Key issue (6)

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• nate constructor · 2025-02-11T13:00:50.883Z

  1A: Spots; PIE in ESS

  4A: Cryptic; C[rossword] in ARENA*

  5A: Captured; APE after NOT*

  1D: Chihuahua, perhaps (a Mexican state); EST + A + (hair)DO

  2D: say, for a spell?; INC + ANT

  3D: plain; STEPPE[d]

  Title: Key / issue; double def.; you use the escape key to enter rebuses :)

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• rjy 14:02 · 2025-02-11T21:57:19.988Z

  Diabolical! 5a was a fave

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  • nate constructor · 2025-02-12T00:10:14.739Z

    Thanks!

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• Jake A 🤓2:58 · 2025-02-12T01:12:21.028Z

  Awesome! Head scratchers at first glance, but once the rebus fell, they all came tumbling down.

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  • nate constructor · 2025-02-12T01:33:20.818Z

    Thanks Jake! I’m glad to hear the rebus helped you, I’m always curious if people actually use it or not

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    • Jake A 🤓2:58 · 2025-02-13T01:47:07.740Z

      Very much so. (My comment should have read “once the first rebus fell”)

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• ash 🤓8:42 · 2025-02-14T12:16:56.393Z

  consistently impressed by how well your clues and grids are put together! thank you for sharing

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  • nate constructor · 2025-02-14T20:04:11.076Z

    wow thank you, that means a lot!

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