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The Beat Generation

· By capybara · Published 2024-01-21T15:24:06.299Z

Constructor's Note
A cryptic in the style of the Beat poets
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  • nate 16:07 · 2024-01-21T19:32:51.704Z
    Super creative, nice work!
    • Hector 30:42 · 2024-01-21T20:33:35.268Z
      Synonyms in the top right stumped me and still seem maybe hard to hear. But I very much enjoyed this challenge!
      1A
      Back in Los Angeles, before the endless saxophone music, before the end of time, before this endless backwards area of the peninsula (2, 7)
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      Across
      1. 1A
        Back in Los Angeles, before the endless saxophone music, before the end of time, before this endless backwards area of the peninsula (2, 7)
      2. 6A
        Gave oneself to a leaderless crowd and watched (5)
      3. 7A
        Tame, composed, but somehow beside itself (4)
      4. 8A
        Going to the centre of Oakland with the yellow bus driver, to give false hope for the masses (5)
      5. 11A
        A drink and a meal with no starter, it's about time (5)
      6. 13A
        A strange glint in the night sky begins undulating, fluctuating, oscillating (3)
      7. 14A
        Stripped completely bare, Moriarty returns with a pink bottom (5)
      8. 16A
        Until you can finally get artichoke heart and fish tail, eat, say, ham on rye (5)
      9. 20A
        Essentially an echo, personifying what I cling on to when all else is lost (4)
      10. 21A
        Mother is adrift, caught in a lie, it happens all the time (6)
      11. 22A
        It's where the paths of life are made, atop boundless other realms, on a day just beginning (2, 3, 4)
      Down
      1. 1D
        Experienced, but when the fashionable replaces the commercial it becomes its opposite! (5)
      2. 2D
        It accumulates when every other bard brings empty detritus (4)
      3. 3D
        "Strive for what once was" - a warning Jolson left (5)
      4. 4D
        Half the slaughterhouse sent to their ultimate fate, to surrender (5)
      5. 5D
        I hear a question about the future, and it sounds like a scream (4)
      6. 9D
        That which is done out loud to unfertilized cells (3)
      7. 10D
        Perfume that becomes overpowering when left open (3)
      8. 11D
        I write this whether I am laughing or not; it's fifty-fifty, there's nothing in it (3)
      9. 12D
        A fragment of romantic convulsion (3)
      10. 14D
        A greeting from the east, while Hanoi is bulldozed (5)
      11. 15D
        Lies to the audience, with the extremely urgent sound of that which is beyond repair (5)
      12. 17D
        A refutation of my ancestral dogmatic origins, becoming a vagabond (5)
      13. 18D
        Chinaski's ancient symbol unravelled (4)
      14. 19D
        Arcs giddily, giving visible reminders of past suffering (4)
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