Moving Forward

Moving Forward Welcome to the final Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project meta! The pre-Shortzian puzzles were famous for many things, but perhaps most of all, they were known for their crosswordese. To learn more about the crosswordese entries featured in this puzzle, each of which has been used zero times in the Shortz era, go to http://www.xwordinfo.com/Popular?year=psunique. For this puzzle, ignore entries on the page with fewer than 20 usages. Oh, and by the way, the meta-answer is a two-word phrase that's especially appropriate now that the project is essentially over. You may or may not run into red herrings along the way. As Maleska would say, pax, amor et felicitas! Across 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 NPR's "The Diane ___ 20 21 22 23 24 Show" 25 26 27 28 5 Not zero-skilled 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 9 Credit accounts? 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 16 Its slope is never 48 49 50 51 52 zero 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 20 Major players 62 63 64 65 66 22 See 65-Across 67 68 69 70 71 72 23 "Anne of Green 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 Gables" town 80 81 82 83 84 24 Operatic prince 85 86 87 88 25 It might boost a 89 90 91 92 93 developing country's 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 economy 102 103 104 105 106 107 28 Fuzz 108 109 110 111 112 113 29 Ovary outgrowth 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 30 Feature of few pre- 123 124 125 126 Shortzian puzzles on 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 XWord Info, hopefully 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 31 "I do not think you 142 143 144 145 can name many great 146 147 148 149 inventions that have been made by married men" speaker 46 Nautical hazard 53 Legendary twin 62 Religious group 33 Operatic Pinza headquartered in Assisi 48 That, to a torero 56 "The ___ does not 35 Certain hybrids exist" (memorable 65 With 22-Across, 49 Half a '50s duo . or "Mean Girls" line) major donor to the 36 Gay lovers can now a third of a '60s trio Collegiate School of exchange them 59 Bitcoins and such 50 Turn out Connecticut 37 Slender runner 61 Minute Maid Park 52 Alliance frequently 67 They're full of hot air slugger 40 Reduction treaty mentioned in the earliest 68 Spanish for "tar" target pre-Shortzian puzzles 69 Make display a time 107 Whom Old Major 149 Country west of 40 Safe gun brand other than zero, as a symbolizes in "Animal Benin 41 Online account parking meter Farm" holder 70 Chemical dilution 108 Person making zero Down 42 Food ___ meas. sense 1 Conical-toothed tool 43 Reebok rival 73 They help you find 109 Vowel-heavy 2 Case of crosswordese your place parting 44 The "art and science 3 Toy truck maker of pure flower and plant 76 Kind of 111 Doesn't take well? essences" sloganeer contraception 4 Toy car maker 113 Wichita winter hrs. 45 Elementary school 77 Many a college 5 "Anthem" writer Rand 114 Mexican restaurant head issue student feature with an 6 Pen pal greeting? 47 Red lingerie product? 79 Reduce to zero assortment of dips 7 Foreign legal deg. health in a video game, 51 Major sweet sixteen 118 Vacation say 8 They sniggle for grigs gift destinations where little 80 #3 on the AFI's Top is left to the imagination 9 Something you might 54 Straighten a paper 10 Westerns list not dig digging clip 123 Goes out on a trip? 81 Closet collection 10 Rachael Ray 55 Scrabble board word 124 Trueheart of old acronym 84 Gas bill heat unit comics 57 Native 11 Grim and grumpy 85 Situation with zero 125 "Dora the Explorer" 58 Hebrew for ways out squirrel 12 Slash's group, for "instruction" short 86 Made a Trojan horse 126 "I'd say that's true" 60 Prom pair, perhaps 13 Highfalutin sorts 87 1944 battleground 127 Warren Buffett's 61 Loans and the like home 14 Northridge neighbor 88 Rebecca Black song 63 Cruellest month org. 15 Recipient of a bad whose YouTube video 128 Plug 64 Adjusted, as shoes has more than three haircut 130 Planet with 13 rings times as many dislikes 16 Electrolux 66 Line judge's call as likes 134 Shows zero spokeswoman Kelly 69 Inedible animal originality 89 Needing a hug, 17 "Star Wars" prologue product maybe 137 Eugene T. word 71 Law office asst. Maleska's words of 90 Salon treatment wisdom about fill 18 Wet or dry cleaner 72 "Gee!" invented at least 3,200 years before zero, 142 December number 19 Noob's opposite 73 Thumb drives, informally informally 143 Body of water that 21 Early crop that 91 Ctrl+Y, on a PC once contained 1,100+ sounds like a puzzle 74 LaBeouf of islands "Transformers" 92 Redskins 26 Book featuring Paris quarterback's Twitter 144 Prefix associated 27 City close to Rome 75 Hammer and sickle, handle with elevations greater e.g. than zero 32 It helps you see the 94 What expert solvers lights 76 Its letters are hidden rarely stop to do 145 Big name in candy in "wolframite" hearts 34 Threatening words 96 Still-desirable plan B 77 Steeped in tradition 146 "Oh ___!" (1971 35 ___ facie evidence 102 Cheering like crazy 78 Room to chillax in Lennon song) 37 Drastically increased 104 Modify a motion 79 One whose outlook 147 Parliament pitch? 38 Dullea of "2001" on Sunnis isn't sunny 106 Parkinson's drug 148 Dealer's nightmare 39 "In that case . " 81 "Charlie and the 117 Washed up Great Glass Elevator" 119 Airport greeter's character ride, often 82 A mean Amin 120 Water safety giant 83 Tennis star dubbed 121 Screenwriter Sorkin "Rafa" 122 High home 84 Lab notebook unit 127 European capital 86 Monster container home to the Storting 88 Classic car feature building 90 Peace, to Putin 128 Library summons 91 Event with bumpy 129 She hid Zeus in a rides cave 92 Some takebacks, 131 ___ & Vinz ("Am I briefly Wrong" duo) 93 Like impatient 132 Search and Rescue children grp. 95 Villainous "Frozen" 133 "Out, damned prince Spot!" 96 Test that's an 134 Unspecific quantity abbreviation for what 135 Hybrid dog breed it's equivalent to when suffix read backwards 136 "KILL THAT 97 Taking care of THING!!!" business 138 They, in Toulouse 98 Many a broken statue 139 Post-O.R. 99 Proceed slowly destination 100 Workshop device 140 High school class: 101 Tree people who Abbr. don't go to Stanford 141 Looking good 102 Dictionary word before a variant 103 Post-apocalyptic Cormac McCarthy novel, with "The" 105 Sweet cooking wines 110 Not disappointing 112 Escort to an apartment 115 You should watch your back while using one, for short 116 "Help me out, bro!".

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