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◆◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-10-04T00:36:13.264Z

Meta Prompt
The meta is an animal
This one is ..... different. But it's a clever idea someone had to do eventually.
This is the cleaner lighter version of https://crosshare.org/crosswords/84UPmJBGduLJiBdE9cUv/the-sum-of-its-parts but this one is better in every way.
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  • benchen71 8:38 · 2022-10-04T03:59:15.701Z
    Nice one! I felt a bit like a blind person in that famous EPIGRAM but it all came together in the end!
    1A
    Humiliate
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Humiliate
    2. 5A
      Cable sports channel; home of SportsCenter
    3. 8A
      Went above the speed limit
    4. 11A
      Region of Middle-Earth where the Hobbits live
    5. 16A
      Snake
    6. 18A
      Closed path
    7. 20A
      Pieces
    8. 22A
      Dial-up hardware
    9. 23A
      A wide shoe but not the widest
    10. 24A
      Unitary
    11. 25A
      Fan
    12. 26A
      Consumed
    13. 27A
      Of (French)
    14. 28A
      Ave. crossers (well, in NYC at least... that counts as everywhere doesn't it)
    15. 30A
      Rules for sending data
    16. 31A
      "Was it several airplanes from that company that was bought out by American Airlines in 2001?" "Aye,---"
    17. 33A
      Fashionable
    18. 34A
      70's kid
    19. 35A
      L'chaim!
    20. 37A
      What a holist never thinks reality should be viz a viz its parts
    21. 39A
      Tree trunk
    22. 40A
      Unclothed
    23. 41A
      "---- that have to happen?"
    24. 43A
      Portmanteau that is dangerous to breathe.
    25. 44A
      Move through water
    26. 47A
      Region
    27. 49A
      Wall
    28. 51A
      Top of a building
    29. 53A
      Rope
    30. 56A
      Pound
    31. 57A
      Former name for Tokyo
    32. 58A
      Okay, this is a wider shoe
    33. 59A
      Easy-going
    34. 60A
      Dawn-
    35. 61A
      Measurement for the effect of a substance
    36. 62A
      Short clever story
    37. 64A
      Before noon
    38. 65A
      Preposition to indicate purpose (one of about a dozen meanings)
    39. 66A
      Have meaning other than the apparent
    40. 69A
      Function or purpose
    41. 70A
      Pose a question
    42. 71A
      Covertly place an agent for gathering information
    43. 72A
      Knife of old
    44. 73A
      Spear
    45. 75A
      Elevated edge
    46. 77A
      Christmas figure
    47. 78A
      Folksinger and activist Joan
    48. 79A
      Atop of
    49. 80A
      Essential circulating fluid
    Down
    1. 1D
      23 of these were done on the Bikini Atoll
    2. 2D
      Cape ----- Island; home to Margaree Harbor, the Cabot Trail, Meat Cove, the Mabou Coal Mines, Beinn Bhreagh, etc.
    3. 3D
      Measurement based on the distance from the sun to the Earth
    4. 4D
      --cone or ---cat
    5. 6D
      Therefore
    6. 7D
      What John Godfrey Saxe didn't have despite his profession
    7. 9D
      Circumference to diameter ratio
    8. 10D
      Greek aspiration letter
    9. 12D
      One third of 77A's exclamation
    10. 13D
      Needs, wants, impulses and desires
    11. 14D
      Buy back
    12. 15D
      Come out from
    13. 17D
      A modern 72A
    14. 18D
      Cartoon skunk who never suppresses his 13D
    15. 19D
      What 18D did frequently to Penelope Pussycat
    16. 20D
      Thin nails
    17. 21D
      New Yorker cartoonist and author of children's books "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble", "Abel's Island", "Shrek!", and "Doctor De Soto"
    18. 22D
      Fixes; repairs; heals
    19. 29D
      Speak indistinctly
    20. 32D
      Japanese wrestling
    21. 34D
      Responsio ad quaestionem ultimam de vita, universitate et de omnibus
    22. 36D
      ----- fixe
    23. 38D
      Sound like a pigeon
    24. 42D
      Hello
    25. 45D
      Material soft, impressionable, or readily molded
    26. 46D
      Dirigibles
    27. 47D
      Nino's grandmother
    28. 48D
      Skilled at
    29. 49D
      Second-years
    30. 50D
      Weird
    31. 51D
      Respond to
    32. 52D
      Vessel that can be typed on a keyboard with fingers in original position
    33. 53D
      More docile
    34. 54D
      "C'mon already!"
    35. 55D
      Purposely saw
    36. 63D
      Hebrides island
    37. 67D
      Neutral color
    38. 68D
      Formicidae
    39. 69D
      Mil. entertainment group
    40. 70D
      Commotion
    41. 74D
      Pixar movie featuring Carl, Russell, Kevin, and Dug
    42. 76D
      Elgin's St.
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