![]() And I was very much an adult for that whole "rollover" event. Again, keep your stupid "?" clues out of an essentially non-"?" theme. I had MILLENNIUM BU- and still had No Idea what ] wanted me to write in. No theme credit for you! Ugh, and that first themer. Oooh, APP, how fun! APP is crosswordese now. Yes, you get some wackadoodle words like PLUTOED (which no one says at all) and historical curiosities like MILLENNIUM BUG (?), but the rest are just. Answers may as well be dog breeds with a revealer of DOG BREEDS-that's how exciting this is. This is an "I found a list and I'm going to arrange words from this list symmetrically in a grid" theme. (wikipedia entry for "Year 2000 Problem") The assumption of a twentieth-century date in such programs caused various errors, such as the incorrect display of dates and the inaccurate ordering of automated dated records or real-time events. Problems were anticipated, and arose, because twentieth-century software often represented the four-digit year with only the final two digits-making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. The Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or Y2K, is a class of computer bugs related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates beginning in the year 2000. SINGULAR THEY (46A: Gender-neutral pronoun ).BAIL OUT (36A: Rescue from insolvency ).DUMPSTER FIRE (28A: Spectacular disaster ).MILLENNIUM BUG (20A: Rollover problem? ).THEME: WORD OF THE YEAR (56A: Annual American Dialect Society award given to seven answers in this puzzle) - it is what it says it is:
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