A Puzzle Of Cities (Meta)
◆ · Por benchen71 · Publicado 2022-02-22T05:00:13.446Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is an Australian city containing 4 of the 5 vowels and which you will never have seen in any crossword ever
This crossword is a response to Matt Gaffney's recent "A City of Puzzles". It has to be said that metas can be rather US-centric, which often means Internet research for those of us without the requisite general knowledge. In my attempts to solve "A City of Puzzles", I came up with what I thought the meta mechanic was, based on a number of Google Map searches, only to discover that my browser tabs were in the wrong order which completely invalidated the whole thing. But then I thought: I could use that mechanic in one of my own puzzles. All this to say that anyone not living in Australia might need to make use of Google as you try and find the answer to the meta which is an Australian city containing 4 of the 5 vowels and which you will never have seen in any crossword ever! Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1465&start=20#p84349
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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Horizontales
- 1AEquine partner of clip
- 5ANorthern Australian city that was devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974
- 11ABig Blue
- 14A"Brooklyn Nine Nine" cop, ___ Diaz
- 15AChange the title of
- 16AScot's denial
- 17A"___ be alright on the night!"
- 18ADressed like Dame Edna
- 19APrinters' measures
- 20ANorth-western Australian city that sounds like a household cleaning item
- 22ANorth-eastern Australian city with convenient access to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest
- 24AApt acronym for the Sport and Recreation Complaints and Mediation Service
- 28ARwandan resident, perhaps
- 29AMonty Python member, Michael ___
- 33ABrought to a stop
- 35AEgyptian sun god
- 36AOutdoor enclosures for felines
- 37AGolfer, Ernie ___
- 40ARested (on)
- 41ACentral Australian city as it appears in the title of Neville Shute's 1950 novel (it's no longer a town, though)
- 42AGet bigger
- 43APublishing VIPs
- 44ATelephoned
- 45AFlaky mineral
- 46AOlivia Newton-John film of 1980
- 47AAustralia II, with its winged keel, for example
- 48ASouth-western Australian city that is actually closer to Singapore than it is to 55 across
- 51APharrell Williams song from the soundtrack for "Despicable Me 2"
- 53ADugong (not an Aussie insult; that's drongo, you drongo!)
- 55ASouth-eastern Australian city that is part of a long-running feud with Melbourne over which city is the best (in case you were wondering it's Melbourne, but that harbour is, I have to admit, spectacular)
- 60A___ Shapiro of NPR
- 61AHow some medicines are taken
- 65AGlowing review
- 66A"Encanto" songwriter, ___-Manuel Miranda
- 67AMint that comes in a plastic box with a flip-top lid
- 68ASheltered, at sea
- 69ASee 47 down
- 70AWhat iodine is used to test for the presence of
- 71ASouth-eastern Australian city with the first syllable dropped due to our penchant for shortening things (but it's better than dropping the second syllable!)
Verticales
- 1D"Away in a manger, no ___ for a bed"
- 2DTolkien trilogy, to fans
- 3DCapital on a fjord (and definitely not part of the meta)
- 4D___ Alto, CA (also definitely not part of the meta)
- 5DMore arid
- 6DVirgil's epic Latin poem, "The ___eid"
- 7DBoxing match div.
- 8DMajor conflict
- 9DApple computer
- 10DInvalidates
- 11DNonreactive
- 12DWedding announcement
- 13DArgentine soccer superstar, Lionel ___
- 21DYahoo! competitor
- 23DBirth control method, for short
- 25DSabbath bread (unless it's Passover)
- 26DUnofficial national anthem of Australia about a vagabond who steals a sheep and commits suicide rather than be arrested, "Waltzing ___"
- 27DPrepare to serve, as a pie
- 29DLacking colour
- 30DSomewhat
- 31DHawaiian garlands
- 32DQuaint lodging
- 34D___ the line (obeyed)
- 36DActor who played Will Ferrell's estranged father in "Elf", James ___
- 37DMonty Python member, ___ Idle
- 38DScottish body of water
- 39DGo after a fly
- 42D"Today" rival, for short
- 44DCollusion
- 46DAndy Partridge's rock band with a blissful-sounding name
- 47DChristmas-related rebus: 47 down 69 across
- 48DBiblical song (1 of 150)
- 49DSpooky
- 50DActor ___ Wilson of "The Office"
- 52DIntimidate, with "out"
- 54D___ large (clear and obvious)
- 56DDreary
- 57D"The Lion King" lioness
- 58D"And they all lived happily ___ after"
- 59DGen Z exclamation of excitement
- 62DObamacare initials (and for my Aussie solvers, the TV show hosted by Tracy Grimshaw)
- 63DPaper size in the US
- 64DLake in French