Portmanteau slang for the next generation of wonderful
26A
—demisemiquaver; 1/64th note
28A
Notable time
29A
LUNCH
32A
The greater amount
36A
From Semerwater to Ure this North Yorkshire River is 3.95 km long
37A
It's been keeping Uniform Resource Locators uniform since 1998 (and what an upbeat acronym!)
38A
With it
40A
Not true
41A
DINNER
42A
What people outside the United Kingdom and New Zealand call a butty
44A
Medicine-approving org.
45A
British battleship letters
48A
More than just a number (and a hint to the meta)
49A
Black Dragon tea
51A
Yellow part of an egg
55A
American Gelato
59A
Satellites above this have orbital periods of 24 hours or more
60A
Spanish sparkling wines
61A
Monterey's Cannery Row went bust nearly overnight when their populations mysteriously plummeted
66A
Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in 1973
67A
River to the Gulf of Mexico
68A
HIGH TEA
69A
Where one might see four squares
Verticales
1D
One who steals
2D
So out its in
3D
Words on a candy heart
4D
Crust and filling
5D
— Banos, California
6D
Recede
7D
Blueberry gal
8D
Practice piece
9D
Dairy product
10D
Potassium-rich fruit
11D
Larger-than-life
12D
Church recess
13D
Insult
14D
Nickname for Theresa
21D
In support of
23D
River through Lake Geneva
24D
With "Bon" a kitchen cleanser
25D
used as a function word to indicate combination, accompaniment, presence, or addition
27D
Bird that is one letter away from a coffee server
29D
Ankle bones
30D
Badger St.
31D
Youth organization for the stupid, selfish and lazy but nonetheless in good health
32D
Irritate
33D
Salt, Fat, —, Heat
34D
"Shoot me the pot and I'll pour me a shot A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup! Oh, slip me a slug from the wonderful mug And I cut a rug till I'm snug in a jug"
35D
Last word of James Joyce's "Ulysses"
36D
Ribald
39D
Manipulated chessman
40D
New Deal monogram
43D
Yuletide quaff; and Quark's nephew
45D
"Giddyap,—!"
46D
Hugh Jass drank at his tavern but Oliver Klozzoff did not
47D
A branch of the organization that kidnapped Patty Hearst
50D
Everything and all
52D
Messages from (and anagram of) Everything and all
53D
City in the Aire River valley in the Pennines foothills
54D
Belonging to Beardless Michael, the Byzantine governor of Chirmenkia (ah, Wikipedia! The last resort for the desperate defensive crossword constructor)
55D
Rapper who sounds like he belongs in the overall theme of this grid
56D
Ready money.
57D
Endovascular aneurysm repair; abbr.
58D
Battenberg is a nice one. So is Angel's Food and Devil's food.
62D
Portable bed
63D
Banned substance in sports
64D
"The haunt of Seales and —s, and Sea-mews clang"-Milton, "Paradise Lost" (Killer whales supposedly)
65D
Comic's prince who married Aleta in 1946
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This mechanism is fairly convoluted. But I hope it's weirdness will lead to a very solid AHA moment.
EDIT: Convoluted? How naive was I to think this would be convoluted? This was my second serious attempt at a meta and I was trying (and I think I succeeded for the most part) to keep it simple. The only convolution is I hadn't quite (and still haven't) figured out how to hide answers in plain sight. Still compared to every other meta I've attempted to construct this is a simple and straightforward as I seem capable of doing.
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Anyway.... The title is "Four Square Meals" and as per the title there are four clues that are meals. The answer to those clues are all numbers. The clue and entry at 69 A that says you will find "squares" in "math class" indicates that "square" should be taken in its mathematical sense. If you square the four numbers you get 16, 4, 25, and 9. If you look at the entries for 16A, 4D, 25D and 9D the entries are: APPLEPIEWITHCHEESE. As traditionally numbers in a meta mean the letters in the squares and not the words in the entries, I included 48A as a hint.
whimsy 19:42 · hace más de 2 años
Delightful! But I wish 55 were the square of a number 'cause I'd prefer that on top! :)
Apple pie with cheese is a bit old-fashioned these days but I really wish it'd come back in style as it's truly delightful. Anyway, I was in a classic old-fashioned type of mood when I wrote it.
Hence the rhyme from my grandmother's childhood:
Apple pie without the cheese
>is like a hug without the squeeze.
and you will find many references to it in literature from the 40s or so.