Can't mount encrypted TM drive: password no good

My keyboard died due to a coffee spill, and I turned off the machine while dealing with it. When I turned the machine back on with a working keyboard it prompted me for the encryption password for my external drive. I had cleverly used a high security string and stored it in 1Password. Unfortunately no matter how many times I type this string, it will not unlock the drive. Obviously something happened when I initially created the drive, and the password in 1P isn't the one on the drive.
There's nothing on this drive but Time Machine backups. I'd like to start over and am willing to repartition it. But Disk Utility won't let me do anything on a locked drive. Seems that I'm stuck.
HELP!!!

Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
diskutil list; echo; diskutil cs list
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
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