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This Isn't Going Anywhere

· By Mikey G

Meta Prompt
[Level 3.5] The 10-letter answer to the meta isn't going anywhere.
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  • Hector 3s · 2023-05-26T22:08:10.623Z
    Thanks for the Friday fun!
    • Laura M 🤓9:24 · 2023-05-26T22:34:32.738Z
      Fun one!
      • benchen71 12s · 2023-05-26T23:03:24.595Z
        That was a fun way to warm up for the yet-again-delayed MGWCC!
        • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-27T20:52:21.984Z
          Yeah, it's already racking my brain!
        • KayW 🤓8:48 · 2023-05-27T00:18:30.745Z
          Fun one to solve - thanks Mikey! it's top shelf ;)
          • whimsy 🤓15:48 · 2023-05-27T01:11:45.661Z
            Ginger -- puts the "cat" in Staycation. Fun puzzle. Many thanks, Mikey!
            • Joe 🤓7:29 · 2023-05-27T16:45:05.052Z
              Loved the puzzle and the puzzle's answer!
              • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-27T20:52:02.151Z
                I'm taking one right now!
              • Meg 3s · 2023-05-28T13:18:36.941Z
                Why do I feel like he's done this before? That was a great trick!
                • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-28T13:36:47.432Z
                  This metanism has definitely come up at least once before for me!
                • Toast 🤓2:06 · 2023-05-28T17:42:00.295Z
                  Whew! The wild geese in my neighborhood may have cause to complain after all the chasing I've been doing for the last two days. Thanks for the fun puzzle!
                  • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-30T16:16:23.255Z
                    Yeah, I've went on so many wild goose chases myself over the years in the metaverse!!
                  • MatthewL 🤓11:46 · 2023-05-29T18:56:59.110Z
                    Awesome puzzle Mikey! Took a while, and I almost opted out, but then my mind just opened up to what you were doing. Great fun!
                    • boharr 3s · 2023-05-30T14:32:03.406Z
                      Hard on the old eyes, but thanks Mikey.
                      • Mikey G constructor · 2023-05-30T16:15:48.200Z
                        You were probably asking me to STOP, haha. Sorry about that!
                      • I K Snamhcok 1s · 2023-05-30T18:05:42.120Z
                        Which, given our recent costs, is what we should be doing. But the urge to vacate is proving too strong. Good one, Mikey! Thanks!
                        • Gutman 25s · 2023-05-31T01:19:08.412Z
                          Argh?@#$ I tried so hard to make it about the stop sign (red in Mongolian, really?)
                          • Abide 2:29 · 2023-05-31T01:32:43.721Z
                            This time I even "Looked in the clues" but only saw the first and last across. Abandoned that path until a helpful nudge.
                            • ReB 7s · 2023-06-01T17:20:34.853Z
                              A bit slow on the uptake this time. I had to go down to the sixth nudge before my brain gears aligned.
                              Is this meta a fund raising appeal for your next holiday?
                              • Carolyn 4s · 2023-06-01T17:41:06.389Z
                                Fun, once I got a few of the hints. Thanks!
                                • Bbaack 19:00 · 2023-06-01T19:38:07.776Z
                                  Needed some hints for this one. Now I have yet another mechanism to look for! Thanks for the fun!
                                  • Cindy Heisler 2s · 2023-06-02T01:22:21.907Z
                                    Needed the first couple of nudges, but got there in the end. A fun solve! Thanks.
                                    • Capn Rick 🤓13:08 · 2023-06-02T01:23:37.153Z
                                      Great job, Mikey! I should know by now to closely examine the clues of a MikeyG meta.
                                      • JHSeeman 2s · 2023-06-02T17:03:03.787Z
                                        fun one, like how you slipped CAT into the answer....
                                        • David Clyde 🤓12:35 · 2023-06-02T23:45:36.103Z
                                          I see people mentioning "nudges" in the comments but I'm new to this website. I finished the crossword but I ended up clicking the "show me the meta answer" button and I still don't understand how the meta worked. Where can I look for discussion/info/hints? Meta crosswords are a cool idea, so I want to see how this one worked in hopes of getting the hang of metas in general.
                                          • DrTom 9:42 · 2023-06-03T04:34:17.875Z
                                            David. many, if not most, of the solvers here are part of a forum called Xword-Muggles. There are Meta puzzles almost daily and the group is always friendly and helpful, especially to a new convert to the church of Metadom. You can visit and look as a guest, but the real fun is to join and participate in what can be a lively, and sometimes downright hilarious exchange of tactics, ideas, jokes, limericks and drink recipes. Here is the link to this puzzle in particular, but the board is so much more. https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=2249
                                            • Mikey G constructor · 2023-06-03T15:55:46.621Z
                                              And in full disclosure to David as well, this wasn't my favorite meta that I ever created nor necessarily the most elegant mechanism, so I do exhort you to solve a wide variety: MGWCC, WSJ, and several others on the aforementioned Muggles forum. My first few months of meta-dom, I was like, "This is kind of random but okay" and then something hit and I fell in love with them. Great people at that forum too!!
                                            • Mikey G constructor · 2023-06-03T15:54:28.223Z
                                              And during the summer, where I post a new meta at 1 pm ET on Saturdays, I'll edit this past meta's intro, where I will link to the intro post on the Muggles. There, I'll have the grand reveal.
                                              This one, in fairness, was more challenging than I anticipated, so I'll explain how it worked. Ten clues have the word STOP hidden within them; the first and the last across clues, sometimes a good place to look in a meta, both had STOP used rather blatantly (in line with the title of not going anywhere being equivalent to stopping), which may have meant something was up. Longer names like AriSTOPhanes, SevaSTOPol, and ChriSTOPher also had this, and some spanned spacing like "Common teST OPtions."
