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Take the dogs for a walk

◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-10-18T04:13:29.735Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is what my dog does when I take her for a walk (8 letters)
Guess its time to go public with this one as well. This was a very early one of mine. It has quite a few woozyism and it has 4 "painful" clues. They serve a vital purpose and are interesting but they do "hurt". The mechanism is easy but hard to see all the pieces (but it's very symmetric that you might not need them.)
This was an attempt to try the type of meta that seem to me to be very hard to construct. As a result the grid mechanism ratio is a little low. The mechanism might be tough be you may be able to solve without getting all the pieces. The grid is kind of tough but Googling is acceptable. Anyway, dogs are cute. Who doesn't love dogs?
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    1A
    One who grinds flour; Common last name (Little Or-)
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    1. 1A
      One who grinds flour; Common last name (Little Or-)
    2. 7A
      Advanced Engineering degree
    3. 10A
      Stinging insect with a thin waist
    4. 14A
      Modern pet name (Dagwood an-)
    5. 17A
      It's hard to keep an --- ---(be vigilant) when you have an --- ---(are blinded)
    6. 18A
      You call this an ancient paved highway extending from Rome to the Adriatic Sea? Don't make me laugh
    7. 20A
      Thimble Theatre's first family
    8. 21A
      Indian seaport or the fabric named for it
    9. 22A
      Environmental precipitation concern
    10. 23A
      The group the kidnapped Patty Hearst
    11. 24A
      A sign of things to come
    12. 25A
      Important health insurance coverage
    13. 27A
      I used to love them for their road maps but lately....
    14. 30A
      suffix, plural. meaning small
    15. 31A
      Hasty escape
    16. 32A
      Predecessor of Harold V, the snowman in "Frozen", and villainous Count in a "A Series of Unfortunate Events".... what? Two of them spell it, how?.... Oh, figs....
    17. 34A
      Con game where the mark is persuaded to front some money for shares in some venture or another
    18. 38A
      The usual table wine
    19. 40A
      An extra-terrestrial buff
    20. 43A
      Goes both ways
    21. 44A
      Actual
    22. 45A
      Documentation of Library degree
    23. 47A
      Space-age family (their dog, Astro, is not party of the meta)
    24. 49A
      Unscheduled
    25. 50A
      Code-cracking org.
    26. 51A
      Former name of Gastrothecea-- a genus of marsupial frogs [etymologically because they carry their eggs on their back] (Dorothy)
    27. 54A
      Tooted one's own horn (The Little Rascals)
    28. 57A
      It's a constellation, it's a fish, it's a drink; ...but most crosswords will just clue in "Coach Parseghian"
    29. 58A
      One or some indiscriminately
    30. 59A
      In a contrived manner
    31. 60A
      Letter shaped vises
    32. 63A
      -- Nui; Easter Island
    33. 64A
      "He of the dawn"; one of four horses that drive Helios' chariot across the sky
    34. 67A
      Soviet space dog (not one of the dogs of the meta)
    35. 68A
      'e studies reptiles, 'e does
    36. 72A
      Large composting toilet on a boat (yes, it's a woozyism)
    37. 74A
      --- near Salim; one of the sites where John did baptisms. ("Diphtongue, oui?" ...shakes head to indicate disagreement)
    38. 75A
      Comic about a boy with a pet squid
    39. 76A
      Company that makes emoji usernames (they really hope it will become a thing)
    40. 77A
      Flavor additive
    41. 78A
      Uncleliness? .... The quality of being like an uncle
    42. 84A
      To send off (maybe on one)
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      Notable
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      Foreword
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      Beethoven's Third
    46. 92A
      Funny (on the Internet, of course)
    47. 93A
      Where the dogs go*
    48. 94A
      Plenty, galore and more
    49. 95A
      English cathedral city (-r Jack)
    50. 96A
      Nose (now chiefly Scottish)
    51. 97A
      Decay
    52. 98A
      Burns with hot liquid (-artin)
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    1. 1D
      Interoffice note (-phan Annie)
    2. 2D
      "---- what ----" what 20A's boyfriend frequently says
    3. 3D
      Article start, in journalism jargon
    4. 4D
      TV Series Pitch: "Blackmore's Scottish heroine teams up with Alcott's tomboyish aspiring author and have adventures together" "Mmm... pass"
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      French for U.S.A.
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      Line of travel
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      Respectful address
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      Animal rights org.
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      Armored cheek plates such as the ones a triceratops would have [etymologically because they cover the jaw bone] (Dr. Dolittle)
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      "Come to your life like a -----, nothing will bore yer, you can be happy" --Cris Williamson's "Song of the Soul" (....okay, Jungian archetype associated with strength)
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      1990 album by Irish folk group Clannad (it's Irish for "Soul")
    12. 12D
      Aegis
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      Trojan archer slain by Diomedes
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      Type of pear
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      "Clan of the Cave Bear" heroine who single-handedly invented everything
    16. 16D
      Israeli airline (-d Blondie Bumstead)
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      Marriage vow given to a floral necklace (okay, that's the very worst woozyism of this puzzle, I promise)
    18. 26D
      "So long, -- ---" "Only a little and it doesn't show"
    19. 28D
      In the game "Wingspan" this long-legged shore bird's pink power allows you to lay an egg on another bird with a ground nest
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      Answer-seizure ratio, the percentage of telephone calls that are answered
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      Eggs
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      Prmit.
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      Tony Soprano's racehorse
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      Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility (var.)
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      Pentobarbital sodium
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      What the dogs do*
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      How you refer to you martial arts master when he has a PhD.
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      If not
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      Enjoy a book
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      Movement impaired
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      Snare
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      Alien mechanical overlord of the novel "The White Mountains"... or support for a camera-- whichever works for you
    33. 51D
      Salt
    34. 52D
      "Objection, your Honor-- alleged killer whale" (New Yorker caption contest submission)
    35. 53D
      Open-source python library that is used in analyzing the stock market's historical data... Oh, all right, Rapper Kweli
    36. 54D
      Traditional Greek dance
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      Beaches of a seaside resort; or a regions of the sun
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      Covetously looking at the soft drink
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      Although it refers to another animal, the is apparently a term for leopard (Buster Brown)
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      "Should I use the B-furnace, the C-Oast?" "No, use the primary one"
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      Former chain of creperies (surprisingly not a woozyism)
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      Okay... it's an acronym for, um, a musical group-- classic music, that is-- large group, like the ones you'd see in concert halls... the one in the capital city of Canada (oh, it's a palindrome by the way) and... well, the middle letter describes what type of orch... er, I mean Instrumental Ensemble that it is... It (the middle letter) is like a piece of classical music... an extended composition.... (writing clues is harder than it looks)
    43. 66D
      Terminus (abbr)
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      When the singular grandly becomes plural
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      Ram wide receiver Cooper, whose name sound like an Egyptian ruler
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      warm vaporous air (Scottish)
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      Ludlum protagonist
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      Competent (Sailo-)
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      Baroque stringed instrument
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      Unattractive
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      Actress Myrna and her sisters (if she had any)
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      San Francisco car sharing company
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      Zounds!..... But more Internetty.
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      Land elevation
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      Chilled
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      Way through a mountain range (Timmy M-)
    57. 90D
      Dawn goddess
    58. 91D
      Mythical giant bird
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