Line of Succession
◆ · Por ajk · Publicado 2024-11-10T05:00:04.296Z
Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a titular Shakespearean character
Happy Sunday.
No clue where this came from, as usual. 
It's pretty simple, but hopefully entertaining.
It's pretty simple, but hopefully entertaining.Thanks to Wendy Walker, Capn Rick, and boharr for test solving. And especially to Capn Rick for suggesting some grid restructuring. Thanks as always to Joe Ross for tech support.
Nudges (in order of nudginess):
The clue for 38A provides a hint
The clue for 38A provides a hint
Do any other (symmetrically placed) grid entries strike you as similarly vague?
How might that vagueness be linked to the title?
An earlier title for this puzzle was "Recycling Labels"
A few are less well known. It might be worth googling the clues for those entries
What's a common meta thing to do with a set of numbers?
Hope you enjoy.
cheers,
Alan
cheers,
Alan
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Horizontales
- 1ABangkok inhabitants
- 6AElba who played Stringer Bell
- 11ABlood group letters
- 14AGin chaser?
- 15ACow
- 16APlace of pride?
- 17ALast pope elected from outside the College of Cardinals
- 18A"Flashdance" singer Cara
- 19ABilly ____ Williams
- 20AForce that resists relative motion
- 22AFancy new Vegas venue
- 24AShakespearean dismissal
- 25A"Not sure about that"
- 26AMonarch who knew his way around an altar
- 27AIt follows Mardi Gras
- 29AYoga pose
- 33AFor two, in music
- 34AFirst name in cosmetics
- 36AComedy club feature
- 38AEnglish queen until September 2022 (now which one was that again?)
- 41ABilly Joel might answer to it
- 44ACut off
- 48AMagazine with comprehensive coverage?
- 49ATiffs
- 52AReady to pick
- 53AGreat tsar who founded a major Russian city
- 55ASmack
- 57AActor Stephen
- 58AFireside treats
- 60ACaused
- 62ABronze component the Romans called stannum (hence the symbol Sn)
- 63AParts
- 65ALast king of France
- 66AStar Wars nickname
- 67ACame up
- 68ASpelled out i.e.
- 69AStar Wars last name
- 70ASemiaquatic salamanders
- 71AGreen sauce from Genoa
Verticales
- 1DExpensive fungus
- 2DHustles
- 3DIt describes the temperature of your surroundings
- 4DApple product
- 5D____ pop (electronic genre)
- 6DBite the bullet and break a leg
- 7DRepair socks
- 8DRegret
- 9DCozy getaways
- 10DGolden State point guard Curry
- 11DSupplements, formally
- 12DVital resupply mission?
- 13DLike the jack of spades or hearts
- 21D"____ Taurus" (astrological introduction)
- 23DAny of the mean girls in an 80s dark comedy
- 28DMuch smaller
- 30DAmish colony with eponymous appliances
- 31DPen tip
- 32DNail, as an exam
- 35D"Evil Woman" band
- 37DBlvd.'s cousins
- 39DContacts, in AOL-speak
- 40DSound a bug sometimes makes?
- 41DTaylor Swift, e.g.
- 42DLast song the Beatles recorded (and title of George Harrison's autobiography)
- 43DFormer Justice Scalia
- 45DPatience and humility
- 46DFencer who appears in crosswords?
- 47DEntertains, as a child at bedtime
- 50DThey're generally required for Ph.D.s
- 51DCertain sibling
- 54DAired again
- 56DSubject of an annual Dutch festival
- 59DHaving overdone it, in a way
- 60DRelax
- 61DRich deposit
- 64DCommon tide