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Never Forget... and never mind.

◆◆ · By woozy · Published 2024-03-28T05:35:45.670Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is a word that help you organize your thoughts
Okay, so my first go of this meta https://crosshare.org/crosswords/SyRcvOJa6C5wtp7CGsoz/never-forget-and-never-mind had a serious error. Here the new one. And this one does too. However https://crosshare.org/crosswords/Pf384mR9sDqeOzo7UFAC/never-forget-and-never-mind seems to be error-free. For now....
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  • LarsCaine solved 2024-03-28T13:20:44.970Z
  • MatthewL solved 2024-03-28T18:44:31.457Z
  • Laura M solved 2024-03-28T19:43:23.332Z
  • DIS solved 2024-03-28T19:56:45.523Z

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  • Laura M 🤓25:51 · 2024-03-28T19:45:45.801Z
    Excellent idea! But user error, I never did figure out where the T and E come from, or what goes with the Pi digits mnemonic.
    • woozy constructor · 2024-03-29T00:32:21.672Z
      The comments on my original of this puzzle https://crosshare.org/crosswords/SyRcvOJa6C5wtp7CGsoz/never-forget-and-never-mind explained it. The Pi mnemonic is that the number of letters in the words of HOW I LIKE A DRINK ALCOHOLIC OF COURSE are 31415926 the first digits of pi and T is 37D and .... OH! MITER-FIDGET SOHM OF A BISHOP!!!!!!!! In fixing 3D to do CLASS, I forgot to keep 37D as unalterable. FIDGET! FIDGET! FIDGET! I am so filming bizzed off!
      But the E is from EARTH 67D and its still here. (Thank goblins!)
      • Laura M 🤓25:51 · 2024-03-29T01:53:28.845Z
        Oh right, Earth is a planet lol, sometimes I can't see what's in front of me. And as for 37D (originally TWO?), these things happen! Don't blow a fuse :-)
        • woozy constructor · 2024-03-29T04:02:20.266Z
          It's just that I made this one specifically to counter me leaving off CLASS in the first one. .... and now I leave off TWO. I was sort of wondering why Crosshare was suggest words that hadn't been an option when 37D was committed to be TWO.
    • DIS 🤓1:23:31 · 2024-03-28T19:58:26.958Z
      Tricky -- very satisfying once I figured out what was going on. Thanks!
      1A
      " It was the devious-cruising _____ that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan" (Or Jennifer's character on Friends)
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      Across
      1. 1A
        " It was the devious-cruising _____ that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan" (Or Jennifer's character on Friends)
      2. 7A
        King Philip came over for good soup
      3. 12A
        "My turn!"
      4. 16A
        One of a gene pair
      5. 17A
        It was _ ____ miss. Next time I'll have __ ___ to the ground
      6. 18A
        Seized vehicle
      7. 19A
        Alack the day! Oh my! Oy Vey!
      8. 20A
        Liquid rock
      9. 21A
        A backwards way to eat in Oklahoma
      10. 22A
        All boys should come home, please
      11. 24A
        How I like a drink? Alcoholic, of course
      12. 26A
        Multilateral regional body focused on human rights, electoral oversight, social and economic development, and security in the Western Hemisphere
      13. 27A
        Comedian Russell
      14. 29A
        Attach again
      15. 31A
        The day after pi day
      16. 32A
        Triangular river mouth
      17. 35A
        Haul behind
      18. 36A
        12th Century king of Connacht
      19. 39A
        My very elegant mother just served us noodles
      20. 41A
        Chopping tools you should graph with and graphing orientations you shouldn't chop with
      21. 42A
        Stuffed chile peppers coated with egg
      22. 45A
        Tall girls can fight and other queer things can do
      23. 47A
        Swift hominid. (Editorial comment: 29 years ago I had great faith in this Internet company and even once interviewed to be their fourth employee. God, what happened to it? Boy, did I pick the wrong horse)
      24. 48A
        Barely interesting art figures
      25. 52A
        Capital of the British Virgin Islands (if you come from here are you a 46D?)
      26. 54A
        La città eterna
      27. 55A
        Homes
      28. 58A
        Alabaster plaster
      29. 60A
        ER workers
      30. 61A
        1997 Literature Nobelist _____ Fo who was not present at "An Evening Without _______ Fo and Franca Rame" where they read the first act of his Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!
      31. 63A
        Forbes described this tiny Italian restaurant as “the single toughest restaurant reservation to get in the United States, bar none." I never heard of it but apparently their mass-marketed pasta sauces are a big deal.
      32. 64A
        Wombs
      33. 66A
        Good thing to get a shot for
      34. 68A
        Just how many spots can you get in a small space? (A question to ask your printer)
      35. 71A
        Raging Martians invade Venus using X-ray guns
      36. 74A
        Richard of York gave battle in vain
      37. 76A
        Land of Cú Chulainn, the Children of Lir, and Finn MacCool. (There's probably some linguistic reason this clue is technically incorrect....pfff)
      38. 77A
        "Rumor has it..."
