D"Lions ___ Up Their Offense" (my pun headline after they trounced Tennessee for the first time in nearly 30 years in 2024)
- 4DBefore now
- 5DBody of leaders, briefly
- 6DChildren's song's non-consonantal refrain
- 7DNotable coat for canines?
- 8DOne of these days
- 9DFamed "In the Heights" director Jon M.
- 10DNecessary - and then some!
- 11DNail on an eagle (I was quite ___-ted to think of this clue)
- 12DFirst golfer to win a PGA Tour event in four different decades
- 14D"Since when? No way!"
- 18DN. Dame will ___ through the college playoffs this year, I hope! (Go Fighting Irish!)
- 19DKeys might be needed to unlock them
- 24DCrisp sans-serif typeface
- 26DFervently rejects
- 28D"Nice try, but you have to draw some cards now!"
- 30DC.S. Lewis's characters on the Dawn Treader might have used this nautical adverb
- 31DGarden-variety ("I really don't like your plants..." "I beg your garden!")
- 32D"Gee whiz, I rock!"
- 33DAssuredly less wild
- 35DBrand of wafers
- 37DYMCAs might offer a ___ on various basketball exercises
- 38DSri Lanka's capital is nearly 5,000 miles from this Italian port city
- 39DYou can see a dozen of them on a cube
- 41DNBA players need to fake, steal, and hustle on the court - these folks do it off the court
- 42DMotel freebie, often
- 45DRhyming poem "Casey at the ___"
- 46DLSAT studying is an additional responsibility you have as part of the ___-law track