The wise old scholars of Pi Day Town hand you some mysterious circular grids.
One sage hid something in this mosaic, but she dropped it and the pieces went everywhere.
The presence or absence of a shaded trapezoid on a piece is simply to facilitate cutting it out and not intended to be clueful.
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Clues
  1. Verb with “all hope”
  2. “That was no ______ !”
  3. What Darth Vader does to deals
  4. Where some current flows
  5. Dvořák opening?
  6. Durin’s Bane, e.g.
  7. Common transaction on Catan
  8. Film superhero most recently portrayed by Ben Affleck
  9. Color of a Federal Reserve Board “Book”
  10. Sony discontinued this in March 2016
  11. It might be good when it’s sick
  12. Howie Mandel and Alex Trebek
  13. Salmon with a big bill
  14. Steals a dance partner from (3 wds.)
  15. Wine receptacle
  16. In math, it has a point?
  17. Surname of father and daughter with adjoining stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  18. Instrument that puts a Minotaur in play, in Magic: The Gathering
  19. Biblical seamstress
  20. Moved away from the shore
  21. “Speak, friend, and ______”
  22. Class act?
  23. Give the same fate as Hagrid or Scamander
  24. Northern hemisphere?
  25. Takes no notice of
  26. Charged particles
  27. Wrinkle-free
  28. Brassica oleracea cultivar
  29. Surgical instrument with a journal named after it
  30. Starbucks order, perhaps
  31. Densely populated world capital originally known as “King’s Island”
  32. Grupo known for a namesake beer
  33. Last word in yoga
  34. How one might serve #32 (2 wds.)
  35. _____ Boogie
  36. First or third
  37. Brando’s understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire
  38. A chef’s is refined
  39. Company whose 2019 Color of the Year is Living Coral (“this life-affirming shade invites us to reach out and touch”)
  40. Evelyn Glennie is a notably deaf one
  41. Strait of Malacca danger
  42. Palindromic M*A*S*H character
  43. College student’s go-to meal
  44. NIN frontman
  45. First American woman in space
  46. “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” group
  47. Wielder of Durendal
  48. Bee town
  49. Storm, Imp, and their ilk
  50. Savage, for one
  51. Another name for dinkel wheat
  52. Recordholder for most Academy Award acting nominations
  53. Hurt, as a hallux
  54. Holy city?
  55. StarCraft race known for its “rush”
One sage found a marvelous clue for you, but some parts of this grid were too small to contain it.
Clues
  1. Shakira’s 1995 Latin Pop chart-topper (2 wds.)
  2. Big place for a Little House?
  3. One of the Homoioi
  4. Structural motif first identified in the aspartic protease family (2 wds.)
  5. Black & Decker or DeWalt
  6. Member of a Russian-Finnish group associated with the Komi
  7. Designer who patented the Spiral Mushroom System (2 wds.)
  8. In some parasitic infections, developmental stage following trophozoite
  9. Organic particle effects plug-in once made by DigiEffects
  10. Only world capital with two time zones
  11. Smart aleck’s remark
  12. Ladder-like part of a ship’s rigging
  13. Amend soil, as to help your rocket or courgette crop grow
  14. The Arkansas and Illinois, vis a vis the Mississippi
  15. “Finding” follower
  16. There’s one in NW12
  17. It opens with Nicole Kidman saying “Now children, are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.” (2 wds.)
  18. Marine celebrity? (2 wds.)
  19. Forbes venture capitalist ranking (2 wds.)
  20. Most limp
  21. Having thin handles (hyph.)
  22. Cold-blooded creature
  23. Placed at a base
  24. Reindeer-herding dog
  25. Michael Phelps, e.g.
  26. Maker of avant-garde hip-hop, like Open Mike Eagle (hyph.)
  27. Put into beforehand
  28. Not yet rejected by a lover
  29. ℤ in ℝ, e.g. (2 wds.)
