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Cryptic: On!

◆◆ · By wisprabbit · Published 3 months ago

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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 · 3 months ago
    Terrific clues, and I love a cryptic with a theme. Bravo!
    • wisprabbit constructor · 3 months ago
      thank you!
    • Hoyt Arcane 🤓12:57 · 3 months ago
      Dashing!
    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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