Twenty-six cryptic clues -- each one a letter.
Plug the letters into the cipher to get a final cryptic and a quiz question. Answer the question, and you've cracked the puzzle!
Clues:
- Give money to get a clock back (5)
- A stretch of frenzy got everyone a big cell (6)
- Unseen as night, some turn crazy (6)
- A bouncer for an important event? (4)
- Merely water -- cold hard law (7)
- Not even I thanked you initially for curiosity (6)
- A phone application was mobile and endorsed (8)
- Sounds austere, is mistaken (9)
- A timeless rhymer! (3)
- Dog with a little time to get home (6)
- Being right is really about it (6)
- God of Romance is used to chaos? (4)
- The very bottom of a swirling drain (5)
- Chicken to scream a cry of pain (6)
- Kowtowing a bit leads to success (3)
- Pounding, stormy night surrounds it (7)
- A virus locker is oddly lucky (6)
- See, then briefly smell an outdoor room (6)
- Rattle the case for bolts (6)
- Phony lunar madness around the start of eclipse (6)
- Something is about nothing without me helping (8)
- A bent knee is always willing (4)
- Scattered clues about the protagonist are quite lewd (9)
- A woman either way (5)
- An ideal doughnut sounds like bull (5)
- Well-known noble to return no cross (5)
Cryptic cryptic:
4-8-8-25-16-6-11-8-13-'-21 17-3-17-25-16 17-6-23-23-6-15-8-12 25-16-8 10-6-24-9-6-21-3-25-3-6-13 6-17 25-16-8 17-3-1-21-25 17-6-20-1. 17-1-6-24 25-3-13-13-3-25-20-21 10-7-24-8 23-20-12-15-3-18-'-21 23-7-21-25. (5)
19-20-3-2: 5-20-21-25 7-12-12 25-16-3-21 7-13-21-15-8-1 25-6 7-13-21-15-8-1 26 25-6 18-8-25 25-16-8 9-23-7-10-8. 6-17 15-16-7-25 21-6-13-18 12-6 3 21-9-8-7-22?