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It's Rhyme for Your Birthday

· By Mikey G

Meta Prompt
[Level 2] The answer to the meta is a well-known individual who shares my birthday, 2/17.
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  • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-17T18:00:19.353Z
    Answer: MICHAEL JORDAN
    Explanation: Six five-letter rhymes for BIRTH are symmetrically located in the grid on the top-right to bottom-left diagonal, more or less. Find an alternate grid entry that satisfies each of those clues: MIRTH to JOY, FIRTH to OLDMAN, GIRTH to RIPS, EARTH to DIRT, PERTH to ADELAIDE, and WORTH to NESTEGG. The initial letters spell out JORDAN, the answer to our meta. My childhood was filled with that illustrious 1990s Bulls team! Also note the BULL at clue 23 in honor of Jordan himself.
    • Hector 🤓9:56 · 2024-02-17T18:18:21.139Z
      Happy Birthday! That's one way to be like Mike
      • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:12:53.250Z
        Haha, indeed!
      • FrankieHeck 🤓15:03 · 2024-02-17T18:52:05.868Z
        Happy birthday, Mikey! And thank you for the fun puzzle!
        • damefox 🤓8:55 · 2024-02-17T18:41:25.271Z
          Happy Birthday! You share a birthday with my cousin too. Fun puzzle! Impressive amount of meta content squeezed in there! When I googled "famous people born on Feb 17" and saw Michael Jordan was one, I figured that was probably what you were going for because of the shared first name. When I found MIRTH->JOY, seeing that the J was at 1-Across was enough to confirm it for me. PS - I think at 65-Down you want "poet" not "poem."
          • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-17T22:01:04.988Z
            Believe it or not, the answer was meant to be ED SHEERAN for the longest time, but I just couldn't get any metanism that I liked to work. For future reference, his albums are a bunch of mathematical symbols!
          • boharr 3s · 2024-02-17T19:18:19.418Z
            Happy Birthday, Mikey. Mine was on 2/10, so I'm a week older. Haha. Thanks for the fun puzzle.
            • Abide 🤓15:42 · 2024-02-17T20:10:29.248Z
              Nice touch on the 23 BULL!
              • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:13:05.799Z
                And that's no bull! Actually, it is!
              • Philip Chow 12:36 · 2024-02-17T20:40:20.297Z
                the R might be hard to find for sports-illiterate ppl like me... I had TAP/TIPS in that corner and couldn't find for the longest time what my mistake was...
                • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:13:33.586Z
                  Oooh, yeah, that could get a bit Naticky in retrospect.
                • Philip Chow 12:36 · 2024-02-17T20:35:33.326Z
                  happy bday mikey!! 🥳... i found two celebrities that share my bday in your puzzle
                  • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-17T22:01:39.880Z
                    Whoa, bonus meta! Don't tell me - I'll try to find them!
                  • SamKat9 🤓15:23 · 2024-02-17T21:11:03.069Z
                    Happy Birthday! Thanks for the puzzle, too!
                    • MatthewL 🤓13:55 · 2024-02-17T22:06:12.974Z
                      Happy birthday, Mikey! Fun meta -- FIRTH/OLDMAN was my way in, eventually. Thanks for the puzzle!
                      • whimsy 17:45 · 2024-02-17T22:09:04.880Z
                        It's his birthday, by crikey! But I got a gift from Mikey!
                        • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:13:53.841Z
                          It's not your key - it's Mikey!
                        • emmie 🤓8:25 · 2024-02-17T23:09:54.965Z
                          Happy Birthday!
                          • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:14:18.542Z
                            Thanks, Emmie! 😀
                          • KayW 🤓12:27 · 2024-02-17T23:42:43.759Z
                            A very happy Birthday Mikey! You were absolutely correct this was quite 50A - thanks!
                            • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:14:08.226Z
                              Thank you, Kay, for your kindness and friendship!
