Go West
◆ · By Mikey G
Meta Prompt
The three-word answer to the meta, illustrated repeatedly in the grid, is where I'm going on vacation.
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Begs for more salmon-flavored crunchies, maybe
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Across
- 1ABegs for more salmon-flavored crunchies, maybe
- 5AClothes for senators
- 10AFlorida city, for short
- 14AFirst of all?
- 15ASquash, e.g.
- 16AIts first trip carried President Chaim Weizmann from Geneva in 1948
- 17AAquatic animal who loves to listen to the less popular sides of 45s?
- 19AWord that appears twice in a 1937 Ernest Hemingway book title
- 20ASecond take?
- 21AThe secret agent worked at the magazine office ___
- 23AImpolite plant person whose comments might have you saying "I beg your garden???"?
- 26AIntroduce gradually
- 29AExpert
- 30AAn article on its origins called it "one of the most...momentous developments in...clinical neurology": Abbr.
- 31A"And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat ___" (Genesis 5:6)
- 34A"Take ___!"
- 38AGlass container that once held root beer (my favorite beer) but now contains pieces of paper describing what I'm thankful for?
- 42ABlood component
- 43AImpression
- 44AParts of handles, perhaps?
- 45AKindergarten break (you know, after learning about mitochondrial DNA and polynomial functions)
- 47A"So, how are you doing handling all the responsibilities at the car dealership?" "___"
- 50AHaving the coins get stuck inside the pinball machine, for one?
- 55ACircumference divided by pi
- 56ADentist's demand
- 60AShrek, or me before my morning coffee (or after)
- 61ASteer clear of a way meant to reduce wrinkles?
- 64ATake in some views?
- 65AFix a road (fun fact: nobody has ever used this word)
- 66A"My ocean liner is stuck at the harbor!" "___ happens."
- 67AGait
- 68ARosebud and others
- 69AIt hosted Eurovision in 1996 and 2010
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- 1DMomentum divided by velocity
- 2DChange your story, say
- 3D"You can stop walking in that stream soon!" "Good, 'cause I can't ___ any longer!"
- 4DBesmirches
- 5DGeneral who's totally chicken (I'm hilarious)
- 6DTake your pick
- 7DDidn't 29-Across the test but still did pretty well
- 8DPlayground retort found in the middle of a Joe Cocker song title
- 9DLayers
- 10D"Tell me how I look in this outfit; I promise I won't get mad whatsoever"
- 11DLegendary king of 69-Across's country
- 12DIf you want to go visit these, you're bats!
- 13DOn the ball
- 18DLast word in Bob Dylan song title with opening lyric "Early one morning the sun was shining / I was laying in bed"
- 22DA chocoholic's favorite tree, perhaps
- 24DIt's a losing proposition
- 25DLassitude
- 26DMastermind pieces
- 27D"Take this!" (Me, handing you a book of my puns)
- 28DSpot for culture?
- 32DAnomalous
- 33D"Do we have visual confirmation?"
- 35D"I'm going to leave you in the footnotes, Caesar!" "___, brute?"
- 36DCountertenor counterpart
- 37DOne often has many choices
- 39DSavory deli order (and if you get it, something's fishy LOL)
- 40D"There will be no more jokes about my wearing this cloak of invisibility: have ___ myself clear?"
- 41DWife of ___ (Chaucer character who loved rubber duckies)
- 46DPan and more
- 48DBelgrade native
- 49DMelodic passage
- 50DTake home GINGER CAT BEST CAT EVER, for example
- 51DExactitude
- 52DMonte ___
- 53DCut at an angle
- 54DPontificate from a lectern
- 57DUnspecified degrees (I'm almost at the end of the puzzle; let this consonant mush slide please)
- 58DBesmirch
- 59DDry-erase marker brand that should give me ten free boxes due to this product placement (I can dream)
- 62DPalindromic parent
- 63DEMT destinations