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Reality Check (meta)

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Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a ten-letter word.
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  • Hector solved 2022-11-24T04:20:34.669Z
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  • Hector 23s · 2022-11-24T11:00:19.957Z
    Nice puzzle!
    • Laura M 🤓4:51 · 2022-11-25T03:10:38.035Z
      Enjoyed it!
      • I K Snamhcok 2s · 2022-11-25T03:45:26.720Z
        Fun! Thanks, RDA!
        • boharr 27s · 2022-11-25T13:27:39.147Z
          Thanks!
          1A
          Machiavellian notion of individual spirit and initiative
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Machiavellian notion of individual spirit and initiative
          2. 6A
            "Martial arts," in Chinese
          3. 11A
            Project Dank from New Mexico's La Cumbre Brewing Co., e.g.
          4. 14A
            It may still be smoking
          5. 15A
            Religion whose Golden Age is said to have begun with the founding of the Grand Library of Baghdad
          6. 16A
            Concession
          7. 17A
            Orange-and-white breakfast pair
          8. 20A
            Pink Floyd song that begins, "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day"
          9. 21A
            Some big cats obey them
          10. 22A
            Groups of sentences, in journalistic slang
          11. 24A
            Glutamate sensation
          12. 26A
            19c. New England author Ann who was the second woman of color to publish a book in the US
          13. 27A
            De Armas of "Blonde"
          14. 28A
            Firm rear end?
          15. 30A
            Drag-racing class of ultra-high-performance cars that look street-legal
          16. 33A
            Relinquished (to)
          17. 36A
            "The Racer's Edge"
          18. 37A
            "It wasn't terrible, I guess"
          19. 38A
            Amplifies a Twitter post, briefly
          20. 40A
            To see, in Spanish
          21. 41A
            Overflow (with)
          22. 43A
            "Can I bend your ear for a bit?"
          23. 46A
            Denigrate
          24. 48A
            Mrs. of Montmartre
          25. 49A
            "The Velvet Fog"
          26. 50A
            ___-It (orange cracker brand)
          27. 52A
            Helsinki university named for a famed Finnish architect
          28. 53A
            Beating hard
          29. 56A
            Frenemigo de un perro
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            Check one's ego, as might be necessary to find this puzzle's meta answer
          31. 63A
            __ snakes (group of which the inconsistently-named corn snake is a member)
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            ___ number (level of connection to a famously prolific mathematician)
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            Test, as ore
          34. 66A
            Spot for speakers
          35. 67A
            Their liking is obsessive
          36. 68A
            Tommy and Annika's unsupervised friend, in a kids' book
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            Goose flight formation
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            .png or .jpg, for example
          3. 3D
            Subject of the book "I Dissent!," briefly
          4. 4D
            Like a person whose death isn't going to require the state to divide up their stuff among their survivors
          5. 5D
            Bear-shaped
          6. 6D
            ___ moms (suburban cry-for-help subculture)
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            McCain's branch
          8. 8D
            Stone with a Family
          9. 9D
            "Later," in Spanish, very casually
          10. 10D
            'Canes' institution
          11. 11D
            "Now it's clear"
          12. 12D
            Dump
          13. 13D
            Tools inside a cell
          14. 18D
            Conversational pauses
          15. 19D
            Hitting up privately, for short
          16. 22D
            Meat in a can?
          17. 23D
            Like a 46-Across song, generally
          18. 24D
            "I'm your idol, the highest title, numero ___" (Special Ed, "I Got it Made")
          19. 25D
            Scots surname that means "son of grace"
          20. 26D
            "Hey buddy"
          21. 27D
            In the crib
          22. 29D
            Gambol
          23. 31D
            Part of a line, in geometry: abbr.
          24. 32D
            14 or 24, say
          25. 34D
            Mobile payment app with over 80M users
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            "Das Lied von der ___" (Mahler symphony)
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            Prepare to snare?
          28. 42D
            Intro to management?
          29. 44D
            Its current headline is "DJ Khaled Offering Pimped-Out Crib On Airbnb"
          30. 45D
            ___ of Memnon (60-ft. statues outside Amenhotep III's tomb)
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            Does more than push
          32. 51D
            Critic who wrote, "A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself"
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            Non-pro sports org.
          34. 53D
            Taj Majal site
          35. 54D
            "There's no I in ___" (aphorism that does not apply to the Sixers, Marlins, Vikings...)
          36. 55D
            Directions for packets, in short
          37. 56D
            Tea
          38. 58D
            Nutritional info acronym that you might see oddly frequently in the puzzles of a constructor whose initials these also are
          39. 59D
            Hither:to::___:fro
          40. 60D
            In particular, briefly
          41. 61D
            Prime location for cat sitting?
          42. 62D
            "Just so's you knows"
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