                            • kurtalert 🤓12:51 · 2024-02-18T00:27:58.514Z
                              The GOAT! HBD, Mikey G!
                              • Berto 2s · 2024-02-18T01:07:06.559Z
                                HB Mikey! I moved to Chi-town in 2002, just after MJ and the Bulls dynasty, but was there for the Blackhawks 3 cups and left late 2016 just after your Cubbies finally won the big one!
                                • Joe 🤓11:13 · 2024-02-18T01:59:09.931Z
                                  I went with Ed Sheeran first as a WAG. I saw SMEARON and thought, "Well, let's see..."
                                  • BrennerTJ 1:35 · 2024-02-18T02:09:53.142Z
                                    🎉 Happy Birthday, Mikey! 🎉
                                    • Bbaack 15:51 · 2024-02-18T02:52:01.287Z
                                      Nicely done; nothing but net!
                                      • Darth 🤓22:18 · 2024-02-18T03:17:13.007Z
                                        Favorite Jordan quote: "I've never lost a game, I just ran out of time."
                                        Happy birthday, MikeyG! How old are you? Hope you never lose count! :D
                                        • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:15:31.736Z
                                          I'm an elder millennial statesman, haha. Love that quote!!
                                        • Cindy Heisler 2s · 2024-02-18T12:44:05.894Z
                                          Happy Belated Birthday, Mikey! 🎉🎂 Very nice!
                                          • lbray53 3s · 2024-02-18T15:40:00.766Z
                                            I saw threes crosses when I highlighted the rhymers. I was using a red highlighter which of course made me think of Red Cross. The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded on Februrary 17, 1863. (For those who are fact checking, the American Red Cross was not founded until May 21, 1881 by Clara Barton.) This was a tough rabbit hole to dig out of.
                                            • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:14:35.970Z
                                              Whoa! That is wild!
                                            • Qmark 3s · 2024-02-18T18:42:21.858Z
                                              Fun puzzle, Mikey...I wish you a belated "happy birthday"!
                                              • HeadinHome 🤓1:39 · 2024-02-18T19:20:07.204Z
                                                Happy birthday MIke(s)! May there be no dearth of mirth!
                                                • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:15:38.970Z
                                                  None indeed!! :D
                                                • DrTom 3s · 2024-02-19T15:05:52.228Z
                                                  Happy Birthday Mikey...and that's no Bull! 😁
                                                  • Bird Lives 6s · 2024-02-19T17:40:40.501Z
                                                    There's no dearth of famous people born on Feb. 17., but only one of them is a punning puzzler. Happy Birthday.
                                                    • Mikey G constructor · 2024-02-20T23:16:02.280Z
                                                      Yeah, also share with Richard Karn and have an Al Borland-like beard as well!
                                                    • Tyrpmom 🤓42:40 · 2024-02-20T04:23:05.945Z
                                                      Happy Birthday!
                                                      • axmszr 1:08:49 · 2024-02-23T11:08:22.962Z
                                                        happy birthday!!
                                                        • BarbaraK 1:15 · 2024-02-24T04:58:48.610Z
                                                          Belated solve and a belated happy birthday! Thanks for the puzzle!
                                                          • ajk 16:55 · 2024-02-24T16:47:23.372Z
                                                            spotted the rhyming pairs right away, but needed nudge 2 to get me on track. Not sure why, because ADELAIDE ought to have stood out. Fun stuff, thanks.
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                                                            Jump for it!
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                                                            Across
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                                                              Jump for it!
                                                            2. 4A
                                                              "Too rich for me!"
