2025 Themeless Fives #1

Answers & parses:

- 1A ||&lit (sopes are a traditional Mexican dish). wordplay: anagram of ("what you can exchange for") SOPES||
- 4A || def: "covered in filth". wordplay: DING ("nick") + Y ("lacheY's ass")||
- 5A ||def: "Head of Hollywood" (if you don't know Edith Head... look her up!). wordplay: EDIT ("to rewrite") + H ("ending of macbetH")||
- 7A ||def: "0" (as in sports lingo). wordplay: GAMBLE gets anagrammed ("recklessly"), but first delete the M ("dropping $1,000,000")||
- 8A ||a cheeky double def: "hair part?" (as in part of your hair) is one def, and the other is "!!" (an exclamation point is also sometimes called a "bang")||
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- 1D ||def: "chaplain". wordplay: hidden in (i.e the "center" of) iPAD REpair||
- 2D ||def: "clicking". wordplay: SIN ("wrong") + KIN ("family") + GIN ("liquor")||
- 3D ||def: "sharp". wordplay: NEEDLES ("ribs") removed from (NEEDLES)SLY||
- 6D ||def: "benefits". wordplay: HS containing ("put on by") EL-P ("Run the Jewels rapper")||
- 7D ||def: "pal". wordplay: when there's an emptiness inside BOB, it makes B_B. Then U ("you") fills it. 😋 ||

Glad you enjoyed! I've been sitting on that one for awhile :)

"You Fill An Emptiness Inside Me" (Cryptic Mini #000000107)

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