Oh No-meration (Half-Variety Cryptic)
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Oh No-meration (Half-Variety Cryptic)

◆ · By Frisco17

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  • Dorkshove 🤓40:42 · 2023-02-27T13:51:57.303Z
    Good puzzle thank you also I ate a tasty burger halfway through
    • Adam Simon Levine 🤓39:56 · 2023-02-28T13:14:19.849Z
      This is totally bonkers, and I love it!
    • Hoyt Arcane 🤓16:44 · 2023-02-27T14:57:03.807Z
      So many good clues in this
      • Frisco17 constructor · 2023-03-01T01:34:25.500Z
        thank you!
      • carter 🤓58:25 · 2023-02-28T02:59:37.266Z
        you write such good clues. that "1000" in the 22A clue was delightfully devilish
        • Frisco17 constructor · 2023-03-01T01:31:35.929Z
          aw thanks
        • kieranjboyd 🤓10:56 · 2023-02-28T03:27:41.875Z
          Really fun, right from that excellent first clue! I could feel you jumping backwards in wordplay like in 16A to stretch that theme, but it was fun to see.
          • Frisco17 constructor · 2023-03-01T01:34:01.769Z
            just imagine there are commas and colons in there
          • danschwartz 🤓30:00 · 2023-03-04T20:51:29.179Z
            Yayyy frisco! - babka
            • JoshSolves 🤓1:10:25 · 2023-03-08T03:54:10.111Z
              Yay! Numbers!
              • juffo wup 🤓32:00 · 2023-05-21T03:23:00.400Z
                I really liked this puzzle. This kid is going places, I tell you what.
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                1A
                Pal o' alto? (10 or 5)
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                Across
                1. 1A
                  Pal o' alto? (10 or 5)
                2. 4A
                  Exhausts and tires out rat asp harassed (4, 5)
                3. 9A
                  Time for finals! Most juvenile delinquents detest finals; bad grade? Good grade? Ultimately unnecessary (4, 3)
                4. 10A
                  Speaker's mob spreading out, running amok (10, 7)
                5. 11A
                  Stick around for the stream with Jaleel White cycling, low on energy (4)
                6. 12A
                  Children's book captain's cutesy face overshadowed by grotesque suntan (10)
                7. 15A
                  Dog from California (9, 6)
                8. 16A
                  Perfect holiday: going back inside, by the sound of it (2, 4, 2, 3, 3)
                9. 19A
                  Playing "At World's End" (4, 4)
                10. 20A
                  Initially, Sonic, Tails and Rouge vamoose extremely fast, to a fault? (6)
                11. 22A
                  This is awkward… (100)? (1000), perhaps? scratching head Approximately… (10)
                12. 24A
                  "Site for judgement with…" yes, in the end, more youthful codswallop (4)
                13. 27A
                  Nana who's into all people, everyone from A to Z? (7)
                14. 28A
                  Pasta recipe with sauce covering (5, 7)
                15. 29A
                  They're at the opposite end of spring, almost near start of perfect time at middle of the month? (4, 5)
                16. 30A
                  State "Anime? Ridiculous!" (5)
                Down
                1. 1D
                  Complete Kid A (50, 5)
                2. 2D
                  Jingling on singer's face: jewelry (4, 5)
                3. 3D
                  Endless vegetable platters? Not having it. Unpleasant (4)
                4. 4D
                  (1), and, in Spanish, (1) (get it? get it?) (6)
                5. 5D
                  "Cryptic Battle! Operation: Surface" (8)
                6. 6D
                  Some novel ideas, examples being: (3, 7), (8, 2), (4, 6)
                7. 7D
                  Endlessly searching for sidekick (5)
                8. 8D
                  Working backwards, x = (2)(3)(3)
                9. 13D
                  Wait on redhead inside, briefly (7, 5)
                10. 14D
                  White bird is greyest cuckoo around now (5, 5)
                11. 15D
                  Crying overly loudly in children, primarily! (5)
                12. 17D
                  I, Joe, hold Frisco up after Christmas tree is lit symbolically? (4, 5)
                13. 18D
                  Initially posited and went through with it! (8)
                14. 21D
                  Sweet, sandwiches! Crusts of sandwiches... sandwiches... (+6)
                15. 23D
                  One Piece for One Piece, in Batman games (5)
                16. 25D
                  Sin something fierce? (5)
                17. 26D
                  Egg. Goose egg (5)-- wait… (4)
                18. 27D
                  Author coming back in one piece (3)
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