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Round Five

◆ · By woozy · Published 2024-02-24T18:55:08.068Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is something an answer should never be
So.... this is based on what I hoped was the Metanism of the latest WSJ contest. I don't think it was (I haven't solved it yet.... this is one of those days where it's easier to redo a puzzle than to solve it.)
Okay.... Look. "Round Five" means take five things that are not round and make them round. You can make things round by replacing them with round things and you can find those round things in grid (although you'll have to make them round by rounding some letters)
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  • markhr solved 2024-02-28T08:21:42.699Z
  • HoldThatThought solved 2024-03-03T01:52:37.174Z
  • kurtalert solved 2024-03-11T20:37:14.874Z

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  • markhr 🤓15:33 · 2024-02-28T08:27:40.220Z
    Success at last. Needed at least a few of the nudges. Quite the workout, Woozy!
    • woozy constructor · 2024-02-29T21:23:45.994Z
      The answer is VAGUE.
      Depictions of Shepherd in religious paintings aren't round but HALOES are. And you can round HALVOES to become HALOES be replacing the V with the round O.
      The common martini garnish LEMON TWIST is not round but an OLIVE (well so is an onion I suppose but olives are more common). An you can round ALIVE to become OLIVE by replacing the A with the round O.
      The fruits BANANAS that grew in warm climes are not round. But ORANGES are. And if you replace the first G in GRANGES.
      And the aromatic GINGER ROOT is not round but an ONION is (and olives are not aromatic ground growing plants) and if we replace the U in Union.
      And finally a CONGA LINE doesn't put the dancers in a circle. But a HORA does...
      • HoldThatThought 26:44 · 2024-03-03T01:57:53.303Z
        I saw your sad, lonely, unloved crickets comment on Muggles, and couldn't let your puzzle go unappreciated. For what it's worth a) I solved without the hints (or, now I see you actually posted the answer) and b) I rarely do online puzzles, because I am a stubborn, old grouch of a paper and pencil solver, and like to be able to see all the clues and grid at once. I thought this was a very solid, well composed and entirely fair challenge - well, except for the made up acronyms (MUA) parts.
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        By way of, informally
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        Across
        1. 1A
          By way of, informally
        2. 5A
          Tatter
        3. 8A
          Data character format
        4. 13A
          Wet weather
        5. 14A
          Green prefix
        6. 15A
          Hinder growth
        7. 16A
          Tower of -----: Game/Puzzle whose solution gets exponentially larger with more disks. If a three disk game takes seven seconds, a twenty disk game would take over twenty-four days.
        8. 17A
          These are often depicted round in religious paintings
        9. 19A
          Increase (to)
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          Sugary ending
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          Freedom from germs and pathogens
        12. 23A
          Common martini garnish found round in bars
        13. 26A
          Greek goddess of marriage, women, and family
        14. 27A
          Small bottle of flask
        15. 28A
          Actor Serkis who had many motion capture roles. (He once joked that when he was told he would have a role in a Tintin movie, he assumed he'd be playing Snowy)
        16. 29A
          I thought my clue was going to be "Tell corny jokes, or be out of shape, for example". However it turns out that this is an actual biblical character. He's the father of Hadad, king of Edom in Genesis 36:35. Who knew?
        17. 30A
          Doesn't go an past
        18. 32A
          From Des Moines or Dubuque or somewhere like that
        19. 34A
          Four-thirty
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          Fruits grown round warm climates
        21. 37A
          Go away, you British idiot!
        22. 40A
          "Yo! 'dja catch that guy?" "Yeah, I -----" (or the rallying cry for actor Allen of "Home Improvement")
        23. 41A
          Acquires new information
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          Boulevard that begins at Market Street at the intersection with Kearney. The cable cars that ran here were appropriately full of cogs and inter-meshing toothed wheels
        25. 46A
          Hurried up
        26. 48A
          Gad-about
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          All modern women are jealous of her. She didn't even use Pond's, yet she got Gustav, and Walter, and Franz
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          This culinary staple that grows round ground level, is an absolute must, along with minced garlic, for aromatic sauted dishes
        29. 52A
          Outline cutout
        30. 54A
          Ah, #$%@, not another TLA! Okay, this is the Badass Navel Expedition. I mean, why not?
        31. 55A
          Information Profession degree
        32. 56A
          Energetic chain dance that goes round and round
        33. 58A
          Still about and kicking
        34. 60A
          Gee, with a little force this Shakespearean forest would make a nice cultivated plat of land
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          Family story has it that when my grandmother wanted to impress her 32A aunt, she took her down the rugged Californian, Big --- coast. "Just look at this!" my grandmother implored. The aunt shook her head and sighed "All that potential corn land going to waste."
        36. 62A
          Traffic cylinder. If you change the first vowel you get a walking stick
        37. 63A
          "And so you just threw everything together? Matthews, a ----- is something you have to organize." --"Far Side" caption
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          Member of the Paridae family
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          Pulls on, as a rope
        Down
        1. 1D
          Deals with merchandise taken as payment
        2. 2D
          Supposedly like goods on Etsy
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          Foreign river or a city named so
        4. 4D
          Merged alliance
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          Stitched back up
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          Johann Sebastian's exclamation when he lost his head
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          Be lax in discipline
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          Tennis great Arthur
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          Mens name that is an anagram of "Pet hens"
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          Fated for failure
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          Prime minister Ghandi
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          "Oh, that's too bad"
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          Cleaves in two
        14. 18D
          ... hey, you... yeah, you. What do I set my clocks to in Seattle during the winter?
        15. 21D
          Temporarily lodge in during a visit
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          Operation Lone Star's optical landing system's use of ordinary least squares regression was a hit at the Ottawa Linux Symposium
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          Ugandan despot you don't want to have dinner with
        18. 29D
          Choice of a digital number system as per a recent WSJ contest
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          Break dancing enthusiast
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          Where Henry David Thoreau was thorough
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          He believes in nothing
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          Making presentable
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          Require as a necessary accompaniment
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          Biting fly
        25. 40D
          Farmhouses and their outbuildings
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          Timetable abbr.
        27. 43D
          Fuel tank cover that I'm notorious for forgetting to put back
        28. 44D
          Matador opponent
        29. 45D
          Makes up for; modifies; adds to
        30. 47D
          King of Wessex from 802 to 839
        31. 50D
          Salesman Gunderson on "The Simpsons"
        32. 51D
          Respond to
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          Walking stick. If you change the first vowel you get a traffic cylinder
        34. 57D
          Atoll in Tuvalu that is 8009.549 km WNW of Rappa ---
        35. 59D
          What you skip to when you lose your partner
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