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Sam's Sunday Cryptic LXXXIV

· By sammisamsam · Published 2024-09-01T04:30:23.103Z

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Always open to feedback/criticism! American pop culture warning for 22D
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  • ash 41:12 · 2024-09-02T07:40:12.650Z
    this was great, I particularly liked 2D and 22D!
    • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-09-02T18:24:39.352Z
      Glad you liked it! I was pretty happy with how both of those clues turned out
    • Chris Jones 🤓10:06 · 2024-09-02T11:00:32.085Z
      Very nice - not too tough, and lots of playful clues 👍
      • sammisamsam constructor · 2024-09-02T18:24:45.777Z
        Thanks for solving!
      1D
      Reporter's first job offer unjustifiably requires nationalist authoritarian slant (10)
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      Across
      1. 7A
        Bald crook interfered with an obstruction of traffic (9)
      2. 8A
        Noodles picked out of tempura menu (5)
      3. 10A
        Write about hot jerk (6)
      4. 11A
        Like an unfinished song until Ted made a remix? (8)
      5. 12A
        Note an international economic partnership on materials (7)
      6. 14A
        Nags win resort canopies (7)
      7. 16A
        Vocally drop a level (4)
      8. 18A
        Glare perversely at a beer (5)
      9. 19A
        Singing metal, Ella Fitzgerald is at last happy (4)
      10. 20A
        Resilience, good man! Am I no amateur? (7)
      11. 21A
        Endowments from European countries (7)
      12. 24A
        Satan, drunk with rum, becomes like some rhinos? (8)
      13. 26A
        Peak at 151, at most (6)
      14. 27A
        Positions columns (5)
      15. 28A
        Inject performance enhancer into ass, almost getting things in a belt (9)
      Down
      1. 1D
        Reporter's first job offer unjustifiably requires nationalist authoritarian slant (10)
      2. 2D
        Learned it organized around Will Shortz, perhaps (6)
      3. 3D
        Run away from a pronounced jumper (4)
      4. 4D
        Brush bush (5)
      5. 5D
        Coin for a distant entity (8)
      6. 6D
        Something inherited from denim, so to speak (4)
      7. 9D
        Small sketch with alien's upset attendants (8)
      8. 13D
        Contrail mutated an herb (8)
      9. 15D
        Sauce has a bit of extra first-rate radish - oddly from burial sites (10)
      10. 17D
        Slope crafts walls (8)
      11. 22D
        Mr. A.I. on composing Drake's chord, according to hearsay? (1, 5)
      12. 23D
        Poet Ogden, after his second grind? (5)
      13. 25D
        You'd only eaten noodles (4)
      14. 26D
        Signals for letters on the radio (4)
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