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Sam's Sunday Cryptic XLVIII

◆ · By sammisamsam · Published 2023-12-24T15:17:14.939Z

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  • Hector 🤓18:27 · 2023-12-24T19:56:48.518Z
    Great fun; thank you for posting!
    • Oliver Hardy 27:50 · 2023-12-24T23:29:31.756Z
      Thanks for posting; sadly, I had not heard of Steve Lacy!
      • merlinnimue 29:30 · 2023-12-26T20:13:31.710Z
        Darn I had everted for 17a... merlin fails +1... Anyway thanks for the puzzle sorry for the inconvenience
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        1A
        Zheng I, née Ringwald, conceals manipulation (11)
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Zheng I, née Ringwald, conceals manipulation (11)
        2. 7A
          Must not start boxed (5)
        3. 8A
          Saint tearing and disrobing (9)
        4. 9A
          Frilly singer Steve (4)
        5. 10A
          Utilize previous menopausal symptom treatment (5)
        6. 11A
          Alternate proud lie to hurt and exclude (4, 3)
        7. 12A
          Tune energetic without translation (4)
        8. 15A
          Burn tea (or chai) without artificial intelligence (5)
        9. 17A
          Threw out and declined, but not initially (7)
        10. 19A
          Call, "I shall load up a beast of burden" (6)
        11. 21A
          Breaks down listener's aural highways (6)
        12. 22A
          Gifted Nathan taken in by the Department of Defense (7)
        13. 23A
          Roll with incline (5)
        14. 24A
          Retort to Saudi Arabian secret service (4)
        15. 27A
          Idiot got copyist even with tennis balls, perhaps (3, 4)
        16. 28A
          Twin trope obscured the start (5)
        17. 29A
          Draft check (4)
        18. 30A
          Exhibited Wednesday after reverend baked into pie (9)
        19. 31A
          Thus a chicken in the present (5)
        20. 32A
          Journalists organized strewn wires (11)
        Down
        1. 1D
          See lag confounded a football team (6)
        2. 2D
          Little pair of typos following clown book (4)
        3. 3D
          Short album I preserve with a new gourmand (9)
        4. 4D
          Concerning show at four, brief Spanish agents (15)
        5. 5D
          Egret got tangled by one with an entrepreneurial spirit? (2-6)
        6. 6D
          Letters' dispositions (10)
        7. 8D
          Was traffic a pain at last check? (4)
        8. 13D
          Mechanic's duties start to end alteration of ground (3, 7)
        9. 14D
          Boy enters vacant greenhouse clearing (5)
        10. 16D
          Stench from cod or salmon (5)
        11. 18D
          Mr. Pendergrass, carry this toy (5, 4)
        12. 20D
          Poodle lost in deserted collision scene before the title (4, 4)
        13. 25D
          During a gloomy round (4)
        14. 26D
          Galleries in the middle of appraisal on Sunday (6)
        15. 29D
          Warped Ben with time (4)
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