Sneaky Six #5: Baby's Supporter Interrupts Independent: "No Trump!"

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• Aaron Riccio constructor · 2024-01-28T03:53:32.178Z

  1D: I+NDOOR*

  2D: {c->N}URSES

  3D: FLA<+ASHY

  4A: [-m]AN+NUAL*

  5A: SES[-s]ION<

  6A: TRUS[-s]+TY

  SNEAKY: I+N(FAN)T

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• kieranjboyd 2:40 · 2024-01-28T06:16:13.246Z

  Lovely surfaces across the board. I caved when I got tripped up by the false wordplay "Sounds" in the clue for NOISES

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  • Aaron Riccio constructor · 2024-01-28T16:18:44.348Z

    Yeah, I've found that the most obvious cryptic indicators can be very devilish when they're actually definitions. Sadly, I don't think I can get away with it more than once a puzzle without it being too obvious again.

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• JWords 🤓3:40 · 2024-01-28T09:16:29.045Z

  Many thanks, excellent surfaces. I particularly liked 1D and 4A. 5A was the last to go, really thought I was facing some kind of horrible homophone subtraction until I saw ‘session’!

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  • Aaron Riccio constructor · 2024-01-28T16:19:52.831Z

    I appreciate you solving it! If it helps, I am terrible at writing homophones and double definition, so if it looks like one of those it probably isn't (until it is, of course).

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• merlinnimue 🤓9:35 · 2024-01-28T16:24:08.532Z

  I dont get the def of 4a and I didn't get the parse of 5a, I just wof'd... I clearly need something thats more at the level of the title, sorry for my shameful time and devaluing the wonderful work of you geniuses

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  • Aaron Riccio constructor · 2024-01-28T18:03:15.152Z

    With 4A, I grew up reading a lot of comic books, and the longer/bigger version of a comic is still known as an "annual." As for 5A, the intent was "Sounds" (definition) "as if" (linking phrase") "meeting" (synonym: SESSION) "lacks a focal point" (indicator to delete middle letter) "is going the wrong way" (indicator to reverse the word). Obviously a lot going on there, and I definitely could've made that easier. I think the original version, which I think made less surface sense, might've been easier: "Sounds heartless, meeting going the wrong way (6)."

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