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A question including or relating to crossword puzzles. Use [cryptic-crosswords] for British-style cryptic crosswords; [crossword-clues] or [cryptic-clues] for clues as distinct from whole crosswords.
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Stacking word bouncer
Grid:
blue:
Am I (3<) a singer in a temple (3,5v) or in a a sun-starved (5^) metric conflict area (3,5>)?
red:
A disfiguring motherly animal(2,3,4v) with a not discrete behind (4,6<) has a flirty dr …
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Crossword Clue for ERECS
No.
Neither EREC nor ERECS is in any dictionary I can find. In particular, neither is in the Oxford English Dictionary which is pretty thorough for archaic words.
The appearance found by crosswordtr …
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Spring edition? (5) - cryptic crossword clue explanation
It's a double definition. For the first half, consider "spring from" and "issue from". For the second, consider an issue of a magazine. (The first half is the bit you didn't already have.)
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A simple crossword
I was a few minutes slower filling in the main grid than Beastly Gerbil, perhaps because I was also filling in this:
(lowercase letters are obviously-called-for interpolations) which, on translatio …
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A Probably Pretty Badly Made Cryptic
Many of these clues don't really work, so far as I can see, and at least one clue (23a) is missing outright. But this might be the solution, and if not then probably most of the words are right :-).
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A Numbers Crossword
I believe this is the intended solution. Explanation to follow shortly.
OK, so here's one way to get there.
Now
Next
What's left?
Now, if
The clue for 5a might be, say,
But there' …
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Crossnumber puzzle
First of all,
At this point the grid looks, if I haven't miscalculated, like this:
Now
Credit where due: Deusovi started on this before I did and worked faster than I did, and had he not run …
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I made a crossword for you guys
Partial answer
After getting (reasonably confidently, but perhaps you had something else in mind for 13a) this far
I find myself stuck:
Of course it could be that I've made bad choices elsewher …
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Massively multilingual Euro crossword
Grid:
Answers and languages:
Across
Down
Note on answers above:
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Crossword by name, crossword by nature
OK. First of all, let's solve the clues, or at least as many as I can do quickly.
We're missing a few, but maybe it'll be OK. Most notably, we don't yet have anything that would fit the long across s …
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A Minesweeper Crossword
(I did this without looking at the CW. I claim no credit for imposing arbitrary restrictions on myself, but it means any mistakes are my own :-).)
The final grid is as follows:
which obeys the fol …
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