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Puerile Numerology

◆ · By Thomas Peri · Published 2024-08-09T01:36:01.654Z

Constructor's Note
I'm not entirely happy with the parenthetical clue in 44 Across, so that may change. It's just a bonus, though, and doesn't affect the solve.
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  • Amy Taramasso 🤓13:46 · 2024-08-09T01:36:01.654Z
    Fun!
    • davidrhoden 🤓10:57 · 2024-08-09T02:29:06.128Z
      Great puzzle! No clues that bugged me, but I don't understand the parenthetical part of 44A at all.
      • Thomas Peri constructor · 2024-08-09T03:31:21.884Z
        4 Down is TWENTY for 420, and 69 Across is NICE
      • kurtalert 🤓4:21 · 2024-08-09T14:34:37.968Z
        Hah. Great theme!
        • Sendhil Revuluri 4:15 · 2024-08-09T23:05:59.854Z
          Fun, thank you! (Solved downs-only — 23D took me forever to finally think of — but had one error in AHH instead of AAH in 9D, dangit!)
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          1A
          Offshoot
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          74
          Across
          1. 1A
            Offshoot
          2. 5A
            "All right, you're free to leave."
          3. 9A
            Forbidden contraction in English class
          4. 13A
            Declare
          5. 14A
            Incidental benefit
          6. 15A
            "Never get involved in a land war in ____" (one of Vizzini's "classic blunders" in The Princess Bride)
          7. 16A
            Device central to 17 Down's job
          8. 18A
            Twice as many leches as usual
          9. 19A
            One of several animated Hills
          10. 20A
            Actress Miller whose name is an earlier answer spelled backwards
          11. 22A
            Quantum ____
          12. 24A
            Had a bite
          13. 25A
            Wrote quickly
          14. 27A
            Dumplings 53 Down might serve
          15. 29A
            Identification card attachments
          16. 31A
            Loan fig.
          17. 32A
            Letters of surprise
          18. 33A
            Quaker's grains
          19. 35A
            Singer LaBelle
          20. 39A
            Buggy folk?
          21. 42A
            Himalayan beast
          22. 43A
            Father of 10 Down, before a name change
          23. 44A
            Amusing (and, with 53 Across, an observation about two other answers regarding their locations on the grid)
          24. 45A
            One of two in a physics experiment
          25. 47A
            DSL provider
          26. 48A
            Nail polish manufacturer
          27. 50A
            Exemplars
          28. 53A
            Penultimate book of the Torah (see also 44 Across)
          29. 57A
            Act divisions
          30. 58A
            Any one of three U.S. state-named schools
          31. 59A
            Goes bad
          32. 61A
            Places
          33. 62A
            Smaller than micro
          34. 64A
            Things associated with jail and chocolate
          35. 66A
            Alma _____
          36. 69A
            Friendly
          37. 70A
            Chooses
          38. 71A
            Urinates
          39. 72A
            Executive dysfunction affliction, for short
          40. 73A
            Directive on some frozen foods
          41. 74A
            Shows one's humanity, per a famous quotation
          Down
          1. 1D
            Companion of Merry and Pippin
          2. 2D
            Early purveyor of fruit
          3. 3D
            Eli Whitney's patent
          4. 4D
            A score
          5. 5D
            Dev suffix
          6. 6D
            Lead-in to over or haul
          7. 7D
            Peer Gynt composer
          8. 8D
            Ukrainian skater Baiul
          9. 9D
            Utterance to a dentist
          10. 10D
            Son of 43 Across, after a name change
          11. 11D
            Beethoven's last
          12. 12D
            George of Star Trek
          13. 17D
            Lovely one in a Beatles song
          14. 21D
            Flight prefix
          15. 23D
            Biggie's nickname
          16. 25D
            _____ and Kashmir
          17. 26D
            Major event dates
          18. 28D
            Grumpy crustacean
          19. 29D
            Lie about, or rye amount
          20. 30D
            Like a 29 Down left out too long
          21. 34D
            Passes over
          22. 36D
            Three months, usually out of nine
          23. 37D
            Stuns, in a way
          24. 38D
            Mythological mischief-makers
          25. 40D
            Hoity-toity one
          26. 41D
            Like someone with 72 Across, maybe
          27. 46D
            Neurological phenomena
          28. 49D
            Collection of Asimov short stories
          29. 51D
            Abound
          30. 52D
            How audiobooks used to be distributed
          31. 53D
            Italian granny
          32. 54D
            American foreign assistance org.
          33. 55D
            Eat loudly
          34. 56D
            Infectious bacterium
          35. 60D
            Spanish Mlle.
          36. 63D
            Ref. book since 1884
          37. 65D
            U-turn from NNE
          38. 67D
            Poetic contraction
          39. 68D
            Web feed initials
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