Oh geez took me long enough! Simple enough, and fun. I was convinced we needed to add together the factors of various numbers... glad I remembered to come back and take another look.
I guess I did give to many clues about perfect numbers. I wanted to get people thinking about factors and, well, perfect numbers are fun. But no, I just wanted the individual factors spelled out.
Laura M 🤓12:09 · 2024-03-01T23:56:16.965Z
Fun!
hoover 7s · 2024-03-08T20:42:59.421Z
I swear I solved this grid once already but I can't find it on my computer!
I had to redo it to fix an error that I think you pointed out. The original grid had another letter (I think an I) in the 14 square which made the whole thing unusable .So I had to delete the original.
KayW 🤓8:16 · 2024-03-10T00:30:43.404Z
Very nice!! and a lovely homage to one of my favorite authors.
In heraldry, covered with small bearings of indefinite number
20A
The gradually replaced B.E.M.s in sci-fi nomenclature
22A
According to Tolkien, the first this was the Hobbit, Bandobras Took, who at the Battle of Greenfields knocked the (appropriately named) Goblin King's head off and it flew 100 yards before going down a rabbit hole.
23A
The good choice; proper size option
26A
Dashes. The short ones; not the ones
27A
Imitate
30A
A rather ignorant American in Sharyn McCrumb's "Highland Laddie Gone" is conned into donating to this non-existent group. He figures if Irish-Americans can support the Irish militants seeking independence from Britain surely those with his ancestry could do the equivalent.
31A
Year Aulus Caecina Severus was appointed consul by Emperor Augustus
33A
Gun the gas pedal
34A
Cover the roof again
36A
Locatations
39A
Get ready
41A
Standard clue about make-up and the names of people who run make-up companies
43A
Key used only in combination
44A
Big hair-dos for which I really don't have a clever clue. (The people paced atos and ...., no, that's dumb.)
46A
Orgs.
48A
Music genre that gets you five points in Scrabble
49A
Indigenous people of Mexico
51A
Record label representing ScHoolboy Q and other Top Dawg Entertainment (don't overthink it)
52A
Quick snooze
53A
Lousy thing to pick
55A
In progress
58A
Linus van Pelt's teacher crush; Miss ------
60A
"Just thought you'd want to know...."
61A
Id est literally
65A
"Does that thing actually exist? I'm not imagining it, am I?"
67A
Supposedly using these are the best way to train a dog. But when I try to train my new dog, Nova Kane, the minute these enter the equation she turns into a junkie who would sell her mother for these sweet crunchies.
69A
"The Barefoot ___," 1954 film
70A
Aide
71A
Lang. (or --- 5D; induce participation)
72A
A bit of data
73A
Author of "The Salmon of Doubt" Douglas
Verticali
1D
Takes advantage of
2D
Perhaps the most important factor in all matters for most people
3D
Small haircut
4D
One who agitates
5D
Expert
6D
"It needs to be done by me"
7D
"--- Oncle" Jacques Tati classic
8D
One's beginning
9D
Ballots cast against
10D
What Bo Derek was according to a 1979 movie. (But as it is not the sum of its parts just how great can it be?)
11D
Photographer Jimmy for the Daily Planet
12D
I'm an INTP on the ------Briggs personality test
14D
"What's does that diploma indicate you earned?" "Oh, that? That indicates I earned - ------"
16D
Nice sodium chloride
21D
"Factoring it in...." (Hey, you're halfway through the meta!)
24D
Neighbor of Syr.
25D
Woodlands science
27D
Government dept. founded in response to Sputnik
28D
No.s such as 28. (also 6, but not 10)
29D
The whole enchilada
32D
Lighter brand with a very obnoxious ad campaign in the 70s
35D
@@@@@@@@
37D
Humorous Bombeck
38D
Swill
40D
Permission to make legal decisions (abbr.)
42D
What you should do, in regards to this entry, to solve the meta
45D
These have an odd number of divisors (as the School-Lockers puzzle shows us)
47D
Large body of water
50D
Disquiet
53D
Neat
54D
"Let's do this thing!"
56D
Major key of the Eroica Symphony
57D
Give right of way
59D
Initialism of Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony (Full name is an anagram of CHEM ALI TONSIL ASMOTH)