Christie's Cryptic
◆◆ · By ZohMyGosh · Published 2024-08-14T09:12:24.706Z
This puzzle is for the August Midi Contest with the theme of "Mystery" - I tried to reference a couple novels with the clues, plus pay attention to the diagonals!
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Put drug in soup dish for British-English friend? (6)
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Across
- 1APut drug in soup dish for British-English friend? (6)
- 4AShe says there'll be "Storms in Africa" when leader of Maasai region executed (4)
- 8AThey're in charge of every other echelon (3)
- 9AWhat Annie did - leave Mark, a Parisian (3, 1, 3)
- 10AMurderers are like boat workers (10)
- 12AYou hear my stories of corruption like those of the diagonals' (10)
- 16A"Au revoir!" astride, except Hercule's riding in the saddle (2, 5)
- 17AWords of love from the heart of a pin up girl (3)
- 18AVictory found after essential character death on this river (4)
- 19AFor the second time, grill about period of sexual intensity (6)
Down
- 1DHe eats cherries, but stuff that dude - he's not been eating his bananas! (3-3)
- 2DRob oestrogen and slice wieners (5)
- 3DThe master plan required some difficult framing? (3, 7)
- 5DThis thing is evil - but it's not under the sun (5)
- 6DPerfect, with no internal blemishes (4)
- 7DMakes a rough draft, no sweat (3, 1, 6)
- 11DPut forward shocking tasers (6)
- 13DSailor's call ends up with nothing to shout about (5)
- 14DOne after Dorothy's land in the sky (5)
- 15DGroup pulled from sheath (4)