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Considering every factor

◆ · By woozy · Published 2024-02-20T21:41:04.077Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a type of question that considers every factor
Okay. I have corrected this. It's a fun one and should be easy to guess. But try to backsolve.
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  • LarsCaine solved 2024-02-21T13:52:23.437Z
  • kurtalert solved 2024-02-21T22:41:12.241Z
  • Pair O Ducks solved 2024-02-27T15:11:13.719Z
  • Laura M solved 2024-03-01T23:55:41.951Z
  • hoover solved 2024-03-08T20:42:32.140Z
  • KayW solved 2024-03-10T00:29:11.117Z
  • DIS solved 2024-04-01T21:00:19.616Z

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  • kurtalert 🤓7:13 · 2024-02-21T22:42:10.513Z
    Nice one! Picked up on this one pretty quick. First went by 6s and 7s but then figured it out.
    • Pair O Ducks 🤓8:10 · 2024-02-27T15:12:36.641Z
      Oh geez took me long enough! Simple enough, and fun. I was convinced we needed to add together the factors of various numbers... glad I remembered to come back and take another look.
      • woozy constructor · 2024-02-27T16:35:47.737Z
        I guess I did give to many clues about perfect numbers. I wanted to get people thinking about factors and, well, perfect numbers are fun. But no, I just wanted the individual factors spelled out.
      • Laura M 🤓12:09 · 2024-03-01T23:56:16.965Z
        Fun!
        • hoover 7s · 2024-03-08T20:42:59.421Z
          I swear I solved this grid once already but I can't find it on my computer!
          • woozy constructor · 2024-03-08T23:45:37.679Z
            I had to redo it to fix an error that I think you pointed out. The original grid had another letter (I think an I) in the 14 square which made the whole thing unusable .So I had to delete the original.
          • KayW 🤓8:16 · 2024-03-10T00:30:43.404Z
            Very nice!! and a lovely homage to one of my favorite authors.
            Play today's daily mini crossword
            1A
            Extremely so
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            Across
            1. 1A
              Extremely so
            2. 6A
              That's my cue
            3. 10A
              Lapdog for short
            4. 13A
              Judge who ordered Nixon to surrender his tapes
            5. 15A
              In a downcast manner
            6. 17A
              Did taxes on-line
            7. 18A
              Collection of all things and phenomena
            8. 19A
              In heraldry, covered with small bearings of indefinite number
            9. 20A
              The gradually replaced B.E.M.s in sci-fi nomenclature
            10. 22A
              According to Tolkien, the first this was the Hobbit, Bandobras Took, who at the Battle of Greenfields knocked the (appropriately named) Goblin King's head off and it flew 100 yards before going down a rabbit hole.
            11. 23A
              The good choice; proper size option
            12. 26A
              Dashes. The short ones; not the ones
            13. 27A
              Imitate
            14. 30A
              A rather ignorant American in Sharyn McCrumb's "Highland Laddie Gone" is conned into donating to this non-existent group. He figures if Irish-Americans can support the Irish militants seeking independence from Britain surely those with his ancestry could do the equivalent.
            15. 31A
              Year Aulus Caecina Severus was appointed consul by Emperor Augustus
            16. 33A
              Gun the gas pedal
            17. 34A
              Cover the roof again
            18. 36A
              Locatations
            19. 39A
              Get ready
            20. 41A
              Standard clue about make-up and the names of people who run make-up companies
            21. 43A
              Key used only in combination
            22. 44A
              Big hair-dos for which I really don't have a clever clue. (The people paced atos and ...., no, that's dumb.)
            23. 46A
              Orgs.
            24. 48A
              Music genre that gets you five points in Scrabble
            25. 49A
              Indigenous people of Mexico
            26. 51A
              Record label representing ScHoolboy Q and other Top Dawg Entertainment (don't overthink it)
            27. 52A
              Quick snooze
            28. 53A
              Lousy thing to pick
            29. 55A
              In progress
            30. 58A
              Linus van Pelt's teacher crush; Miss ------
            31. 60A
              "Just thought you'd want to know...."
            32. 61A
              Id est literally
            33. 65A
              "Does that thing actually exist? I'm not imagining it, am I?"
            34. 67A
              Supposedly using these are the best way to train a dog. But when I try to train my new dog, Nova Kane, the minute these enter the equation she turns into a junkie who would sell her mother for these sweet crunchies.
            35. 69A
              "The Barefoot ___," 1954 film
            36. 70A
              Aide
            37. 71A
              Lang. (or --- 5D; induce participation)
            38. 72A
              A bit of data
            39. 73A
              Author of "The Salmon of Doubt" Douglas
            Down
            1. 1D
              Takes advantage of
            2. 2D
              Perhaps the most important factor in all matters for most people
            3. 3D
              Small haircut
            4. 4D
              One who agitates
            5. 5D
              Expert
            6. 6D
              "It needs to be done by me"
            7. 7D
              "--- Oncle" Jacques Tati classic
            8. 8D
              One's beginning
            9. 9D
              Ballots cast against
            10. 10D
              What Bo Derek was according to a 1979 movie. (But as it is not the sum of its parts just how great can it be?)
            11. 11D
              Photographer Jimmy for the Daily Planet
            12. 12D
              I'm an INTP on the ------Briggs personality test
            13. 14D
              "What's does that diploma indicate you earned?" "Oh, that? That indicates I earned - ------"
            14. 16D
              Nice sodium chloride
            15. 21D
              "Factoring it in...." (Hey, you're halfway through the meta!)
            16. 24D
              Neighbor of Syr.
            17. 25D
              Woodlands science
            18. 27D
              Government dept. founded in response to Sputnik
            19. 28D
              No.s such as 28. (also 6, but not 10)
            20. 29D
              The whole enchilada
            21. 32D
              Lighter brand with a very obnoxious ad campaign in the 70s
            22. 35D
              @@@@@@@@
            23. 37D
              Humorous Bombeck
            24. 38D
              Swill
            25. 40D
              Permission to make legal decisions (abbr.)
            26. 42D
              What you should do, in regards to this entry, to solve the meta
            27. 45D
              These have an odd number of divisors (as the School-Lockers puzzle shows us)
            28. 47D
              Large body of water
            29. 50D
              Disquiet
            30. 53D
              Neat
            31. 54D
              "Let's do this thing!"
            32. 56D
              Major key of the Eroica Symphony
            33. 57D
              Give right of way
            34. 59D
              Initialism of Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony (Full name is an anagram of CHEM ALI TONSIL ASMOTH)
            35. 62D
              Spanish appetizer
            36. 63D
              Thing that's an anagram of time
            37. 64D
              Ukraine and Georgia once
            38. 66D
              -- - rule, these last clues tend to be rushed
            39. 68D
              Stephen of "The Crying Game"
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