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Easy Enclosures Cryptic (AKA Contained Clues)

■ · By Melanie Branton · Published 2025-01-10T16:33:42.325Z

Constructor's Note
ENCLOSURES or CONTAINED CLUES are when the answer is found INSIDE one of the words in the clue, e.g. "Baby's bed is drowned in S[cot]ch (3)", or STRADDLING two or more words in the clue, e.g. "The beach found in Mark[s and S]pencer's"
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  • John h 🤓7:22 · 2025-01-10T19:34:31.776Z
    This was good practice! The definition part of the clue was in middle of the clue for a couple of them, which confused me a lot. Most cryptics try to separate wordplay from definition so it's easier to read.
  • Shark 🤓10:19 · 2025-01-10T19:48:24.649Z
    Great, thanks!
  • Skizze 🤓4:58 · 2025-01-15T03:43:39.432Z
    Simple, but very fun!
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Candy found in this wee tin (5)
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Across
  1. 1A
    Candy found in this wee tin (5)
  2. 4A
    Some of nacho ketchup to go down the wrong way (5)
  3. 7A
    Consumed part of tea tentatively (5)
  4. 8A
    From bingo win generally comes being in debt (5)
  5. 9A
    Fumes found in the Sargasso (3)
  6. 10A
    Body recovered from alligator souffle (5)
  7. 12A
    Cut in cash earnings (5)
  8. 14A
    Begin from weirdest artistic idea (5)
  9. 17A
    Entity that appears in robe in garden (5)
  10. 20A
    Long fish from free lunch (3)
  11. 21A
    Fruit of the oak kept in mac or nightdress (5)
  12. 22A
    Tiny like one of the little folk found within yourself increasingly (5)
  13. 23A
    Waffle should contain meat (5)
  14. 24A
    Laser very likely to wait inside (5)
Down
  1. 1D
    Disbursed in wasp entrails (5)
  2. 2D
    Go in for competition in Ghent erroneously (5)
  3. 3D
    Beat Angolan to hold South American dance (5)
  4. 4D
    Crucifix hidden in Velcro's such a pain! (5)
  5. 5D
    Oily fruit found in jumbo liver pate sandwich (5)
  6. 6D
    Keen to be provided by sea geranium (5)
  7. 11D
    Osiris has it in him to be a schoolmaster (3)
  8. 13D
    Gardening implement kept in shoes (3)
  9. 14D
    Personnel caught up in naughtiest affair (5)
  10. 15D
    A buffalo never contains this solely (5)
  11. 16D
    Inside, they've eaten the ordinal number (5)
  12. 17D
    Consecrate from tables, supposedly (5)
  13. 18D
    Gather from slain ferret (5)
  14. 19D
    Hydrogen really contains subtype of book or film (5)
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