Menace #26

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• ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-09-26T05:10:43.714Z

  1A - Delivered [homophone] heartburn relief for non trans person's [CIS+TUMS] // 4A - MEAN [anagrammed]+ SIA // 7A - dECOration [container] // 8A - container - shADOws // 9A - "Rumor has it" [homophone] body of water [SEA] suppresses [QUELLS] // 1D - Double definition [Christian sect + salt and pepper vessels] // 2D - container - extremiTIEs // 3D - SOWS ["Casts seeds"] surrounding ["about"] HAD ["tricked] // 5D - ONE anagrammed ["messed up"] into NEO // 6D - ASK anagrammed ["awkwardly"] into SKA

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• ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-09-26T05:10:43.714Z

  Future Menaces/cryptics will have more fair crossings. This was an experiment to see how I'd do with setting words and writing clues, and I have a little better of an idea of what I can work on ^^

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• RoyJohnson490 12:37 · 2023-09-26T17:04:51.348Z

  Very fun and very good for a starting cryptic. Hope you do more in the future. :)

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-09-26T19:47:18.212Z

    teehee

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• snag 🤓8:30 · 2023-09-27T02:57:32.062Z

  this was fantastic! even for a begininer like me!

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• Lego 4:11 · 2023-09-27T07:34:12.487Z

  9a needs the definition in it

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-09-27T13:36:39.867Z

    Follow-ups is the def

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  • maturin 2:24 · 2023-09-27T16:34:26.754Z

    "follow-ups" is the definition :)

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• Lego 4:11 · 2023-09-27T07:34:44.822Z

  ah, no, I get it now .. cool

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-09-27T13:37:17.725Z

    whoops, yeah, just saw this myself

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  • maturin 2:24 · 2023-09-27T16:34:42.475Z

    oh - didn't see this until after I posted. sorry!

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• Pedagogue 7:11 · 2023-09-27T07:57:48.875Z

  I had problems with this! 1A: I haven't seen "delivered" as a homophone, only an anagrind; I couldn't get "non-trans person", even seeing your parsing. 7A; what is an ECO? 1D; in my part of the world we don't call salt and pepper pots "shakers", so that was a mystery for me. However, a decent cryptic. Well done.

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-09-27T18:32:52.732Z

    Thank you for the comments as well as taking the time to solve it. I'm working on the next cryptic and am working to make the parses and wordplay more clear.

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• maturin 2:24 · 2023-09-27T16:33:57.776Z

  i love a good mini cryptic! 1A and 9A were the toughest for me

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-09-27T18:33:24.289Z

    Their being otherwise unchecked didn't help, to be fair. I appreciate your taking the time to solve it!

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