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Interior? Exterior? Whatever. The title's not going to give any hints.

鈼嗏梿 路 By woozy 路 Published 2023-11-19T03:32:00.582Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is an interior design feature
Okay. Although the grid might be weird, I really think this ought to be a Week 1.
EDIT: Wow! This is playing harder than I would have thought possible. But I'm not changing my evaluation of it being a week 1.
Nudges: Do I really need to give nudges? Surely two identical answers, which happen to the same as the very adjacent clues means something.
And isn't rPET a weird clue if the answer is a simple GREEN? and is E.T. a good definition for ASTRAL?
And isn't KVETCH a difficult entry for that position. Why would I twist myself into knots for that? Maybe because I needed something to fit the clue?
I can understand the clues for 1 and 7A look natural but surely the clues for 36 and 37A and for 63 and 64A seem weird
Okay so going up and down the sides of the puzzle we have something. And in three places between these somethings we have something. So we have thing to thing thinging
I still say this was a week one
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  • kurtalert 馃9:58聽路聽2023-11-20T22:17:13.806Z
    Hah, clever one. Thanks woozy.
    • Madhatter5 2s聽路聽2023-11-22T16:53:35.280Z
      Saw the walls and the carpets. Couldnt think of the answer! Had to reveal haha. There should be a term for picture grids that don't cheat and use colors or circles like I do
      Thanks woozy
      • hoover 13s聽路聽2023-12-02T16:45:23.701Z
        Ohhhh... I had noted the juxtaposition of clues 1A and 7A and the WTFery of the 37A clue, but somehow didn't notice 36A, 63A, 64A. I don't understand 47D though. I googled the term and came up with a system of tiling showers. [After more googling] Oh! First of the two-pointers would have done it for me. I was thinking first of the two (as in there are two of them) pointers (as in things that point to the meta, or dogs, or ...).
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        Car
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Car
        2. 7A
          Pet
        3. 13A
          Small sea-birds of the North Pacific
        4. 15A
          One who does it alone
        5. 16A
          Recline upon
        6. 17A
          Iron tipped spear of southern Africa. (also "the second best-known African group of the late 60s/early 70s in Britain")
        7. 18A
          Inc. overseas
        8. 19A
          Soapberry tree with delicious sap
        9. 21A
          Where the farmer was
        10. 22A
          Russian royalists
        11. 25A
          Sourdough and Bourbon alternative
        12. 26A
          Begins again (way overdone in entertainment these day)
        13. 29A
          "---- boy" or "---- girl" (Don't really know what it's literally supposed to mean)
        14. 31A
          Female graduates
        15. 32A
          Littoral chamber formed by wave action
        16. 36A
          ca.
        17. 37A
          rPET
        18. 38A
          Fibrous protein
        19. 41A
          Intensely stupid
        20. 43A
          Mexican snack (if you put a pet in it you get a palindrome)
        21. 44A
          What someone like Santa, God, Big Brother or Astrid does
        22. 45A
          Better than worse but not as good as neutral
        23. 48A
          Sims earn wild symposia
        24. 50A
          Australian taxes for luxury cars (don't overthink it--- this corner is hard enough)
        25. 52A
          Established (at)
        26. 53A
          German car company
        27. 56A
          Bandleader in Animal House played by DeWayne Jessie
        28. 58A
          Oregon city on the mouth of the Columbia River
        29. 61A
          Italian geographical region of Campania in the central and southern part of the Province of Salerno; supposedly home of the Mediterranean Diet (upon Googling, the phrase "The best kept secret south of Naples" and "secret coastal gem" came up a lot so... good luck with this one)
        30. 62A
          Hemoglobin-rich corpuscle
        31. 63A
          Carp
        32. 64A
          E.T.
        Down
        1. 1D
          Barrier
        2. 2D
          Le nombre de pattes d'une araign茅e
        3. 3D
          Barely squeaked by. (Couldn't even afford an S, Q, or U... or the word "by"...)
        4. 4D
          Core course of instruction for develop listening, speaking, and reading skills (Acronym)
        5. 5D
          Allow
        6. 6D
          Plant pores
        7. 7D
          Child in Les Miserables
        8. 8D
          Lou Gehrig's disease
        9. 9D
          Where cars drive
        10. 10D
          Excited with anticipation
        11. 11D
          Rough skinned
        12. 12D
          Wall
        13. 14D
          Why do we call a person with very few ideas in their head "dense"? Wouldn't this be more apt as their ideas are for and few between?
        14. 15D
          Piquant sauces for a 43A
        15. 20D
          Circumference divided by diameter (no tricks this time)
        16. 22D
          Male pet of the feline sort
        17. 23D
          Cars with a musical name manufactured by Hyundai
        18. 24D
          More unnatural and artificially set-up
        19. 26D
          Wall ----
        20. 27D
          Novelist Wiesel
        21. 28D
          Actor Raymond who was edited into the American edition of Godzilla in 1956. (Weird trivia; his characters name was Steve Martin)
        22. 30D
          What this clue and entry isn't
        23. 33D
          Indigenous population of Luzon (you know, one of the cross entries is kind of weird so we can make this a gimme if we want: American Embryo Transfer Association)
        24. 34D
          Wow! I just discovered I can hide clues behind spoiler tags! Covering meant to conceal; such as a spoiler tag. ... [whoa, this is really cool...])
        25. 35D
          Wall (abbr.)
        26. 39D
          Cold-water immersion
        27. 40D
          Sandwich request (apparently some find white gloppiness off-putting... Meh. More for me, I guess... frankly being a picky eater is nothing to be proud of and.... well, I digress)
        28. 41D
          Lies not far from here
        29. 42D
          Salt Lake in the Jordan Rift Valley
        30. 45D
          Wall
        31. 46D
          When Launce offers his pet dog, Crab, to Sylvia as a gift and the dog immediately pees on the floor.
        32. 47D
          Alphabetically the first of the two pointers
        33. 49D
          To be; present tense; 3rd person
        34. 51D
          "Do you want the G Group? The C Crowd? The P Posse? The T Troop? The...." "Gimme the one for the 19th letter"
        35. 53D
          Uncle Remus appellation
        36. 54D
          Actress Kunis
        37. 55D
          Confine
        38. 57D
          The 50th one will be held in Chicago next August. The 49th one was held in Milwaukee but mostly virtually due to the pandemic.
        39. 59D
          Ftbll. scores
        40. 60D
          Tenth mo.
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