Illogical #007: It's Just Another Number

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• merlinnimue 🤓34:36 · più di un anno fa

  If I comprehend properly, a Feliz cumpleanos is in order? Well anyway, wishing all he bes o you and your fuure endeavors. (And sorry for being a bother again, I really should leave all in peace.)

  Funnily enough, 27a was among my LAPSES in parsing.

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  • Aaron Riccio costruttore · più di un anno fa

    Thanks for solving! 27a was an error from when the grid originally clued TABLES. The corrected clue "Loses one's faith in back of sinful church areas" should push through shortly. (This is what I get for testing the puzzle via an Ingrid .ipuz instead of doing it from the ground-up here.)

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• kieranjboyd 11:36 · più di un anno fa

  Congratulations! I solved this inermienly and thus missed the "(2 wds.)" in the 1A clue, and entered your new decade instead. Love me some variety cryptics, will check out your other work!

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  • Aaron Riccio costruttore · più di un anno fa

    Yeah, a test-solver kindly pointed out to me that the way I'd had it originally was a common misspelling (it's fine, not as if I built an entire grid around that, haha) but thankfully the literal direction was still an option. :) Hope you enjoy the other puzzles, and I'm going to work to get my first variety grid (Small Creatures) reposted soon.

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• quatrevingtneuf 24:14 · più di un anno fa

  a delightful puzzle! and hopefully you're not too upset about this "celebration"

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  • Aaron Riccio costruttore · più di un anno fa

    I really appreciate the solve, and no, not really upset, especially not after having been able to turn it into puzzle fodder :)

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• Pedagogue 32:56 · più di un anno fa

  Not really my type of puzzle! Being British I failed to see many of the allusions to US culture and I abhor acronyms in cryptic crossword puzzles. 28D I don't accept "is boring" as a container indicator; "is boring into", perhaps. Please explain what type of word is UH OH? The autofill suggestions in the Constructor are often ludicrous! Nevertheless, thank you for posting.

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  • Aaron Riccio costruttore · più di un anno fa

    Yeah, I'm a US constructor so admittedly, I went with what I knew. (I often run into the same problem the opposite way when trying to solve a Times or Independent.) I hear you on acronyms, which I tried to keep to a minimum (and indicated as such in the cluing); it was a bit of a constrained grid. As for "boring," point taken, although I think it's not an outrageous stretch.

    "Uh-oh" is an extremely common interjection (over here at least), as in "I'm concerned!" or "Gulp!" I didn't realize that was US-specific, but looking in Chambers, I guess maybe it is?

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• Tuffy 🤓30:10 · più di un anno fa

  Very difficult one but glad to have solved it! Loved a lot of the clues and the theme itself made it trickier but in a fun way! Also congratulations on the milestone!

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  • Aaron Riccio costruttore · più di un anno fa

    Thanks so much for the kind words to this old man, haha. Looking forward to checking out some of your grids. Cheers!

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• ditfos 1:10:24 · più di un anno fa

  Not being a cryptic solver I stuck with this as long as I could, and in the end needed help to identify a couple of unchecked squares I didn't have (e.g. CUBISM not CUBIST, OUTER not OUTED). A really nice puzzle, tricky for me, and I'm glad I stuck with it as the reveal and how it worked in the puzzle was very satisfying

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  • Aaron Riccio costruttore · più di un anno fa

    I appreciate you toughing it out—cryptics, even those from people far more experienced than I am—can be really tricky, but I always find them to be worth the effort, and it sounds like you liked the twist here as well. If you have any specific questions about the intent behind any wordplay, I'm happy to answer! (And for what it's worth, looking things up or revealing answers is totally fine!)

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• juff 🤓18:15 · più di un anno fa

  Great stuff as always Aaron. I enjoy solving your puzzles almost as much as I enjoy watching you stream them, typically on Tuesday evenings at twitch.tv/thatcrypticguy
  Happy Birthday and enjoy your forties. Decades get weird when you have kids...

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