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◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2021-09-13T09:00:10.892Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a Harry Styles song
I think this one might be tricky, but hopefully still doable. I've toned down the chatty clues (mostly!) in favour of shorter, pithier ones. In life, we all face choices of various kinds. I trust that you will be able to navigate the choices in this puzzle and arrive at the meta answer, the title of a Harry Styles song. Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1189&p=68573#p68231
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  • boharr 3s · 2021-09-13T18:17:14.025Z
    A challenge and a lot of fun.
    • Hector 5s · 2021-09-13T20:01:37.787Z
      I guess "Near" means "With"? How does "Treat" mean Cove or Shout? Or am I not following the mechanism?
      • benchen71 constructor · 2021-09-13T22:08:24.820Z
        In Australian English, to shout someone is to treat them. ie. "What'll you have, it's my shout."
      • Mike D 3s · 2021-09-14T00:05:00.471Z
        Great puzzle and a fun / tricky meta!
        • lbray53 3s · 2021-09-14T11:37:32.520Z
          Fun!
          • Laura M 🤓1:10 · 2021-09-14T20:46:32.728Z
            Fun! My actual solve time was about 30x slower than my submitted time, since I completed the puzzle in .puz form before coming here and retyping it. Took me a minute to understand 1A but this usage seems familiar from British TV.
            • Bbaack 10s · 2021-09-15T01:44:58.934Z
              Nice one, g'day!
              Play today's daily mini crossword
              1A
              Reward or Shout or Cove
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              Across
              1. 1A
                Reward or Shout or Cove
              2. 4A
                ___ man (used in a weak argument)
              3. 9A
                Graceful aquatic bird
              4. 13A
                "Just one of its many ___"
              5. 15A
                Cultural capital of Japan
              6. 16A
                Original voice of Timon
              7. 17A
                Imperial measurement still in use today
              8. 18A
                Below
              9. 19A
                Contributes
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                Hoppy brews with lower alcohol levels
              11. 22A
                Redirect or Occupy or Humans
              12. 24A
                Older spreadsheet file extension
              13. 25A
                Whiteness of a surface (but more than one)
              14. 26A
                Shut or Near or Including
              15. 30A
                Make it ___
              16. 31A
                Russian for salad
              17. 32A
                "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ___"
              18. 33A
                Hockey great Phil, for short (apologies to my Aussie solvers, but you'll have a distinct advantage with 1 across so it should even out!)
              19. 37A
                Poem by Robert Frost involving a yellow wood
              20. 40A
                Evidence of sell outs (abbr.)
              21. 41A
                Omen
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                Compose a letter
              23. 43A
                What you up to increase the stakes
              24. 44A
                Caring or Type or Come in
              25. 45A
                Charges for easy money access
              26. 49A
                Nevertheless, ___ persisted
              27. 51A
                Bush or Eliot or Famous loch
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                Prevent access
              29. 57A
                Unwanted spots
              30. 58A
                Victorian mountain, ___ Buang
              31. 60A
                Cricket term for when the bowler really misses the mark
              32. 61A
                Cool in the 90's
              33. 62A
                Be
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                Entrance
              35. 64A
                What you use to 14 down
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                Desert fruit
              37. 66A
                Italian for three
              Down
              1. 1D
                ___ in the road (minor problem)
              2. 2D
                Largest continent
              3. 3D
                Cry out loud
              4. 4D
                Brain protector
              5. 5D
                Prongs on a fork (alt.)
              6. 6D
                Sensors in your 64 across
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                Put away, as food
              8. 8D
                Helpful tool when constructing crosswords
              9. 9D
                Boba Fett's spaceship (with "I")
              10. 10D
                ___ into the fray (but in the past)
              11. 11D
                Prefix meaning "male"
              12. 12D
                "Foxes have holes and birds have ___, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
              13. 14D
                What you use 64 across to do
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                Take an ___ (destroy)
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                Part of an Arabic name that means "son of"
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                Moses' brother
              17. 26D
                European/Russian design for getting people into low Earth orbit (abbr.)
              18. 27D
                Cowardly Lion portrayer
              19. 28D
                Colloquial name for margarine
              20. 29D
                Epidemic from the early 2000s, now seriously overshadowed by COVID-19
              21. 30D
                Bruce Hornsby's first band, who together recorded 37 across on their album "Scenes From The Southside" (with "The")
              22. 32D
                Polishes prose
              23. 33D
                Bring home
              24. 34D
                Short play
              25. 35D
                "Oh, for ___'s sake!"
              26. 36D
                Unique (in the UK)
              27. 38D
                Prescription direction (with "take")
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                Twitter follower
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                Arm of the Med.
              30. 45D
                The most important of C. S. Lewis' Four Loves
              31. 46D
                Computer expert, slangily
              32. 47D
                "ArchAndroid" singer, Janelle
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                What the neck of a guitar has lots of
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                Feel
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                Warms up
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                Heal, as bones
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                Email abbr.
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                Demonstration that gets out of hand
              39. 55D
                Nasty smell
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                "A ___ formality!"
              41. 59D
                Prefix indicating the presence of oxygen in a compound
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