MEOW #100: Isn't It Ironic(ally Named)

A weekly meta crossword on the forum started by member Josh (aka madhatter5). These puzzles are often very creative with solving mechanisms out of the norm and skewing towards the more challenging. Puzzles are posted every Wednesday, and the solution appears the following Tuesday.
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Time for the answer reveal. But first, a solver update:

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We got to 59. Well done everyone!
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Here's the solution to "Isn't It Ironic(ally Named)":

Isn't It Ironic(ally Named) (solution).png

I know it was a bit mean of me to deliberately misspell those two latin names, but I assumed that once you were on the trail you would work out what they were supposed to be with a judicious use of Google.

I hope Alanis Morissette doesn't mind the gentle ribbing - she copped quite a bit of flack over the years for mistaking coincidence for irony - but I truly do love the song: it's extremely catchy and the lyrics are fun! And, if you're interested, the following video is from a duo who fixed the song so that it really is ironic:

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"24A Does not contain mince"

But it most certainly does! It contains minced apples, and raisins, and sometimes meat (although usually just suet).
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woozy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:59 pm "24A Does not contain mince"

But it most certainly does! It contains minced apples, and raisins, and sometimes meat (although usually just suet).
I guess that's true. But here in Australia "mince" means minced meat.
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On here, so often, it will mean "words."
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Dplass wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:22 am Got it, thanks for the puzzle. I can think of a very funny pun to go here but it'd be redacted.
My pun was going to be "Debugged."
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