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Both Sides Now (Meta)

· Por benchen71 · Publicado 2024-09-10T06:00:58.467Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a 7-letter word
Joni Mitchell's song "Both Sides Now" is a beautiful song with amazing lyrics full of deep melancholy. On a personal level, I actually have a childhood memory of my father playing the guitar and singing this song. Only problem is I misheard the lyrics and thought he was singing about looking at both sides of clowns, which didn't make much sense to me at the time! And now the song (and not that memory!) has inspired this meta, the answer to which is a 7-letter word. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=178941#p178941
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
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  • lbray53 3s · 2024-09-10T13:46:50.281Z
    I LIKED it!
    • woozy 🤓11:44 · 2024-09-10T15:55:07.935Z
      Ooh... Tough one. Was stuck on COOL DAY FOR DIMBUS YC RUELIN' for a very long time. DIMBUS rhymes with nimbus and maybe I should switch to last do letters half way through and get MY ETTH NREW IN POER YD DAN PICK. Dan picks at something? Eventually the DIM/LIT ate at me and the Bus? Truck? Bus? and what the heck is YC to ... BUSY eventually knocked through.
      • benchen71 constructor · 2024-09-11T01:17:02.277Z
        Yes, definitely harder than the average "week 2".
      • hoover 2s · 2024-09-10T17:55:17.590Z
        My in was CRUEL/KIND, and now I have an earworm.
        • benchen71 constructor · 2024-09-11T01:16:40.759Z
          It's a good ear worm!
        • DrTom 4s · 2024-09-10T17:11:59.493Z
          Very nice! I was looking for a song/lyrics with called COOL DAY FORD IM BUSY CRUEL IN when it hit me, "Hey that is seven words!!!" I had a heck of a time with FORD and IM until I ran through the puzzle the 10th time and saw ANTI and realized it could be FOR and DIM when, contrarily, the light went on. Fun solve.
          • Hector 3s · 2024-09-10T16:55:27.505Z
            Well done. My rabbit hole was that the two Queen tracks you mention were A- and B- sides of the same 45 (so I thought maybe we were looking for a song that took up both sides of a 45).
            (Freddie Mercury was pissed that every fan dollar spent on his masterpiece was split with Roger Taylor, who wrote the B-side.)
            • benchen71 constructor · 2024-09-10T21:17:03.924Z
              I did not know that! Definitely a tempting rabbit hole.
            • Darth 🤓13:05 · 2024-09-10T20:39:16.365Z
              There it is! I got Step 1, but then went to Google to search for Joni Mitchell lyrics... Then I remembered NIGHT and IDLE in the grid, and I knew what I needed to do from there. ;D Thanks, Ben.
              • HeadinHome 🤓1:17 · 2024-09-11T02:56:17.623Z
                Phew… I was worried I was going to need to know a lot of songs and their B sides! I’m still not sure where the “E” is coming from… Exit? (All the others are opposites; EXIT doesn’t seem like the opposite of IN). But 6 out of 7 was enough to get to the finish line. Thanks!
                • benchen71 constructor · 2024-09-11T05:34:25.368Z
                  EXTRA. It's a bit of a long-shot, that one!
                • kurtalert 🤓5:12 · 2024-09-11T21:56:51.257Z
                  Very nice. Took me a while to notice COOL DAY FOR DIM BUSY CRUEL IN, and then I got hung up for a while with the fact that many of these have synonyms or could be alternate answers for clues- like CRUEL/EVIL, DAY/FRI (both part of TGIF), etc. I thought it was going to be taking like- maybe the first letters of synonyms, the last letters of antonyms- or vice versa- continuing with the "both sides" theme. Took me a while to shake that path- EVIL and FRI really had me hooked!
                  • Carolyn 3s · 2024-09-11T23:08:19.952Z
                    Clever! Took a bit of thinking and looking, but nice AHA.
                    • MatthewL 🤓8:24 · 2024-09-12T14:55:24.670Z
                      Needed the nudges, but finally got there. Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
                      • ajk 3:13 · 2024-09-12T16:15:18.392Z
                        Definitely needed nudge 3, but got it fairly speedily after that. Once I realized that the words didn't form a sentence I went looking for alternates. Initially paired CRUEL with EVIL but eventually figured out the opposites idea. Had to backsolve the U, but that wasn't too tough. Fun aha, once I had a clue how to start. Thanks. :)
                        • omnilynx 🤓10:16 · 2024-09-12T17:34:33.656Z
                          This one went pretty smoothly for me, didn't even need nudges! Maybe because I already liked that song.
                          • Qmark 3s · 2024-09-13T11:59:57.021Z
                            Thanks Ben...no nudges needed.
