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Cryptic #3

◆ · By Probably Apocryphal · Published 2022-04-10T15:47:35.031Z

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  • Probably Apocryphal constructor · 2022-04-10T15:48:58.821Z
    As the title suggests it's my third cryptic. Criticism is welcomed, I want to improve. I think this is my hardest puzzle yet, but hopefully not crazy. I still want my puzzles to be approachable.
    Thanks!
    • theosza 🤓21:55 · 2022-04-11T09:50:28.495Z
      Nice approachable puzzle. Previous cryptics that I've done from Americans have felt like they relied too much on US-centric knowledge, and while this puzzle definitely felt American, the knowledge required fell well within general knowledge for a non-American like me. I'm still a relative cryptic novice and nothing here felt particularly out of reach. I particularly enjoyed the very clever alliterative clue!
      • jasonwestley 🤓8:11 · 2022-04-25T12:30:00.665Z
        That was a good, well-constructed cryptic. I loved 7A, and 19D had a really good bit of misdirection. As a Brit, my only complaint would be with 15D. We would pronounce that to sound like "two sword" and not "to sew". Is "to sew" the US pronunciation? If so then I can't complain too much :)
        • Probably Apocryphal constructor · 2022-04-26T13:14:59.326Z
          Well tbh I didn't know the pronunciation so I looked it up and forvo and to-sew is what I got.
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        Noisy meat market in capital (5)
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Noisy meat market in capital (5)
        2. 4A
          The evil sorcerer, Hans agrees, is a long way off (5)
        3. 7A
          Home-made upside-down cake, for one, is Jewish (7)
        4. 8A
          Clark chewed bagel (5)
        5. 10A
          Trump, race-losing Republican (3)
        6. 11A
          He's the real monster (3)
        7. 12A
          They say Jiffy Lube employee is a famous mathematician (5)
        8. 13A
          Standard way to get to Harlem (4,3,1-5)
        9. 16A
          Must have seen inverse over diameter (5)
        10. 17A
          Uniform for American league baseball starters (3)
        11. 19A
          Sticky stuff causes baby's cry, in part (3)
        12. 20A
          Males get drunk at famous march location (5)
        13. 21A
          Traveling Yankees lose last shred of patience with north-east coasters (7)
        14. 22A
          Drain awkwardly sits at low point (5)
        15. 23A
          How to find the good in globoids? (5)
        Down
        1. 1D
          "Mr. Randy is it? Shaken, no vermouth?" (3,8)
        2. 2D
          Boy takes the French spoon (5)
        3. 3D
          Idiot loses his shoes for a minute, then goes toe to toe, e.g. (5)
        4. 4D
          Potion made from two bones, loud ambulatory creature (7,6)
        5. 5D
          Fabrication of Ficus fruit and filament fraction (7)
        6. 6D
          Patsy goes to rail terminal in Los Angeles with measles (7)
        7. 9D
          Ornery louse gets lost by mistake (11)
        8. 14D
          Government for nasty little creature who lost his head for Kyiv, at first (7)
        9. 15D
          Wax artist rumored to sew (7)
        10. 18D
          Prohibit Simpson playing instrument (5)
        11. 19D
          England largely governed by secretive body (5)
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