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Sam's Sunday Cryptic LXIV

◆ · By sammisamsam · Published 2024-04-14T05:26:08.814Z

Constructor's Note
As always, happy for any comments/criticism!
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  • nate 🤓18:30 · 2024-04-14T06:05:47.089Z
    Good one, thanks sam :)
    • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-04-15T00:36:46.852Z
      Glad you liked it!
    • NICK717 18:23 · 2024-04-14T14:58:54.446Z
      I liked your spoonerism. It almost defeated me, but I liked it.
      • Byron 🤓30:48 · 2024-04-14T14:46:21.484Z
        Thanks! 14A is rough. And I'm still not sure if 8D is "prime airy" or "pry merry"; I don't like opening for prime, or breezy for merry.
        • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-04-15T00:36:40.690Z
          Yeah, I think I missed an 'in' or something in 14A that would have made it scan better. I was going for "prime airy," looking back on it I think 'opening' was the result of me staring at a long list of synonyms and picking one without thinking back to what word I was trying to indicate. Thanks for solving!
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        Large moth flying around energy from the heat of the earth (10)
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Large moth flying around energy from the heat of the earth (10)
        2. 5A
          Bewilder holy man next to United Nations (4)
        3. 9A
          Faulty A.I. encodes by the sea (9)
        4. 10A
          Go back over an Indiana basketball player? (5)
        5. 11A
          Instrument maker's sweet potato - eureka! (6)
        6. 14A
          Albert replaced its red general (8)
        7. 15A
          Intermittently alluring pic of a lanky green man? (5)
        8. 17A
          Competent at stripping cables (4)
        9. 19A
          Scully found one in genetic code (4)
        10. 21A
          Pence off the price of cereal (4)
        11. 22A
          General Electric goes into daybreak readily (7)
        12. 25A
          Gemstone on unknown variable (4)
        13. 26A
          A cooler Maine summit (4)
        14. 27A
          Quick! Don't finish and run! (5)
        15. 29A
          Where to find a lead single, alone! (5)
        16. 31A
          Cut soft lip and fresh brie (5, 3)
        17. 32A
          Revises, revises, and loses last of bar strainers (6)
        18. 34A
          Coating for crashed trucks' lost kilo (5)
        19. 35A
          Disliked our lap pun - furiously (9)
        20. 36A
          Urinates, turning to a trickle (4)
        21. 37A
          Excited to bury established education (10)
        Down
        1. 1D
          Pleasant time for a blimp? (8)
        2. 2D
          Me on a fiddle after midnight (3, 2)
        3. 3D
          Leading until his son Naruhito ordered him back, Akihito was from here! (6)
        4. 4D
          Doctor in eastern house with alien often found behind a mirror? (8, 7)
        5. 6D
          Reverend's kiss to stimulate the scholarly (9)
        6. 7D
          Pause - Capone starts to manufacture a chemical weapon (6)
        7. 8D
          Hear opening breezy election, perhaps (7)
        8. 12D
          Beer taken from Salem (3)
        9. 13D
          A princess from Nampa, Idaho (4)
        10. 16D
          Silence a lady singer? (4)
        11. 18D
          Casual attitude follows protracted one's east-west measurement (9)
        12. 20D
          Mars misbehaving with weapons (4)
        13. 22D
          Formerly lively small professionals (7)
        14. 23D
          Alternating blue fins and garlands (4)
        15. 24D
          Conservative guaranteed guilty (8)
        16. 27D
          Finishing off the variable cost (3)
        17. 28D
          Bits of hams (6)
        18. 30D
          Limped awkwardly to a divot (6)
        19. 33D
          Virginia approved the butler (5)
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