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Hungry Little Critter

· By woozy · Published 2024-04-09T16:43:39.302Z

Meta Prompt
In this grid is a hungry little animal looking for food. The answer to the meta is the food it finds.
In this grid is a hungry little animal looking for food. The answer to the meta is the food it finds.
This should be a cute one. The animal is in the cover image, for what it's worth. And the food... well, it's not in the image (or if it is I can't see it-- they don't seem to be eating any food).
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  • kurtalert solved 2024-04-09T21:36:57.815Z

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  • Echser 10s · 2024-04-11T00:29:49.256Z
    these clues are way too long LOLLL
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    The little creature uses this four times to find its food
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    Across
    1. 1A
      The little creature uses this four times to find its food
    2. 6A
      IBM PC model; or Health Care Provider
    3. 12A
      Pilfers
    4. 13A
      Colorful lettuce type
    5. 15A
      Country found in a wardrobe
    6. 16A
      Part of many Requiem compositions
    7. 17A
      Remove the label from
    8. 18A
      Fashion designer who said "Beauty must be daring, or it is not beautiful"
    9. 19A
      "When I kissed the Teacher" band
    10. 20A
      In the first five letters, if you are not AD, then you must be this
    11. 21A
      Needles '_ ____ Yarn Shoppe (a yarn shop in Delavan, WI); or Flicks _' ____ (a family entertainment center in Marbleton, WY where you can watch movies and go bowling); or maybe, just maybe, some of the labelled jumper thingies you have to set on your motherboard when you reconfigure your BIOS settings... maybe
    12. 23A
      "March Madness" games, informally
    13. 24A
      Dry and withered
    14. 26A
      CBS News Sunday Morning host who was voice of the narrator of Horton hears a Who
    15. 28A
      Abbr. for.... since everyone loves math, how about, Lucas–Lehmer primality test for Mersenne numbers; or the Cholesky decomposition, an algorithm to decompose matrix A into a lower Matrix L. No? Medicine then, Laser lithotripsy, a surgical procedure to remove urinary stones. Linus Media Group? Oh, all right, I'll make something up. A junior commissioned officer who is in command of one side of a unit (not the right side)
    16. 29A
      Ozone depleting chemicals
    17. 31A
      For a book, one leafs through the pages. For an electronic document one does this. Isn't this ironic as these pre-date books by millenia?
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      Trapeze artist
    19. 34A
      Storable source of electricity
    20. 35A
      Ancient Cretans
    21. 38A
      Ladies of Spain
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      Courses for college credit
    23. 40A
      "This isn't Frankenfood" label.
    24. 42A
      Workplace safety watchdog
    25. 46A
      Gained victory again
    26. 48A
      Not get up right away
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      Out of Germ.
    28. 51A
      ___ _ test (do really well on); pan____(a cure all); crust____n (An animal that is characterized by, er, crustiness)
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      Er stürzet der Verkehrten Rat Und hindert ____ böse Tat. (He destroys the plots of the perverse and hinders their evil actions.) (German: possessive pronoun, accusative. plural)
    30. 53A
      East coast grocery chain (not to be confused with the news agency)
    31. 55A
      Where "The Alienist" author, Caleb, goes to swim?
    32. 57A
      Opposed
    33. 58A
      Deeds and doings
    34. 59A
      County of Oregon that is the namesake of the most widely cultivated variety of blackberries
    35. 60A
      Poem with fourteen lines of five-foot iambics
    36. 61A
      "What's this bird on the back of my dollar coin?" "That? That's _ ___"
    Down
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      Position taken (literally of figuratively)
    2. 2D
      Discus tosser Al
    3. 3D
      Newfoundland who tended the Darling Children
    4. 4D
      Orient to correct relative position
    5. 5D
      Where one would be marching to Pretoria
    6. 6D
      Airy solo vocal works
    7. 7D
      1) Look narrowly 2) An equal 3) Titled aristocracy 4) A urinator (Hey... did you know that a urinator once meant someone who dives underwater? In which case they ____ through goggles.)
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      Football scores.
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      Related to the hip bone
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      With words
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      Highest level of play in the minor leagues (and not powered by very small batteries, as I first thought)
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      Deliberately ignores
    13. 14D
      What the hungry little beastie does when it finds its food.
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      Scatterbrain
    15. 18D
      Insult and berate the last letter of this clue because you think it'd work better as only three letters.
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      Range of mountains in NE Pennsylvania
    17. 23D
      Albanian native form of the first name meaning "man" (It anagrams to a more common form. And if you precede it by an "A" you also get a more common form which is often given to girls as well as boys)
    18. 25D
      "____, the Dolphin" SEGA game. (And a homophone for a useful concept for this meta)
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      Tax on bringing goods into a district (from the French for "to grant, authorize", and not for "eight kings")
    20. 30D
      Actress Mary, who played Joanna Loudon on "Newhart"
    21. 32D
      Approximately a bear
    22. 33D
      Ultimately having to have you actions overseen by
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      Shaker; chac-chac; rattle,
    24. 36D
      Emetic syrups
    25. 37D
      George Carlin was the first one in 1975. Frank Zappa was one and he was so terrible he was banned from the show
    26. 38D
      His boss threatened the Darling children
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      Gotham City protector whose secret identity is Barbara Gordon
    28. 43D
      Home company of Badz-Maru, Keroppi. Pochacco, and, of course, (Hello) Kitty White
    29. 44D
      Explorer captain of the Half Moon.
    30. 45D
      Poplar trembler
    31. 47D
      Paddle up to the slip
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      Pertaining to warships
    33. 52D
      Just to be silly, I entered this first name of actress Skye, into the cell in the ninth column of the first row of my spreadsheet
    34. 54D
      English Chocolate bar so named for its foamy texture full of bubbles
    35. 56D
      In The Scarecrow of Oz the gardner's boy who was the son of King Phearse and beloved of Princess Gloria (___ my word!)
    36. 57D
      Doctors group
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