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Never Forget... and never mind.

◆ · By woozy · Published 2024-03-29T01:10:35.869Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is a word that help you organize your thoughts
Argh my first two attempts at this meta had "fatal errors" in that I accidently rewrote entries that were key to the meta. This REALLY should have it fixed.
Original: https://crosshare.org/crosswords/srE1RLeeF5BuHdNSS2dG/never-forget-and-never-mind
Second try: https://crosshare.org/crosswords/srE1RLeeF5BuHdNSS2dG/never-forget-and-never-mind
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  • benchen71 6:50 · 2024-03-29T01:46:24.624Z
    I found all but two of the mnemonics but didn't see what to do with them until I revealed the answer. (That said, I probably would have known if I hadn't revealed the grid after getting bogged down in the difficult clues!)
    • whimsy 26:02 · 2024-03-30T15:50:42.517Z
      This was pretty, pretty nifty, woozy! Thanks!
      • ELSavage 🤓12:23 · 2024-04-04T22:17:42.757Z
        I had the answer when I did the first version, but couldn't figure out why a couple of letters were missing. Came back to do the third version and confirmed.
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        " It was the devious-cruising _____ that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan" (Or Jennifer's character on Friends)
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        Across
        1. 1A
          " It was the devious-cruising _____ that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan" (Or Jennifer's character on Friends)
        2. 7A
          King Philip came over for good soup
        3. 12A
          "My turn!"
        4. 16A
          One of a gene pair
        5. 17A
          It was _ ____ miss. Next time I'll have __ ___ to the ground
        6. 18A
          Seized vehicle
        7. 19A
          Alack the day! Oh my! Oy Vey!
        8. 20A
          Liquid rock
        9. 21A
          A backwards way to eat in Oklahoma
        10. 22A
          All boys should come home, please
        11. 24A
          How I like a drink? Alcoholic, of course
        12. 26A
          Multilateral regional body focused on human rights, electoral oversight, social and economic development, and security in the Western Hemisphere
        13. 27A
          Comedian Russell
        14. 29A
          Attach again
        15. 31A
          What you refer to severs by when you type in a URLs... or organizations that operate a system of multiple health care facilities (This is my third attempt at this grid and I didn't like this entry. If you just want to enter IDNS I won't tell anyone)
        16. 32A
          Triangular river mouth
        17. 35A
          Haul behind
        18. 36A
          "What's in the glass that looks like frothed up eggs and cream with a sprinkling of nutmeg on top?" "This? _' ___. Do you want some?"
        19. 39A
          My very elegant mother just served us noodles
        20. 41A
          Syllables of a sinister laugh... or a participant in Senned (At least Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary list this 3 letter acronym for a member of the Welsh Assembly)
        21. 42A
          Stuffed chile peppers coated with egg
        22. 45A
          Tall girls can fight and other queer things can do
        23. 47A
          Swift hominid. (Editorial comment: 29 years ago I had great faith in this Internet company and even once interviewed to be their fourth employee. God, what happened to it? Boy, did I pick the wrong horse)
        24. 48A
          Barely interesting art figures
        25. 52A
          Capital of the British Virgin Islands (if you come from here are you a 46D?)
        26. 54A
          La città eterna
        27. 55A
          Homes
        28. 58A
          Alabaster plaster
        29. 60A
          ER workers
        30. 61A
          1997 Literature Nobelist _____ Fo who was not present at "An Evening Without _______ Fo and Franca Rame" where they read the first act of his Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!
        31. 63A
          Forbes described this tiny Italian restaurant as “the single toughest restaurant reservation to get in the United States, bar none." I never heard of it but apparently their mass-marketed pasta sauces are a big deal.
        32. 64A
          Wombs
        33. 66A
          Good thing to get a shot for
        34. 68A
          Just how many spots can you get in a small space? (A question to ask your printer)
        35. 71A
          Raging Martians invade Venus using X-ray guns
        36. 74A
          Richard of York gave battle in vain
        37. 76A
          Land of Cú Chulainn, the Children of Lir, and Finn MacCool. (There's probably some linguistic reason this clue is technically incorrect....pfff)
        38. 77A
          "Rumor has it..."
        39. 79A
          Of the great heart trunk
        40. 80A
          Ebro, Segura, Júcar, Guadalquivir y otros
        41. 81A
          Put forward, as an idea
        42. 82A
          When the male cat consumed a red salad veggie in the French restaurant as a means of seduction, _______ ______ ______
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          Learning method that requires lots of memorization
        44. 84A
          Simmer in anger
        45. 85A
          Raises spirits
        Down
        1. 1D
          The original wireless (not Pinocchio)
        2. 2D
          Prince Valiant's wife
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          Style and elegance
        4. 4D
          Nickname the daughter of Creon of Thebes had for her husband (before he killed her in a fit of madness invoked by Hera)
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          Madrid daily
        6. 6D
          Gazing like a wolf does
        7. 7D
          Let the ______ begin (No, not "wild rumpus")
        8. 8D
          Not impressed with any sense of wonderment
        9. 9D
          Nickname the son of Zeus and Alcmene had for his wife (before he killed her in a fit of madness invoked by Hera)
        10. 10D
          Yeah, yeah, ... crimson tide.... Ole Miss rival... I get it, some people like college sports and make up nick-names... whatever...
