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Continental Divide and Conquer

◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-10-05T23:00:53.064Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a six letter word
This one is inspired by benchen71's Earthquake Zone https://crosshare.org/crosswords/AXLVWCQy3UMjOyOfwx6M/earthquake-zone-meta
This one was incredibly difficult to construct. The metanism required lots of parts and they all refused to cooperate. I was ready to give up when... I finally got all the pieces to fit (although the lower left corner has a lot of stretches and abusing-- 84A is a complete abuse but I hope I get some points for creativity.)
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  • benchen71 solved 2022-10-06T00:35:46.728Z
  • Gutman solved 2022-10-06T01:22:04.321Z
  • Hector solved 2022-10-06T03:43:39.311Z
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  • benchen71 19:11 · 2022-10-06T00:36:24.914Z
    Tricky grid (which we have come to expect!); but the aha moment was a good one.
    • woozy constructor · 2022-10-06T01:41:58.852Z
      I'm trying to make my grids less tricky.
    • Gutman 3s · 2022-10-06T01:22:26.737Z
      thx
      • I K Snamhcok 2s · 2022-10-10T02:55:32.577Z
        Lots of googling to complete these grids. Fun figuring out the metas. Thanks, woozy!
        • whimsy 31:34 · 2022-10-10T12:07:03.537Z
          Quite impressive! Great camouflaging! Loved the Lady in Red and the parting of the Red Sea!
          Play today's daily mini crossword
          1A
          Spirits of Haitian Voodou
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Spirits of Haitian Voodou
          2. 5A
            "Othello" villain
          3. 9A
            Grand Rates
          4. 16A
            1986 Chris de Burgh song (also a 1935 Merrie Melodies 47A about cockroaches)
          5. 18A
            Mermaids and mermen
          6. 20A
            Common name for Bignonia capreolata (so called due to a pattern revealed when the stem is cut)
          7. 21A
            Country bordered by the Andes in the West and the South Atlantic in the east; home of the Perito Moreno Glacier
          8. 22A
            Assistant dedicated to the gelling process?
          9. 23A
            Art institute in the City of Brotherly Love; home of the Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Collection
          10. 24A
            Town in ancient Thessaly that had a legendary snake
          11. 25A
            Night prior
          12. 26A
            Meat sauces
          13. 28A
            Signs of a hit
          14. 29A
            Tailor, at times
          15. 32A
            Words of sympathy and comfort
          16. 33A
            Logo
          17. 36A
            Priestly vestments
          18. 37A
            A genus of moth; a constellation near Hydra; or an Austrian maker of CPU coolers and fans
          19. 39A
            What's left when you remove all the sunlit foreground. (Is that a hint to the meta? I'm not saying anything.)
          20. 40A
            Japanese costume drama
          21. 41A
            Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand
          22. 42A
            Consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together
          23. 45A
            ----- Gay
          24. 47A
            Animated film; or a character in said animated film
          25. 49A
            Colon cleansing (lets not dwell on it ...)
          26. 50A
            Amplitude and elegance
          27. 52A
            Runs (as a machine); manages (as a business)
          28. 55A
            Child. born on this day have far to go
          29. 56A
            Criminally aid
          30. 57A
            Candy wafer maker
          31. 59A
            It went for Gore in 2000
          32. 61A
            Although it is ambiguous, according to the "combined-America" model, there are this many continents [You want a reference? Pankosmios Enyklopaidikos Atlas, CIL Hellas Publications, ISBN 84-407-0470-4, is a reference....]
