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I think this one is hard

◆ · By Emily Muddy · Published 2023-05-19T23:39:47.527Z

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  • PuzzleRad 🤓4:29 · 2023-05-21T01:42:03.108Z
    Um... I may be dumb but I don't see the "disappearing" clues.
    • Puzzled 🤓24:13 · 2023-05-22T18:05:47.062Z
      As I understood it, the idea is that everything makes more sense if you prepend "act" to each clue.
      • Emily Muddy constructor · 2023-05-23T13:06:34.132Z
        Thanks for commenting! There are 10 clues with a missing "act" at the beginning. The ones I built the puzzle around are "[act] strangely" (DRAWSTARES), "[act] responsibly" (BEANADULT), "[act] guilty or indecisive" (HEMANDHAW), and "[act] natural" (PLAYITCOOL). I was on the fence when making it whether to star the clues or not, and your comments and other feedback from friends made me realize the theme isn't clear enough without using asterisks, so I added them. Thanks! :)
    • Puzzled 🤓24:13 · 2023-05-22T18:17:03.369Z
      For 17A, the clue is adjectival, but the answer is a verb. Maybe make the clue "Disdain" or something like that?
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      Drab partner
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      Across
      1. 1A
        Drab partner
      2. 5A
        Right, on GPS displays of psychopaths who don't set said devices to adjust based on their physical location in the world
      3. 9A
        Cold sign
      4. 14A
        Prefix for wine, supposedly, but I question this given that I drink a lot of wine and have only seen this prefix in crossword puzzles
      5. 15A
        Prehistoric member of 33A's fam that passed on features such as inconvenient breastbones, long legs, powerful feet, and shaggy feathers (https://www.brockswood.org.uk/post/brockswood-lesson-[redacted]s)
      6. 16A
        *Grateful to
      7. 17A
        *Disdainful toward
      8. 18A
        *Strangely
      9. 20A
        Ankle bones
      10. 22A
        *Deceptive, in a rink or ring
      11. 23A
        *Responsibly
      12. 26A
        "I did it!"
      13. 30A
        *Unhurried and unworried
      14. 31A
        Visually revealed one's pleasure
      15. 33A
        See 15A
      16. 36A
        *Enthusiastic about, figuratively (hopefully)
      17. 39A
        Come to ____
      18. 40A
        Mysterious vanishing, as seen (or not!) in this puzzle's starred clues
      19. 43A
        Logistical information that should usually be shared in a different tense
      20. 44A
        Fill more water balloons, maybe
      21. 45A
        Noodle soup
      22. 46A
        Dust rags, for example
      23. 48A
        "____ I say..."
      24. 50A
        Prong
      25. 51A
        *Guilty or indecisive
      26. 56A
        Spacious
      27. 58A
        Currency never adopted by 69A
      28. 60A
        *Natural
      29. 65A
        *As an elf in a mall, perhaps
      30. 66A
        Alexander's last dueling opponent
      31. 67A
        Duel tool (Welcome to my crosswordese corner!)
      32. 68A
        Person who indulges in drugs or technology
      33. 69A
        See 58A
      34. 70A
        Architect Saarinen (Enjoying my crosswordese corner?)
      35. 71A
        Small horse
      Down
      1. 1D
        "Why ____ thou pine within and suffer dearth, / Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?" - Shakespeare, Sonnet 146
      2. 2D
        Process of fixing a house or a drug habit
      3. 3D
        Accustom
      4. 4D
        Living art form
      5. 5D
        Terminal degree for teachers
      6. 6D
        Get out in the open
      7. 7D
        Acronym coined to encapsulate the chaos and illogic of WWII from soldiers' perspectives
      8. 8D
        Beach item
      9. 9D
        C/o
      10. 10D
        Talking or texting
      11. 11D
        Part of a sarcastic laugh
      12. 12D
        Word before "Go!" or "Blastoff!"
      13. 13D
        Gives offic. approval
      14. 19D
        Accepts a seat
      15. 21D
        Not just surface-level
      16. 24D
        Amount competitors run after each beer mile beer
      17. 25D
        Scare off
      18. 27D
        ____ of faith
      19. 28D
        Judi who won an Oscar for her 6 minutes on screen as Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/3DgmKRJDKZx7qWWNFTYNQGM/[redacted])
      20. 29D
        Enhance, as a story, experience, or life
      21. 32D
        Like Kentucky's Lake Cumberland or Nevada's Lake Mead (https://www.worldatlas.com/lakes/[redacted].html)
      22. 33D
        Decree
      23. 34D
        Prefix meaning thousand or thousandth
      24. 35D
        Apply to, such as tape to a broken toe
      25. 37D
        Abu Dhabi's fed.
      26. 38D
        Brand of the devil?
      27. 41D
        Polite phrase leading to inefficient boarding of buses and trains
      28. 42D
        Nutrient found in meat and spinach
      29. 47D
        Measurement unit that is three times larger in Japan than in Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[redacted])
      30. 49D
        Respond favorably to a shushing, perhaps
      31. 52D
        Host
      32. 53D
        Nearsighted person (Great corner, huh?)
      33. 54D
        Response to "Am not!"
      34. 55D
        Demographic that earned 57% of Bachelor's Degrees awarded in the United States in 2019 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/10/08/[redacted]
      35. 57D
        Pig's greeting
      36. 59D
        Getting around great for an old guy
      37. 60D
        Touch gently, such as condescendingly on the top of the head
      38. 61D
        "Well, ___-di-dah!"
      39. 62D
        "Two heads ____ better than one!"
      40. 63D
        Contraction that elides the same letter as in "e'er," "ne'er," and "e'en"
      41. 64D
        Most crosswordese-y zodiac sign
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