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Sam's Sunday Cryptic LXXVIII

◆ · By sammisamsam · Published 2024-07-21T04:00:55.973Z

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  • Byron 🤓23:07 · 2024-08-29T14:50:45.754Z
    I don't understand 8A. Monkey, perhaps is the definition. Devoured=ATE. How does "Dictator's first" yield PRIM?
    • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-08-29T22:32:56.038Z
      I've seen "Dictator's," "to a dictator," etc. in some places as a homophone clue, but I haven't seen it much online so I'm not sure how accepted it is. But it's meant to be a homophone of "Prime Ate" to get a primate (perhaps a monkey)
    • Jessica 18:21 · 2024-09-05T03:45:41.943Z
      Good puzzle, thanks
      Play today's daily mini crossword
      1A
      Quickly get Miss Garten corn muffin mix, perhaps? (2, 1, 5)
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      Across
      1. 1A
        Quickly get Miss Garten corn muffin mix, perhaps? (2, 1, 5)
      2. 5A
        Clergyman destroyed mineral on the radio (6)
      3. 8A
        Dictator's first devoured monkey, perhaps (7)
      4. 9A
        Lead member without MBE! (7)
      5. 11A
        Eat in German city! (5)
      6. 12A
        Doctor Paradiso's scattered peoples (9)
      7. 14A
        Buffoons are oddly lacking conspiratorial targets? (4)
      8. 16A
        Memetic lab fabrication is symbolic (10)
      9. 19A
        Metal I see with a friend sarcastically (10)
      10. 20A
        Prisoners' downsides (4)
      11. 21A
        Heavenly beauty reportedly wears a puffy hairstyle, paint, and a shirt, (9)
      12. 24A
        Hold a gross snake (5)
      13. 27A
        Throw the French maneuvers in chess (7)
      14. 28A
        Unlimited UPS plot averse to some shorebirds (7)
      15. 29A
        Back up for some time (6)
      16. 30A
        Swimming tailfins of someone in the championship match (8)
      Down
      1. 2D
        Some small candies lead to nervous effusion regarding diabetic symptoms (5)
      2. 3D
        A puppeteer interfered with Jon and his men (3, 6)
      3. 4D
        Famed Greek native with turbulent fate? (4)
      4. 5D
        Traditions' privileges are announced (5)
      5. 6D
        Rarity of a pair of cuckoos over a Spanish river (5)
      6. 7D
        Surgery company (10)
      7. 10D
        Duty to report capacity for dishonesty (9)
      8. 13D
        Sporty Uncle Matt runs back around? (3, 1)
      9. 15D
        Heartless foe takes false replica of a hearth (9)
      10. 17D
        Nation beheads one telling you to sail away? (4)
      11. 18D
        Nemesis is in the vault, holding a bit of resentment (4, 5)
      12. 22D
        Old-fashioned order brought up with time for departure (5)
      13. 23D
        Run in lifeless horror (5)
      14. 25D
        Spears fish unevenly for laborers (5)
      15. 26D
        Internal biplane design (4)
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