          33. 63A
            23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet; or tan skins; or shooting marble
          34. 64A
            Immense
          35. 65A
            Very cold
          36. 67A
            Everything
          37. 68A
            Spirits of those departed
          38. 69A
            Hawaiian greeting
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            Birds with own of the most amazing mating rituals (they make good use of those talons)
          40. 73A
            Toronto based council whose purpose is to foster the creation of art in the province
          41. 74A
            Place for a boutonniere
          42. 75A
            Chinese armed forces active during the Korean War
          43. 76A
            Haus wives
          44. 79A
            Refrain syllable
          45. 80A
            Intermediary
          46. 84A
            I think this would be an awesome name for a spy adventure series for kids: "--- ------ and The Nui Magnet" in which our protagonist under the code-name Sean Macepit discovers the title weapon was just an anagram of his name. Pity no such book actually exists and this is just a long woozyism
          47. 87A
            Embryo, appendages, and associated membranes
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            Tending and concern for shelled gastropods.
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            Frison
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            Gill
          51. 92A
            sigh
          52. 93A
            Subterfuge
          Down
          1. 1D
            Form of private company with the pass-through taxation of a partnership and the limited liability of a corporation.
          2. 2D
            Rowboat propellants
          3. 3D
            "What's that female deer?" "That? That's ----"
          4. 4D
            Homer Simpson always wins at Blackjack as he is the only one in the history of gambling who has one of these.
          5. 5D
            Spanish for winter
          6. 6D
            Sere
          7. 7D
            Not name-brand
          8. 8D
            Laudatory poem
          9. 9D
            Identifier
          10. 10D
            "Let me just slide right past you here a little...."
          11. 11D
            Confined (up)
          12. 12D
            Schlep
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            Networking protocols internally?
          14. 14D
            "The Norse" by someone very confused linguistically
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            Motive
          16. 17D
            "----- my love for what is close, for the dog's eyes, the depths of brown when I take a wet cloth to them to wash his face." --Marjorie Saiser
          17. 18D
            Cultivator of the Bushido code
          18. 19D
            Wipe clean
          19. 23D
            Some golf tournaments have cups as prizes; this one has a full coffee vessel?
          20. 27D
            To do on one's behest
          21. 29D
            Reasonable
          22. 30D
            Stretch
          23. 31D
            Despise
          24. 33D
            This may cause your home-brewed beer to smell of bananas (try fermenting in a cooler environment)
          25. 34D
            A tailless cat provided by the governmental health care?
          26. 35D
            Boxing using both hands and feet
          27. 38D
            Classic Westerns
          28. 41D
            Dragnet
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            Mushroom; porcini, penny bun, or Boletus
          30. 44D
            12th century Armenian historian and priest Samuel
          31. 46D
            One of 26 bound volumes of maps. This one featuring Latvia, Lithuania, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, etc.
          32. 48D
            Eject
          33. 51D
            Musical works for pairs
          34. 52D
            Official state tree of Ekiti State, Nigeria
          35. 53D
            External, anatomically
          36. 54D
            Measurement ratio
          37. 56D
            Genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family
          38. 58D
            These birds are amazing nocturnal hunters (they also make good use of those talons)
          39. 59D
            A waterway for organic material?
          40. 60D
            Egg size; (as a battery size it'd be oxymoronic albeit syntactically sound)
          41. 62D
            Sprain treatments
          42. 64D
            A social order for Hindu musicians. It is also the title a 1961 Indian film (for which the title is often translated as "Family")
          43. 66D
            Viscous yellow-black odorous liquid byproduct of wood-pulping; also called liquid rosin
          44. 68D
            Response to "Do you have any sevens" when you don't
          45. 69D
            Change
          46. 71D
            Breakthrough film for Helen Bonham Carter; "A Room with ----"
          47. 72D
            Magi who brought Frankincense
          48. 77D
            Conj.d together for one purp. (sounds like it could be some programming indication of the end of a conditional clause.... but it isn't)
          49. 78D
            Southern University Law Center (don't pout)
          50. 81D
            Where the La Brea Tar Pits are
          51. 82D
            Capital city of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
          52. 83D
            Enthusiastic; Keen; Insane; Crazy
          53. 85D
            Private university in Forth Worth; home to the Horned Frogs
          54. 86D
            Geographic chart
          55. 87D
            Jefferson Davis' org.
          56. 88D
            Get the picture
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