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Sam's Sunday Cryptic LXX: Mount Olympus

◆ · By sammisamsam · Published 2024-05-26T04:28:22.833Z

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  • NICK717 17:08 · 2024-05-26T13:39:25.613Z
    Can you explain 4D please?
    • Sam 🤓19:30 · 2024-05-26T15:27:35.295Z
      I read it as "Horus" from the Ennead
      • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-05-26T14:41:18.985Z
        It's a straight homophone! Egyptian god Horus and Roman poet Horace
      • Jake A 🤓22:39 · 2024-05-26T23:12:11.593Z
        Crikey, I loved it. Nicely done!
        • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-05-27T04:42:04.929Z
          Thanks Jake!
        • nate 🤓12:53 · 2024-05-26T23:41:49.279Z
          Very nice!
          • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-05-27T04:42:11.210Z
            Glad you enjoyed it!
          • Byron 1:11:26 · 2024-06-07T19:57:02.371Z
            I don't understand the wordplay for 12a and 31a.
            Play today's daily mini crossword
            1D
            Wettest parasite in a beaver's home? (7)
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            Across
            1. 8A
              Creed of a Mexican chicken? (6)
            2. 9A
              Model one dress for a god (8)
            3. 11A
              Furiously, Aphrodite has lost - oh - a gemstone (7)
            4. 12A
              Goddess' craft - and what it will never lead to, reportedly? (7)
            5. 13A
              Greek god reversed a canal (4)
            6. 14A
              Steadfast din Demeter produced (10)
            7. 17A
              Teenage Circe cunningly covered new origin of many of this puzzle's clues? (7, 6)
            8. 22A
              Swords turn to this after priest left ornate show with Ares (10)
            9. 25A
              At every second, Athena's my squad (4)
            10. 27A
              Hephaestus can yearn outside an Italian region (7)
            11. 29A
              Headless goddess in hollow betrothal is brutal (7)
            12. 30A
              Communications carried by Hermes' sage scriptures (8)
            13. 31A
              Blasphemy heard from a goddess - it may be black or white? (6)
            Down
            1. 1D
              Wettest parasite in a beaver's home? (7)
            2. 2D
              A number following our peg name (8)
            3. 3D
              A pair of blessings with Hades' core weapon (5)
            4. 4D
              A god read aloud for an ancient poet (6)
            5. 5D
              Lively for each tango (4)
            6. 6D
              Uneven fellow is a tiebreaker? (3, 3)
            7. 7D
              Partisan intoxicated Adonis with drug? (2, 1, 4)
            8. 10D
              Scattered newts haphazardly about river (6)
            9. 15D
              Demeanor revealed by Fermi energy(4)
            10. 16D
              Spanish god Dionysus doesn't own New York, U.S. (4)
            11. 18D
              Has the name 'elapses' (4, 2)
            12. 19D
              Believed Chromium changes (8)
            13. 20D
              Unfinished epic novel's essence (7)
            14. 21D
              Uses tricks after half of them (7)
            15. 23D
              Infatuate extraordinary bosses (6)
            16. 24D
              A variety of self-starter ambitious ones? (1-5)
            17. 26D
              Masked male took off when requested (5)
            18. 28D
              Baja taxi centers on a mythic hero (4)
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