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Mad Dog Cryptics #24

◆◆ · By Mad Dog · Published 2025-01-06T23:30:44.692Z

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  • Mad Dog constructor · 2025-01-06T23:33:30.316Z
    Across
    1 Anagram – (maybe) of UH DAYBREAK
    6 Double Definition
    9 Hidden word – eggnoG/RUM BLEnds
    10 Charade and Anagram – SO (therefore) and anagram (like a tailor, stitching and sewing back together) of SWEAR. This is based on the adage “You can't make a silk purse out of a SOW'S EAR”
    12 Double Definition (what it looks like when capitalized and 3 examples.) An iamb is a metrical foot in poetry “short/long”.
    13 Letter subtraction – (w)HERE and (Baltimore O's)WEGO
    16 Anagram and letter selection – EL + VISPRE (anagram of VIPERS) before SiLvErY
    19 Charades – APP + (l)EAR
    20 Letter insertion – D(R)ONE
    23 Letter subtraction – (t)IM + (w)A GONER
    24 Letter addition – FL(A)Y
    27 Charades – P (U(nusua)L + PER) A
    28 Charades – MEL + ISSA
    29 Letter removal and reversal (d)OYEN reversed
    30 Charades – ST + ARCHIE + ST
    Down
    1 First letters – from Every to Reality
    2 Anagram – VOYEUR + (t)O + M
    3 Rebus interpretation of BINARY – B in ARY (It stands for Raffel Brothers.)
    4 Palindrome – BE (from IS) + EB
    5 Charades – DI (S + PENS) ARY
    7 Charades – THEME + T
    8 Homophone (tell) – BURRO to BURROW
    11 Homophone (It's announced) – WEAK ENDS to WEEKENDS (Although I loved both.)
    14 Homophone (roll call) AYES OPPOSE to I SUPPOSE
    15 Charades with reversal – IRRE (LEVAN) T We all have one to show we were born.
    17 Charades – COAL + shES + niCE
    18 Spoonerism – FAIRY VAST to VERY FAST
    21 Double definition – PIPPIN Took is a major character form LOTR. I am a nerd.
    22 Letter removal – FA(c)ULTY
    25 Reversal (as in going up in a down clue) – RIME (frost) is jacked up
    26 Charades with reversal – B + LAH
    1A
    Singer performs at, uh, daybreak maybe (6,4)
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Singer performs at, uh, daybreak maybe (6,4)
    2. 6A
      Remaining bit of a toe problem (4)
    3. 9A
      Carp getting into eggnog/rum blends (7)
    4. 10A
      This silk purse material can't be used therefore swear like a tailor (4,3)
    5. 12A
      It looks like lamb and here's three whose fleece was white as snow (4)
    6. 13A
      As it begins, say "this is not starting where a baseball team left Oswego" (4,2,2)
    7. 16A
      Oddly silvery, the Spanish vipers coiled before the king (5,7)
    8. 19A
      Seem to program Lear toppling (6)
    9. 20A
      Drudge Report's lead is underdone? (5)
    10. 23A
      Tim Wagoner, initially lost, said "it's over for me" (2,1,5)
    11. 24A
      Insect eats a skin (4)
    12. 27A
      When lurid magazines were popular, dad collected unusual covers for each (4,3)
    13. 28A
      Gibson met Rae and McCarthy (7)
    14. 29A
      Rejected at first, doyen returns as singer/songwriter (2-2)
    15. 30A
      Like the worst stiff shirt, Veronica's guy interrupts Matthew and Mark, to mention just a couple (10)
    Down
    1. 1D
      Biological clock leads to every generation getting told its maternal expectation's reality (3,5)
    2. 2D
      We're waiting for voyeur to end month being harrassed (4,4)
    3. 3D
      Restaurant's namesake is binary?? (4)
    4. 4D
      The sta. is sent and received (4)
    5. 5D
      Pharmacy provides personal log, small writing instruments included (10)
    6. 7D
      Motif of theater's first big gala (3,3)
    7. 8D
      Tell ass from hole in the ground (6)
    8. 11D
      It's announced the final episodes of Lost and Game of Thrones are on Saturdays and Sundays (8)
    9. 14D
      Uncertain agreement that positive votes are against roll call (1,7)
    10. 15D
      Doesn't matter that Terri hides common birthmark around back (10)
    11. 17D
      Come together to get the reward of naughty twosomes; in the end, she's nice (8)
    12. 18D
      Spooner prefers a nymph boundless like Usain Bolt (4,4)
    13. 21D
      Took from Lord of the Rings for Fosse musical (6)
    14. 22D
      Teachers give C for not working (6)
    15. 25D
      Jack Frost becomes leader (4)
    16. 26D
      "Uninteresting. Bravo." Hal replied (4)
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