Sam's Sunday Cryptic LXXXIX

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• ash 🤓35:43 · 2024-10-06T08:07:19.561Z

  challenging but fun (as usual!) I couldn’t get the cryptic parts of 3d and 5d, what am i missing?

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  • dilly 🤓10:43 · 2024-10-06T10:44:01.036Z

    3D is D ("day") + RAGER ("a wild party") in reverse ("rose")
    5D is a letter bank of GOES, i.e. using the letters of GOES ("to pieces") to make ("then builds") GOOSE EGG

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    • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-10-06T21:14:10.320Z

      That's what I was going for on both! letter banks are fun but come up so rarely that I'm never 100% sure I'm doing them right, glad it was clear

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    • ash 🤓35:43 · 2024-10-13T14:21:25.819Z

      ahhh that’s very clever!! Thank you for the explainers

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• Jake A 🤓20:37 · 2024-10-06T15:04:34.012Z

  Always a welcome challenge on Sunday mornings. Two cocaine references are as effective as a third cup of coffee, too!

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  • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-10-06T21:14:43.205Z

    haha 20D was the last one I wrote and I didn't even realize I'd double-dipped on cocaine references until publishing

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• AuLeaf 🤓13:58 · 2024-10-06T23:06:13.381Z

  Unfortunately it's GROUNDHOG DAY not GROUNDHOG'S DAY... Other than that, quite enjoyable :)

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  • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-10-07T00:33:51.168Z

    oh you're right! that was the kind of detail it didn't even occur to me to fact check, thanks for pointing it out

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• angusg 🤓5:56 · 2024-10-07T02:25:02.761Z

  Lovely! 16A was cute. Thanks for the puzzle

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  • Polyagonist 23:21 · 2024-10-10T20:46:19.657Z

    I laughed at 16A

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