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Cryptic Crossword with a Mystery Theme

◆ · By wisprabbit · Published 2023-05-21T08:01:51.356Z

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A cryptic crossword with a theme. You don't need to figure out what the theme is to solve the crossword, but it might help to confirm one or two of the harder clues.
I made this cryptic with the website Cohost in mind, but you might like it too! I've tried not to over-complicate clues - there are still some tricky ones, but hopefully enough easier ones to let newer solvers make some progress. Also there shouldn't be so many clues that require you to be British to understand. (Well, maybe one or two.) Reference dictionary is the Collins Dictionary website.
I post crosswords and logic puzzles on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/wisprabbit
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  • catachresis 29:53 · 2023-12-30T19:50:49.226Z
    I finally got around to this one, and loved it! Lots of words I didn't know, but still managed to get through fair wordplay, which is my favorite thing about cryptics.
    • edderiofer 🤓14:10 · 2024-10-22T18:02:45.841Z
      Running through puzzles from Cohost before it shuts down. Can't get the parse on 14A, and I can't figure out the Mystery Theme either.
      Good puzzle, though.
      Play today's daily mini crossword
      1D
      New chemical gets sodium put back into it as routine (10)
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      Across
      1. 6A
        Colour house oddly (3)
      2. 7A
        Believer in time theft (6)
      3. 9A
        Sounds like a poem from Frost (4)
      4. 11A
        6D is dancing Polynesian women (7)
      5. 12A
        Clear up golfer's instruction to caddy? (4, 3)
      6. 13A
        Northern Ireland's northeastern square (4)
      7. 14A
        Adrian's part-time head demonstrates a great deal of skill (9)
      8. 17A
        Cohost wanting some tips, initially, to get into all the hard stuff (7)
      9. 18A
        Spikes French fish to send one son to the end (7)
      10. 19A
        Insectile variant made of a kind of gypsum (9)
      11. 21A
        Reportedly intended to plank? (4)
      12. 24A
        Cryptically, Dale has some big ideas for economic reform (3, 4)
      13. 26A
        Detective cuts vegetable (that's what I think) (7)
      14. 27A
        Send off characters who should get together (4)
      15. 28A
        Hat, to a gangster (6)
      16. 29A
        Pilot a yacht going around Scottish river (3)
      Down
      1. 1D
        New chemical gets sodium put back into it as routine (10)
      2. 2D
        Knuckles yet to even see Tails throw a rock at somebody (5)
      3. 3D
        Argentinian footballer and actor Berry both want bottoms in canteen (4, 4)
      4. 4D
        Pastry of billion even parts (4)
      5. 5D
        German is into dips, but might need these if too much sugar is eaten (8)
      6. 6D
        Own name in safe space (5)
      7. 8D
        Church tower to reach ever higher, though missing tip (5)
      8. 10D
        Vocalist without direction gets lively, with electric effect (7)
      9. 15D
        Saint Simon's old church thrown up by bean-counters (10)
      10. 16D
        Coco doubles new route (7)
      11. 17D
        To an extent, Pearson is the one who lights up the place (8)
      12. 18D
        Musical instruments perform constant solo backwards after two centuries (8)
      13. 20D
        You might imagine this Oklahoman town will turn shillings into pennies (5)
      14. 22D
        Australian toilet finally found atop United Nations, New York (5)
      15. 23D
        Torn (recorder: Imbruglia): very emotional, naturalistic primarily (5)
      16. 25D
        Explode with atom (4)
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