Aussie Lingo (Meta)

Well this was cute!

But what's the D? Deadset???

As a fellow Melbournian, this was DEADSET trivial! I appreciate Radelaide's prominent representation in the grid art.

that was heaps good

Okay. Googled "aussie slang dead set" and got that it is considered aissie slang for "serious". Which I guess makes sense as when anyone else uses the term they usually mean "determined" which is slightly different than serious.

I enjoyed this puzzle heaps and scads! Ta! (I'm new at this)

I don't know many Aussie slang words, but was able to get the answer from what I do know. Deadset had me stumped for a bit. Thanks, Ben. Fun to learn new words.

Hah, awesome. I've seen that clip before- too funny. Loved seeing it again.

So happy you could lean into - and not apologize for - your Aussie-isms. Really great concept and execution, lack of symmetry notwithstanding

GROUSE! And educational. Thanks for a fun meta and video!

Ace! Thanks, Ben. Enjoyed it! (Solved without Google, and guessing half the lot.)

Enjoyed this one (as I do all the Aussie-themed puzzles you occasionally put out). Got hung up on DEADSET as well, because that seems like a non-Aussie slang word/phrase, but Google got me sorted. Thanks for the puzzle!

Fun one, Ben! I also got hung up on DEADSET, but I knew it couldn't be DO!

Lots of fun!

Admit I had to backsolve a bit to separate words that didn't seem overly Aussie (DEADSET) from ones I didn't know (FOXED). But once I decided that AVO was in and got MATE, the rest was simple enough with some google help. Fun one, thanks.

At first I included TOT and ODDTOED, but once I saw GROUSE and DEADSET, I knew where it was going and that I had a couple of extra pieces.

Love the grid art! And nice metanism that even this Yank could solve! Thanks, Ben!

Great grid and fun meta! Thanks, Ben!

Classic! Great fun. I’m wondering whether you people would say ARVO differently from AVO… do they sound the same to you? (If ARVO shortens “afternoon,” then I assume you don’t say the R… so how is it not just like AVO?). Anyhoo, you people are… colorful, but come the the southern US and we’ll give you a run for your money!

Also - Macca’s is MickeyD’s where I’m from.

Bonzer!

My trip to your country was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I loved it there so much!

Was expecting to see “Sheila”, “snag”, “barbie “ (not the movie lol), “cobber”, but learnt a few new ones! Nice one mate!

The D clue was a little dodgy, if you ask me.

...and you didn't!

Have a fun Australia Day this weekend!

Crickey that was harder than I thought, probably because deadset also means serious to me. I was not chok-a-bloc of ideas for the last letter but eventually said "don't be a drongo, it has to be DEADSET". Good on ya Ben!

Nice effort. I don't think of DEAD SET as a slang term, so needed all the nudges. (And crosshare didn't like g'day)

Came for the fantastic video, stayed for the great puzzle.

playing catchup...only got to this puzzle today, but I wanted ot thank you Ben and congrats on the great construction...I had a couple of incorrect submissions because I thought for sure you had an extra A in "G'Daay" to approximate the pronunciation (an A from Ashes and an A from Arvo)...but I now see that just the 2nd one is based on aussie slang...thanks again!