Menace #27 (199) (Cryptic)

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• ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-06T05:11:30.679Z

  1A - "Wards" scrambled ("off") | 4A - Double def | 6A - Reduction/deletion of repeated letters ("dried up") | 7A - &lit involving slight anagram ("mildly spicy") | 8A - Palindrome ("looking both ways") | 9A - E'ER ("Poet's always") at end of ("following") MUSK ("Elon") + ET ("and French") | 11A - OOL ("Topless fool") reversed ("backed up") | 12A - American Eng. homophone for AUD ("Strange") + IT [yes I know that's a rule-breaker] | 13A - Container | 14A - Not the greatest double def | 1D - Anagram ("rankled") | 2D - &lit with container ("part") | 3D - Anagram | 4D - END ("Climax") inside P ("quiet") + ANGER (rage) | 5D - Anagram | 10D - Specific deletion (COITUS - U) and anagram ("messy")

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-06T05:11:30.679Z

    Corrected to "sloppy"

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• Pedagogue 8:04 · 2023-10-06T10:38:38.134Z

  Thanks for an entertaining cryptic. 6A I haven't seen "dried up" as a deletion indicator before; I didn't like "coup organiser" as a definition. 11A "Heathrow"? 12A For Brits it's an extreme homophone - no long vowel in "odd". Please don't take these comments as criticism; it was a very entertaining cryptic.

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-06T14:29:03.383Z

    I swear I've seen it as a "reduction" or reverse letter bank indicator elsewhere but I may have imagined that. With regards to the definition itself - while I agree that there are more standard definitions, the choice was deliberate, given the style I've been developing over the past 3 years.

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• maturin 🤓3:39 · 2023-10-09T17:18:29.891Z

  10D is probably the best cryptic clue I've ever read

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-09T21:42:28.930Z

    Thanks

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• RoyJohnson490 9:04 · 2023-10-10T21:51:31.027Z

  Good cryptic. Liked this one a lot. :)

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-11T00:26:47.796Z

    Thank you!

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• Zack Johnson 🤓4:21 · 2023-10-12T19:11:34.723Z

  Nice one! Loved the toilet clue.

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-13T01:56:12.633Z

    It was a fun one to craft!

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• Aaron 🤓7:36 · 2023-10-12T22:51:14.626Z

  Fun! Thanks

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-13T01:56:18.061Z

    Thank you!

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• nate 13:40 · 2023-10-13T02:29:15.556Z

  I appreciate the definition for 6A :)

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-13T09:52:41.838Z

    ^^

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• ellequin 🤓10:29 · 2023-10-13T05:15:12.853Z

  Thanks!

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-13T09:52:54.923Z

    No, thank you for solving!

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• merlinnimue 🤓2:58 · 2023-10-16T21:38:30.331Z

  amazing... just so amazing... ive wanted desperately to be at the level of you geniuses, but perhaps i should learn to accept the lowly place where i am and just appreciate the beauty you all bring to the world, so thank you for that

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  • ariel haymarket publisher · 2023-10-16T23:19:25.638Z

    I know it's the shtick but yo

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