                            • Sharkicicles 2s · 2024-09-13T15:50:35.155Z
                              Needed the letters nudge but fell pretty quick after that. Thanks Ben!
                              • whimsy 🤓10:20 · 2024-09-14T00:00:35.693Z
                                Needed the last nudge and worked backwards from that. And speaking of working backwards, I concentrated on the "longs" at first -- I took the end of the second entry in those rows, and brought it around and finished it with the beginning of the first entry. So I got RA/DIO, ERR/OR, READ/OUT.... before that broke down. At least the Crossword Rabbit might have been proud of my efforts..
                                Thanks, Ben -- intricate construction, but tough for me!
                                • lukadisgre 🤓6:44 · 2024-09-16T12:52:12.342Z
                                  Took me embarrassingly long, but thanks for introducing me to a nice song!
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                                  Wine box invented in Australia
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                                  Horizontales
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                                    Wine box invented in Australia
                                  2. 5A
                                    Actress ___ Ward
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                                    Guitar gizmo
                                  4. 13A
                                    Casual greeting
                                  5. 14A
                                    Way out
                                  6. 15A
                                    Actor Dev ___
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                                    Singer Celine ___
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                                    See 36 across
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                                    "___ Reader" Taylor Swift song that just so happens to be playing right now
                                  10. 21A
                                    Info on an envelope
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                                    Since Jan. 1
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                                    Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam's stagename
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                                    Peter Weir movie "The ___ Living Dangerously"
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                                    Skilled speaker
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                                    Headwear
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                                    Make a mistake
                                  17. 35A
                                    Flintstone pet that's an anagram of 16 across
                                  18. 36A
                                    With 17 across: Queen album with "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "I'm In Love With My Car" (talk about from the sublime to the ridiculous!)
                                  19. 37A
                                    Architect I.M. ___
                                  20. 38A
                                    Fully extended, which might help (in tandem with the puzzle title) with step one
                                  21. 42A
                                    One sixtieth of an hr.
                                  22. 45A
                                    Katniss's friend in "The Hunger Games"
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                                    Site for looking up 5 across, 15 across, 26 across, 9 down, and 18 down
                                  24. 50A
                                    Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's instrument (check out his stunning version of "Over The Rainbow")
                                  25. 51A
                                    Mexican food in a shell
                                  26. 52A
                                    Enrages
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                                    Recruit's response
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                                    Poetic preposition
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                                    U.N. locale
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                                    Like fine wine
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                                    Opposed to
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                                    Rehearsal (or "Kill with a foil" if you are feeling more bloodthirsty)
                                  33. 66A
                                    Soybean product
                                  34. 70A
                                    Conclude by
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                                    Not doing very much at all
                                  36. 72A
                                    Diabolically bad (like reusing a clue from last week's MOAT!)
                                  37. 73A
                                    With 73 across: Feedline for a joke
                                  38. 74A
                                    Swarm
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                                    Singer-songwriter Aimee ___
                                  Verticales
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                                    Atlantic fish
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                                    Yellowfin tuna
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                                    HBO competitor
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                                    Helpful to others
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                                    Invigorating ocean-side quality
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                                    Not part of the deal
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                                    Brightly illuminated
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                                    Baile ___ Cliath (Dublin, to the Irish)
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                                    "It's a Wonderful Life" director Frank ___
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                                    Ingested
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                                    Roxette singer/guitarist, ___ Gessle
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                                    Greeting in Rio
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                                    Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, John ___
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                                    Actress ___ Chapman of silent films
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                                    Moody music genre
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                                    Smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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                                    Prefix meaning "three"
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                                    One of Jacob's sons
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                                    Agent, casually
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                                    Smelter input
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                                    The F of TGIF
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                                    Also
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                                    Huey Lewis and the News song "___ Be Square"
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                                    Where to find the Taj Mahal
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                                    Tiny fraction of 42 across
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                                    Anxious, as a personality
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                                    One without scissors, perhaps
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                                    Work in the garden
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                                    "___ bien" (very good, in Spanish)
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                                    '50s White House nickname
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                                    '80s video-game console
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                                    Chess pieces
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                                    Not sweet, as wine
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                                    Physicist's deg.
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                                    ___ Land (wilderness area in the northeast corner of Australia’s Northern Territory)
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                                    Fish catcher
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                                    Appetizer with peanut sauce
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                                    Two under par
                                  39. 59D
                                    "Just ___" (Nike slogan)
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                                    Thing
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                                    Japanese fashion designer ___ Kawakubo
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                                    Young ___ (kids)
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                                    "Don't tell anyone" contract (abbr.)
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                                    Quiet suffix
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                                    Biologist's eggs
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                                    Telltale sign of a shark
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                                    Buyant-Ukhaa International Airport code
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