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Cryptic: On!

◆◆ · By wisprabbit · Published 2022-12-28T12:55:02.903Z

Constructor's Note
A themed cryptic crossword. You don't have to spot the theme, but it might help.
I tried to make this easier than usual, since it's the holiday season. But I'm no good at judging difficulty, and I know there are still a few bad words. Figuring out the theme will help with one or two of the nasty ones; you have my permission to use dictionaries and wordfinders for the rest.
I set myself a challenge in 2022 to publish a puzzle every Wednesday, including a monthly cryptic crossword. This is the last one. I'm very pleased with my work and I hope you like it too.
I post crosswords and logic puzzles on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/wisprabbit
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  • DIS 🤓9:08 · 2022-12-29T20:06:27.053Z
    Terrific clues, and I love a cryptic with a theme. Bravo!
    • wisprabbit constructor · 2023-01-02T19:45:36.972Z
      thank you!
    • Hoyt Arcane 🤓12:57 · 2022-12-29T22:34:08.444Z
      Dashing!
      • wisprabbit constructor · 2023-01-02T19:45:42.315Z
        thanks!
      • frostyjhammer 24:25 · 2023-04-06T04:37:40.286Z
        Wow I got all the way thru without any idea of the theme. But there they are, eight plus one. Well done!
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        One who cavorts by wren and carp, cavorting without whiskey (7)
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        Across
        1. 1A
          One who cavorts by wren and carp, cavorting without whiskey (7)
        2. 5A
          Perhaps a cheating athlete could be more brilliant (5)
        3. 10A
          Military thrust against ape which has been sent ahead of publication (7, 4)
        4. 11A
          Among Us uses this slang word (3)
        5. 12A
          Bent cad very disheartened (5)
        6. 14A
          Made sauna complex until everybody gets sick of it (2, 7)
        7. 15A
          Text “are you Ziggler?” to the most famous (and most radiant) of nine in this grid (7)
        8. 17A
          Fatal to us, in our devastation (7)
        9. 19A
          Folded from small to medium to flattened (7)
        10. 21A
          Vogue writer is crazy about North America (7)
        11. 23A
          Trading bloc failure to swallow an American soldier, one who pays tribute to the dead (9)
        12. 25A
          Hold papers for a divine matchmaker (5)
        13. 26A
          H from Steps of throat? (3)
        14. 27A
          Losing head, refuse to have the last word, thanks to volcanic eruption debris (11)
        15. 29A
          Fox English with “5+9” (5)
        16. 30A
          British literature, Buddhist philosophy and German flash? (7)
        Down
        1. 2D
          Vicar in glow-up missing amplifier (3)
        2. 3D
          Older woman heads off Newark and North New York (5)
        3. 4D
          Flash sale yet to give up something that can be batted (7)
        4. 5D
          Sounds like you dug deep after party – is that okay? (2, 3, 4)
        5. 6D
          Small model without an entourage (5)
        6. 7D
          Continues producing files for job applications (7)
        7. 8D
          Ballet performer has a nasty disease which makes head dead (6)
        8. 9D
          One who puts on something during a terrible party? (6)
        9. 13D
          Free German (European) found in mountain spur (5)
        10. 16D
          Citrus colour is meagre without a line reforming around (4, 5)
        11. 18D
          Admit writing a clue for the New World Order? (3, 2)
        12. 19D
          Playwright to strike something from a to-do list on the radio (7)
        13. 20D
          Athlete who might destroy hope, say (6)
        14. 21D
          Relating to a union of arm and tail, both reconstructed (7)
        15. 22D
          From the mountains of South American; found in Rio Grande, anyway (6)
        16. 24D
          Rubbery fabric retuned by “unknown” (and other collaborators) (5)
        17. 25D
          Business encountered something in the Sun’s orbit (5)
        18. 28D
          Formerly known as Skinned Knees (3)
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