                                                            3. 9A
                                                              Gargantuan
                                                            4. 12A
                                                              Pen preceder
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                                                              2014 film about a 1965 march
                                                            6. 14A
                                                              Mishmash
                                                            7. 16A
                                                              Common article
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                                                              "Fishy" Los Angeles Angels player who will not have Ohtani as a teammate this year
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                                                              Investor's concern
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                                                              Pause in the Psalms that anagrams to a type of rock
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                                                              Chicago paper, for short
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                                                              Nolan Ryan, once, briefly
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                                                              Pops
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                                                              Prop seen on a Chiquita label (I go bananas for them - they have such a peel)
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                                                              Guatemala galas
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                                                              Util. bill
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                                                              Yeah, that won't last
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                                                              Pancakes powerhouse
                                                            19. 35A
                                                              Like many GIF images
                                                            20. 39A
                                                              Program whose logo is two connected eighth notes
                                                            21. 41A
                                                              "Step on it!"
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                                                              Some home run swings
                                                            23. 45A
                                                              Exuberant feeling
                                                            24. 47A
                                                              Bird with a reduplicative name
                                                            25. 48A
                                                              How I cheer for my Cubbies
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                                                              "I made dessert: you're in for ___!"
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                                                              Take care of Ginger Cat, perhaps (don't forget her crunchies and her meat treats!)
                                                            28. 54A
                                                              Arduous
                                                            29. 55A
                                                              Over 40,000 people once reported theirs as 078-05-1120: Abbr.
                                                            30. 58A
                                                              Hardly neophytes
                                                            31. 60A
                                                              When some people start driving
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                                                              Original network for the 1990s revival of "Supermarket Sweep" (when it airs, I market on my schedule)
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                                                              A movie about a water park is a ___ show
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                                                              Idle performer?
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                                                              "I'm not listening!"
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                                                              "Take ___!"
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                                                              Soil
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                                                              Actress who Theron called the "unsung hero" of the film "Monster"
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                                                              Get a lode of this!
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                                                              Online shopping website that starts with "E" and ends with "Y" (you have a 50:50 chance)
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                                                              Hauled
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                                                              Fake movie about Christmas beverages: "___ Day Afternoon"
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                                                              Use a pogo stick (perhaps to go to 33-Across...non-meta-related semi-dupe, I know...)
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                                                              Subway entrances will never go out of ___
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                                                              Part of the UK
                                                            Down
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                                                              Responds to "Step on it!"
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                                                              Othello : Desdemona :: Hamlet : ___
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                                                              Gave way
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                                                              "You finished?"
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                                                              A pop
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                                                              Oodles and oodles
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                                                              When a blue creature arises, ___'s up!
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                                                              Percival Everett's 2001 book "Erasure," for example
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                                                              Oh, fiddle stick!
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                                                              "What you do mean you can't keep track of all the Sesame Street characters?" "Sorry, ___"
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                                                              Tailor's concern
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                                                              Other, in Oaxaca
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                                                              "___ dog!"
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                                                              Times most people (even Mikey G, sometimes) wake up: Abbr.
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                                                              Market optimist
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                                                              Bible book that anagrams to what you are
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                                                              The "I" in "I.M. Pei" (use 4 of 6 letters in HEROIC)
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                                                              Elena and Ketanji's colleague
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                                                              Australian state capital
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                                                              Common prefix that's also found in this clue
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                                                              West end?
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                                                              It'll give you shade
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                                                              "Yes, that conjecture seems about right"
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                                                              Popular Fender, casually
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                                                              Knock
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                                                              Sight in the Seine
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                                                              Kitty
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                                                              "___ looking at you, kid" (said to a goat)
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                                                              2014 song by Florida-Georgia Line
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                                                              2023 novel by Genevieve Wheeler (still on my TBR!)
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                                                              Travail
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                                                              Where singles often hang out
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                                                              Apply liberally, as cream cheese to a bagel
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                                                              When birds open a retirement account, they create a ___
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                                                              If an encyclopedia falls on your head, that ___
                                                            36. 61D
                                                              The season opener?
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                                                              Majors, for one
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                                                              "Dies ___" (favorite hymn of cruciverbalists)
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                                                              2010s Best Actor winner
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                                                              "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" poet
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                                                              Opening on Broadway
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                                                              Longest side of a right triangle: Abbr.
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                                                              Goofy picture?
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