"When Willet End?!" - An Avian-Themed Cryptic
● · By Lux Nitra · Published 2024-10-14T19:35:44.047Z
Constructor's Note
"It'll be plover as soon as you're dunlin-gering." If a clue starts with 'Bird' then by jove you better believe the answer will be a bird. And naturally, it wouldn't be a Lux puzzle if there weren't lame clues that you still can't understand even once you've solved them.
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Photographer came before a sun deity (6)
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Across
- 3ABird will disallow alpenglow and introduce non-coated education (7)
- 7ABird chomped on a certain black-capped seabird (7)
- 11ABird: "Even large pain is inside me..." (6)
- 13ABird commences rant after Charlie, Oscar, and Romeo waste an nth of a month (9)
- 15ABird will shortly enter gold rush! ...Sorry, not gold, thorium (6)
- 16ABird vocalized, sounding like "gasoline!", in England (6)
- 17ALatin American Thatcher erects crucifix in the middle of British crown dependency "...of Man" (5)
- 19ABird meat without tea gets reduced down until it's quickly left with fishless car park (10)
- 21AFinal apt operation caches a computer (6)
- 23ABird delouses Iceland denizen, and places them in sling (10)
- 27AGood grief! It's ninety degrees, and the capital, Oizo, has undergone a revolution! (4)
- 29ADon't finish that snort! On the contrary – take a leak! Or a breather! (7)
- 32AIt's oddly wowing! Bottoms up! Ehhh... (3)
- 34AProvoke action, for example, with gravity (3)
- 35ALily, the pilot, turned around. "Oh, it's you!" (5)
- 36ABird whose voice-over is filled with ire (5)
- 37AShaking up three solutions (yields) an organic compound (5)
- 38AUltimately, 42A didn't show gratitude for outfit (3)
- 39ABird emerges from concoction of 40% toilet paper, 60% bagels (5)
- 40ACorporation gives finch a little off the sides (3)
- 41AReturn a lobe; receive a viral sensation! (5)
- 42AIt's about time that Kentucky encompasses a type of hawk, perhaps? (5)
- 43ABird with two rings is surrounded by bees. Why, then? (5)
- 44APull back tab at baseball-themed bar (3)
- 46ADigging a hole between two snakes is a sign of distress (3)
- 48AConifer trees start taking a loss west of Utahn National Park (7)
- 51AMy life: a rascal masking anxiety (4)
- 52ABird is a shank-painter who takes out a napkin, then dines on earwax - but hold the kiss! (10)
- 54ABird's former half is a type of nip, and the latter half a type of stroke (6)
- 56ABird substitutes the roaster in its frycoaster with a latcher (10)
- 60AThe fuzz is onto you! Quickly, flute in the front, and finish fortissimo! (5)
- 62ABird divulges Spanish cheer around Brazilian city (6)
- 63ABird who falls short, but then gains a bit of confidence (6)
- 64ABird will emerge without surface charge, but with an answer, but without with, with brevity (9)
- 65ABird took a mole before Nitra came back (6)
- 66ABird on American maps has slightly irregular phone ending in 9 (7)
- 67ABird earned a failing grade, then had some liquor, so I heard (7)
Down
- 1DPhotographer came before a sun deity (6)
- 2DMachinist at microscope: "Rat or horse hides? My word!" (8)
- 4DBird has regrets with no end in sight (5)
- 5DBird's goon heads towards 5 o'clock, not 12 (5)
- 6DInch-shorter transmasc's dog noise actually indicates interlocked elbows after "arm" (2,3)
- 8DBare tootsie taken aback in response to "is not" (2,3)
- 9D"Thank you," starts Carol, leaving western American state for western Austrian state (5)
- 10DJohn: "After break, tie up a docked ship and reflect." (8)
- 12DShort videos brimming with energy display somewhat faded plumage (or perhaps an astronomical event) (7)
- 14DRhoticist's locomotive? That's gonna leave a Mark (5)
- 18DTV network arose following advertisement in the 50s? That's a scoop! (5)
- 20DBird, embraced by wooer, is initially doting; perhaps everyone could kiss! (10)
- 22DBird is shamelessly misheard after beta-girl ends up ditching Laplace for Fourier (11)
- 24DBird is actually just "Friends" character wearing flying mammal on his head (a customary Arabic article!) (9)
- 25DIn three seconds, "Lose Chess Need" is beginning (5)
- 26DBird begins with module, exchanging percent for eight pints, and zero for imaginary unit (9)
- 28DBird that goes into nursing research, displacing grain-seers (8)
- 29DYour significant other and six extraterrestrials walk into a bar and order red Russians... (7)
- 30DA very, very, very fine establishment, below the Sooners' school, under their fraternity's "P," is presently used (3,5)
- 31DBird has no aspirations for last hurrah, first obliterating western cuckoo population, then gnawing off piece of kabob (10)
- 33DScapegoats (like Tyrone): Dock 1, then crash into Mars (7)
- 39DInheritor father cries out like cowboy, but stops midway through (5)
- 45DTestosterone can be found to the left of reed-dwelling bird, of course (5)
- 47DWithout a lead, primaries of One Faith Hospital swathe fleas (3,5)
- 49DWhat do you call a beheaded augur + revelator atop a platform without 3D-printed plastic? A creative medium (3,4)
- 50DRing-tail hawks moved from hot to cold on conveyors (8)
- 53DSee? I... oh, I turn it upright, then at the bottom... ehm... this is boring, actually (2,3)
- 55DThe declaration only went from 2 to 4; the atmosphere was sweet, iced-over, and filled with fluff (6)
- 57D"Do, la, do," sang that gentleman in the store (5)
- 58DFor toki ponists, being transgender is not backward (5)
- 59DCountry maintains heart of courage when surrounded by decentralized rebel enclosure (5)
- 60DFootball club's center ran, making Swiss pay (5)
- 61DDirections: turn around, north, south, east, east, clear from memory (5)