Cryptic Setka - Complete grid using clues and sudoku-style logic

Question

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How to play Setka, the short version:

Answer each clue using only Puzzle Letters and vowels.

Clue answers, minus vowels and duplicate letters, go in the corresponding boxes in the grid. Only Puzzle Letters go in the grid!

Puzzle Letters can be entered forward/backward/up/down/L-shape, but not jumbled. They also cannot repeat in a row or column.

This puzzle has the same Setka rules you know and love, with one exception: the clue answers do not relate to something cryptic or the concept of cryptic. Instead, each clue is a word puzzle in and of itself.

Answer 1

My solution is

1 COCKSURE – rooster's name + certain
2 POKER – fire iron and card game
3 YURT – y(og)urt without zero gravity, a round house
4 POSE ?? – unsure why
5 STYE – sty + e(ast)
6 SCRIPT – (thanks to @JMP) for a play, and handwriting
7 TACO – anagram of coat
8 – unsolved must make PT or TP
9 CAKE – (thanks to @JMP) form of yellow coke (unsure about Muse connection)
10 PAY – also anagram of yap
11 CRACK – sound of whip, decipher
12 YETI – (thanks to @JMP) has big feet
13 RACK – (thanks to @JMP) where clothes are hung, implement of torture
14 SAPPY – play on words
15 SEEKER – see + Ker(r)
16 PUTTY – (thanks to @JMP) putt + whY
17 EYE – sounds like aye, birds-eye view from high
18 KICK – (thanks to @JMP) aim for goal, do something for kicks

Fitting them into the grid:
3 is YRT or TRY so the R of 1 CKSR must go on row 2
2 is PKR or RKP but again, the R of 3 YRT means it must be RKP
10 is PY or YP but that means that 3 must be YRT
7 is TC or CT but 3 YRT means it must be TC
15 is SKR or RKS but the R of 11 CRK means it must be SKR
14 is SPY or YPS but the S of 15 SKR means it must be YPS
11 is CRK or KRC but the K of 1 CKSR means it must be KRC

which gave (before the additions from @JMP)



The rest of the cells could be completed from Sudoku logic.