The Outer Limits
◆ · By Mikey G
Meta Prompt
[Level 3] The answer to the meta, an 11-letter adjective illustrated by the grid, is what I hope you find this puzzle to be.
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- 1AHelpful contacts
- 4AFilm trailer?
- 8ARockies, on scoreboards
- 11APlace for a pin, perhaps
- 12A"White Heron" author Sarah ___ Jewett
- 13A"Bravo!"
- 14AHer last name in a Tennessee Williams play is Kowalski
- 16A"Stormy Weather" songwriter Harold
- 18AOrg. at ORD
- 19ATogether, musically
- 20ALarger-life connection
- 22AIroning is hard work, but I have to ___
- 25ALong period of time that's an anagram of 41-Across
- 26APlace to serve
- 27AConcerning abbr.?
- 28AShort Line, for one, for short
- 29AKelsey from the Las Vegas Aces and a certain Professor (Get a Clue!)
- 30ABack
- 31APadded envelopes
- 33AOodles upon oodles
- 34APerfect flowers to buy for Mother's Day
- 35ASummer DC hours
- 36ARun out
- 38AIt's often seen when it's cold
- 41ANumber that's an anagram of 25-Across
- 42AOrg. behind the Final Four, Elite Eight, Sweet Sixteen, and Thriving Thirty-Two (okay, I made that one up)
- 44AFrench vineyard
- 45A"Gnarly!"
- 46AShades of summer
- 47ATerm of endearment that sounds like 40-Down
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- 1DAncient pre-text communications (from, like, 2004)
- 2DSee 8-Down
- 3D"Word Freak" author Fatsis
- 4D"The Big Easy," familiarly
- 5DBritish singer Rita that cruciverbalists love just as much as actress Ana de Armas of "Knives Out"
- 6DHelpful contact
- 7DWhat I would want all of my students to be (even though I teach math!)
- 8D2-Down and his daughter
- 9D"Bravo!"
- 10DLate, great "Dancing with the Stars" judge Goodman
- 15DHookup in the office?
- 17DFerric oxide, basically
- 19DJack-in-the-pulpits, e.g. (the middle three letters of this entry are a beverage)
- 20DA monomial has exactly one
- 21DBar mitzvah highlight
- 22DDecants
- 23DCollege course in which you'd find ketones and aldehydes, briefly
- 24DNight light
- 26DMerciful
- 29DSign of summer?
- 30DJoin
- 32DRepaired a damaged wing, especially in a hawk (or "acted like a rapscallion," I guess)
- 33DA summer drink for a musician is band-___
- 35D"Dead Ball" and "Good Feelings," for two
- 36DRory's mom's nickname on "Gilmore Girls"
- 37DActress de Armas of "Knives Out" (see, told you)
- 38DEmbargo
- 39DCambodian string instrument, using three of four of the letters in ROTE in some order
- 40DBarbarian that sounds like 47-Across
- 43DAbbr. for the second-largest country and third-largest state