  30. Epithet for a rural town, perhaps
  31. Aligned with the nave, rather than the altar
  32. Makes a Lenten promise, e.g.
  33. Soaps up again
  34. Kind of commutative algebra mapping, or best possible Cheers character? (2 wds.)
  35. Small celestial objects or planetoids
  36. Like the number one, in song
Outer Ring
  • 5 mL
  • Mass. 9 or U.S. 20
  • Sick
  • Merlin’s nemesis Madam ______
  • Editorial insertion marks
  • Runner Sebastian
  • In the middle, in Middlesex
  • Kendall/MIT, e.g.
  • Copy another’s exam
  • Golf ball’s position
  • Antipodean parrot
  • Scott Pruitt’s former dept.
  • A toorie bunnet
One wise old left you a mes, but he was very self-effacing about it.
Clues
  1. Sanntleman’s headwear
  2. Italian supermini launched in 1983 (2 wds.)
  3. _____ least (2 wds., uncommon)
  4. At a certain year of one’, from the Latin
  5. A Schengen vits you into one (abbr.)
  6. Newncy headquartered on Canary Wharf
  7. Requested but not yet received, as goods by a businesnt (2 wds.)
  8. He’ophysics professor at MIT
  9. Company founded by Alexandros Bakatselod 27
  10. Eliorgiou, e.g.
  11. For a short time (2 wds.)
  12. Force (someone) to deal with (2 wds.)
  13. Made a certain shot, in hockey
  14. Imputed, as a fault (obs.)
  15. Moved or passed quickly
  16. Administer, as a do
  17. Welcome gas station sign, for a driver with a flat (2 wds.)
  18. Device for preparing meat for sau
  19. With “net,” denotenerator/consumer on an electric grid
  20. Decisive vote for a party’nda
  21. Term for “free practice” in judo
  22. On paper, like the works of Le
  23. Point to accesographical area, perhaps
  24. Bannais wines and other spirits (2 wds.)
  25. James Shakeshaft and Alasdair Beckett-King podcast
  26. Magazine where Jamee worked after college
  27. States attained by Japanese s
  28. Like Matchbox or Corgi cars (hyph.)
  29. Theologian and who wrote the Serenity Prayer
  30. Pas from Britain to France
  31. Federer or Nadal (in uncommon u)
  32. The seed of canary grass (var.)
  33. Like a target of PETA’nts, clothing-wise (hyph.)
  34. Karagheusian factory alluded to in Springsteen’s “My Hometown” (2 wds.)
  35. More like a light vi
  36. Say or do again
The sages didn’t give you any instructions about what to do with this grid. Or did they?
Clues
  1. One piece at the beach?
  2. Simian
  3. On the Edge author Michael
  4. Towel fabrics
  5. Second shot
  6. Capital whose name comes from the Maasai for “cool water”
  7. Game featuring Zz Badnusty
  8. Stepped aside, in a way
  9. Dispute
  10. Stole from a deacon
  11. Niña, for one
  12. Head of Global Creative Strategy at Facebook (2 wds.)
  13. C20H14NO4+
  14. Enter as a crab might (2 wds.)
  15. Place with two rulers
  16. Sheet material
  17. Most common variety of WWII U-boat (2 wds.)
  18. Carrying on
  19. Vandal, often
  20. Like a trencherman’s plate
  21. Confused (3 wds.)
  22. Photojournalist Lynsey
  23. Toothless and Mushu, e.g.
  24. Raptors’ home
  25. Comic by Kagari Tamaoka
  26. Appointed as, as a government position (2 wds.)
  27. Office component
  28. Heartfelt
  29. Picked up the tab
  30. Atmospheric gases cleaned to remove almost all impurities (2 wds.)
  31. Most steeply angled golf club that is not a wedge (2 wds.)
  32. Final gesture of approval (2 wds.)
  33. Prior portrayer
  34. Coastal village (2 wds.)
  35. Like wine or cheese that improves over time
  36. Laughed nervously