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Rowrbazzle!

◆◆ · By woozy · Published 2023-01-26T18:44:46.299Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta are some animals that appear in this puzzle's subject occasionally; not as often as other animals though.
Gosh a Mickle! Dickel-Pickle! Gee Willy-Wobbles! Dog my Cats! and Rowrbazzle!
This is an homage to a subject I love. As such this puzzle definitely requires specialized knowledge. If you have that specialized knowledge this will be a 1 or 1.5. If you don't have that specialized knowledge this is a 5 and you will have to google. It should still be a solvable puzzle though. But very hard.
I give no apologies as this puzzle is for lovers of this subject. As I usually only get a dozen solvers or so, I imagine this will be a puzzle for just me. But I had to do it. I just did.
(It's a pity that this puzzle is so specialized as I think this is one of my better and cleaner grids.)
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  • woozy constructor · 2023-01-28T01:38:47.050Z
    Answer is TOADS. If you google comic strip in swamp you are sure to hit something talking about Walt Kelly's "POGO". Read a post or a wikipedia page or two and you will see some names of the main characters, probably Albert, Churchy LaFemme, and Howland Owl, at least. You will recognize those as entries in the grid and you will realize we probably need to find characters in the grid. Do a bit of research and you will find Beauregard Bugleboy and Mam'zelle Hepzibah. [Sorry, about FLO. That was not part of the meta but their may (or may not) by a minor bug referred to as Flo. Sorry. Sometimes entries slip in.] 60A tells you that ANIMALS are clue, so you ask yourself what animals the characters are and they are:
    Churchy - Turtle
    Howland- Owl
    Albert- Alligator
    Beauregard- Dog
    Hepzibah- Skunk.
    Now, hopefully in getting caught up in research you didn't forget this is a meta and the single most basic and most common thing you should always try first with metas is take initial letters and see if they spell anything. In this case they spell:
    TOADS
    Frogs as minor characters appear frequently. Toads are not as common but they do occasionally. Frogs are often referred to as hoppy-toads and the distinction seems... er, amphibious.
    • whimsy 20:07 · 2023-01-28T20:09:21.507Z
      "If you google comic strip in swamp..... " Or we (at least some of us) could have just checked out your avatar:) Thanks for the puzzle, woozy!
      • DIS 🤓8:01 · 2023-01-30T18:24:05.085Z
        I knew Albert was an alligator and used Wikipedia for the rest. Fun puzzle!
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        Belief in God
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Belief in God
        2. 6A
          Negating prefix
        3. 9A
          What those vertical bars code
        4. 12A
          Overly pious
        5. 14A
          First three community cards in Texas hold 'em
        6. 16A
          From the seventh planet
        7. 17A
          "------ Other Poems"; Allen Ginsberg poetry collection
        8. 18A
          Thinks is true
        9. 20A
          Home to The International Dateline Hotel
        10. 21A
          Belched
        11. 24A
          Sliced
        12. 25A
          Ozma when she was a boy (or the advice we'd give him?)
        13. 28A
          Important location for this puzzle's theme
        14. 31A
          Queen Victoria's consort
        15. 34A
          Wiped out
        16. 35A
          Chocolate Syrup that was George Costanza's ATM code
        17. 36A
          A million of these make a km
        18. 37A
          Deranged Trickster god's weights (cryptic)
        19. 41A
          Recovery program
        20. 43A
          "----- Fables"
        21. 44A
          Confederate General who attacked Fort Sumter
        22. 48A
          Metal favored by Nick Chopper
        23. 49A
          Shakespeare's bday mo.
        24. 50A
          Alkali battery material
        25. 53A
          Esteemed
        26. 56A
          Biblical name meaning "my delight is in her"; wife of Hezekiah.
        27. 60A
          Critters (and a clue to the meta)
        28. 63A
          Gem state capital (and state)
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          Thin cut of steak
        30. 65A
          Edray owersflay atthay avehay ornsthay utbay ellsmay eryvay icenay
        31. 66A
          Qty.
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          Australian parrot (nestor notabilis)
        33. 68A
          The creator of this puzzle's theme
        Down
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          Two fold
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          Rubber Ducky serenader
        3. 3D
          Less cordial
        4. 4D
          Jewish holiday known as "Feast of Weeks"
        5. 5D
          It attaches my head to my body
        6. 6D
          Unspecified ordinal
        7. 7D
          Cry of discovery
        8. 8D
          Small salamander
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          His constant relates energy to frequency
        10. 10D
          ----- durée ("long duration"); view of history that extends beyond human memory
        11. 11D
          Revise
        12. 12D
          Young critter
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          Charlemagne's domain
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          Progressive Insurance spokesperson
        15. 19D
          Hamman, for example (but not a sauna apparently)
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          8D's offspring
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          ---- as in "Dumb"
        18. 25D
          Where to put things at a bar?
        19. 26D
          U.N. agency that establishes work standards (initialism)
        20. 27D
          Where we used to find 2D (before HBO acquired him)
        21. 29D
          Victory goddess who gives her name to a missile and a shoe
        22. 30D
          Guy who sits on a potato pan according to a palindrome
        23. 32D
          Off white
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          Heavy long-barreled gun formerly used for hunting big game in southern Africa
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          Wise men
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          Place to park
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          Charity organization led by Sister Guard N. O'Pansies and Sister Bella Donna Summer BDSM; Sisters of the ----- of --------- ----------
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          A U-turn from NNS? (That's the government for you)
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          Norse goddess of the underworld
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          Body fat
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          Yellow fruit that is hard to stop spelling once you get started....
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          Thagomizer supposedly, but not actually. However strigiphilus garylarsoni is, in actuality
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          Producer of esthetic endeavors
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          South African antelope
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          Archangel mentioned in "Paradise Lost"
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          Winner of the Beauty Contest dedicated to the 12th letter
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          First responder
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          Unlit
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          Boston Elevated Railway; abbr.
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          Professional organization for building planners in the United States
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          "I am appalled you would do that" in a text
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          Falsehood
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          Health resort
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