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Sam's Sunday Cryptic XXXV

◆◆ · By sammisamsam · Published 2023-09-24T04:54:12.264Z

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  • Pedagogue 13:58 · 2023-09-25T07:17:18.670Z
    Wow! Much too difficult for me. Should 18A have a "?"? Could you parse "TSAR" for me, please? Hated 10D - never heard of them; I must be too old.
    Play today's daily mini crossword
    1D
    Dream about a large soda, perhaps? (9)
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    Across
    1. 7A
      Kendrick goes both ways (4)
    2. 8A
      Instrument Miles played in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (5, 5)
    3. 11A
      Swarms of Microsoft programs are heard (5)
    4. 12A
      "Egghead!" a confused Celt said to a college?
    5. 13A
      Sorority gives up choice for one lent, then takes jam back to Nixon's supporters, supposedly (6, 8)
    6. 16A
      Pez - a toxic lunch - ends Bryan (4)
    7. 18A
      Hollowed out gall and pancreas (5)
    8. 19A
      Eliot, 15, becomes king (4)
    9. 22A
      Amanda edges away from royal navy, perhaps, after a trio of rhymes don't end the genre (6, 3, 5)
    10. 25A
      St. Petersburg at last removed lingo containing English colloquialism for skaters (9)
    11. 27A
      To respond to an uninitiated area of Connecticut (5)
    12. 28A
      Lindsey is resisting radio (10)
    13. 29A
      "Billy's inside," said Olive (4)
    Down
    1. 1D
      Dream about a large soda, perhaps? (9)
    2. 2D
      Open international agency on a marine mammal (6)
    3. 3D
      RPG turned life member rotten (4, 6)
    4. 4D
      Natural gel is back -- and hello to the Brazilians! (4)
    5. 5D
      Ones changing steroids around (7)
    6. 6D
      Rearrange lamps for a chant (5)
    7. 9D
      After victory, satire loops back around to the truth (7)
    8. 10D
      Band evens out nasty knack (5)
    9. 14D
      Bohemian reformer and the head of a school become a pair of surfers? (3, 3, 4)
    10. 15D
      Distracting conversation sounds like a betrayed bird (9)
    11. 17D
      To cinch liberation from the underworld (7)
    12. 20D
      Pencil has its top ripped off after saint
    13. 21D
      Remind Mr. Reynolds of the sound of a video game (5)
    14. 23D
      Pug and Akita overwhelm country (6)
    15. 24D
      Sets beats (5)
    16. 26D
      Mowed grass flies off into cloth (4)
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