Grid Puzzle

[1x2]GRID PUZZLE WEEK ONE

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[2x1]Across
1 - Snake
4 - Beautiful _
6 - Sir Jeffers' Brother
9 - Temporary Doctor Repellant 
10 - They can post on your account in Hell-Place, Ontario
12 - Show Off
13 - What you make 4 across in, backwards
16 - You're Welcome, Kieros
17 - Don't Know? _
19 - Hawkspace Nest
24 - Collect Thread
25 - Satsuki and Mei's Neighbour
27 - Pearl and Amethyst 
29 - Cancer's Patron
30 - The Surf Pokemon
32 - Old Are
33 - Thanks Freud
34 - Pop it
35 - Valid Identity
36 - These?
38 - Boots and Cats and Boots and Cats and
39 - Counters a Flood
41 - Homed in
42 - Not Coloured...
45 - Controls Spider Hyphen Man
48 - Classic Arcade Rhythm Game
50 - Golden Rice is an example
52 - The 2_ Thread
53 - Reyweld
54 - Webcomic about making/being gay/trans robots (3 words)
56 - Green Shapeshifter
58 - Not Fiendish or Celestial
59 - Your Head in Agreement
60 - The Best Thread
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Down
1 - Is You
2 - Strong 
3 - Difficult Course Prefix
4 - Word With Most Definitions
5 - Addition
6 - a52's Favourite Smart Bird
7 - You're In It
8 - Part of every Star Wars Preamble
11 - Ian Jones-Quartey's Series
14 - No Longer Necessary
15 - Soothing Touch
18 - Footgear
20 - _ It's [...]!
21 - Unnaturally Enlarged
22 - Grants Potion Storage 
23 - Peach's Neutral B
25 - Eagle Time Spiel
26 - What 60 Across Makes You
28 - Space
31 - Bread's Ascension
35 - What Jimmy Buffet Thread Needs More/Less Of
37 - Corporation Department
40 - What you do to 30 Across in Context
43 - Lizard or Singer
44 - Impossible Forum Milestone
46 - Thick Black Liquid
47 - Direct Message But More Personal
49 - What was done with 13 Across
50 - Tabletop Leader
51 - Part of 54 Across
53 - LOL/DOtA Lane
54 - Things that are 14 Down are typically this
55 - Best Bulbasaur
56 - Unoriginal Father
57 -  _ Mein[/2x1]

i did all the important ones

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(completed version coming in a bit)

How did you do that???

Specifically, on my computer, your post is to the right of mine, and attached

i did all the important ones

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wow somehow you broke the forums

....w
what the fuck

Here's the answer key for "Week" One:

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GRID PUZZLE WEEK TWO



[2x1]Across:
1 - Name of fictional presidential look-a-like
5 - If you have a phone, you have this
7 - Moves a liquid
9 - Dodges
10 - Website for purchasing art and crafts
12 - "A __ force of darkness has arrived!"
13 - From where you learn not to eat laundry detergent
15 - Someone excessively fussy and elitist 
18 - How I thought the 304th "Iron Armour" Pokemon was spelled
19 - __ Fables
20 - Roman or salad
21 - Here in French
23 - Casual chat, or criminal + fashionable 
27 - Veronica learns JD's name here while buying corn nuts (2 words)
29 - Needle essential
30 - Relating to emergency aid workers
33 - Walks in a casual (possibly ridiculous) way
36 - Executable
37 - In a small way
38 - Nest of cubicles
41 - The Health Food
44 - Percy Jackson's BFF is one
45 - Sign
47 - Dirty bird from Path of Exile
48 - Contenant
49 - DnD Player Characters are these and also do this
50 - Masterless warrior
51 - Goof
52 - Between clay and sand
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Down:
1 - Overwatch character who rides in a mech is this
2 - Deadly sin's synonym
3 - What Robin Arryn is lord of
4 - Perfect garden
5 - Another snake
6 - Last name of Mark Dunn's heroine of pangrams
7 - Flaming pillar
8 - Tasty soybean paste
11 - Far and few between
14 - Describes a star's performance
16 - My confession or where something's located (2 words)
17 - Skunk's fearsome weapon
20 - Kinda like a tent
21 - Abrahamic religion
22 - Species of plant whose individual plurals are shorter
24 - First 2 words of tragically cancelled Netflix sitcom (2 of 5 words)
25 - Picket or illegal sale
26 - Disney Beauty's name
28 - Star of Magicka 2 trailer Definitely Isn't This
31 - Flowers that with an 'M' become rulers
32 - Species of 2nd asexual character from Bojack Horseman
34 - Dullards
35 - An escape
39 - The Roman adaption of 44 Across
40 - Blue and green light
41 - Dagger
42 - League of Legends fox girl
43 - Represented by the letter most occurring in 27 Across
45 - A "practical" exam
46 - Archaic frequent[/2x1]

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Don't mind the funky color scheme; that was just me noting confidence in guesses, some of which never got updated upon finding their cross.

this is how far i got before i gave up and looked at what kieros did

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i think you misspelled avarice and d.va. but i mispelled ronin, so whatever

