"You Fill An Emptiness Inside Me" (Cryptic Mini #000000107)

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• bob weisz constructor · 2024-10-31T10:00:49.099Z

  Answers & parses:

  • 1A &lit (sopes are a traditional Mexican dish). wordplay: anagram of ("what you can exchange for") SOPES
  • 4A def: "covered in filth". wordplay: DING ("nick") + Y ("lacheY's ass")
  • 5A def: "Head of Hollywood" (if you don't know Edith Head... look her up!). wordplay: EDIT ("to rewrite") + H ("ending of macbetH")
  • 7A def: "0" (as in sports lingo). wordplay: GAMBLE gets anagrammed ("recklessly"), but first delete the M ("dropping $1,000,000")
  • 8A a cheeky double def: "hair part?" (as in part of your hair) is one def, and the other is "!!" (an exclamation point is also sometimes called a "bang") --
  • 1D def: "chaplain". wordplay: hidden in (i.e the "center" of) iPAD REpair
  • 2D def: "clicking". wordplay: SIN ("wrong") + KIN ("family") + GIN ("liquor")
  • 3D def: "sharp". wordplay: NEEDLES ("ribs") removed from (NEEDLES)SLY
  • 6D def: "benefits". wordplay: HS containing ("put on by") EL-P ("Run the Jewels rapper")
  • 7D def: "pal". wordplay: when there's an emptiness inside BOB, it makes B_B. Then U ("you") fills it.

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• James Moir 11:37 · 2024-10-31T14:51:16.411Z

  I loved 1As clue!!!

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  • bob weisz constructor · 2024-10-31T18:12:24.590Z

    Glad you enjoyed! I've been sitting on that one for awhile :)

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