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Animal World

◆ · By woozy · Published 2023-04-07T23:04:24.767Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is a place you may find animals
This was based on a silly typo in an early version https://crosshare.org/crosswords/h7x3S1OOh5FTyzNy7V2d/play-dough. It was intriguing and I couldn't let it go. The meta is almost an after-thought.
The meta is pretty straight-forward (although it may be a little hidden and hard to spot) and nothing unique or original, although the context certainly is.
Nudges:
1: The themers should be pretty darned obvious
2: The themers are the long entries that are silly puns about animals
3: So you found them. What do you do with them?
4: So the themers are puns. What are they puns of?
5: So do something with what the entries are supposed to be
6: Find things that have to do with those words or phrase
7: What's another way of saying hypocrisy, felicity, significant, etc?
8: You can find those other ways somewhere, can't you?
9: This is a very standard metanism. Probably one of the most common there is.
10: E. Nigma was the name of the Riddler in "Batman". The authors were making a pun. What does the word "enigma" mean?
11: What's a common insult for a hypocrite? Who was the Bard of Avon? Who was the Vulgate Bible written for? etc.
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  • KayW 🤓13:31 · 2023-04-08T01:34:25.077Z
    Fantastic and creative meta! I have to confess I still haven't figured out what VOLEGATES sounds like but it must be a synonym for ANXIOUS. Or SAVORY. Or LIKE. I will ponder a while longer and PM to ask if nothing shakes loose. Love your cluing, too. So amazing to me that you can see something like that typo and turn it into a meta so quickly!
    • woozy constructor · 2023-04-08T03:44:26.243Z
      Vulgates. Plural of Vulgate. In the tongue of or like the the common (particularly the uneducated people.
    • benchen71 11:36 · 2023-04-08T10:12:13.937Z
      For me the one I couldn't decode was CANINEDRUM.
      • woozy constructor · 2023-04-08T15:04:41.985Z
        Conundrum. A riddle. An Enigma.
        E. Nigma was the name of the Batman villain "The Riddler" who was played by Frank Gorshin in the 60s television series.
      • DrTom 32:45 · 2023-04-08T18:54:34.285Z
        A bit if a mental workout to be sure but an eventual walk on the wild side. To say anything else would make me a hippocrat and I would never mane to do that because I don't want to rein Woozy in I want him to remain unfettered, at least for a bit.😁
        I assume VOLEGATES should translate to VULGATES or common?
        • woozy constructor · 2023-04-08T23:11:17.934Z
          Yeah, Volegates may be the weakest of them. But I think it's the most original. HIPPOCRACY is still the funniest and the strongest.
          • KayW 🤓13:31 · 2023-04-09T00:03:23.357Z
            I wouldn’t say weak - it’s quite clever! It’s just that I didn’t know that word. Despite the fact that as a product of the Chicago public school system, I suppose you could say I AM a vulgate😆 So thank you for my word of the day! I was looking up ANXIOUS synonyms because I thought that would be the most likely candidate for the “U”.
            • woozy constructor · 2023-04-09T02:43:33.351Z
              It's like the "vulgate bible", or "in the volgate tongue" or "in the vulgar tongue". Tolkien's short story "Farmer Giles of Ham" frequently refers to "the vulgar tongue" and to an 11 year old me.... I was confused.
              My original thought was I'd do VOLE TEAR and ... I dunno, SATIRE? But I need something in length similar FELIS CITY and suddenly VULGATE seemed to go with the classic etymology motif. (Albeit in the other direction).
        Play today's daily mini crossword
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        Two-faced Roman god
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          Two-faced Roman god
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          Not at all a thorough-bred
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          Like common and uneducated people
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          As a whole
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          Persian poet and scientist Khayyam
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          Singer Pearl
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          Government by horses
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          Ignited and flaming
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          Consumed
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          Maker of the Frisbee and the Hula-hoop
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          Visage
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          My old man
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          Urban area for cats
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          What San Francisco locals call that mountain in Marin County (home to Muir Woods)
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          Sandy's dialog
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          Prefixes for wine
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          Home of Frogner Park
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          Teeming with swans
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          Aggressively sells
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          Leg extremity
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          Adjust to a change
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          Magritte who doesn't paint pipes (he paints pictures)
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          Your and my
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          Cash dispensers
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          Steamy
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          Extension, as in a body of water.
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          Invitation request
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          Swelling; retaining fluid
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          French female friend
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          "The View" co-host whose name is a Torah reading that is usually read in April
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          Poet descended from birds
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          Wind in circles
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          What this puzzle is. (Clues don't get much more 59A than that)
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          U.S. domestic intelligence and security
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          News network particularly hated by Trump
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          Fence passages for Microtus rodents
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          Aesthetic objects
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          Act in an indolent manner
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          Type of acid (a weak antiseptic)
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          Starchy food staple made from taro
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          Outright dishonesty
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          Percussion for dogs
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          Intertwine
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          Journalist Helaine; or basketball couch Eric; or ancient Greek poet from Lycia; or municipality in Antwerp
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          Matching furniture set
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          Looked at inappropriately
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          Joy Adamson's lioness
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          World No. 1 tennis player Monica
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          Holy cause
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          Bryant who was the cause of an orange juice boycott
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          Having a back of a neck (particularly a colorful one)
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          Anxious gasp (I don't want to know if this is the typical response to a woozy meta)
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          After a hectic Thurs, it was a ---- --- which would have been relaxing except I really wanted to go home for the week-end
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          Lesson one takes away from a fable
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          Savory fifth taste (I don't think anyone really knows what it is but we all want to pretend we do)
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          Ground beef, beans, tomatoes and the usual but in a bowl rather than in a tortilla. (Tortilla chips can garnish this liquid food)
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          Attempt
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          WWII subs
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          Noteworthy and historical comic by Ernie Bushmiller
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          Fecund with
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          He accused Hannah of drunkenness but eventually raised her son, Samuel
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          Prefix meaning atmosphere
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          What one may do with eggs in the Spring
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          Rendered lard; or Kidney suet; or tallow; or any other oily substance for the toqued professional
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          Locate; discover
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          Monetary unit, colorful, that a person, impoverished, may not have; or balanced and focused to a Brit
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          Tidal wave
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          Setting for Camus' "The Stranger"
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          Calendar pg.s
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          Formicide victim
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          "Toréador, en garde! Toréador! Toréador! Et songe bien, oui, songe en combattant Qu'un œil noir te regarde, Et que l'amour t'attend, Toréador, l'amour, l'amour t'attend!" .... but much more succinctly
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          Money-handling head executive
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          "It's time. Go to the stage."
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          E. Nigma portrayer of the 60s
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          Three letter acronym for a DJ's genre
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          Become cheese-like (as damaged tissue might)
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          Snoop
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          Financial cost you pay each year to borrow money; or an abbreviation for 65D (which would make it one of the 30D)
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          ---, amas, amat
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          Drug that got me through many a final exam back in the day (alternate spelling... sigh)
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          Guys
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          Nick-name for Hal Foster's prince
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          Event depicted in the 1990 Film "Paris is Burning"
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          Author of "What Do Fish Have To Do with Anything?"
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          Discreet email letters
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          He wanted to see Watson on March 10, 1876
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          Localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue (descriptive enough?)
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          Lost feathers
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          Express verbally
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          Top rates
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          ZaSu Pitts's role in "Greed"
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          Month when the Behar is usually read
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          Itinerary
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          Eras
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          Shakespearean king
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          Led backwards to its undoing
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          The direction the Hawaiian goose flies when its head's cut off
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          It's key in France
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          Small hut or shack over a mine shaft
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          Now owed
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