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If so, I must really really love golf

◆ · By woozy · Published 2024-04-13T15:00:27.236Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a phrase that describes golf
So this is my entry for https://crosshare.org/tags/midi-contest-04-24 The April Midi Contest and the theme of golf. I had mistakenly thought a midi was 7 x 7 rather than 11 x 11 and this was my first attempt: https://crosshare.org/crosswords/TwlTWPdsk8uPpCmNDgiP/par-for-the-course (Par for the Course). I figured I'd try to redo it it to a different size but.... somehow, it just didn't seem creative enough to just redo and it'd seem too heavy and too much in 11 x 11 size.
So I came up with an entirely new idea and puzzle. Cap'n Ricks (exceptional) Entry (https://crosshare.org/crosswords/oTjgVQpKs1Yw2LuOeNnu/a-matter-of-course) uses a quote about golf so I search another humorous description of golf. An that's what you have to find. Enjoy!
Now, I'm going to rate this as hard but I think I left enough clues (including the clue that it is hard) to make it guessable.
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  • woozy constructor · 2024-04-14T04:21:31.898Z
    Hmm.... I just realized that maybe Milne only meant that because we score low, it's good to be .... subpar.
    I preferred it as some social comment about how you are got company if you are bad at it or that if you were good at it that would indicate some kind of psychosis. Actually I have no idea what he meant but it sounds pretty funny, doesn't it.
    • hoover 🤓6:06 · 2024-04-23T18:16:12.794Z
      Oh! This meta was not as hard as the 7x7.
      • Sendhil Revuluri 2:35 · 2024-04-23T22:29:02.881Z
        FYI the clue to 32D has a typo.
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        FORE! Oedipus Rex's home
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        Across
        1. 1A
          FORE! Oedipus Rex's home
        2. 7A
          Bellow like a lion
        3. 10A
          The one in my kitchen runs hot and cold
        4. 12A
          Media storage that I'm insisting is not as obsolete as people say it is
        5. 13A
          First Governor of the State of Alaska
        6. 14A
          It's claimed golf has too much walking for a ____ and too much ____ for a walk
        7. 16A
          Itemizes
        8. 18A
          Mother of Horus in Egyptian mythology
        9. 20A
          U.S. Cabinet concerned with well-being of ex-military
        10. 21A
          Charged particle
        11. 23A
          "To the ___ degree"
        12. 25A
          Spain's Internet domain extension
        13. 26A
          Dorm supervisors
        14. 27A
          About
        15. 28A
          Playful sea mammal once believed extinct until a small raft of them was rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of Big Sur
        16. 31A
          The 12th tier of alphabetically ordered tiers
        17. 33A
          Bee like
        18. 34A
          My timorous response to "Who made such a convoluted meta?!"
        19. 35A
          Discard, as hair or dead skin
        20. 36A
          Auto-generator of e-mails
        21. 37A
          Pleasant prefix
        22. 39A
          It's a fact, a ratio immutable of circle round and width, produces geometry's deepest conundrum. For as the numerals stay random, No repeat lets out its presence, Yet it forever stretches forth. Nothing to eternity.
        23. 40A
          Honest president's nickname
        24. 42A
          Cambridge schl.
        25. 43A
          Lisa Simpson's instrument
        26. 44A
          A.A._____; author who claimed golf's popularity was simply because it was the meta answer
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          Number of strokes I took. (Which, if 44A was correct in his statement, means I must really love golf!)
        2. 2D
          Former Church of God's Holy Wisdom in Istanbul
        3. 3D
          Greek aspirates
        4. 4D
          Not straight
        5. 5D
          No-one remembers the sitcom with Elliott Gould but everyone remembers the medical drama with George Clooney... which would be fine except nobody remembers the medical drama with George Clooney.
        6. 6D
          Slayer of a dragon briefly. very briefly
        7. 7D
          Key to understanding the joke: "Here's one for the record. People born in '33 were 45 in '78"
        8. 8D
          Apartment Cooler
        9. 9D
          Hwys.
        10. 11D
          As opposed to the "9Vouts" marking to remove my batteries from my smoke detector, my remote has this marking for me to insert my batteries. (Hey, it was either a clue like that or a clue about getting coverage for your car in New Zealand)
        11. 15D
          German article
        12. 17D
          Sailor temptor
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          Entered with confidence
        14. 22D
          Rowboat propeller
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          Chop down
        16. 29D
          Bind with string
        17. 30D
          And there! I sank my shot! (Which, admittedly in 1D strokes, is really nothing deserving of this reaction)
        18. 31D
          Branch of probability. The one that studies distributions. Large ones. The theory of those.
        19. 32D
          Where to find Provedence
        20. 33D
          Venomous snakes
        21. 34D
          Moon of Jupiter
        22. 36D
          To exist
        23. 38D
          Shoshonean
        24. 41D
          Johnny Hart comic
        25. 42D
          One thousand and fifty of these would be about 35 1/2 oz.
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