Cryptic: Pink
◆ · By wisprabbit · Published 2022-06-29T11:55:57.235Z
Constructor's Note
A cryptic with some themed entries (but you don't need to spot the theme to solve the puzzle).
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Dug over and blocked in (but softly, not hard) (6)
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Across
- 1ADug over and blocked in (but softly, not hard) (6)
- 5AGarden in European study (4)
- 9AOriginal poster: American cartoon penguin (4)
- 10AThe Marines almost all chasing record, one from warm and shallow waters (10)
- 11AEgotist's pudding's core curdling - it's most heavy and hard to finish (9)
- 14ACountry's jocks? (5)
- 16APractice's doctor (French one) has lines stretching back (3, 3)
- 17AShe might grapple with sleep, a little like the Queen (8)
- 18ACurious mystery about masthead: it might look the same however you flip it (8)
- 20AHolding child's head away while raising (6)
- 22AHarmony of unknown one in front (5)
- 23A500 pages, plus 500 before that, state where you go when you sleep (9)
- 26AMilitary threats recentered destruction (10)
- 28ASpirit you audibly put in solution (4)
- 29AMostly silver or gold, say, like this clue? (4)
- 30AIt can jump pieces of gutted keelboat near interior (6)
Down
- 2DNuts parent retires to become a singer (3, 4)
- 3DBack in Tyneside, in a hellish city (3)
- 4DJohn the mathematician sounded 500? (3)
- 5DProduces bugs with heightened energy (5)
- 6DLine's getting back to front and vice versa, you hear it again and again (4)
- 7DClassic Twitch replay with chat (10)
- 8DFormer England manager to walk like a duck (6)
- 12DOne who runs quickly about 1000 metres at most of the universe (4, 6)
- 13DBurn follower of video game news website? (6)
- 15DHorsehead, perhaps, unable to change? (6)
- 17DSardonic wits roast your tops (3)
- 19DSomeone who gets dragged before Zulu? (6)
- 21DMoran on Suchet: "Somewhat unparalleled, once" (7)
- 24DWork of multiple Japanese poets getting mixed up might result in anger (5)
- 25DReal peace has no Conservative presence (4)
- 27DMoose which is regularly zen-like (3)
- 28DOverheard sound of relief with weapon (3)