"More Than Penniless" (Cryptic Mini #000000102)

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• bob weisz constructor · 2024-08-22T10:00:39.828Z

  Answers / parses:

  1A: def: "Rogue designer". wordplay: reverse ("returned") Hidden ("sample") in "owN ASS INexplicably"

  5A: def: "can". wordplay: COMMODORE ("naval officer") deleting ("take out") OR ("oregon")

  6A: def: "D&D monster". wordplay: hidden in ("taken on by") "sORCerers"

  7A: def: "beer". wordplay: homophone ("overheard") of a punchline to the dumb joke: "I pee, eh?"

  8A: def: "type of record". wordplay: METALLIca gets anagrammed ("awful") but first delete the final two letters ("except the last two singles")

  9A: def: "Gets down". wordplay: SLEEK ("smooth") reversed ("revolutionary") and containing ("defending") N ("nicaragua's left wing")

  1D: def: "Generous saint". wordplay: homophone ("called") of NICKEL-LESS ("more than penniless?")

  2D: def: "break in sentence". wordplay: NOLO + C ("contedere, first of all") + IS containing ME, all reversed ("to reverse")

  3D: def: "Second most popular [blood] type". wordplay: AI STOP IVE anagrammed ("gone bad")

  4D: def: "crystal users". wordplay: NE ("couple from NEvada") + WAGERS ("risks")

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• lukadisgre 🤓3:51 · 2024-08-22T19:00:48.584Z

  Finished with an embarrassing amount of hail mary guesses, great puzzle!

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• Aaron Riccio 🤓11:14 · 2024-09-09T14:31:22.921Z

  Really good stuff! Loved:

  • [Rogue designer]
  • [Can naval officer take out Oregon?]
  • the Canadian homophone "I pee, eh?"
  • the Metallica surface
  • the pun on "penniless" (my second favorite)
  • the use of "nolo contendre" in talking about a different kind of sentence
  • [Second most popular type]

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