2025 Mini V

Parses:

- 1A ||def: "Wendy's offering". wordplay: anagram ("to demolish") of BOCA RATON||
- 6A ||def: "Game with lots of dying" 😉. wordplay: PAIN ("suffering") + T ("a bit of Tap") + BALL ("dance")||
- 7A ||def: "beyond the solar system". wordplay: SPEED reversed + PACE ("paces back and forth?" — one kind of "pace" is in reverse, the next is forward)||

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- 1D ||def: "Upstanding figure". wordplay: BIASED, but the AS becomes P ("but the heart is soft")||
- 2D ||def: "section of a bookstore". wordplay: C ("start to Cry") + RIME ("frost")||
- 3D ||def: "staff members" 😉. wordplay: SET ON in reverse ("rising up")||
- 4D ||def: "Princess". wordplay: homophone of "TEA ON A" (they've been "broadcast")||
- 5D ||def: "Poet". wordplay: reverse letter bank ("letters from") of EERIE KILLER||

Loved this one right off the bat with 1A 😂

Thanks! Though I hope I didn't inspire Milton... 😬

"Upstanding Figure is Biased" (Cryptic Mini #000000105)

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