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One or Two?

◆ · By Pair O Ducks · Published 2024-12-17T17:56:05.646Z

Meta Prompt
(Inspired by MGWCC #863) - The meta answer is something we all might need to hear when the rabbit hole you thought for sure was relevant turns out to be nothing at all.
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  • Hector solved 2024-12-17T18:28:04.710Z
  • BarbaraK solved 2024-12-17T20:10:55.478Z
  • benchen71 solved 2024-12-17T22:07:31.549Z
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  • KayW solved 2024-12-18T04:07:14.299Z

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  • benchen71 🤓8:21 · 2024-12-17T22:08:40.151Z
    Fun! When I saw this pattern in the original puzzle I simply couldn't accept it was a coincidence. And your puzzle has done the exact thing I spent so long looking for!
    • ajk 🤓5:52 · 2024-12-18T01:38:34.677Z
      Very, very nice. On a deadline no less. :)
      • woozy 13:41 · 2024-12-18T01:49:37.350Z
        Love it!
        But the APE is a teeny ape-wrench. It's ...er... OK tho because I guess order counts.
        • KayW 🤓5:18 · 2024-12-18T04:08:36.890Z
          Hah!!! I was SO lucky to have missed this coincidence in Matt's puzzle. And you made excellent use of it. Thanks!!!
          Play today's daily mini crossword
          1A
          Blatantly steal large portions another cruciverbalist's work, say
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Blatantly steal large portions another cruciverbalist's work, say
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            Bundle of wheat
          3. 10A
            Trendy type of pod to eat (but please don't, actually)
          4. 14A
            Very
          5. 15A
            It comes after the final chorus
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            Thor's dad
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            "Two's company..." ruiner
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            Tree seat for a partridge
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            Card game cry
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            Ain't's opposite
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            Pie ___ mode
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            Site for snipping
          13. 27A
            Party like a rock star
          14. 30A
            Days occurring (eventually) after Mon.'s
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            Filmmaker Chloe
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            Graceless
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            Forever, and ever, and ever...
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            Espies
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            Fido's greeting
          20. 36A
            Words before a hot take
          21. 42A
            Woo-___! (cry upon solving a hard meta)
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            Sour
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            "Washington Black" author Edugyan
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            Welles, director that I really like
          25. 48A
            ___ Del Giocondo, possible subject of a certain Da Vinci painting
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            Canal cleaner (even if the otolaryngologists say not to...)
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            See if it'll be worth it
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            They're bottomless, but not found at brunch
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            Music subgenre prefix
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            ___ vs. ___ (Mad strip)
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            Mauna ___
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            Burns, i.e.
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            U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 2017-2021
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            One above a frosh
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            Camera type
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            Toy up in windy heights
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            "I ___ tired after writing all these crossword clues!"
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            Flavor profile for a sugar cookie
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            Future plant
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            One may be rolled out in a hotel room
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            "I get it now"
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            _ounds per _quare _nch
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            "The Lobster" director Lanthimos
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            Planted
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            "Who'd've thunk?"
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            Summer abroad
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            Playground retort
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            First ___ (Shakespeare collection)
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            Spinning toy
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            Creatively imagine new options (like, how??)
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            Word the NYT crossword recently clued as [Way of getting online that might sound like "beep beep beeHAW beeHAW beeeeeep SHRHRHRHRH"]
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            Fascinated
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            Loud clamorous noise
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            Budget airline
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            Women in ___
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            "Hello," but more piratey-sounding
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            Aqua___ (absolute banger by Jethro Tull) (yes, I know that's a terrible use of a fill-in-the-blank, but I like the song so give me a break!)
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            "This is fun!!!!"
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            Takes up the challenge (crossword entry I absolutely never misread in a dirty way... nope, never)
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            411
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            Nil
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            Mancala pieces
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            Razor brand
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            "This doesn't look good for us..."
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            Card alternative
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            Pickleball dividers
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            "That so?"
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            Swigs gently, as rum, cocoa, Yoohoo, Michelob Ultra, or Nestea, etc.
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            Texas city
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            Movie that might feature a meet-cute
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            Bends down
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            Hid
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            Sounds made by a pair of ducks (oh, hi!)
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            Some video files
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            "Akeelah and the ___" (2006 film about a spelling whiz)
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            Clove hitch or figure eight
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            However, briefly
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            Gorilla, e.g.
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            Fury
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            Hurry
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            Had some food
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            Ref. work that's fun to read if you like words
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