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Rise above it all

· By woozy · Published 2022-10-08T06:53:00.848Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is a five-letter word that isn't completely unrelated to rising
This is about a 4.
I will release three versions that are exactly the same but with "themer pointers" for different levels of difficulty. This is the most difficult version.
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  • woozy constructor · 2022-10-18T17:40:21.664Z
    There are five entries that don't really fit the clues. In some versions of the puzzle they are marked with asterisks but in the harder versions they are unmarked.
    a MAYFLY20AInsect with forelimbs similar to a mantis[------] doesn't have mantis-like appendages' SEND21ATo signal[----] doesn't really mean to signal. There never really were FADs about those stinky foods. To outdo ... well it is to BEST53ATo out-do in an activity[----], but BEST53ATo out-do in an activity[----] doesn't indicate any particle activity that one is BESTing another in and "in an activity" was an essential part of the clue. And RETIRED59AFixed and ready for use again[-------] doesn't mean "fixed and ready to use".
    These clues have mistakes and you must "rise above it all" and look into the entry above to fix them. In some of the puzzles the clues of the entries above or are marked with a + but in the harder ones they are unmarked.
    If you rise above the middle Y in MA(Y)FLY you have the (NTIS) in deNTISt and if you replace the Y with that you have the correct answer MA(NTIS)FLY. Likewise S(E)ND becomes S(OU)ND, F(A)D becomes F(ETI)D, BE(S)T becomes BE(ATA)T and RE(T)IRED becomes RE(PA)IRED which all fit the clues better.
    So what was the "it all" you had to rise above? Y-E-A-S-T
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    To humanly make mistakes
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    Across
    1. 1A
      To humanly make mistakes
    2. 4A
      Civil War side
    3. 7A
      Distant
    4. 10A
      Toward the stern
    5. 13A
      Those rolls of lawn to be laid down; or British insult for people (as in "It was Rodgers, the lodgers, ---------")
    6. 15A
      Physician's org.
    7. 16A
      Sound like a dove
    8. 17A
      One who knows his way around a tooth
    9. 18A
      Haggard's genre
    10. 20A
      Insect with forelimbs similar to a mantis
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      To signal
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      "What's that floral necklace?" "This? This is -----"
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      Cavea thoracis (pl.)
    14. 27A
      The first prime minister and president of Ghana
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      Brian of ambient music
    16. 31A
      Pasta, wider than spaghetti, narrower than fettuccine
    17. 34A
      Abominable Snowmen
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      When you mine for cookies but only find 3/4 of the mother lode. (yeah, I did that)
    19. 37A
      Chastise
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      Like the lutefisk craze fifteen years ago, or the current stinky tofu trend, or the obsession with durian in 90s
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      Acronym for a chaotic mess
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      The family in "Nanny and the Professor" (yeah, well, they never heard of you either)
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      Vietnamese holiday
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      "------ caveman could do it"
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      Before birth
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      Don Novello letter-writing alias: Lazlo ----
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      To out-do in an activity
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      Don't know; don't care
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      Taro dish for a Hawaiian dance?
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      Fixed and ready for use again
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      Presidential Candidate of 52 that people liked
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      Establishment for the lodging and entertaining of travelers
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      Undoes a tightening
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      Tapered stake or pin
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      Cartoon Garden Gnome.... what? I can't just make up acronyms? Now you tell me. Um, okay, multinational geoscience technology services company.
    36. 66A
      Switch labels
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      Cologne
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      Important estimates when you are trying to leave
    2. 2D
      Greek for "Thing said". In philosophy it refers to sentences or propositions. In Christianity, it refers to the sayings of Christ.
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      Related to the kidneys
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      Styling (as hair)
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      Broadband connection using telephone copper wires and where the downstream and upstream bandwidths are identical
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      Who was Tommy Lee performing as in "Cobb"?
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      Replicas
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      Single-celled creature. (There's more to it than that, of course. It is a rhizopod protozoan with lobed pseudopodia, without permanent organelles but "single-celled creature" is good enough for a crossword puzzle)
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      Sleazy
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      Play a role
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      Pro
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      Plaything
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      Inflamed swelling of a sebaceous gland at the margin of an eyelid
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      Signing one commits you to silence
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      Well, essential a race track lap, I suppose?
    16. 24D
      Imply
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      Authors Bagnold and Blyton
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      Distress call at sea
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      Ancient Persian kettle-drum similar to timpani
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      Oryza consumption
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      Solitary sort
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      Incensed
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      Clock in the shape of a ship; or a napkin holder shaped like a ship; for Discworld fans a desert on the Klatchian continent; in our world a glacier and a river in Chile
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      Juvenile newt
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      Not allowing the serving of booze
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      Big name in motor oil
    27. 41D
      What "Lonesome Dove" can be said to be; or "Gone with the Wind"; or maybe "New York" by Edward Rutherford
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      "Have a meal at Oprah's restaurant!"
    29. 46D
      What "By the rivers of Babylon", or another such canticle from the first part of the bible, could be said to be.
    30. 48D
      Sports League, includes the Celtics and the Cavaliers
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      Elevator man
    32. 51D
      When Mercury, Washington, and Helium chant "We're number one", Earth, Jefferson, and Lithium may claim this number. (Remember that MGWCC?)
    33. 52D
      Serengeti scavenger
    34. 54D
      Titular character in "The Good Dinosaur"
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      Menial laborer
    36. 56D
      With it; in the know (like someone who has heard of "Nanny and the Professor")
    37. 57D
      Instrument at a 56A56ATaro dish for a Hawaiian dance?[-------], maybe
    38. 58D
      Journey segment
    39. 60D
      Public historically black land-grant research university est. in 1891; Home of the hornets
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