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