                                              The initial letter of each of these words, a common concluding step in metas, spells STAYCATION, a portmanteau whose definition is literally not going anywhere.
                                            • DrTom 9:42 · 2023-06-03T04:29:34.549Z
                                              You had me going (or I guess stopping) for a while. I started with the pause thing but that yielded little of use. With your 1A STOP and 71A NOGO I just knew it was a hint but I did NOT realize it was the mechanism. But when I saw "stop" in both of them I wondered if it could be coincidence or not. I think it was ARISTOPHANES that finally did the "Oh, yeah, that is the third", which usually means I'm onto something. Took some searching (old eyes tend to hate these things) but once I found them I LOVED the meta answer and its play on the Title. A Mikey by Crickey (or am I mixing metafarriers, since you and Ben have both been nailing some good stuff!) I am proud to say I got it without nudges, though I was about to throw in the towel after I spent WAY too much time trying to make the Let's pause and 30A which along with 33D forms TPAUSES. I was sure there would be 10 T words that, if I added a pause (like ER, UM, AH, etc. I could form a new word that would be a secondary answer. I made a mess of several sheets before I tossed them and went back to "Going", and then I interpreted it at first as; "if it is not going it is coming, causing me more rabbit trails. At any rate I liked it a lot.
                                              • Mikey G constructor · 2023-06-03T17:22:43.325Z
                                                Yeah, I need to make a public service announcement that the tagline is just me being silly. (Spread the word!). I did think the STAYCATION answer was a pretty humorous twist on the title, and it's my kind of vacation! Thanks, Tom!
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                                              Across
                                              1. 1A
                                                Stop, for one
                                              2. 5A
                                                "A-one and ___" (for when you want to take a Welk on the wild side)
                                              3. 9A
                                                "You want to learn about fingerprints?" "Sure, let's give it a ___!"
                                              4. 14A
                                                Writer Quindlen
                                              5. 15A
                                                Hammer component
                                              6. 16A
                                                Bible book between Daniel and Joel
                                              7. 17A
                                                It means "red" in Mongolian
                                              8. 18A
                                                Cast opening?
                                              9. 19A
                                                Wharton's Frome
                                              10. 20A
                                                They go out on a limb
                                              11. 22A
                                                10% of its teams are named after birds: Abbr.
                                              12. 23A
                                                In the loop
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                                                Birthplace of Aristophanes
                                              14. 26A
                                                City near Sevastopol
                                              15. 28A
                                                "Hah!"
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                                                "Heart and Soul" band named after a "Star Trek" character
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                                                Lovelace or Gaffney
                                              18. 37A
                                                Food Network's "Cupcake ___"
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                                                Lymphocytes that play a role in your immune response
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                                                Dystopian author Suzanne
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                                                Generally
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                                                Ashore!
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                                                Ham's cousin?
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                                                When I get this, I'm pumped (until I see the bill)
                                              25. 46A
                                                It's wild!
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                                                They might be found in pole positions
                                              27. 50A
                                                2020 Christopher Nolan film
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                                                It was first designed by Alexey Pajitnov in 1984
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                                                When I use them, I'm foiled again (just put EPEES)
                                              30. 59A
                                                Pop
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                                                Parcel
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                                                Suggest
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                                                Passed with hovering hues (okay, flying colors)
                                              34. 65A
                                                Girl's name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet
                                              35. 66A
                                                A compilation of Alex Trebek saying this word went viral in 2019
                                              36. 67A
                                                If you travel east from here, sparks will fly (because you'll be in Sparks, Nevada)
                                              37. 68A
                                                "Because of ___-Dixie" (2000 Kate DiCamillo work)
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                                                Pontificate with gusto, perhaps
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                                                Impertinence
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                                                When my passenger said I should speed past the stoplight, I told him, "That's a ____!"
                                              Down
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                                                Hot spot
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                                                Arm, maybe
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                                                Grind together
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                                                Edict of ___ (1598 document signed by France's Henry IV)
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                                                Apropos
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                                                Abound
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                                                "I mean, technically..."
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                                                Sign you won't be getting good service
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                                                "Will we have a good durum crop this year?" "___ and see!"
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                                                When I forgot to pay the utilities bill, I was in ___
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                                                Org. that wouldn't want Michael Scott operating the forklift
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                                                Bring up
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                                                Lois or Penny
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                                                Keep you at home with a blanket?
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                                                Sub
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                                                "Chow time!"
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                                                Many mins.
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                                                "For more exciting metas, visit the Muggles Forum!," e.g.
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                                                ___ breve (cut time)
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                                                Exploits
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                                                "Don't have ___, man!"
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                                                "Tada!"
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                                                First word in a Shakespearean title
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                                                Pile on the floor?
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                                                Barista's creative touch, maybe
                                              26. 42D
                                                Common test options
                                              27. 44D
                                                Order of the dolphins
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                                                "Snow Falling on ___" (1994 David Guterson work)
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                                                Scattered
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                                                First name of cosmetician who, at the makeup convention, had to speak Lauder
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                                                Waves discovered by Hertz (ow!) in 1886
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                                                This is a baker's "top" specialty LOL
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                                                Type of pad
                                              34. 56D
                                                Product originally called a Froffle
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                                                Equal
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                                                One theory holds its name derives from the Phoenician for "furnace"
                                              37. 60D
                                                Cubs play here
                                              38. 64D
                                                2018 sequel to the card game Uno (it's what you think it is)
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