Thanks for showing interest. This crossword is an early attempt of mine at a regular cryptic crossword [so please don't hang me for any gaffes]. While some of the words share a similar theme, there's no special instructions; other than good luck, and have fun!
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BJ constructor · 2021-09-27T04:34:46.467Z
Thanks for trying out my puzzle!
If there were any clues you liked/hated, feel free to let me know—it's the best way I can improve in future
Thanks for sharing it BJ! I'm new at cryptics so I only managed to get a couple of these, but it's always fun to try!
BJ constructor · 2021-09-27T21:26:37.214Z
Thanks for the kind words Mike!
One thing I tried to do was have a few wordplay indicators 'hidden' in compound words, such as "upset [to get tes]" or "bless [to remove a b]"—which would be pretty cruel for a new solver.
Thanks for the kind words Mike!
One thing I tried to do was have a few wordplay indicators 'hidden' in compound words, such as "upset [to get tes]" or "bless [to remove a b]"—which would be pretty cruel for a new solver.
13A - seems like either the def doesn’t work, or “object” is doing double duty
23A - part of speech mismatch (though i suppose for an &lit we can be a little lenient)
9D, 16A, 18D - can’t sort out your intended parsing
Thanks for responding. Here were my intents: Definition of 13A is just 'Organic' (related to organs). If you still think that's still suspect then it's probably a dud.
9D A'then'a (aa) picked up (surrounding, maybe dodgy?) some (hence somewhat) of the odd letters of upSeT cHeMist
afaict “viscus” is a noun only, so that’s probably a loss and i’m not used to seeing odd/even applied to a subset of a string, though that may be down to regional conventions
You're sadly correct wrt viscus. I'm not yet prepared to give up on the D->V wordplay; so have replaced it w/ a (too hard?) clue, going from reductions->discounts->discus->viscus. I don't love "left not" as the deletion indicator, so I might still tinker with it.
18D = change 'B' (born) in cenobite to 'J' (to top Judge), and anagram it (suffered); meaning banishment.
16A is probably doing too much, but Not one French waiter -> water -> eau, anagrammed with SOL(sun)shine removing (absent) 'in', and meaning "drinking holes".
Thank you very much for pointing that out! I've changed the clue to be "Old places of sin use haloes badly? (9)". It's still a somewhat cryptic definition, but just a straight anagram of use haloes; and the link to 17A might get people over the line if they get stuck.