Dial M for Meta
◆◆ · Por woozy · Publicado 2023-05-13T03:42:57.358Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is two movies. Name both. The first movie gives you instructions to solve the meta and how to find the second movie (and itself... sort of). In the grid there are eight other movies by the same director hidden as Easter Eggs.
The answer to the meta is two movies. Name both. The first movie gives you instructions to solve the meta and how to find the second movie (and itself... sort of). As well the puzzle has eight other movies by the same director hidden as Easter Eggs. Good luck searching for those as well.
This was a challenge by Josh Rubin to make a meta based on this director. Here's my attempt. It's not the most elegant but I think it has some clever moments. Crosshare fought with me for the grid every step of the way but I ultimately subdued it.
Comprobando datos de juego anteriores…
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Hitch up
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Horizontales
- 1AHitch up
- 4ASpotted beetle found in gardens
- 7AIf you believe the tabloids Elizabeth II thought this woman would be a problem for her grandson
- 13ACarpool
- 14AHilarious. Just hilarious. (for texters)
- 16A"Would you ---- -- elaborate?"
- 17AThe established faction
- 19ALubricant or lubricate
- 20ASon of...
- 21APooh's and St. Paul's Christophers
- 23AIdeal place
- 26AAbnormal sound in the lungs
- 27AUnhappy
- 28ACinema sound system named for George Lucas's (who is not the meta's directory) first movie (which is not one of the meta's easter eggs)
- 29ANumber for tea and tango
- 31ACameras with accurate view finders
- 33ACurve shape
- 34A"No, that is incorrect"
- 36AUnconscious drives
- 39AAll but the last 96 of the Spanish ones
- 41AAttorneys' org.
- 42AWith 43A, Physician Orangutan
- 43ASee 42A
- 45A--- TV (what Youtoo America is known as today)
- 46ASymbolic figure
- 48A"What is the ninth letter?" "- --"
- 49AThey have everything for young men to enjoy. (You can hang out with all the boys.)
- 52A--- Nuevo (Elephant seal breeding ground)
- 53A"His master's voice" company
- 54ADry, as wine
- 57AFalsehood on a computer? Or author Wiesel
- 59ASomeone who compels (like that dyslexic friend of Finn's)
- 61AThis guys winning streak on A. Trebek's Jeopardy was excessive
- 64AMail service in the country
- 65AExpand like pupils
- 66ACause to exist
- 70ADid too much of, such as what Keats did with a Grecian urn
- 71AMisstep
- 72AStephen of "The Crying Game"
- 73APublic transportation for the San Francisco region
- 74AWinner of the "Fight of the Century" on March 8, 1971
- 75ACock up
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- 1DHorton 10D a 1D
- 2DA pig pen made of crudely chipped flint?
- 3DHow you might buy several of the director's movies in one purchase
- 4D--- Ray
- 5DShe played June in "Henry and June"
- 6DActress Teri who probably appears in more crosswords than movies
- 7DGoodman's real last name. (His first name is really Jimmy; not Saul)
- 8DWage procurer
- 9DExpanded not like pupils
- 10DHorton 10D a 1D
- 11DLost
- 12DInterminably
- 15DSmell
- 18DTotal value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year,
- 22DFormer Spanish anti-terrorism movement. Enough is Enough!
- 23DCrosswards' favorite South-Westerners
- 24D"Yes, that is correct"
- 25DAdorable Wantonness Syndrome
- 30DBack after a cancellation
- 32DDear --- or Madam (will you read my book...)
- 35D---a-di, ---a-da, life goes on (in a less than uprght. manner)
- 37D"Tip Clo through your two lips" and "Wolfgang Amadeus Moozart" were two famous billboards from Clover Stornetta; the most popular one of these in Sonoma County, California
- 38DChai for example
- 40DMake due return
- 42DArab lateen-rigged boat
- 44DBoy Scout teams who... well, they explore, search and rescue
- 47DSometimes it gets tedious trying to make clues for three letter acronyms without using any of the words... so let's see... this is a network of those parts of the body that send impulses and sensations. The network has a central part and one ... not central. The is the not central one
- 50DOne who guides and teaches
- 51DA service provider's customer
- 54DTw'nty-thr'e --'---. 20s sl'ng f'r h'rrying aw'y qu'ckly. (No, not these 20s--- the previous 20s. sigh)
- 55DMexican communal farmland
- 56DFamous person (if you are so breezy you can't afford to utter four complete syllables)
- 58DCan't make an omelette without breaking these
- 60DDep.'s opposite
- 62DZilch
- 63DActress Ward
- 67DZilch
- 68DSurface prefix
- 69DHearing organ