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Sam's Sunday Cryptic XLVII

◆ · By sammisamsam · Published 2023-12-17T05:07:40.492Z

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  • Hector 🤓42:15 · 2023-12-17T14:54:11.318Z
    Awesome, thank you!
    • sammisamsam constructor · 2023-12-17T22:01:40.373Z
      Thanks!
    • Oliver Hardy 30:09 · 2023-12-17T17:19:14.986Z
      I really enjoyed your puzzle, but as an elderly Brit I didn't get many of the allusions.
      • sammisamsam constructor · 2023-12-17T22:01:48.949Z
        Thank you for playing!
      • merlinnimue 🤓12:19 · 2023-12-18T02:56:41.951Z
        Nice as always... I didn't get the parse for 33d... 22a was... eye-opening lol
        • JR 🤓27:46 · 2023-12-19T19:58:55.642Z
          The "cartoonish capitalist" in question is the Onceler from "The Lorax." So if you remove the first letters of "loving ecological relationship," you get ONCE.
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        1D
        Spit knucklehead into the gutters (6)
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        Across
        1. 3A
          Young protagonist to hunt a bird! (5, 5)
        2. 8A
          At first, Korea's uninhabited demilitarized zone usurped by a vine (5)
        3. 10A
          Louis Li isn't transforming into a magician (11)
        4. 11A
          Gut pronounced trash (5)
        5. 12A
          Garden alignment obscures a National Park (6)
        6. 13A
          Drop "Crazy" singer (6)
        7. 16A
          Trade-offs of sulfur in beds (5)
        8. 19A
          Move starts out of bounds (5)
        9. 21A
          Charge for a year (5)
        10. 22A
          Hot to delay climax with cage (5)
        11. 23A
          James Bond is a very polite man! (5)
        12. 25A
          Call a dog for a drink of yogurt (5)
        13. 28A
          Don't pay attention to disorganized region (6)
        14. 31A
          This contains non-governmental objects (6)
        15. 33A
          Disgust takes seconds off element (5)
        16. 34A
          Fellow hides disheveled cutie from abuse (11)
        17. 35A
          Opening chapter abandoned (5)
        18. 36A
          It gets the scoop on wacky law offence? (6, 4)
        Down
        1. 1D
          Spit knucklehead into the gutters (6)
        2. 2D
          Edward perishes in maelstroms (6)
        3. 3D
          Costume of diamonds, perhaps (4)
        4. 4D
          Jump inside follies (5)
        5. 5D
          Before Ian sat back with a guy like the devil (9)
        6. 6D
          Iconic city lost for river's acid (6)
        7. 7D
          Get hives after starting to consume onions (6)
        8. 9D
          Springs from trunks (5)
        9. 12D
          Reverse transcriptase makes it and reverse transcriptase reads it! (3)
        10. 14D
          One part of an ear inverted by disease (5)
        11. 15D
          Scam countered after I get computers (5)
        12. 17D
          From Croce and Frank (5)
        13. 18D
          Apex predator ate six badgers, yet skirted the middle (5)
        14. 20D
          Wizard takes variable unit with diameter and uses it to partially define a vector (9)
        15. 24D
          It's swapped around! (3)
        16. 25D
          Wind back winds (5)
        17. 26D
          Letter to NATO range (6)
        18. 27D
          Reflective pronoun brought about in rifle stipulation (6)
        19. 29D
          Proposed to put empty orchid around wood (6)
        20. 30D
          Mean email? Try alternate hostility! (6)
        21. 32D
          General Electric is one company and it's represented by a caveman (5)
        22. 33D
          Some time ago, a cartoonish capitalist removed first loving ecological relationships (4)
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