      39. 79A
        Of the great heart trunk
      40. 80A
        Ebro, Segura, Júcar, Guadalquivir y otros
      41. 81A
        Put forward, as an idea
      42. 82A
        When the male cat consumed a red salad veggie in the French restaurant as a means of seduction, _______ ______ ______
      43. 83A
        Learning method that requires lots of memorization
      44. 84A
        Simmer in anger
      45. 85A
        Raises spirits
      Down
      1. 1D
        The original wireless (not Pinocchio)
      2. 2D
        Prince Valiant's wife
      3. 3D
        Style and elegance
      4. 4D
        Nickname the daughter of Creon of Thebes had for her husband (before he killed her in a fit of madness invoked by Hera)
      5. 5D
        Madrid daily
      6. 6D
        More suspicious
      7. 7D
        Let the ______ begin (No, not "wild rumpus")
      8. 8D
        Not impressed with any sense of wonderment
      9. 9D
        Nickname the son of Zeus and Alcmene had for his wife (before he killed her in a fit of madness invoked by Hera)
      10. 10D
        Yeah, yeah, ... crimson tide.... Ole Miss rival... I get it, some people like college sports and make up nick-names... whatever...
      11. 11D
        Of the mouth, spoken
      12. 12D
        Girl whom if she turns her back on me, I'll take morphine and die
      13. 13D
        "Amahl and the Night Visitors" composer
      14. 14D
        "Sports are boring" is one. Yours probably differs
      15. 15D
        Silent assent
      16. 23D
        Video and film display rate
      17. 25D
        Region of Spain that is one letter off from being Tolkien's ranger
      18. 28D
        Cowardly
      19. 30D
        Do you know what a female sheep is called? (I knew you did)
      20. 31D
        To place or connect something within an exterior container or connector
      21. 33D
        Recline atop of
      22. 34D
        Former cable network specializing in country music. Its format changed and it is now the Paramount Network, but the country music aspect was revived as* Heartland*
      23. 36D
        Upper Limit
      24. 37D
        Kitchen brand
      25. 38D
        Unused
      26. 40D
        Overthrows and takes by force
      27. 42D
        Being sports apathetic, I always assumed the Cup was an award for horse racing rather than for golf. (Because, well, you know....)
      28. 43D
        Fails spectacularly
      29. 44D
        Assassin of 63D's older brother (as long as we are doing initialism)
      30. 46D
        Crew for the band on tour
      31. 49D
        Software developed for IBM PC compatible computers to manage core functionality
      32. 50D
        "Of course," said Norah, after a quarter of an hour's silence, "you want to make the words difficult and define them as subtly as possible." "Of course," I said, wrestling with '?—?.' I could only think of one word, and it was the one everybody else was certain to have. "Are we all ready? Then somebody begin." "You'd better begin, Norah, as you know the game," said Mrs. Gerald. We prepared to begin. "Mine," said Norah, "is a bird." "---," we all shouted; but I swear I was first. "Yes." "I don't think that's a very subtle definition," said Dennis. "You promised to be as subtle as possible." "Go on, dear," said Gerald to his wife. "Well, this is rather awkward. Mine is——" "---," I suggested. "You must wait till she has defined it," said Norah sternly. "Mine is a sort of feathered animal." "---," I said again. In fact, we all said it. Gerald coughed. "Mine," he said, "isn't exactly a—fish, because it——" "---," said everybody. "That was subtler," said Dennis, "but it didn't deceive us." "Your turn," said Norah to me. And they all leant forward ready to say "---." "Mine," I said, "is—all right, Dennis, you needn't look so excited—is a word I once heard a man say at the Zoo." There was a shriek of "---!" "Wrong," I said. Everybody was silent. "Where did he say it?" asked Norah at last. "What was he doing?" "He was standing outside the ---'s cage." "It must have been ---." "It wasn't." "Perhaps there's another animal beginning with '?' and ending with '?,'" suggested Dennis. "He might have said,'Look here, I'm tired of this old ---, let's go and see the _-doesn't-__,' or whatever it's called." from "Once a Week" by A.A. Milne
      33. 51D
        Green eggs and ham enthusiast
      34. 53D
        Turkish title
      35. 55D
        National dish of Tahiti; Poisson ___: raw ahi marinated citrus juice and coconut milk
      36. 56D
        Most populous Canadian province
      37. 57D
        Poet who thought April was cruel and was apprehensive about eating peaches
      38. 58D
        Helmet-shaped
      39. 59D
        "Buffoon! That's the dumbest thing I ever heard!"
      40. 62D
        "Hold on, I just thought of something"
      41. 63D
        Attorney general in his older brother's administration
      42. 65D
        Run water over to remove loose or light dirt
      43. 67D
        Soil
      44. 68D
        Coup '___
      45. 69D
        Spoons co-escapee. ("_____ of Shrimp" is one of the strange motifs of the '84 cult movie " 18A Man")
      46. 70D
        Does nothing really important with ones time
      47. 72D
        Bite's playfully
      48. 73D
        Thing you wait for to drop, according to an old adage
      49. 75D
        "____ la Douce"; role originally intended for Marilyn Monroe but given to Shirley MacLaine
      50. 76D
        Say "Black touches red-- soon you'll be dead; Yellow touches black-- friend of Jack" when looking at coral snake, for example.
      51. 78D
        On a map it's about one unit it down by three units to the left--more or less.
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