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Coming Up Short (Meta)

· Por benchen71 · Publicado 2024-08-07T06:00:48.582Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a 2024 folk/Americana album suggested by what the four themers need
What do you do when you're too sick to go to work, but not sick enough to be in bed all day? If you're anything like me you decide to construct a meta crossword. The answer to the meta is the title of a 2024 folk/Americana album suggested by what the four themers need. Answer, explanation, and music video: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=175522#p175522
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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  • DrTom solved 2024-06-07T22:42:34.363Z
  • woozy solved 2024-08-07T07:33:46.171Z
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  • Pair O Ducks solved 2024-08-07T14:44:27.053Z
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  • benchen71 constructor · 2024-08-07T06:00:48.582Z
    And here's the music video for Pete's latest single from the album, "And (Hold On)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92B1FfoCd3E. Enjoy!
    • Pair O Ducks 🤓6:49 · 2024-08-07T14:57:07.810Z
      Lovely tribute, Ben. At first the MMMM made me think of Crash Test Dummies. Once I saw PETE, the rest clicked into place.
      • Meg 3s · 2024-08-07T16:08:05.491Z
        While solving the grid I kept muttering to myself that with all these random music clues it felt just like the M4. Some sleuthing involved for sure, but a lovely aha moment.
        • woozy 20:45 · 2024-08-07T18:47:44.634Z
          So great puzzle!
          • benchen71 constructor · 2024-08-07T23:34:13.621Z
            Thanks, woozy! I'm glad you persevered. :D
          • woozy 20:45 · 2024-08-07T18:47:24.924Z
            I had no idea that 1) Pete Muller was a musician and 2) that Pete Muller's first name was Pete. I did think 43A was MMMM but it could also be MMM. I searched I saw the MMMM in the diagonal so I google American and MMMM and found that Michael Martin Murphy (who?) goes by MMM but i) I didn't like it was only 3 Ms not four (after all there had to be a reason the grid was 16x 16) and ii) his last album was in 2023 and iii) It's title was relevent.
            When I was told the name wasn't MMMM I found PETE but didn't connect PETE with anything (after all, there are many Pete's in the world and most of them are people I don't know). I googled "2024 Americana Album "PETE"" and saw a hit for Pete Muller's "More Time" and thought "well, that's a coincidence he has the same name as the puzzle constructor and the title fitting the theme makes it 100%er".
            • hoover 5s · 2024-08-08T16:17:57.229Z
              I saw Pete and MMMM shortly after seeing the four themers, but I also had no clue that Pete was anyone other than just another Muggle creating metas.
            • HeadinHome 🤓3:18 · 2024-08-08T00:18:08.060Z
              Shoved here by Meg… I was completely unaware of Pete Muller other than that he does a meta series (which I don’t do because I don’t know music & artists at all, so…. Next puzzle will be more my thing I’m sure! ( :
              • ELSavage 🤓12:52 · 2024-08-08T02:11:02.204Z
                Definitely not my wheelhouse, but persistence, and re-focusing on the central clue got me to the right Google search.
                • Tyrpmom 4s · 2024-08-08T03:42:48.488Z
                  Nice tribute. I’m glad I solve the MMMM or I don’t think I would have gotten the meta.
                  • boharr 3s · 2024-08-08T14:25:24.991Z
                    The grid was impossible so I cheated and revealed it. Then it took just one Google search to get to Pete.
                    • DCBilly 3s · 2024-08-08T17:00:51.233Z
                      This was like the magician who draws my attention so much to one tricky, apparently important thing that I don't pay attention to two other actually important things (which I did see, but just forgot about, duh). I knew enough about the hidden features that it was easy to find the album name once I had found the features.
                      • KayW 🤓8:20 · 2024-08-08T17:20:49.301Z
                        What a great meta - and tribute, and plug for his album! I hope you let Pete know about this one!
                        • benchen71 constructor · 2024-08-08T23:16:32.653Z
                          I haven't let Pete know yet, but I might!
                        • Laura M 🤓13:54 · 2024-08-08T23:47:05.556Z
                          Nice! I should have figured it out but needed the nudges.
