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Themed Cryptic #2

◆ · By Tuffy · Published 2022-07-06T18:06:46.476Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a 6-letter word that may preceed, proceed, or be linked to all the circled words/entries in the puzzle
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  • jasonwestley 🤓19:11 · 2022-07-07T07:19:50.821Z
    Fun puzzle! Impressive number of interesting long entries in the fill. 14A was clever. The only thing that bothered me slightly was that the literal definition for 25A doesn't seem to match the answer grammatically? 'chafes' would be correct, but would have made the surface reading of the clue a bit dodgy.
    • Tuffy constructor · 2022-07-07T18:34:51.996Z
      Thanks for the feedback! I noticed that 25A didn't match the answer grammatically so I'm fixing it alongside another clue that doesn't match.
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    1A
    Arguing about thing after fruit (8)
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Arguing about thing after fruit (8)
    2. 4A
      Salad instruction: daffodil broth lacking any forte (3, 3)
    3. 9A
      Leave the ground by labored toil about female, freedom fighter at first (7)
    4. 11A
      Metal ZX reflecting for reduction of greenhouse gases (3, 4)
    5. 12A
      Lecturer's toilet damaged, keep that between us (3, 6, 6)
    6. 14A
      AIM for moonshot (3, 2, 1, 7)
    7. 17A
      Petal plucking saying, "Terrible no theme solves" (3, 5, 2, 3)
    8. 20A
      An unfair position poorly navigates data ad (2, 1, 12)
    9. 24A
      First trading, swapping 50 and 500 around (7)
    10. 25A
      Revolutionary wars burn, mostly chafes (4, 3)
    11. 26A
      Instant silver (6)
    12. 27A
      Insanely attractive father with energy initially skips former year (4, 4)
    Down
    1. 1D
      Many ancient loot-filled temples, e.g., have incorrect labels. Cool stuff! (4, 2, 9)
    2. 2D
      Dig for burrowing rodent, we hear (2, 3)
    3. 3D
      Lean from some beacon of a torch (2, 3)
    4. 5D
      Engineer dittoed, was precise (6, 1)
    5. 6D
      Crane and loon breaks forearm bone (9)
    6. 7D
      The early tow hook broke down, let it pass (4, 3, 5, 3)
    7. 8D
      I'll ingest scrambled hen where Satan lives (2, 4)
    8. 10D
      Bio about part of Kenobi's name (3)
    9. 13D
      Lag regularly, thread idly (5)
    10. 15D
      Battle cruiser, initially, following adrift, say, at sea, lacking effort, ultimately. It's very simple! (4, 2, 3)
    11. 16D
      Final good grade, it comes before "lifetime" (4, 1)
    12. 18D
      Famous inventor, replacing sulfur with titanium, forms revision (7)
    13. 19D
      Color with zero spectrum (6)
    14. 21D
      Some overgeneralization or threshold (5)
    15. 22D
      Reverse prohibition and take into custody (3)
    16. 23D
      Moods are wicked and below gold (5)
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