[1x2]A CHALLENGER APPROACHES
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[2x1]Across
1 - Handheld Sony device
4 - An extra message (acronym)
6 - Friendly furret
10 - Head wage thief (acronym)
11 - Something I did to a sandwich
12 - Eagletime's resident art goblin
15 - a52's pronouns
16 - What one might call a small nap, or perhaps a small Naples
17 - Pharms OC
20 - A single leathery flying mammal
21 - According to Romeo, this would smell just as sweet by any other name -- which is a good thing, because somebody dropped a letter on this one
22 - It waits in a hot tureen
24 - Long-legged friend (same as 58 across)
25 - A gay-ass forum
27 - Some people still use Skype to make this
30 - Tic-___-Toe
31 - Something I almost certainly need at any given moment
34 - European aviator and Grand Battler
37 - "Resident 'they' thing"
39 - "Majestic" and "The Beast" are this. Alternatively, a noise you might make upon being linked to the tricked thread
40 - Girl's name
42 - Nickname for Caroline, in some places
43 - Where you are now
48 - ______ and be saved
51 - Place to store grain
52 - A large number of people on ET are this
55 - ____lyhour
56 - Grimm avatar user (slight abbr.)
58 - Oops, looks like I included this guy twice. See 24 across
60 - Useful Rock
61 - _____in' and a-cryin' and a-sobbin'
62 - 'r' is short for this
64 - Every single one
65 - It's coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere
66 - Website for broadcasting yourself (acronym)
67 - What a group of democratic socialists might call themselves, if they were in Florida instead of the whole US
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Down
1 - Jet pack onomatopoeia
2 - Mystics, oracles
3 - Parking lot for boats
4 - Dad
5 - Also called Saul
7 - "I am a" (acronym/internet speak)
8 - Part of my hand with a bunch of weird lines on it
9 - "You elbow", but like, really misspelled (sorry!!)
13 - Rip, rend
14 - Internet transfer protocol (acronym)
17 - "For real" (acronym)
18 - Worst country (acronym)
19 - Christmas drink
23 - A cat is this and you should do this to cats
24 - "Succ my ____"
25 - Old word for "old"
26 - Robot speedrun
27 - Protect me (acronym)
28 - You breathe this
29 - Not small (abbr.)
31 - "Non-zisclosure agreement" (acronym)
32 - Old/alternative spelling for 28 down
33 - Not an amateur
35 - I did ____ hit her, I did ____!
36 - Word liquid
38 - Extraordinarily good fighter pilot
41 - Donkey
43 - The ET mod team
44 - What the 'a' is short for in a52
45 - Original ET admin
46 - In the manner of
47 - A bastard
49 - City in Spain known for shoes
50 - This one was supposed to be "PLOW", but I fucked it up so I'll give it to you for free: POLW
52 - Lesboans are generally fans of these
53 - Crazy Frog song
54 - The two possible answers to an old computer prompt (acronym)
57 - Cars go on this
59 - "Parts per nillion" (acronym)
63 - Eagletime nickname (abbr.)
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0ω0???

I got so close...

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answer for 5-down

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saint paul!

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DOWN

[/box][-]1) Sword Counterpart
4) Not
6) Feng shui principle
9) Candy stix
13) What (hits+bb+hbp)/(ab+bb+hbp+sf) should probably be called
14) 21 on a die
16) PAX and MAGFest, or E3 and C2E2, or SDCC and SXSW
18) Letter-named ski lift
20) Various abbreviation, missing a letter
22) Not them
23) Squib goo
24) Drug cop
26) Prefix for sane
27) Furniture location
29) J Edgar Hoover
30) Before ter-
32) Hydrocyanic acid
33) Protecting
36) LMAO
37) Gatekeeper of Gozer
38) Male spelunker
41) 6 handegg pts.
43) TV's
45) 2019's even Atlantics
46) Additional email recipients
47) More of -y
48) Health alt. in BotW
49) Greek trident?
51) Incomplete combustion product
52) Eggplant cheese's city
54) Short bird's "like" alt
55) A foot belonging to a kitty
57) Chuck Testa
58) Spekkio's final form
59) 135, to final NASA SS flight
62) Knightly title
63) ACT alternative
64) Wildebeest
65) Can you hand me a moist _?
68) __ GOD PLEASE __
69) Uh... everyone loves... cake?
71) Home of GWS Giants
72) Yo!
73) Destructive 2017 hurricane
75) Store where I buy my clothes
78) Wisdom
81) Dica cielcunobiryxoed
83) Does not imply WIS
84) Soprano's solo
85) Not dah
86) G# alt
87) Bagel addition with capers and schmear[|]1) Betting pool
2) Order vs Chaos's final final minute's start
3) Flatbread
4) Not gotten from dQw4w9WgXcQ
5) B3
6) Good luck with this mess
7) Densest moon
8) Nocopi stock
9) Partner with 74d
10) Veeeery coooold
11) Foreigner gas
12) Sanikiluaq
15) One more thing
17) [insert rainbow 'the more you know' .gif here]
19) Lottery
21) Latin shinbone plural
25) Gy to Sv weighting factor representation
28) Follows more or less
31) Look! Bovines!
33) TTwo insttrumentts playing ttogetther
34) That thing nobody reads
35) Religious splits
37) Zetatesla per steradian
39) Pearl chat prefix
40) Egyptian snake
41) BPM source
42) Former official Spanish dict.
44) Relaxation site
47) Type of club
50) PlAveCt
51) Pollux's twin
53) Voids
55) Grad div
56) SethEverman
58) 4e69774c6749
60) Helioptile inspiration, according to Germany?
61) 76d translation
62) Until this point
66) Common evolution suffix
67) How the knot competition finished
70) Rope or wire
71) Simile phrase
74) Partner with 9d
76) Source of wild draw four
77) Arlington a capella group
79) Sports it's in the game
80) If yes accented
82) Sound Unit[/2x2][/box]

Errors I've found in the image are corrected in the text list and colored bright pink. I'd like to thank a52 for the inspiration for this puzzle's theme. The question is: Can you figure out what that theme is? and can you do it?