Of course

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Get away quickly

Across

1A
Get away quickly
4A
The rate movies
8A
Turning points
13A
Northern passage explorer John
14A
Automobile pioneer Ransom
15A
Small dining establishment
16A
Showy moths, a moon of Jupiter, and Zeus' conquest that was turned into a cow; OR what Apple phones run on
17A
Ogden who never saw a three-L lllama
18A
Two deck solitaire game that requires removing eight foundation piles
19A
Why one would go to a 15A (duh.)
21A
Soft drinks that could serve as cough drops if you change the second letter to a vowel
23A
Charlie Parker's nickname
24A
Wizard of Oz's state (no... not Kansas)
26A
Memorable times
28A
Decaffeinated drink that would give you presents if you changed a letter (oh, all right. I'll stop)
30A
Rousseau's treatise on education (or 5280 feet of digital data?)
32A
Terrain entouré d'eau
33A
Pried
35A
It was once called the Argentine Rummy game
37A
Jazz lover
38A
What to get at a Gray's Papaya
39A
Kitchen cloth (or Scott Joplin composition about a plate?)
43A
Tipi's actress daughter
47A
Industrial insect (hey, does anyone else remember those kid's books "--- and Bee"?)
48A
Big O purchases (or is that only a local chain?)
50A
Make amends
51A
The best ever (Slang is so capricious...)
53A
Rests against something; as in that famous Mondegreen: "Christ, the Royal Master, ----- against the phone" (actually "Master" is equally often misheard)
55A
.... and so on
56A
Where to hear Steve Innskeep or Ayeesha Rascoe
58A
Vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony (Bless you, Merriam-Websters)
60A
2022 reboot of an earlier Will Smith title (also a chain of Grocery stores... )
61A
Composer Stravinsky
63A
Intimidate
65A
Catalysts
66A
God who had an eight-legged horse called Sleipnir
67A
Moody music beloved of cruciverbalists
68A
Street name for Heroin (which I have never heard used seriously)
69A
Designer Saint Laurent
70A
See-___, Margery Daw; sold her bed and slept on straw

Down

1D
Last day of the work wk.
2D
Vientiane native, for one
3D
Simple binary choice
4D
Williams whose last novel in 1978 was "This House is Burning"
5D
Ideal philosopher
6D
Comercials
7D
Spiritual retreat
8D
Mob boss
9D
Serviceable
10D
Author who suggests you dress your family in corduroy and denim
11D
Season early
12D
Bashar al-Assad's ctry.
15D
An attack by laddering up the walls or ramparts
20D
"How'm I doin'" mayor
22D
Fashionable
23D
Bogus Short Synopses
25D
Mediocre Entry Definition (okay, I'll stop now)
27D
"Pour some salt water over the floor - Ugly I'm sure you'll allow it to be: Suppose it extended a mile or more, THAT'S very like the ---" Lewis Carroll
29D
Separate
31D
Woman that is back to being alone
34D
Online sellers
36D
Striped stones
39D
Dried feces hanging from a sheep's rear end (You're welcome)
40D
All at a single attempt
41D
Office supply for fastening papers together
42D
Expanded
43D
Web portal
44D
Becomes aware
45D
An acceptable excuse for missing my birthday party
46D
Slippery critter
49D
Without difficulty
52D
"______- Europe Express". Inane Kraftwerk song.
54D
Eye irritant that may be an indication that one's heart is on fire
57D
Tighm when there is no lite and it mite be hard to see
59D
Magician and psychic Geller, discus thrower Gallin, Russian Jewish writer Nissan Gnessin, and others
60D
scoff
62D
State hd.
64D
Astound them so they don't know if they are coming or going

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KayW 🤓8:49 · 2023-05-28T00:15:26.249Z

of course! a fun solve. And thanks a LOT! for rekindling that grade school earworm.

woozy constructor · 2023-05-28T03:45:30.277Z
Thanks for playing.

KayW 🤓8:49 · 2023-05-28T00:18:09.609Z

oh - I don't know if you can see answers submitted. I submitted "She's dead" (of course) and google didn't turn up other alternatives. What others have you found?

woozy constructor · 2023-05-28T03:45:18.495Z
Oh, variants. I always heard it as "She died, of course". But wikipedia gave "she's dead, of course" as an alternative. So my first three answers were. "She died", "She dies", and "She's dead". Then I figured people might add "of course" so I made three more with "of course" at the end. Then I figure maybe I should be specific with replacing "She" with "the old lady". So that's 12 answers. Then thinking in terms of language usage and being straight forward I add simply "Death". And that brings it to an appropriate 13 answers.

whimsy 15:21 · 2023-05-29T01:48:55.640Z

I love it -- I like silly! Thanks, woozy!

woozy constructor · 2023-05-29T04:55:16.782Z

Curious though.

So I always heard the song as "She died, of course" but google and wikipedia seems to claime "she's dead, of course". Which versions do you know? And does the song just stop there are does in go through all the iterations a final time?

By the way, My thirteen answer are:

Either "she" or "the old lady" and either "dies" or "died" or "'s dead" and either the "of course" is included or not. (That's 12 if you like combinatorics). And "death".

KayW 🤓8:49 · 2023-05-29T22:52:28.906Z
As I learned it (waaaaay back in grade school), the final verse was:

I know an old lady who swallowed a horse She's dead, of course.

And each verse started "I know an old lady...". When I googled to see if I could find 13 variations, it looked like "There was an old lady..." was more popular.
- woozy constructor · 2023-05-29T23:13:20.459Z
  I meant there were 13 answers to this meta depending on ways to put it.
  
  I think I always did "I knew an old lady" most of the time but "there was" almost as often. They are all but indistinguishable to my ear. But I always did "she died, of course" and not "she's dead". Also we continued the horse onward as normal "she swallowed the horse to chase the cow,...." and we didn't do an abrupt cut off. (Always struck me as weird the finish with "perhaps/I think she'll die" when we just said she did.
hoover 7s · 2023-05-31T17:29:40.157Z
I always heard "She died, of course" also, but I entered "She's dead" because that's what popped up in my Google results.

woozy constructor · 2023-05-29T23:17:20.798Z

So the variants are I know/knew [] I think/perhaps she'll die []she's dead/she die of course [] Abrupt stop/continuing the run down

KayW 🤓8:49 · 2023-05-31T00:43:49.233Z
So to recap/elaborate, I learned: I know... She's dead of course Abrupt stop

Laura M 🤓9:09 · 2023-05-31T16:17:39.115Z

Fun!

hoover 7s · 2023-05-31T17:28:39.602Z

Fun one! I saw fly and spider and thought, huh! Just like that nurs--hey, waitaminnit!

MatthewL 12:56 · 2023-05-31T18:33:18.399Z

Fun one. Glad I picked one of the 13 variants.

frostyjhammer 11:59 · 2023-06-08T18:25:51.965Z

Fun solve. Only took me two "guesses". Is there a typo in the clue to 2A? I.e. a missing letter?

Of course

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