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For your part, can you take direction?

· By woozy · Published 2024-03-02T01:22:32.867Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta (which has six parts) is two word phrase indicating a nose for current affairs
I think this is an original mechanism. I've certainly never seen it before. It's novelty may make this tough but I hope it's very easy to find the first foothold.
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  • KayW 🤓7:53 · 2024-03-03T01:27:34.320Z
    VERY creative and clever metanism - and so much fun to solve. Thanks!
    1A
    A pronoun for a specific
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    Across
    1. 1A
      A pronoun for a specific
    2. 5A
      What you shouldn't fall into when solving a meta
    3. 9A
      Breakfast chain with a bouncy initialism
    4. 13A
      It goes to you head in France
    5. 15A
      Making each day of the year. As opposed to running my hands through her hair and knowing that love is to share.
    6. 16A
      Song with the line "Staying up for days in the Chelsea hotel / Writing 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' for you" which is the only time Dylan referenced any of his song titles in another song
    7. 17A
      Epic tales
    8. 18A
      I need one to look after Gustafer and Oliver (the Taiko drummer) when I'm out of town for several days.
    9. 20A
      Timely
    10. 22A
      Atty.'s exam
    11. 23A
      Sweltering
    12. 24A
      Engineering school in Troy, NY
    13. 26A
      Mid.
    14. 28A
      U.S. govt. agency for little companies
    15. 31A
      Soft wood conifers
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      African scavengers the meat of which is, perhaps surprisingly, considered halal
    17. 36A
      Instructors of many introductory courses
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      Japanese dog that is "powerful, dominant and loyal breed, commonly aloof with strangers, but affectionate and deeply loyal with its family"
    19. 39A
      Broad bean
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      Properties and possessions
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      Unbeliever. (You say that as though it were a bad thing)
    22. 45A
      "Song for the ---" Allister MacGillivray song about Marion Bridge community that has become a de facto anthem of Cape Breton Island. In just about every movie about Cape Breton (there are surprisingly many) some one eventually sings it.
    23. 46A
      Curry, and Drogo portrayer
    24. 48A
      Derived offspring of the Esperanto language that looks like a marriage vow
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      Far and few between
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      Topical events, the reports of which can come from all directions of the four corners of the globe.
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      Moved rapidly on foot
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      Buddy
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      Meadow
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      Geez. Does everything need to be a three letter acronym? It's not like this nut spread and preserve sandwich is that hard to say.
    31. 59A
      Lavish attention on
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      Bird of prey
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      1988 John Waters film that, in 2022, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
    34. 70A
      Relieve of thirst
    35. 71A
      I liked this shade of off-white before it was cool
    36. 72A
      Overhang
    37. 73A
      When Gustafer makes these sounds of contentment the entire couch rumbles and you can hear it from two rooms away
    38. 74A
      Card game with five suits: circles, crosses, triangles, stars and squares. (Is the cross clue equally obscure? O, that's too bad)
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      Issue forth everywhere
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      A chair; or direct on to a chair
    Down
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      Three of 14D
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      Audibly detect
    3. 3D
      Jason's ship
    4. 4D
      Neither the Bulls nor the Bears are meat. Instead each is this Meta anagram.
    5. 5D
      Mnemonic for remembering in which order to trim the the points of a sail. "Just think of Berkeley in the 60s" my sailing instructor would say
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      Pragmatic one not given to flights of fancy
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      Aesthetic productions
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      Exodus remembrance
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      Mann --- was mann isst
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      Many a man ---- more hair than wit
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      In an attempt to make a clue for this that has never been used before, I'll say this makes a terrible table shim but an adequate poker chip
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      Component of a larger whole. As this is to the meta as a whole.
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      One third of 1D
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      Generally hirsute and prone to speaking high-pitched gibberish much like a TV cousin
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      Three-wheeler
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      Light refractor
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      Mortgage again, in a breezy manner
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      Plant pieces that support
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      Fundamental
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      Apparently this is more formal than stellae and more likely to be used in mottos and sounding important. They are both Latin words for "stars" though.
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      Thick and heavyset
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      Lowest point
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      Cosmetic company whose name is Sanskrit for "all knowledge"
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      Culture and opinion website created in 1995
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      Singer Mann whose second studio album is "I'm with Stupid"
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      50+ org. that offers a pretty nifty tote bag
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      Peace protest demand
    28. 44D
      F's in the C major scale (if you are doing Solfeggio)
    29. 47D
      Away from the office for a while
    30. 50D
      Bounders
    31. 51D
      Runs off together
    32. 56D
      What a relief!
    33. 57D
      Coffee-loving Leipzig composer (Wenn ich des Tages nicht dreimal Mein Schälchen Coffee trinken darf, So werd ich ja zu meiner Qual Wie ein verdorrtes Ziegenbrätchen)
    34. 58D
      He dreams of sushi in a 2011 documentary
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      Look. I'm not a mean person and I'm not trying to trick you. I wouldn't lay more than one of this thing if I didn't have a reason.
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      Venomous snake
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      And more
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      Weight measuring offset
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      Pod veggie which, I have to admit, I have never experienced to be slimy.
    40. 66D
      What remains
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      What you don't want to be stuck in in your day to day life
    42. 69D
      Do you know the name of that evergreen shrub flattened leaf like needles?
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