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my apologies to Frisco and anyone who solves this puzzle

◆◆ · By Conflux · Published 2022-01-23T00:24:23.333Z

Constructor's Note
For real. This puzzle is extremely evil, extremely unfair, and watching confused solvers has brought me probably more joy than any other crossword.
I make puzzles (of all different kinds, not just crosswords!) at https://puzzlesforprogress.net. If you liked this puzzle, you might like those!
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  • Frisco17 7:37 · 2022-01-23T00:24:23.333Z
    I am absolutely honored, you did a terrible job! (in a good way) (also the best part of this was hands down the Henry and Mudge reference, that brought back hella nostalgia)
    • carter 🤓23:28 · 2022-01-23T00:24:23.333Z
      loved 9D and 18A
      • jasonwestley 38:25 · 2022-01-23T13:58:09.760Z
        Sheesh, that was horrific and I loved it! When I finally got 19D it was a genuine "Oh FFS!" moment.
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        Time running backwards
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        2
        3
        4
        5
        6
        7
        8
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        10
        11
        12
        13
        14
        15
        16
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        19
        20
        21
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        24
        25
        26
        27
        28
        29
        30
        31
        32
        33
        34
        35
        36
        37
        Across
        1. 1A
          Time running backwards
        2. 4A
          Sleeps running backwards
        3. 8A
          Theorem I just came up with proving that if one side length, one angle measure, and the absolute value of the area are the same between two triangles, they are congruent
        4. 11A
          Capital of the Maldives
        5. 12A
          Usical instrument
        6. 14A
          Grey and Squirrel, misspelled [the second one is a Magic card from a joke set and the first one was a British prime minister, which you probably didn't know]
        7. 15A
          With 21- and 28-Across, title of the Frisco crossword that inspired this one
        8. 17A
          Keyboard shortcut for ø
        9. 18A
          10 (presumably) to this power gets you an operating system
        10. 21A
          See 15-Across
        11. 23A
          New England state school, plausibly [apparently there's a Colorado school that actually does have this name...]
        12. 24A
          Boulanger, Chatelier's Law, etc.
        13. 26A
          Roman numeral 3, in some fonts [this clue works best if you imagine the answer word written at the start of a sentence]
        14. 28A
          See 15-Across
        15. 32A
          Part of the leg, phonetically
        16. 33A
          __ like I've committed the crossword sin of putting a non-theme answer right below a themer of the same length, but actually I've saved it with a clever clue that too makes it part of the theme!
        17. 34A
          Author Abdullah, manga artist Asamiya, canoeist Byers, playwright Corthon, model Drayton, actress Goodwin, businessman Joorabchian, actress Luby, footballer McNeill, basketballer Nurse, actress Pegg, rapper Shine, investor Silverbrook, wrestler Stevens, basketballer Vaughn, or soccer player Zolghairnain [just so you know, the Wikipedia disambiguation page for this had Pegg at the end for some reason. Luckily, I've fixed the error]
        18. 35A
          Cryptocurrency letters
        19. 36A
          __ta (Spanish for "female saint")
        20. 37A
          Divided by fifty, to Caesar doing a unit cancellation problem
        Down
        1. 1D
          There was a way to find the answer as a substring in this clue, and in fact still is [sorry, I was a bit lazy when filling this puzzle]
        2. 2D
          Poisonly oakly resultly, likelilily
        3. 3D
          Dirty to difficult [imagine I'm an AI looking at this entry autofill suggested, and thought "to" was only used in English for spectrums like "A to Z," but also had a database of synonyms. Make sense yet?]
        4. 4D
          "'S a character in the popular children's book series about a boy named Henry and his dog."
        5. 5D
          An ind. starts it
        6. 6D
          Cartoonist Bechdel, to friends [wait, her first name only has one L? Pretend it has two]
        7. 7D
          SWs' opposites
        8. 9D
          Catgirl's conjunction
        9. 10D
          Hamilton portrayer
        10. 13D
          __ Island (the intersection of the prime meridian and the equator) [this is not a meme but instead the correct cluing angle]
        11. 16D
          What LOL would be without LO
        12. 19D
          "I use vinegar badly, but __"
        13. 20D
          A teams' defeaters [sorry for the dupe]
        14. 22D
          Stop the scene, in other words
        15. 25D
          Author Montgomery and others
        16. 26D
          Near NE, perhaps
        17. 27D
          "This is a __ Hawaiian flower necklace."
        18. 29D
          Substring that appears twice in http://tinyurl.com/panfopcwhttapa-ib, if you ignore a pesky A
        19. 30D
          Washer inside
        20. 31D
          Golfer, maybe [this is the main cluing angle but I dislike it so it belongs in this puzzle I think]
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