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Laundry Day (Meta)

· Di benchen71 · Pubblicato 2024-02-27T05:00:44.776Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a 4-letter word
In our house, every Saturday is laundry day. Actually, we do loads of washing mid-week, too. But Saturday is the day for specific items that need washing on a regular basis. Some of these just might be hidden in this puzzle. The answer to the meta is a 4-letter word. Answer & explanation: https://xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=158958#p158958
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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  • DJB 4s · 2024-02-27T06:51:51.296Z
    Loved it!
    • woozy 🤓9:32 · 2024-02-27T07:50:18.606Z
      Oh, that was wonderful!
      • woozy 🤓9:32 · 2024-02-27T07:52:14.665Z
        So the order.... asterisk firs across and then down?
        Or did even the soap get spun
        • benchen71 costruttore · 2024-02-27T08:34:06.739Z
          Starting with 17A go clockwise around the long answers like you are watching through the viewing window of a wall-mounted washer! :D
        • Berto 2s · 2024-02-27T10:12:43.304Z
          My head’s in a spin! Very cool Ben, thanks!
          • Cindy Heisler 1s · 2024-02-27T13:59:31.195Z
            That was fun! Thanks, Ben!
            • MatthewL 🤓7:08 · 2024-02-27T15:09:07.366Z
              Nice one. Found sheets and the bed linen clue, and then it was pretty much off to the races. Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
              • KayW 8:45 · 2024-02-27T15:12:17.644Z
                Very creative - thanks Ben!
                • Ergcat 12:27 · 2024-02-27T15:48:38.669Z
                  Very clever! Thanks, Ben!
                  • Carolyn 3s · 2024-02-27T16:14:17.766Z
                    Jumped to the wrong conclusion, then saw the light! Very cool.
                    • HeadinHome 🤓1:44 · 2024-02-27T17:26:47.902Z
                      How many others did what I did? I was so excited when I found you could spell DIRT (in order) in all of them, I quickly submitted that 4-letter word. Good ole crosshare… it just says “keep trying, you silly.” The next step was even more fun (the spin cycle). Actually, when I thought the answer might be DIRT I was disappointed, because I had found so many other fun things… such as the fact that “bed linen” (sheet) could be found (in order!) in DISHSTREET if you removed DISTR (I had not yet seen DIRT in all the themers, so I thought maybe the leftover letters would lead to something.. maybe DISTR was short for distribute? district?) Oddly, I had also noticed that “something that will absorb water” (sponge) was in DESIGNPORT, but didn’t follow through with the leftovers enough to notice that one would have left DIRT, in that order. Spotting the D-I-R-T was just a stumble-upon a few minutes after all that work. This puzzle has several points of entry; it’s fun to see them all come together!
                      • Darth 13:11 · 2024-02-27T17:10:27.777Z
                        I missed finding one (17A doesn't seem to fit, so I must have spun it wrong) but 3 out of 4 gave me enough of what I knew had to be the answer. I'll take a closer look later. Thanks, Ben.
                        • Meg 3s · 2024-02-27T18:24:35.045Z
                          Very nice construction!
                          • hoover 3s · 2024-02-27T18:50:24.833Z
                            Third time's the charm! My first attempt was TIDE, because I noticed that all four themers contained these letters, and the remaining letters made nice words that needed washing. Then I tried again and noticed that I could wash the DIRT out of all four themers. Finally I thought to do something with the leftover words. First I tried to find clues that would fit them, but I could only find two that kinda-sorta fit. Then I looked at the clues again and saw that some of them were really long with extraneous bits...
                            • Sharkicicles 2s · 2024-02-27T20:09:08.035Z
                              Wow. Great idea and execution! I’m guessing the SPIN is a cryptic anagramming clue?
                              • benchen71 costruttore · 2024-02-27T21:43:12.116Z
                                It is indeed! :D
                              • Laura M 🤓9:11 · 2024-02-27T22:57:48.875Z
                                Loved it! 23A: Not sure what you're on about, it's definitely in the earlier seasons too :-)
                                • benchen71 costruttore · 2024-02-28T00:02:48.529Z
                                  Clearly, I don't recall the earlier seasons! ;-)
                                • kurtalert 🤓5:22 · 2024-02-27T23:06:42.848Z
                                  Loved this, thanks Ben!
                                  • Tyrpmom 2s · 2024-02-28T04:58:36.254Z
                                    This one’s a winner!
                                    • Qmark 3s · 2024-02-28T15:59:26.921Z
                                      fun one...thanks Ben!
                                      • DrTom 7s · 2024-02-28T17:39:59.200Z
                                        Oh, you're a dirty boy Ben!!! I got this backwards. The clues for the "clothing" were so bizarre that I used them to tease out the item + DIRT (ex SPONGE + DIRT) in each of the long clues, then, since I had to "spin" the DIRT letters in most cases I went for DIRT. Only when Crosshare told me it was wrong did I go back and look at the letters of the "laundry item" clues. As soon as I had S and P I knew what I needed. I have to say, your ID tag clue was so oddly worded thatit nearly led me astray. Fun puzzle, thanks Ben.
                                        • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓4:26 · 2024-02-29T16:39:03.881Z
                                          That was a workout, but I made it! (I did look at the nudges, but they all said things I had either already done or knew I had to do, so I am going to count this as an "unaided" solve.) I sussed out the directions in 1A and 69A and (eventually) got the anagrams, and then figured I had to go to the clues, but that was the step that took me a while. Thanks for the challenge!
