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Safety First!

◆◆ · By omnilynx · Published 2024-09-25T17:12:07.205Z

Meta Prompt
The meta for this popped into my head almost fully formed. It should be fairly straightforward.
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  • omnilynx constructor · 2024-09-25T17:28:07.885Z
    Solution: There are five answers that can be preceded by "safety": 1A, 23A, 40A, 55A, and 69A. The clues for these answers spell out DANCE, which can itself be preceded by "safety" to get a well-known pop song and the meta answer.
    • kurtalert 🤓8:26 · 2024-09-27T16:32:07.209Z
      Fun one :-)
      • omnilynx constructor · 2024-09-28T06:05:58.984Z
        Thanks!
      Play today's daily mini crossword
      1A
      Difference between gross and deductions
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      Across
      1. 1A
        Difference between gross and deductions
      2. 4A
        Supernatural network
      3. 9A
        Up
      4. 14A
        Hurricane of 2021
      5. 15A
        Chapter of 54D
      6. 16A
        Possibly the most dangerous toy ever
      7. 17A
        Pen tip
      8. 18A
        Giraffe, abbreviated
      9. 19A
        "___ plan, a canal..."
      10. 20A
        (Sitting) on
      11. 22A
        Evening in Abidjan
      12. 23A
        Adage by Occam or Hanlon
      13. 24A
        Surprised, in modern slang
      14. 26A
        Imperial counterpart of SI's J.
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        Tombstone acronym
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        "The inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled __"
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        Not a sea captain, but an...
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        Headaches, to doctors
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        Jr.'s Jr.
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        Send in for repair, replace, or refund, for short
      21. 40A
        Net profits on sales (warning: keep positive!)
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        Arbor in Michigan
      23. 42A
        The cruelest mo.
      24. 43A
        Trial runs at marriage
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        Saint Mary's title, in Rome
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        Mayday at sea
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        Company with an iconic eponymous sound
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        Kendrick or Smith
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        "Don't worry."
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        Credit card precursor
      31. 57A
        A tbsp. has three of them
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        Bart and Lisa's driver
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        Cotton alternative
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        Have your cake and eat ___
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        That ramparts preposition
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        Anti-fungal chemical family
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        Really small bots
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        Exclamation popularized by JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
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        Thick, as fog
      40. 68A
        Neural arms
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        End of a wrestling match
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        Mss. Simone and Dobrev, for example
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        Archie's better half
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        Something unmentionable, and also a party game
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        Chicken General
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        Communist guerillas of the Philippines (sorry!)
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        ___ Good Feelings
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        IRS's share of investment profits
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        Pinwheel or top
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        Not a door
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        Low-gluten soy sauce made from miso
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        The nationality of two men killed in a joke
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        Never
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        Russian (not Czech) ruler
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        Christopher's bear
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        Cosmo of door-opening fame
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        pickles
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        Longest-playing quarterback
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        "Not me" in Nice
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        Cookie (or sewing items!) containers
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        Study technique of dubious value
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        Understand one's feelings
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        Athens attraction
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        Evita's motherland
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        Literally this, in Spanish
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        Surpasses
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        Part of addr. below st. no.
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        Hunch, on a small porch
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        SNL alum with a rhyming name
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        Compilation of 15A (alt. spelling)
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        Dressed in the past
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        Joint often taken
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        Not quite yet
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        CIA precursor
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