Jake’s Mini Cryptic #61

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• Womble 🤓3:25 · 2024-10-15T15:52:27.317Z

  Thanks, Jake!

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  • Jake A constructor · 2024-10-15T23:59:27.675Z

    Hey, thank YOU, Womble!

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• Zack Johnson 🤓1:30 · 2024-10-17T15:38:03.964Z

  Nice one!

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  • Jake A constructor · 2024-10-17T18:08:01.515Z

    Thank you, Zack!

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• Madison Johnson 6:42 · 2024-10-17T18:02:49.150Z

  I'd love the explanations for 1 and 2 down! I wasn't sure how the "bomb dropped" part and the "banana costume" fit in. Tug in the tub really threw me off, but once I revealed the o in "toy" I understood it - great red herring for those with their minds in the gutter! :)

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  • Jake A constructor · 2024-10-17T22:52:57.320Z

    Thanks for solving, Madison! Glad you enjoyed the puzzle. For 1D “Myopic, animated old man” is the definition. “Comes from” is the linking phrase connecting the definition to “Gommorah” which is the fodder. “Stumbling” is word play indicating Gommorah is to be anagrammed, and “after the bomb is dropped” is word play indicating deletion, in this case the letter H. For 2D, the first word in the clue is “First” which is a word play indicator directing solvers to look to the first letters of words. Here, the first letters of the words immediately following “First” spell out TOY BOAT.

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• snag 🤓2:02 · 2024-10-19T04:52:09.076Z

  /5

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  • Jake A constructor · 2024-10-19T12:46:10.968Z

    

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