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Puns, Anagrams, and General Goofiness

◆ · By JeffsPuzzles · Published 2025-04-15T12:05:06.660Z

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  • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2025-04-15T12:05:18.675Z
    Here’s a “cryptish” puzzle – a mishmash of silly anagrams, Dad jokes, puns, and tortured English.
    • Melanie Branton 🤓8:18 · 2025-04-15T12:29:44.639Z
      This was great fun. 25 across was a work of genius, but also loving the SANCTION wordplay. Excellent work.
      • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2025-04-15T14:49:25.397Z
        Thanks so much, Melanie!
      • Moose Dixon 11:26 · 2025-04-15T16:38:40.537Z
        Terrible puns! No wonder I like this one so much.
        • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2025-04-15T18:25:43.660Z
          There's more where these came from - happy to oblige, and thanks for solving!
        • namitea 10:22 · 2025-04-15T16:31:09.693Z
          Really fun!!
          • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2025-04-15T18:25:25.507Z
            Thank you!
          • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓1:58 · 2025-04-15T19:08:03.250Z
            Sneaky cryptic practice! I also liked 11A/12A.
            • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2025-04-15T21:24:57.465Z
              Thank you!
            • sbe 🤓33:01 · 2025-04-15T19:56:13.948Z
              My mind went straight to "General Goofiness, reporting for duty!" Anyways...that was lots of fun. Thanks!
              • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2025-04-15T21:25:53.999Z
                It sounds like a line from a Leslie Nielsen movie. Glad you enjoyed the puzzle!
              • Puzzled 🤓16:40 · 2025-04-24T03:17:51.142Z
                Tough but fun, with a few real groaners. 🙂
                For 17D, did you mean to include OR in both the clue and the answer?
                I still don't get 6A, but I figured it out from the cross.
                Thanks for the fun puzzle!
                • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2025-04-24T12:05:17.450Z
                  Thanks for solving! 17D - yes, I had OR in the clue as the code for Oregon, then the answer is "or CA," or ORCA. Pretty convoluted, for sure. 6D - ABBA could be parsed as going from A to B and then from B back to A.
                  • Puzzled 🤓16:40 · 2025-04-25T02:25:46.552Z
                    Oh, I get it. I had interpreted it as the OR in the answer being Oregon, not as the conjunction. Thanks!
                Play today's daily mini crossword
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                Genesis tower
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                Across
                1. 1A
                  Genesis tower
                2. 6A
                  Genesis tower, maybe (this only works in the US and Australia)
                3. 9A
                  An eel, confused, serves with Sonia
                4. 10A
                  Endless color in an optical storage technology
                5. 11A
                  Sanction
                6. 12A
                  Sanction
                7. 13A
                  Hesitant: cattle run amok
                8. 15A
                  Shine commercially
                9. 16A
                  Overprotective type shelters herself and slightly unruly other men
                10. 22A
                  Commit an ___or
                11. 23A
                  Head back to 112.5 degrees, perhaps in search of peanut butter cups
                12. 24A
                  Landmark law that produces a 3.33 GPA
                13. 25A
                  Casts purls before twine?
                14. 26A
                  Kin preceder, especially if they're tired
                15. 27A
                  Front of a Fender?
                Down
                1. 1D
                  "Why are you walking a grizzly?" "___ with me, I'll explain."
                2. 2D
                  Everyone in Germany
                3. 3D
                  Appealing sound generator?
                4. 4D
                  Musician Brian again? Gross! - ____ is ____
                5. 5D
                  They have brief jobs in chambers
                6. 6D
                  Band that's like a short round-trip?
                7. 7D
                  Good name for someone managing one office hook-up?
                8. 8D
                  Relative who's a mixed-up fish
                9. 14D
                  Crazy rotten vacancy sign
                10. 16D
                  Like an average nasty statistician?
                11. 17D
                  You might see a killer whale off the coast of WA, OR, ____
                12. 18D
                  Bad thing to fall into, especially if you're a drummer
                13. 19D
                  "Fresh ___" (NPR show about contemporary arts and issues affecting scions)
                14. 20D
                  Is found in a siesta
                15. 21D
                  It's where birds live, ___-ce pas?
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