Brand-New Fencing Comedy

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• e a 🤓2:16 · 2024-08-25T21:50:06.128Z

  nice one, loved 7A!

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• cassidy cypress constructor · 2024-08-25T20:28:42.195Z

  thanks for solving my first cryptic! in-depth explanations of each answer:

  1A: frantic PREMIER (governor) -> PERIMER, around ET (alien) = PERIM- + ET + -ER, which draws (writes) the word PERIMETER (boundary)

  5A: MANIACAL (crazy), obfuscated -> ALMANIAC, information-less = i-less -> ALMANAC (book)

  7A: FORCES, confounded -> FEROCS, taking on IOU (debt) = FEROC- + IOU + -S = FEROCIOUS (violent)

  8A: YEAR (a long time), before NORTHERNER, without central letters (heartless) -> NER = YEARNER (piner, one who pines/yearns)

  9A: TEST, awry -> STTE, with reverse AC (current) -> CA inside, + REDO without O (oxygen) -> RED = S- + CA + -TTE + RED = SCATTERED (disorganized)

  1D: P (piano, quiet) + LA (Los Angeles, city) + T (time) + FORMS (shapes) = PLATFORMS (train stations)

  2D: RELIGIOUS, at first -> RE, + MARTYR, confused -> MARTRY, abandons T (cross) -> MARRY = REMARRY (to find new spouse)

  3D: MINT (brand-new), surrounding (fencing) FARCE (comedy), upended -> ECRAF = MIN- + ECRAF + -T = MINECRAFT (popular video game)

  4D: READ, around (about) flipped (capsized) USS (Yank ship) -> SSU, + RE (concerning) = REA- + SSU + RE + -D = REASSURED (feeling better)

  6D: ONCE, tossed -> CONE, around OR, turned -> RO, + R (right) = C- + RO + -ONE + R = CROONER (singer)

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• ash 🤓25:49 · 2024-08-29T09:53:27.461Z

  loved this! and I appreciate the explainers as someone new to cryptics :)

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