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Sam's Sunday Cryptic CVII

◆ · By sammisamsam · Published 2025-02-23T05:54:34.589Z

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  • SporcleMirror 🤓4:08 · 2025-02-23T16:51:13.607Z
    SUPER BOWL reparsed as SUPERB OWL is a classic, but my crossword brain saw "hunter in the night" and immediately wanted ORION to be involved somehow.
    • sammisamsam constructor · 2025-02-23T19:52:03.105Z
      Haha, once I realized that fit I knew if I was doing that I had to come up with a slightly tricky definition, I'm glad it threw you for a sec!
    • Jake A 🤓16:53 · 2025-02-24T00:20:42.718Z
      Really nice puzzle!
      • rjy 1:05:02 · 2025-02-24T13:55:37.753Z
        Enjoyed the challenge… 19A made me laugh, plus some chewy ones like 5D and 18A. Very fun!
        • ciiro 1:03:38 · 2025-02-24T04:00:20.501Z
          Great cryptic! I managed to solve without hints apart from 24D - i was trying ESSE for a while lol
          ps i'm still not sure about how to parse 1A?
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          1A
          Trash swan heard to be ghastly (7)
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Trash swan heard to be ghastly (7)
          2. 5A
            Pangolin eagerly swallows a clan (7)
          3. 9A
            Initially, no, I never just asked for some turtles (5)
          4. 10A
            So callow, disgusting, to appropriate the last of Edith Wharton, perhaps? (3, 6)
          5. 11A
            Revolutionary puck of coffee in a convenient package! (1-3)
          6. 12A
            Expert of current government finally rising? (8)
          7. 15A
            I overthink sling's plastic bashful person (9, 6)
          8. 18A
            I perhaps plan to go back into our Spooner's maltreated name? (8, 7)
          9. 19A
            Fortifications for horns and chops? (8)
          10. 22A
            Sister embraces tense rests (4)
          11. 26A
            Hope rat or skunk overtake administrators (9)
          12. 27A
            August beer thrown up (5)
          13. 28A
            Reduces the sense of Paris (7)
          14. 29A
            Exceed cuts between a pair of electrons (7)
          Down
          1. 1D
            Wild minks of an eastern European city (5)
          2. 2D
            Perhaps a successful general goes against what Spaniard, finishing door to door (9)
          3. 3D
            Announcement of naked Baloo, maybe? (4)
          4. 4D
            Slimy swimmers trapped in keelsons (4)
          5. 5D
            Where the Nile ends were entered into a record of a year of physical therapy (5, 5)
          6. 6D
            Oh, can up a chip (5)
          7. 7D
            Robot transforms oil into a condiment (5)
          8. 8D
            I lengthen assembly to inform (9)
          9. 13D
            Nullify puny idol stripping (4)
          10. 14D
            Devastating insult of a flower we heard (10)
          11. 15D
            Sporting event for an excellent hunter in the night (5, 4)
          12. 16D
            Smooth metal (4)
          13. 17D
            Ink logo design for Pixar movie getting better (7, 2)
          14. 20D
            Connects me with aliens (5)
          15. 21D
            Mindful of a commodity (5)
          16. 23D
            Loves to confuse answer (5)
          17. 24D
            It's key, I'll say? (4)
          18. 25D
            Spoken of Oregon and Alabama (4)
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