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!
Making each day of the year. As opposed to running my hands through her hair and knowing that love is to share.
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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
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Epic tales
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I need one to look after Gustafer and Oliver (the Taiko drummer) when I'm out of town for several days.
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Timely
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Atty.'s exam
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Sweltering
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Engineering school in Troy, NY
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Mid.
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U.S. govt. agency for little companies
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Soft wood conifers
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African scavengers the meat of which is, perhaps surprisingly, considered halal
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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"
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Broad bean
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Properties and possessions
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Unbeliever. (You say that as though it were a bad thing)
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"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.
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Curry, and Drogo portrayer
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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.
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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"
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Relieve of thirst
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I liked this shade of off-white before it was cool
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Overhang
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When Gustafer makes these sounds of contentment the entire couch rumbles and you can hear it from two rooms away
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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
1D
Three of 14D
2D
Audibly detect
3D
Jason's ship
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Neither the Bulls nor the Bears are meat. Instead each is this Meta anagram.
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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.
14D
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
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F's in the C major scale (if you are doing Solfeggio)
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Away from the office for a while
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Bounders
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Runs off together
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What a relief!
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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)
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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.
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What remains
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What you don't want to be stuck in in your day to day life
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Do you know the name of that evergreen shrub flattened leaf like needles?