        11. 11D
          Of the mouth, spoken
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          Girl whom if she turns her back on me, I'll take morphine and die
        13. 13D
          "Amahl and the Night Visitors" composer
        14. 14D
          "Sports are boring" is one. Yours probably differs
        15. 15D
          Silent assent
        16. 23D
          Video and film display rate
        17. 25D
          Region of Spain that is one letter off from being Tolkien's ranger
        18. 28D
          Cowardly
        19. 30D
          Do you know what a female sheep is called? (I knew you did)
        20. 31D
          To place or connect something within an exterior container or connector
        21. 33D
          Recline atop of
        22. 34D
          Former cable network specializing in country music. Its format changed and it is now the Paramount Network, but the country music aspect was revived as* Heartland*
        23. 36D
          Malicious scamp
        24. 37D
          They say it's company
        25. 38D
          Wood cutting tool
        26. 40D
          Overthrows and takes by force
        27. 42D
          Being sports apathetic, I always assumed the Cup was an award for horse racing rather than for golf. (Because, well, you know....)
        28. 43D
          Fails spectacularly
        29. 44D
          Assassin of 63D's older brother (as long as we are doing initialism)
        30. 46D
          Crew for the band on tour
        31. 49D
          Software developed for IBM PC compatible computers to manage core functionality
        32. 50D
          "Of course," said Norah, after a quarter of an hour's silence, "you want to make the words difficult and define them as subtly as possible." "Of course," I said, wrestling with '?—?.' I could only think of one word, and it was the one everybody else was certain to have. "Are we all ready? Then somebody begin." "You'd better begin, Norah, as you know the game," said Mrs. Gerald. We prepared to begin. "Mine," said Norah, "is a bird." "---," we all shouted; but I swear I was first. "Yes." "I don't think that's a very subtle definition," said Dennis. "You promised to be as subtle as possible." "Go on, dear," said Gerald to his wife. "Well, this is rather awkward. Mine is——" "---," I suggested. "You must wait till she has defined it," said Norah sternly. "Mine is a sort of feathered animal." "---," I said again. In fact, we all said it. Gerald coughed. "Mine," he said, "isn't exactly a—fish, because it——" "---," said everybody. "That was subtler," said Dennis, "but it didn't deceive us." "Your turn," said Norah to me. And they all leant forward ready to say "---." "Mine," I said, "is—all right, Dennis, you needn't look so excited—is a word I once heard a man say at the Zoo." There was a shriek of "---!" "Wrong," I said. Everybody was silent. "Where did he say it?" asked Norah at last. "What was he doing?" "He was standing outside the ---'s cage." "It must have been ---." "It wasn't." "Perhaps there's another animal beginning with '?' and ending with '?,'" suggested Dennis. "He might have said,'Look here, I'm tired of this old ---, let's go and see the _-doesn't-__,' or whatever it's called." from "Once a Week" by A.A. Milne
        33. 51D
          Green eggs and ham enthusiast
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          Turkish title
        35. 55D
          National dish of Tahiti; Poisson ___: raw ahi marinated citrus juice and coconut milk
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          Most populous Canadian province
        37. 57D
          Poet who thought April was cruel and was apprehensive about eating peaches
        38. 58D
          Helmet-shaped
        39. 59D
          "Buffoon! That's the dumbest thing I ever heard!"
        40. 62D
          "Hold on, I just thought of something"
        41. 63D
          Attorney general in his older brother's administration
        42. 65D
          Run water over to remove loose or light dirt
        43. 67D
          Soil
        44. 68D
          Coup '___
        45. 69D
          Spoons co-escapee. ("_____ of Shrimp" is one of the strange motifs of the '84 cult movie " 18A Man")
        46. 70D
          Does nothing really important with ones time
        47. 72D
          Bite's playfully
        48. 73D
          Thing you wait for to drop, according to an old adage
        49. 75D
          "____ la Douce"; role originally intended for Marilyn Monroe but given to Shirley MacLaine
        50. 76D
          Say "Black touches red-- soon you'll be dead; Yellow touches black-- friend of Jack" when looking at coral snake, for example.
        51. 78D
          On a map it's about one unit it down by three units to the left--more or less.
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