Solution to Evan Birnholz’s October 17 Post Magazine crossword, “Multiple Choice Test”

Now, go back to the clue for FOUR-LETTER WORD. It says there are seven of them in the puzzle that will help you solve part of the meta. What you need to do is find the four-letter words that are relevant to each answer. Remember how I said, above, that the seven answers are “a video game, a band, a TV show, a three-word phrase, a superhero, a beer, and a French city”? It turns out that several of those words are in the grid and, in fact, their clues could roughly serve as clues for the test answer questions:

Source: WP