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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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An Italian-styled crossword puzzle
Final solution:
Thanks to @Deusovi for help with 9 across and 36 across.
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Cryptic-ish crossword - contains some neologisms, all of them to be found in the OED
1. Crypto-Olaf (10, 7) - looks interesting, but the answer was a bit of a disappointment!
2. The angels amid sightless ghoti; half a nokia appears unexpectedly (5, 3)
3. Amphibian surmounts phys …
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Movie heroines!
Two Russian girls under training (8)
Leading a newt named Albert (4)
Having head-lice, only one tonne (4)
Match:
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Cryptic Crossword #1: The Inauguration
Let's make a start!
1A. Not-all-there sibling touches bit of leg in lewd locale (7)
14A. To jog backwards is a crime (4)
27A. Canoe flipped at sea (5)
1D. Beginning of broad assault potentia …
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The smallest crossword
Here's a 3x3 crossword puzzle using only the first 5 letters of the alphabet:
Across
1. The most or least valuable type of playing card.
2. The front section of a lorry.
3. The tide is going out.
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Cryptic Crossword #3: Words on Wheels
Partial answer
Destroy with blend of root and condensed performance-enhancing drugs (7)
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Take Two! (an Around-the-Bend)
Completed crossword (except for a couple of stray letters):
Words are:
I peeked at Michael Moschella's answer for the clues #18 and #19.
Some notes:
Further progress:
The coloured letters …
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerab...
Partial answer to the last two outstanding clues. (Well, the first one is more like a guess.) Really the main purpose of this answer is to bump this excellent question back onto the P.SE front page. I …
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Movies, movies, movies!
12 down and 22 across
Mechanised fruit is on time (1,9;6)
Solution:
1 down
A frog is confused by long-distance travel (5)
Solution:
7 down
Rick’s White House (10)
Solution:
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Cryptic Crossword #2: Stack-in-the-Box
Making a start, again...
11A. Evil woman is hiding to the west (3)
12A. Remove scoundrel's head from lasso; smash it to bits, too (4)
14A. Massage my foot until it's red (4)
11D. Bird that s …
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Accepted
Find the word and became sea's lord
Solution:
A city in Alaska
A film where Chaplin's daughter performs
A meteorical medical condition
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Real Fuel 2: Refueled
The solution methodology isn't fully clear from the bare question, but after hint 1 and some comments from OP, it's going to go like this:
Originally I found
Now,
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A crossword with a single clue
First of all, I see the word "16 16 9 17 9" near the top right. Words starting with double letters are rare, and the only English word which fits this is LLAMA. That gives us:
9 = A
16 = L
17 = M
Th …
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Six-words (------||||||)
2. There are plants (with ain)
4. It is a smelly, meaty extrude of a puzzle:
5. My excrement flowing out of me.
1. This puzzle is degrading.
3. And the clues are quite obtuse.
6. I take pleas …
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