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Riddle-cryptic 72

· By Hydrologist Guy · Published 2025-04-26T11:47:54.162Z

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  • Darth 🤓2:15 · 2025-04-26T12:25:33.470Z
    Another fine cryptic, HG! Keep 'em comin'! Thanks! :D
    • Hydrologist Guy constructor · 2025-04-26T23:05:15.830Z
      I appreciate the encouragement! Thanks for that!
    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓39s · 2025-04-26T17:16:05.223Z
      Fun, thank you! (Bit of a clue/answer dupe with "rock" in 5A.)
      • Hydrologist Guy constructor · 2025-04-26T23:09:15.943Z
        Thanks! I'm not too fussy about such repetition if it makes the clue solvable. In this case, it also gave good meter to the rhyme!
      • El Gordo 42 🤓4:18 · 2025-04-26T23:31:07.868Z
        Another fun one. I did have to "follow my nose" to get 6Across! Also, happy to see a shoutout for the Huskies.
        • rjy 🤓4:54 · 2025-04-27T02:01:50.563Z
          Thanks Mr Guy, delightful as always!
          • Just 4 Laffs 🤓1:35 · 2025-04-27T05:34:39.040Z
            Brilliant stuff as usual.
            Love 5a and 3d
            • KittenTheSmol 🤓2:45 · 2025-04-30T13:54:16.467Z
              great puzzle yet again, these clues never fail to suprise me. keep up the good work
              1A
              Sometimes, during winter doldrums deep, this word for "synopsis" I'll say out loud / To hear an adjective for fine July days, with hiking and cookouts, with warmness endowed.
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              1. 1A
                Sometimes, during winter doldrums deep, this word for "synopsis" I'll say out loud / To hear an adjective for fine July days, with hiking and cookouts, with warmness endowed.
              2. 5A
                It's hard rock that sits at the base of loose soil -- a handy geological noun. / (I think a documentary that I saw as a kid gave this name to a stone-age town.)
              3. 6A
                To renew your mastery of a skill forgotten. (Not needed for riding a bicycle, I suppose.) / The word sounds a little like a genuine vase -- like a "real urn", if you scrunch up your nose.
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              1. 1D
                A sword used in fencing (American spelling), to epees and foils so linked. / It's also a kind of tooth for a tiger. (Well, it is for one that's extinct.)
              2. 2D
                "To not be honored for what I achieved? Seemed a little ungracious," moaned Fred. / Sue scoffed, "I guess you believe you deserve an award. Well, one's hidden for you in what you just said."
              3. 3D
                A pleasant smell, as from freshly baked bread. / (Ahh... Such a smell! It brings me sweet bliss!) / Or, a possible response to a farmstand query: "What kind of tomato is this?"
              4. 4D
                It's a Canadian territory to which prospectors fled, once gold had been found in its streams. / It sounds like a school with another kind of gold: their women's and men's basketball teams.
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