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Better Than Hailing Taxis

· By kieranjboyd · Published 2024-05-25T01:23:01.931Z

Constructor's Note
I made this for the midi contest last November, but swapped my submission out when I saw some other entries with the same concept. It finally gets its time to shine, or not, as it were.
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  • kurtalert 🤓5:02 · 2024-05-25T03:04:42.789Z
    Lots of challenge in here. Thank you!
    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓3:25 · 2024-05-25T03:46:22.682Z
      Fun, thank you! (For those newer on the scene like myself, the theme was "Bad Weather."
      • disisdadave 🤓10:49 · 2024-05-25T14:02:27.868Z
        challenging!
        • Brian Callahan 🤓4:06 · 2024-05-25T21:54:21.078Z
          I think I may have test-solved this one! Love the ONSO clue
          • Alex Peebles-Capin 🤓6:10 · 2024-05-30T01:27:51.430Z
            Really like the way the theme plays out on this one!
            1A
            Stab, idiomatically (and ironically)
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            Across
            1. 1A
              Stab, idiomatically (and ironically)
            2. 5A
              Accompaniments for thumbnails
            3. 9A
              Pilfer
            4. 10A
              Refill
            5. 11A
              You might put them on at a party?
            6. 12A
              "Okily dokily!"
            7. 13A
              Studio whose logo features a Pegasus
            8. 15A
              Abbreviation for a Tulsa university hidden in "forum thread"
            9. 16A
              One of the three rock bands named after a continent
            10. 17A
              Tiny songbird
            11. 18A
              In finance, cheap stocks with low expected yield
            12. 22A
              Hurry, in an old-timey way
            13. 23A
              André the giant of the violin/classical music scene
            14. 24A
              Final (abbr.)
            15. 25A
              It's estimated they make up more than half of all living things
            16. 29A
              Display again, as a painting
            17. 31A
              Folk stories
            18. 32A
              Spanish name that derives from the word for "queen"
            19. 33A
              Self-help website
            20. 34A
              "Keying every car in this multistory car park is a dumb idea ___ many levels"
            21. 35A
              Gets into
            Down
            1. 1D
              "Now!"
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              You might let it out at a party?
            3. 3D
              Ben ___, Nigerian-born British poet whose novel The Famished Road won the 1991 Booker Prize
            4. 4D
              Ice dancer Virtue and actress Thompson
            5. 5D
              Wetland
            6. 6D
              Discontinued Mac program for image manipulation
            7. 7D
              Upgrade a boat by installing stabilisers
            8. 8D
              Teapot parts
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              Diatribes
            10. 12D
              With 18A, significant precipitation, as seen in the circled cells of this grid
            11. 14D
              Catherine the Great, for example
            12. 18D
              Popular Disney theme park snack with seasonal flavours [we had a maple-pumpkin one in Japan!]
            13. 19D
              ___ Wuornos, American serial killer portrayed by Charlize Theron in Monster
            14. 20D
              Daughter of Titan, moon of Saturn, and anagram of "the sty"
            15. 21D
              Competed using firearms or Yi-Gi-Oh cards, say
            16. 26D
              One of the five Pacific salmon species
            17. 27D
              Film that pioneered extensive use of computer animation
            18. 28D
              Works with a needle
            19. 30D
              "I'll take that as ___"
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