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Rise above it all (with Level 1 pointers)

◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-10-08T16:26:44.081Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is a five-letter word that isn't completely unrelated to rising
This is the exact same puzzle as https://crosshare.org/crosswords/iDLefWgNZalQNhE129IW/rise-above-it-all but this one has some themer pointers (both the easy and the hard themer pointers)
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  • benchen71 2s · 2022-10-18T09:37:49.190Z
    Nope, I can't see how you get YEAST from that. I can see that the letters of YEAST are in the five lower entries in each pair, but I have no idea how you were supposed to know those were the significant letters.
    • woozy constructor · 2022-10-18T17:23:20.134Z
      Did you notice anything about the upper pair?
      I'll explain.
    • woozy constructor · 2022-10-18T17:35:59.916Z
      There are five entries that don't really fit the clues. In this version of the puzzle I marked the clues with asterisks but in the hardest version they are unmarked.
      a MAYFLY doesn't have mantis-like appendages, SEND doesn't really mean to signal, there never really were FADs about those stinky foods. To outdo ... well it is to BEST, but BEST doesn't indicate any particle activity that one is BESTing another in and "in an activity" was an essential part of the clue. And RETIRED doesn't mean "fixed and ready to use".
      These clues have mistakes and you must "rise above it all" to fix them
      If you rise above the middle Y in MA(Y)FLY you have the (NTIS) in deNTISt and if you replace the Y with that you have the correct answer MA(NTIS)FLY. Likewise S(E)ND becomes S(OU)ND, F(A)D becomes F(ETI)D, BE(S)T becomes BE(ATA)T and RE(T)IRED becomes RE(PA)IRED which all fit the clues better.
      So what was the "it all" you had to rise above? Y-E-A-S-T
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      1A
      To humanly make mistakes
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      Across
      1. 1A
        To humanly make mistakes
      2. 4A
        Civil War side
      3. 7A
        Distant
      4. 10A
        Toward the stern
      5. 13A
        Those rolls of lawn to be laid down; or British insult for people (as in "It was Rodgers, the lodgers, ---------")
      6. 15A
        Physician's org.
      7. 16A
        Sound like a dove
      8. 17A
        One who knows his way around a tooth(+)
      9. 18A
        Haggard's genre(+)
      10. 20A
        Insect with forelimbs similar to a mantis*
      11. 21A
        To signal*
      12. 22A
        "What's that floral necklace?" "This? This is -----"
      13. 23A
        Cavea thoracis (pl.)
      14. 27A
        The first prime minister and president of Ghana
      15. 30A
        Brian of ambient music
      16. 31A
        Pasta, wider than spaghetti, narrower than fettuccine
      17. 34A
        Abominable Snowmen(+)
      18. 36A
        When you mine for cookies but only find 3/4 of the mother lode. (yeah, I did that)
      19. 37A
        Chastise
      20. 39A
        Like the lutefisk craze fifteen years ago, or the current stinky tofu trend, or the obsession with durian in 90s*
      21. 40A
        Acronym for a chaotic mess
      22. 42A
        The family in "Nanny and the Professor" (yeah, well, they never heard of you either)
      23. 44A
        Vietnamese holiday
      24. 45A
        "------ caveman could do it"
      25. 47A
        Before birth(+)
      26. 49A
        Don Novello letter-writing alias: Lazlo ----
      27. 53A
        To out-do in an activity*
      28. 54A
        Don't know; don't care(+)
      29. 56A
        Taro dish for a Hawaiian dance?
      30. 59A
        Fixed and ready for use again*
      31. 61A
        Presidential Candidate of 52 that people liked
      32. 62A
        Establishment for the lodging and entertaining of travelers
      33. 63A
        Undoes a tightening
      34. 64A
        Tapered stake or pin
      35. 65A
        Cartoon Garden Gnome.... what? I can't just make up acronyms? Now you tell me. Um, okay, multinational geoscience technology services company.
      36. 66A
        Switch labels
      37. 67A
        Cologne
      Down
      1. 1D
        Important estimates when you are trying to leave
      2. 2D
        Greek for "Thing said". In philosophy it refers to sentences or propositions. In Christianity, it refers to the sayings of Christ.
      3. 3D
        Related to the kidneys
      4. 4D
        Styling (as hair)
      5. 5D
        Broadband connection using telephone copper wires and where the downstream and upstream bandwidths are identical
      6. 6D
        Who was Tommy Lee performing as in "Cobb"?
      7. 7D
        Replicas
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        Single-celled creature. (There's more to it than that, of course. It is a rhizopod protozoan with lobed pseudopodia, without permanent organelles but "single-celled creature" is good enough for a crossword puzzle)
      9. 9D
        Sleazy
      10. 10D
        Play a role
      11. 11D
        Pro
      12. 12D
        Plaything
      13. 14D
        Inflamed swelling of a sebaceous gland at the margin of an eyelid
      14. 19D
        Signing one commits you to silence
      15. 23D
        Well, essential a race track lap, I suppose?
      16. 24D
        Imply
      17. 25D
        Authors Bagnold and Blyton
      18. 26D
        Distress call at sea
      19. 28D
        Ancient Persian kettle-drum similar to timpani
      20. 29D
        Oryza consumption
      21. 31D
        Solitary sort
      22. 32D
        Incensed
      23. 33D
        Clock in the shape of a ship; or a napkin holder shaped like a ship; for Discworld fans a desert on the Klatchian continent; in our world a glacier and a river in Chile
      24. 35D
        Juvenile newt
      25. 38D
        Not allowing the serving of booze
      26. 40D
        Big name in motor oil
      27. 41D
        What "Lonesome Dove" can be said to be; or "Gone with the Wind"; or maybe "New York" by Edward Rutherford
      28. 43D
        "Have a meal at Oprah's restaurant!"
      29. 46D
        What "By the rivers of Babylon", or another such canticle from the first part of the bible, could be said to be.
      30. 48D
        Sports League, includes the Celtics and the Cavaliers
      31. 50D
        Elevator man
      32. 51D
        When Mercury, Washington, and Helium chant "We're number one", Earth, Jefferson, and Lithium may claim this number. (Remember that MGWCC?)
      33. 52D
        Serengeti scavenger
      34. 54D
        Titular character in "The Good Dinosaur"
      35. 55D
        Menial laborer
      36. 56D
        With it; in the know (like someone who has heard of "Nanny and the Professor")
      37. 57D
        Instrument at a 56A, maybe
      38. 58D
        Journey segment
      39. 60D
        Public historically black land-grant research university est. in 1891; Home of the hornets
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