The answer to the meta is a phrase that describes golf
So this is my entry for https://crosshare.org/tags/midi-contest-04-24 The April Midi Contest and the theme of golf. I had mistakenly thought a midi was 7 x 7 rather than 11 x 11 and this was my first attempt: https://crosshare.org/crosswords/TwlTWPdsk8uPpCmNDgiP/par-for-the-course (Par for the Course). I figured I'd try to redo it it to a different size but.... somehow, it just didn't seem creative enough to just redo and it'd seem too heavy and too much in 11 x 11 size.
Hmm.... I just realized that maybe Milne only meant that because we score low, it's good to be .... subpar.
I preferred it as some social comment about how you are got company if you are bad at it or that if you were good at it that would indicate some kind of psychosis. Actually I have no idea what he meant but it sounds pretty funny, doesn't it.
Media storage that I'm insisting is not as obsolete as people say it is
13A
First Governor of the State of Alaska
14A
It's claimed golf has too much walking for a ____ and too much ____ for a walk
16A
Itemizes
18A
Mother of Horus in Egyptian mythology
20A
U.S. Cabinet concerned with well-being of ex-military
21A
Charged particle
23A
"To the ___ degree"
25A
Spain's Internet domain extension
26A
Dorm supervisors
27A
About
28A
Playful sea mammal once believed extinct until a small raft of them was rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of Big Sur
31A
The 12th tier of alphabetically ordered tiers
33A
Bee like
34A
My timorous response to "Who made such a convoluted meta?!"
35A
Discard, as hair or dead skin
36A
Auto-generator of e-mails
37A
Pleasant prefix
39A
It's a fact, a ratio immutable of circle round and width, produces geometry's deepest conundrum. For as the numerals stay random, No repeat lets out its presence, Yet it forever stretches forth. Nothing to eternity.
40A
Honest president's nickname
42A
Cambridge schl.
43A
Lisa Simpson's instrument
44A
A.A._____; author who claimed golf's popularity was simply because it was the meta answer
Verticali
1D
Number of strokes I took. (Which, if 44A was correct in his statement, means I must really love golf!)
2D
Former Church of God's Holy Wisdom in Istanbul
3D
Greek aspirates
4D
Not straight
5D
No-one remembers the sitcom with Elliott Gould but everyone remembers the medical drama with George Clooney... which would be fine except nobody remembers the medical drama with George Clooney.
6D
Slayer of a dragon briefly. very briefly
7D
Key to understanding the joke: "Here's one for the record. People born in '33 were 45 in '78"
8D
Apartment Cooler
9D
Hwys.
11D
As opposed to the "9Vouts" marking to remove my batteries from my smoke detector, my remote has this marking for me to insert my batteries. (Hey, it was either a clue like that or a clue about getting coverage for your car in New Zealand)
15D
German article
17D
Sailor temptor
19D
Entered with confidence
22D
Rowboat propeller
24D
Chop down
29D
Bind with string
30D
And there! I sank my shot! (Which, admittedly in 1D strokes, is really nothing deserving of this reaction)
31D
Branch of probability. The one that studies distributions. Large ones. The theory of those.
32D
Where to find Provedence
33D
Venomous snakes
34D
Moon of Jupiter
36D
To exist
38D
Shoshonean
41D
Johnny Hart comic
42D
One thousand and fifty of these would be about 35 1/2 oz.