Character Study
◆ · By Mikey G
Meta Prompt
[Level 1] The 15-letter answer to the meta is associated with June.
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"Make like a tree and...get out of here!"
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Across
- 1A"Make like a tree and...get out of here!"
- 5AFlightless South American bird
- 9ASome NFL players, apparently
- 12AOnly South American nation that fits the blanks
- 13AFeels blah
- 14A"Yeah, about that idea you had that sounds terrible but I don't want to tell you..."
- 15ARole for which Paul Newman won his only Oscar
- 17A"How'd you do on your quilting final?" "Great! Got a ___!"
- 18AThingamabob
- 19ALhasa ___ (good doggos)
- 21AGets along
- 23ASuccor
- 24ATime for a late lunch or an early siesta
- 27AIncessant, like my punning
- 30AThey joined the NHL in 1970, along with the Canucks
- 32ASwift vehicle?
- 33A35-Across and others
- 35A"Do you have a lot of French Impressionist paintings?" "Yes, I have ___"
- 36ARather, for example
- 37APossessive describing a 1977 Disney dragon
- 39ACorrespond
- 41A"Look! I'm singing without knowing the words!"
- 44ASugar substitute?
- 45AHis 1992 debut, "11-Down's Come Undone," was Oprah's fourth book club selection
- 48AHalf a sawbuck
- 49AExplorer Tasman
- 50ALetter before Bravo
- 51AIn the first of these talks, given in 1984, Sony's Mickey Schulhof demonstrated how to use a compact disc
- 52AQuaint negative
- 53ABarriers built by those industrious little animals
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- 1D30, e.g., which means 1/30 of the radiation reaches the skin
- 2DUnit of lettuce (lettuce entertain you with these metas)
- 3D"Ish"
- 4DI wanted to buy a book on the history of Xerox, but it was ___
- 5DDoppler device
- 6DLike some gems
- 7DHannah talks to him in 1 Samuel 1
- 8DNot ashore (but soon, I hope!)
- 9D"She won Masseuse of the Month again???" "Yeah, she really ___"
- 10DThe youngest of a famed cartoon trio
- 11DSee 45-Across
- 16DSinger of "My Cup Runneth Over" (which I had on loop for inspiration during the same-titled Nediger meta)
- 20DCold picnic side dish
- 22DPlea when the meta's hard and you're not yet ashore
- 24DOrg. with X-rays ("I shouldn't call you Raymond anymore?" "No, I'm an ex-Ray")
- 25DNarnian gateway
- 26DSnagged
- 28D"Now, to be specific..."
- 29DGinger Cat, e.g.
- 31DBrake fluid inits.
- 34DBest ___
- 38DCertain marks
- 39D"Huh???"
- 40DMcGregor of "Big Fish"
- 42D"Look! I'm singing without knowing the words, just a bit shorter this time!"
- 43DFeaturing multiple bands, say, for short
- 46DGrp. whose members might have some objections
- 47DSome undergrad degs.