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Urban Familiarity

◆◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-07-30T16:17:05.035Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is the theme of the puzzle.
This is reconstruction of the other "Urban Familiarity". It has the exact same answer and mechanism. However this one is 15x15 rather than 21x21. I felt the themers were discouragingly sparse in the other. In this one, however, I have the opposite problem in that the grid is quite dense I a had a lot of "painting myself into corners" for contrived and artificially convoluted clues to justify absurd combinations of words and letters. A few in a puzzle are always fun but a grid with 80% contrived? ... well you tell me.
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  • whimsy solved 2022-08-01T20:10:27.944Z
  • Gutman solved 2022-08-01T20:36:14.256Z
  • hoover solved 2022-08-02T18:15:53.419Z

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  • Gutman 3s · 2022-08-01T20:36:48.585Z
    Aha
    • whimsy 25:13 · 2022-08-01T20:15:11.856Z
      Got it! Whoopie! Wondered about some of the strange clueing but it all served its purpose. This was quite a feat, and you did it to yourself twice! Very much liked how some of the entries were put to double use. You're on your way, woozy!
      • hoover 17:45 · 2022-08-02T18:17:41.966Z
        Whew! It had to use both grids (started with the big one) and the first five nudges. Then I looked at the grids again and realized that the entries that were the same in both were important.
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        Tintin's dog (in the original French)
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Tintin's dog (in the original French)
        2. 6A
          Dicephalic
        3. 14A
          Person, place or thing... but for the digital age!
        4. 15A
          Playground
        5. 16A
          Brotherly
        6. 18A
          --, ----; you fir! (See 35A and 43D)
        7. 19A
          Hire an oath
        8. 20A
          Apple
        9. 21A
          Granny Weatherwax's companion; Nanny ---
        10. 22A
          English Lord Justice of Appeal (1883–1892) and an arbitrator on the Permanent Court of Arbitration (Thank you, St. Wikipedia)
        11. 24A
          Genus of wasps (whether they embolize prostate arteries, I don't know-- they don't seem to be associated with architects and engineers of the West Coast)
        12. 25A
          Big
        13. 26A
          --, I thought there weren't going to be any two letter entries
        14. 28A
          Tolkien baddie (phonetically, four legged flying Oz creature with bowl shaped wings and a propeller on its tail)
        15. 29A
          Sentimental person
        16. 30A
          Conjoin
        17. 32A
          If an m- is the widest of these types of punctuation and an n- is narrower, then logically wouldn't this be the narrowest?
        18. 34A
          Ice cream sandwich from Burlingame, Ca. (A local legend, the secret is the oatmeal cookies)
        19. 35A
          -, ----; you bush (See 18A and 43D)
        20. 36A
          A make up artist with a medical degree
        21. 40A
          In the style of
        22. 41A
          --, I guess you couldn't avoid two-letter entries?
        23. 42A
          Love
        24. 44A
          Undercover org.
        25. 45A
          Discount Danish tableware.
        26. 47A
          Urgent (abbr. ... one of the less frequently used ones)
        27. 48A
          Legal term: by (or from) the thing itself
        28. 50A
          America's
        29. 52A
          Kind of like an ode but you sing it.
        30. 53A
          See 3D
        31. 54A
          Of
        32. 56A
          Two-element semiconductor
        33. 57A
          Corpses (dysphemistically)
        34. 58A
          Less irrational
        Down
        1. 1D
          City
        2. 2D
          Pertaining
        3. 3D
          Where to get snacks and drinks when traveling by rail (maybe the pot of gold and the end of 53 A is found here)
        4. 4D
          Chuck
        5. 5D
          Okay when I plug this into Google Translate: Fillipino to English I get "wish" which is kind of weird. So let's just say this is a United National Translation Arts Expert.
        6. 6D
          A very large (or notable?) unit of power
        7. 7D
          -- have preferred that you didn't have any two-letter entries
        8. 8D
          Information repository dedicated to high-definition video and audio transmission ([no real] acronym)
        9. 9D
          Discretely coveted the saline solution in plain sight
        10. 10D
          Easy
        11. 11D
          Cheese
        12. 12D
          Eagle
        13. 13D
          Entered a stamp into the Germany volume of the Michel catalogue (Deutschland-Katalog)
        14. 15D
          To be familiar with
        15. 17D
          In Very Desperate Need Of turning down a biopsy
        16. 23D
          Sunshine
        17. 26D
          Laudatory poem to the Electric Company
        18. 27D
          PHILADELPHIA, CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA, NEW YORK CITY, ATLANTIC CITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOS ANGELES
        19. 29D
          Peasant in the Hebrew land of the dead.
        20. 31D
          "Is this the original?" "No, it ----- copy"
        21. 33D
          Angels
        22. 36D
          Angry
        23. 37D
          What the roles on reality TV supposedly are
        24. 38D
          Courant alternatif vers le haut sur la carte
        25. 39D
          The Sri Lankan Ironwood. Also know as Rose Chestnut. A genus of flowering plants in the Calophyllaceae family.
        26. 43D
          You Typee; --, ---- (see 18A and 35A)
        27. 45D
          Digital simulation of occupying a chair
        28. 46D
          The ones that attacked the Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator were Vermicious.
        29. 48D
          A candid and terse review of the gaming company that released The Sims
        30. 49D
          Rats live -- -- evil star (not to be confused with "Sex at ---- taxes")
        31. 51D
          British actress Miller (The Haunting of Bly Manor) whose name is an acronym for an auto racing annual event
        32. 55D
          Oh --! Not another two-letter entry!
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