Four Square
◆ · By Mikey G
Meta Prompt
The one-word answer to the meta is what I hope you find this puzzle.
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Across
- 1AExtent
- 6ASince this substance adds flavor when you put it on one, you could call it a pretzel sharpener (I tried)
- 10AWilling to try, like a Mikey G meta!!!!!!!!!!
- 11AShow that debuted in 1986 whose original title in the opening credits was seen on a California license plate
- 12AIt's a major need
- 13AOnly nation that once used a monochromatic flag
- 14AWent on and on and on about something, like the joy of solving puzzles ("Hey, where's everybody going??")
- 16A29-Across, in its native language
- 19ATake something the wrong way
- 21AFour
- 24AFirst word of a US capital
- 25A"Sadly, I cannot attend the Meta Gala"
- 26AC2H5OH
- 29ASee 16-Across
- 30ATasty pockets
- 34ANote I can't hit in glee club (or my grade as a result)
- 35ACuatro meses antes de mayo
- 36A"___ Clock Jump" (Count Basie tune)
- 37ATake care of
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- 1DWhen the teacher went out to go get a hoagie, the class needed a ___
- 2DPro whose work is really taxing LOL
- 3DO'er and o'er again
- 4DNot skilled in
- 5DSome Verdi opera (anagram of INANER, which is what my clues are)
- 6DFirst word in Beach Boys song title with line "I work the seaways, the gale-swept seaways"
- 7DEinstein and others
- 8D"Hey! We can't be throwing shredded raw cabbage! It's time to ___ the slaw!"
- 9DSome defunct airline
- 11DLegal deg.
- 15DParent to Pierre
- 16DTakeoff approx. (You hope mine is pretty soon, I'm sure)
- 17DAfter a long night cleaning the city, the janitor decided to ___
- 18DIt's stuck in a corner, like me at parties
- 20D[I'm really scary wearing this white bedsheet, huh??]
- 22DUnites clandestinely
- 23DType of solution formed by a 6-Across
- 27DKermit's greeting
- 28DAnti-apartheid org. whose initials can be formed by anagramming a word in this clue (you're welcome)
- 29D"It's ___-Time" (2022 "Time" magazine headline about baseball's Mr. Ohtani)
- 31DYou need it to drive
- 32D"But is it ___?" (Question Paul Simon doesn't ask anymore)
- 33D"Hamilton" star Phillipa