Micro 8: "Animal, 'Pi', featured in film"

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• catachresis constructor · 2024-01-02T08:34:48.443Z

  Thank you, as always, for your kind attention. My partner and test-solver is asleep right now, so apologies for any unfairnesses.

  1A: dd. "Stick"; "Keep playing baseball?" (i.e. BAT ON, in the way of "trudge on)

  4A: "Excited"; CAMPED ("Stayed the night outside") minus the first letter ("without a hat")

  5A: dd. "Game"; "Sprints"

  1D: "Weave together"; BRA ("lingerie") + ID ("unconscious desire")

  2D: "Animal"; PI ("Pi") in TAR ("film"). I hope "Tar" is enough in the public consciousness for this clue to be enjoyable, because without it this poor animal would have to be stuck in pitch!)

  3D: "Lumps"; NODS ("Agrees"), "taking" E ("estrogen")

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• merlinnimue 🤓3:52 · 2024-01-02T14:07:32.837Z

  Tough stuff, thanks

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• ObscureFox 🤓3:59 · 2024-01-02T14:45:15.479Z

  Fun puzzle. This felt like a good mix of clues. An easier clue in 1a to get started into the others. Thanks!

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• Oliver Hardy 7:55 · 2024-01-02T18:29:25.893Z

  Thank you for an entertaining, though challenging, puzzle.

  1D Delightful clue with unusual surface reading.

  1A Very nice, but I would have preferred "cricket"

  2D I was not aware of the film TÁR. I thought LAN would fit to get LAPIN but, of course, I was way off.

  4A I got AMPED from the word play but it isn't a word in this elderly Brit's vocabulary.

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• Mihir 1:13 · 2024-01-03T15:55:29.351Z

  Enjoyed it. 2D has a nice surface! cleverly misleading, had this not been a cryptic crossword.

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