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Oren's Cryptic #5

· By Oren Bernstein · Published 2025-03-13T12:39:27.160Z

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  • Haggai Elkayam Shalem 🤓13:13 · 2025-03-13T12:59:26.866Z
    Amazing!
    • Charlie Bowers 28:14 · 2025-03-13T15:35:50.888Z
      Good fun!
      • Jake A 🤓4:42 · 2025-03-16T04:34:39.765Z
        Stellar puzzle.
        • snag 🤓19:27 · 2025-03-19T02:12:09.625Z
          great work
          1A
          Sphere of influence for bitcoin component (5)
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Sphere of influence for bitcoin component (5)
          2. 4A
            Genie emerges from jar holding note (5)
          3. 7A
            Oo -- one shrewd disguise for Greeks! (6, 5)
          4. 8A
            Line with no core of genuineness! (3)
          5. 9A
            Retired Marx brother becomes talk show host (5)
          6. 12A
            Rigid rear end (5)
          7. 13A
            Fighting sport held in art museum with no ring (3)
          8. 15A
            Mysterious return of Xenu followed by first sign of psychiatry denial coming back (11)
          9. 18A
            Key Republican leader chases unstable teen (5)
          10. 19A
            Test nitrogen at far end of the ruins of Troy (3, 2)
          Down
          1. 1D
            Orwell exchanges one side of honor for the other, giving cry of resignation (2, 4)
          2. 2D
            Made an effort to wake bears properly (5, 1, 5)
          3. 3D
            Anchor for a nail? (3)
          4. 4D
            Deity is back from trip to Mecca (3)
          5. 5D
            Romeo then erupted in empty fury: "why must men toil?" (3, 3, 5)
          6. 6D
            Wheel in free lunch (4)
          7. 9D
            Earliest of ordinary numbers equals...! (3)
          8. 10D
            Tyrant's heart is moved (3)
          9. 11D
            Where some gnomes go patrollin', reportedly (6)
          10. 14D
            Hybrid animal is mostly emu, with a bit of leopard (4)
          11. 16D
            Championship archery has standard score (3)
          12. 17D
            Worker is anti-no one (3)
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