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Crosshare Crosaire No1

◆ · By Lucy Deacon · Published 2024-04-19T11:00:22.500Z

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This is a cryptic crossword, in the style of the Crosaire in The Irish Times newspaper.
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  • Jake A 🤓17:30 · 2024-04-19T13:49:51.879Z
    My goodness. What an awesome puzzle! Really enjoyed the clueing and overall tone of it. Thanks so much!
    • JWords 14:49 · 2024-04-19T14:30:50.195Z
      Great puzzle, thanks. All very fun and fair! I particularly liked 14A. My one mistake was having GRIME for 10A — oops!
      • christian 🤓15:39 · 2024-04-19T21:57:24.321Z
        really great stuff here, especially loved 3D!
        • nate 🤓22:48 · 2024-04-19T21:38:42.240Z
          Great puzzle, this was a joy to solve, thanks!
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          1A
          The most brilliant, just the greatest around (9)
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          Across
          1. 1A
            The most brilliant, just the greatest around (9)
          2. 6A
            Maps back to unsolicited messages (4)
          3. 10A
            Float general election around the top (5)
          4. 11A
            Delivers half of the hundred debts and gets rich (9)
          5. 12A
            Sounds like you're in it to relieve yourself (7)
          6. 13A
            Yen and sake seem strange to Americans (7)
          7. 14A
            Um, slow laugh or grim grim grin? (7,6)
          8. 17A
            Appear conspicuous at this location — it's a distraction! (4,4,5)
          9. 21A
            Culinary chef understands: I said I'm not eating starters (7)
          10. 22A
            Fancy a gentle doctor (7)
          11. 24A
            Around the clock, at long last (5,4)
          12. 25A
            One pretty severe pain (5)
          13. 26A
            Backtalk small mule (4)
          14. 27A
            Heartless gardeners surround that place — they're collecting berries (9)
          Down
          1. 1D
            Be rugged, revolt and resent (8)
          2. 2D
            Sit back between two introductions (2,2,1)
          3. 3D
            I'm a lost hostage, wicked blood doctors (14)
          4. 4D
            Some pretend lessons are never over (7)
          5. 5D
            Loud toy broke? That's what you get for not listening (4,3)
          6. 7D
            Support ex-military, regret to attest (5,4)
          7. 8D
            It makes us imagine some backwards, wrong treatment (6)
          8. 9D
            The cherry on top confounds the oceanic king (5,2,3,4)
          9. 15D
            Drives doughnuts around large border, suckers! (9)
          10. 16D
            Phobias about the plumage (8)
          11. 18D
            Some winning nine points back — Ruy Lopez, for example (7)
          12. 19D
            Respite after the previous day's big climb! (7)
          13. 20D
            Oh crustacean, deprived without such art in those seas (6)
          14. 23D
            Please work after the morning (5)
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