                          1A
                          Item dropped after you've made your point (not a meta hint)
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                          1. 1A
                            Item dropped after you've made your point (not a meta hint)
                          2. 4A
                            Brain scan, for short
                          3. 7A
                            Ecol. watchdog
                          4. 10A
                            "The ___ That Bind" (Bruce Springsteen song)
                          5. 14A
                            Chilean desert
                          6. 16A
                            Mitchell's husband on "Modern Family", for short
                          7. 17A
                            Fencer's blade
                          8. 18A
                            Lots of them end in "ly"
                          9. 19A
                            Moment involving a lamb's tail
                          10. 21A
                            The "C" of USMC
                          11. 23A
                            "Hands off my bone!" sound
                          12. 24A
                            Have a break
                          13. 27A
                            ___ Baroni, opera singer in "A Night at the Opera"
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                            "Selma" director DuVernay
                          15. 32A
                            Apple ad line spoken by actor Justin Long
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                            Opposite of "ja"
                          17. 35A
                            "You'd better stand back / The flames are high / Better ___ / Can't stop the fire" (Rolling Stones lyric)
                          18. 38A
                            Key of the song referenced in 35 across
                          19. 40A
                            Full collection
                          20. 41A
                            Crossword series that featured the puzzle you are currently solving despite the fact that it could be part of another crossword series... and I don't mean MOAT (and that is a meta hint)
                          21. 42A
                            Uni. term
                          22. 44A
                            16 across, 27 across, 31 across, 46 across, 52 across, 54 across, 59 across, 67 across, 78 across, and one hidden in the centre of this grid, for example
                          23. 46A
                            Singer Mark with a debut album entitled "Three Dimensions Deep"
                          24. 48A
                            Channel that ironically opened with the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star"
                          25. 50A
                            Denial heard repeatedly by the Little Red 83 across
                          26. 51A
                            With 51 across, a song by The Fureys from 1993
                          27. 52A
                            Malek of "Bohemian Rhapsody"
                          28. 54A
                            Carmen with a self-titled debut album produced by Prince
                          29. 57A
                            "Everything else" category (abbr.)
                          30. 59A
                            "Downtown" singer Clark
                          31. 61A
                            Minstrel's song
                          32. 62A
                            Desperately in need of 6 down
                          33. 64A
                            Fame's span, in minutes
                          34. 67A
                            Tori of "Little Earthquakes"
                          35. 68A
                            Jazz ensemble with eight players
                          36. 69A
                            Length of a nap
                          37. 73A
                            Out of the elements
                          38. 77A
                            Out of the wind
                          39. 78A
                            Carides of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
                          40. 79A
                            "Uh huh, that's hot steamin' like ___" (lyric from Lady Gaga's "Heiress")
                          41. 80A
                            Like a sloth
                          42. 81A
                            What a mess!
                          43. 82A
                            They're made of mos.
                          44. 83A
                            See 50 across (definitely not a meta hint)
                          Verticales
                          1. 1D
                            Goat's comment
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                            "___ be my pleasure!"
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                            King Charles spaniel, familiarly
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                            "Have the ___ someone important" (be in a position of influence)
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                            Involve, as in an argument
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                            They give you fuel in the US
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                            Author Umberto
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                            What this crossword would be if Q, X and Z were in the grid (also not a meta hint)
                          9. 9D
                            "___ Pie" (song by Don McLean)
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                            City in which the Persian-American power metal group Angband was formed in 2004
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                            Brewpub letters
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                            "A mouse!"
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                            Comprehend
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                            Gospel singer Winans
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                            Student Representative Council, for short
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                            Spanish Mrs.
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                            Kids' game called "chasey" in Australia
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                            Alternate title for Schubert's "Ellens dritter Gesang"
                          19. 26D
                            She played tambourine on the Oasis album "Be Here Now"
                          20. 28D
                            Move
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                            Requiem Mass hymn
                          22. 30D
                            Toronto's prov.
                          23. 33D
                            People in charge (abbr.)
                          24. 36D
                            Food-warming area on a hearth
                          25. 37D
                            Pretty as a pitcher?
                          26. 39D
                            Addiction sufferer, according to a Los Angeles band
                          27. 43D
                            Give off
                          28. 45D
                            Soft shoe, for short
                          29. 47D
                            Lauren Hill's "Lost Ones" and Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It" for two
                          30. 49D
                            What v stands for in a physics formula
                          31. 51D
                            2010 song by Usher / 2017 song by Camila Cabello / 2019 song by Gryffin and Carly Rae Jepsen / etc...
                          32. 53D
                            GI field gear
                          33. 55D
                            Taylor in the music video for "I Can See You (Taylor's Version)"
                          34. 56D
                            Part of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum's pen-name
                          35. 58D
                            Attacked like a cat
                          36. 60D
                            Sneaky Sound System single about seeing something shining in the sky
                          37. 63D
                            Early Beatles label
                          38. 65D
                            How an Aussie might describe a beet
                          39. 66D
                            Battle rapper from Fuquay-Varina, NC
                          40. 69D
                            Bit of body art
                          41. 70D
                            Jeff Lynne's band, for short
                          42. 71D
                            Song by the Japanese girl group Perfume that means "Hey"
                          43. 72D
                            With 72 down and 72 down, a song by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson from 1983
                          44. 74D
                            La-la lead-in
                          45. 75D
                            Numbered hwy.
                          46. 76D
                            IRS ID
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