                                          • ajk 9:57 · 2024-02-29T16:43:30.310Z
                                            Very nice. Needed the second nudge for some reason, even though I was trying yesterday to wash and then anagram. But I guess my subconscious needed to be told that they all needed to be washed in the same way before it could see the DIRT. Wasn't immediately certain that I was supposed to link the ANYA clue to BLOUSE, but once I reread the OCTOMOM clue I was pretty confident that was the path. Seems like the SOS and PRIM clues should have jumped out more initially, but I guess sometimes it just comes across as trying to come up with a new clue for something like SOS. :)
                                            • Mikey G 🤓4:38 · 2024-03-01T00:10:44.962Z
                                              A lot of fun! I wonder if I could have grokked it if I noticed the bonus clues along the way, but it wouldn't nearly have been as much fun! Really liked this one!!
                                              • Mikey G 🤓4:38 · 2024-03-01T00:11:54.395Z
                                                You're doing laundry? Hey, get a load of this! (I had to cycle through some of these puns.)
                                                • Steve M 35:36 · 2024-03-02T17:36:22.514Z
                                                  Fun one! I spotted the DIRT, but didn’t wash it out right away. After cleaning up, things fell into place.
                                                  1A
                                                  Step 1: ___ clean
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                                                  Orizzontali
                                                  1. 1A
                                                    Step 1: ___ clean
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                                                    Jeff Tweedy's band
                                                  3. 10A
                                                    Biblical nudist colony?
                                                  4. 14A
                                                    "The Queen's Gambit" actress, ___ Taylor-Joy, who was single-handedly responsible for the revival of the Peter Pan collar top
                                                  5. 15A
                                                    Parisian love
                                                  6. 16A
                                                    Heap
                                                  7. 17A
                                                    * Plan ships' docking area
                                                  8. 19A
                                                    Capri, for one
                                                  9. 20A
                                                    Contest submissions
                                                  10. 21A
                                                    Type of tones used when the situation is fraught with tension
                                                  11. 23A
                                                    RPG that features in the later seasons of "Stranger Things"
                                                  12. 24A
                                                    Youngest of the first generation of Titans of Greek myth
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                                                    Digital novel
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                                                    Spanish uncle
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                                                    Suitcase attachment (just make sure you use brightly coloured ones so you can quickly tell which are yours when they drop onto the luggage carousel!)
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                                                    How a judge might be referred to by a serf: "m'___"
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                                                    "The Sandman" author, Neil ___
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                                                    One of the Great Lakes, the one that sounds slightly spooky
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                                                    Three, on a sundial
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                                                    Epithet for Nadya Suleman who, with eight newborns, needed a lot of bed linen
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                                                    British record label
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                                                    "Just give me the precis! In fact, I'm so hard up for time I'm only going to talk in initials!"
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                                                    Movie theater
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                                                    And so on (abbr.)
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                                                    Cultural values
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                                                    Ani's racing vehicle (cf. "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace")
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                                                    Childish comeback
                                                  28. 51A
                                                    Second book in the Bible
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                                                    "The Cars that ___ Paris" (1974 Australian horror comedy film directed by Peter Weir)
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                                                    Part of a sentence
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                                                    Movies enact them
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                                                    Jockey's strap (but not a jockstrap)
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                                                    * "Pal, untruths go bad"
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                                                    One of many in the fire, perhaps
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                                                    Humanitarian org. created by JFK
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                                                    "American Beauty" actress, ___ Suvari
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                                                    Aussie friend
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                                                    Sign on a 7 down, perhaps
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                                                    Step 2: ___ dry
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                                                    Walk through water
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                                                    Ancient Egyptian official during the late 18th Dynasty of Egypt
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                                                    The "S" of GPS
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                                                    Stylist's creation
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                                                    Faded away
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                                                    Mischief makers
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                                                    WC, downunder
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                                                    Mongrel
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                                                    Prefix for -dox that means "straight"
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                                                    Instalment in a serialized story
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                                                    * Platter thoroughfare
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                                                    Fashion magazine
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                                                    Necessity
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                                                    ___ biloba (maidenhair tree)
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                                                    Place of higher education, in Aussie slang
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                                                    Japanese robes
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                                                    Wandered around
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                                                    Best of the best
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                                                    English nursey rhyme, "The House that Jack ___"
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                                                    * That guy participated in the public disturbance?
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                                                    "The Mikado" setting, where you would presumably see many 24 downs
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                                                    "We ___ please!"
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                                                    Company with a spokeslizard
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                                                    Grammatical case of the direct object (abbr.)
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                                                    ___ de plume
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                                                    ___ d' (headwaiter)
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                                                    1979 song with the lyric "You don't have to wear that dress tonight"
                                                  28. 47D
                                                    "Help! The boat is sinking and I desperately need something that will absorb water!"
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                                                    Earthquakes
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                                                    Fix, as software
                                                  31. 53D
                                                    Low-pH compounds
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                                                    It's hard to look ___ and proper in a sweatshirt with a built-in cowl
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                                                    Daughter of 24 across
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                                                    Feature of some skirts
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                                                    Get ready, briefly
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                                                    "Un-break My Heart" singer, ___ Braxton
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                                                    Eminem song featuring English singer Dido
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                                                    Employ
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                                                    "Ghostbusters" actor, ___ Aykroyd
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