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◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-08-30T18:35:54.396Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is not a 5-letter word although it wants to be; it's a two word phrase that has nearly nothing to do with any theme or mechanism
There's a bit of creative licensing in the meta answer. And the mechanism requires a bit of out of the box thinking.
Anyway, to my surprise one of the hardest parts of constructing a crossword is making a grid pattern that feels natural and works. This entire puzzle was an experiment. I "borrowed" another grid pattern and entered the themers and let the Crosshare software do all the rest of the work. I'm not sure what I learned. It had to have been something though. Otherwise there would have been no point in doing it.
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  • woozy constructor · 2022-08-30T18:47:54.437Z
    The answer is SPACE ZONE.
    The entries for clues with numbers at the end of them are
    1. (Thumb) A RIDE
    2. (Pinky) SWEAR
    3. (Ring) TONE
    4. (Index) CARD
    5. (Middle) GROUND
    The entries for clues with asterisks are all typed with one type of your fingers then are, in the order listed above:
    [SPACE] (with Thumbs 1) That was the creative license referred to in the blog post ZAP (with Pinkies 2) OWLS (with Middle fingesr 3) NUMB (with Index fingers 4) and EDDIE (with Middle fingers 5)
    That spells out (sort of) SPACE ZONE
    Play today's daily mini crossword
    1A
    3x5 filing record (4)
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    Across
    1. 1A
      3x5 filing record (4)
    2. 5A
      Nocturnal predators*
    3. 9A
      Hitch-hike (1)
    4. 14A
      First Black player in the NHL
    5. 15A
      In ___ of (rather than)
    6. 16A
      I don't think it'd be accurate to claim I am this to the puzzle as I only provided the themers; Crosshare software filled in the rest of the grid
    7. 17A
      "Of all the ----- in all the World", Fallout Boy Song (seriously? I'm going with that clue?)
    8. 19A
      Barely manage to make it
    9. 20A
      Her lover and her husband were both named Alexei
    10. 21A
      How one knows who is calling (3)
    11. 23A
      To cut, as meat or a wood figurine
    12. 26A
      Eagerly goes for (as food)
    13. 31A
      Where both sides may agree (5)
    14. 33A
      To set up the sails on a boat; to fix something or devise a mechanical solution for
    15. 34A
      To be full to overflowing
    16. 35A
      Like e-mails but more demanding
    17. 36A
      "Cats and Bats and Things With Wings" poet
    18. 38A
      Predecessors of the Olympian gods
    19. 39A
      Pollen producer
    20. 41A
      Of or relating to large groups of people classed according to shared origins
    21. 43A
      One keyboard character that doesn't leave a mark *
    22. 44A
      Rock guitarist Van Halen *
    23. 46A
      "--- Comix"; showcase for Robert Crumb *
    24. 48A
      Scourge
    25. 49A
      She's likely to have peridot as a birthstone... or maybe it's ruby
    26. 50A
      Rude starers
    27. 52A
      Region that borders Extremadura and includes Cadiz
    28. 55A
      "___ a Woman?" (Sojourner Truth)
    29. 56A
      Texas city that is too far to the west to warrant having it's name as it's radio call letters.
    30. 57A
      Desensitized *
    31. 59A
      How children often make solemn promises (2)
    32. 62A
      Standard on which a judgment or decision may be based (such as historically significant movies)
    33. 67A
      English for Tiburon
    34. 68A
      Hidu god of love
    35. 69A
      rm.s to let
    36. 70A
      You could do this activity without them
    37. 71A
      Demand for his extradition was the cause of a hostage crises in 1979 through 1981
    38. 72A
      Baseballer Sammy
    Down
    1. 1D
      Gear tooth
    2. 2D
      Shapiro of NPR
    3. 3D
      Confucian virtue of co-humanity
    4. 4D
      Do you ever feel like you've seen this clue before?
    5. 5D
      Elizabeth was in "God of Love"; Ken was in "Thirty-something"; Lena was in "After the Rehearsal"; Stig was in "Woman without a Face"
    6. 6D
      Succeed in
    7. 7D
      Allow
    8. 8D
      To give support or relief to
    9. 9D
      Enthused agreements
    10. 10D
      Make big money
    11. 11D
      "I Go Pogo" satirized his campaign slogan
    12. 12D
      "--- may level yam bed" was my mother's attempt at my favorite form of word play (see 27D if you aren't getting it)
    13. 13D
      -ness
    14. 18D
      An irritation of Internet listicles is that in a weird belief that longer is better they will over-include and so for a list of this type of celebrity the will falsely include Elvis (Presley), Oprah (Winfrey) and even, god forbid, Ellen (Degeneres) who clearly don't belong on the list at all.
    15. 22D
      grp, assn, soc (common URL suffix)
    16. 23D
      This surpassed stop motion animation for the most part
    17. 24D
      Personal measurement that is very close to one's height as illustrated in "the Vitruvian Man"
    18. 25D
      "Cyrano de Bergerac" playwright
    19. 27D
      "T. Eliot, top bard, was I --- I saw drab pot toilet"
    20. 28D
      Resident of the Internet
    21. 29D
      Break-time conveyance
    22. 30D
      Every, on a prescription
    23. 32D
      Expire
    24. 37D
      Calf-covering legwear
    25. 38D
      It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play this
    26. 40D
      TV honor last presented in 1997
    27. 42D
      Spanish uncle
    28. 43D
      Start-up loan org.
    29. 45D
      Earworm time: "....---- begin, To tell the story of how great a love can be, The sweet love story that is older than the sea, The simple truth about the love she brings to me, Where ---...."
    30. 47D
      Pressure unit
    31. 49D
      "Light" name
    32. 51D
      3/4 of them have Opal as their birthstone.
    33. 53D
      Whims
    34. 54D
      Inner self
    35. 58D
      State that was the last link of the First Transcontinental Telegraph in October 1861
    36. 59D
      It's appropriate that this entry is in this position of the grid
    37. 60D
      After hatching an egg he went on to hear one of these
    38. 61D
      Aptitude for music
    39. 63D
      Yay....
    40. 64D
      Making available to the public for the first time
    41. 65D
      Extended plays
    42. 66D
      Code-cracking org. (Three acronyms in a row? Well, not ideal but acceptable)
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