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themeless cryptic #1

◆ · By violet · Published 2023-02-22T08:18:20.814Z

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  • Hoyt Arcane 🤓25:55 · 2023-02-22T23:04:03.019Z
    What a workout! Great work with lots of sparkly answers. Was not familiar with Krasinski or Tarkovsky but once I figured out the -SKY and -SKI parts, everything else fell into place.
    Still having trouble figuring out the wordplay for KETTLEDRUM - how do you parse that clue? I figure "spirit" = RUM?
    • Hector 47:58 · 2023-02-23T01:38:09.581Z
      Tough indeed! Kettling is a tactic used by police to try to suppress peaceful demonstrations by corralling protesters and refusing to let them go (says Urban Dictionary).
      • Hoyt Arcane 🤓25:55 · 2023-02-24T02:29:36.310Z
        Thanks Hector!
      • e constructor · 2023-02-23T07:42:24.679Z
        hope you liked it! also hector's explanation for that clue is correct
        • Hoyt Arcane 🤓25:55 · 2023-02-24T02:29:48.019Z
          I enjoyed it thoroughly!
      • quatrevingtneuf 🤓10:04 · 2023-02-23T16:54:08.516Z
        quite liked the wp for 23A. had to pull my mind out of the gutter for 26A...
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        Fail, succeed, map out transsexual trips (10)
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Fail, succeed, map out transsexual trips (10)
        2. 6A
          Patch of batik sewn and folded over for routine (4)
        3. 9A
          Rice bag prepared into a protector of vital organs (7)
        4. 10A
          Sate gorilla that consumed legumes (7)
        5. 12A
          Remember it in the style of one's particular method of doing things (5)
        6. 13A
          Heavy-case programming language, essentially unthinkable that it may lead to another website (9)
        7. 14A
          Katrina drove wildly to limit - there's a man behind mirror? (6, 9)
        8. 17A
          Listen, sit informed after most take right to one reading theory? (7-8)
        9. 20A
          Religion of a distance between artificial intelligence after organized arts (9)
        10. 21A
          Often, organ parts might be deep (5)
        11. 23A
          Reminder that man calculates, drops five hundred (5, 2)
        12. 24A
          Two greetings to take cab reversing into Japanese place (7)
        13. 25A
          Ends of binary tree is made of 8 bits (4)
        14. 26A
          It might make noise when banged and surrounded by police spirit (10)
        Down
        1. 1D
          Ranch holds one true smoke warning (4, 5)
        2. 2D
          Section of Geico brand is a reptile (5)
        3. 3D
          Pain or elastic molding makes grand performances (5, 8)
        4. 4D
          Shape it, shape it, crazy (7)
        5. 5D
          Section rising for each hunter (7)
        6. 7D
          One in a quiet place left boat south in snowy practice (9)
        7. 8D
          Make some adjustments to testosterone that's not so strong (5)
        8. 11D
          10 predictable, disorganized columns that chemists read (8, 5)
        9. 15D
          Father holds guns to first rest stop in a German city (9)
        10. 16D
          Tasty, around bitter mix of rare substance in the earth (9)
        11. 18D
          Source of tough roots are enough to stomp (7)
        12. 19D
          Name two constants: the first task (7)
        13. 20D
          A place for cleaning her up with muscle (5)
        14. 22D
          Automata game incorporates core picks to become better (5)
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