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Campfire Crossword
Props to msh210 for finishing off the clues before I could - go upvote his answer.
A full explanation of the clues:
Now, to find Gladys, notice that
If we then
Therefore, Gladys is in
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A cubeful of three-dimensional devilry
Filled grid:
Brief explanations:
Across
13. While offense may be overlooked, repeat offenders will be banned (7)
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Sneaks and Addlers
Gladys is visiting:
First, the crossword:
Across
8a. Papers displaced in unexpected event, leading to stress (6)
8b. Sort of oven from part of South Asia (8)
8c. Italy's Senate loses its decision ...
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Cryptic crossword (printer's devilry edition)
Grid:
Theme:
Explanations:
ACROSS
DOWN
Credit where due: my explanations for 8a, 18a, and 12d needed some adjustment; thanks to the OP for setting me straight.
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In Remembrance of Dark Times
You are in
visiting
PD solutions:
Completed grid (the process of completion is not so difficult, given the answers, as to need documenting step by step):
And then
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Cryptic Division 5: Devil Magic
First, the clues:
As you can see, the clues hint at the words to use in the division like so:
Now onto the division itself:
Some other deductions:
Let's continue:
From here we can almost see ...
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Fanatically following f...?
The completed grid, with printer's devilry answers highlighted in blue:
Clue explanations:
The missing word in the title is:
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Almost interplanetary travel
Gladys is in
where she visited
Grid:
Across:
Down:
I didn't understand the wordplay for 35a because
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Double feature: Russian desman
Partial answer
The Russian desman
After much staring and thinking and dictionary-trawling I remain confused by 8d, which I can't make any sense of either as a p.d. or as an ordinary clue. [EDITED to ...
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What is translated?
Grid:
The printer's devilry theme is:
1 Grandson to Isaac Newton, son to filmmaker Barry (8)
5 Selling a product of ale? Sue for a higher price (6)
9 Sport follower entertained by an awfully tired ...
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Double feature: Going postal
The postman can bring
Grids:
Explanations of crossword clues:
Credit where due: I had to abandon this with four of the clues (1a, 8a, 14a, 6d) still unsolved and while I was away Deusovi kindly ...
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Cryptic Division 10: Printer's Player for a Football Club in Tasmania
OK I think I've got it now.
And so the alphametic becomes this:
which can be solved like this:
For a full explanation of how to solve the alphametic, see ACB's answer below.
Putting the letters in ...
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Cryptic Division 10: Printer's Player for a Football Club in Tasmania
Solve path for the alphametic
First let's build some inequalities.
Consider
Or in other words,
So far we have,
Now look at
Or simply,
This directly implies that L<E. Other than that, can you ...
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A cubeful of three-dimensional devilry
Here are some clearer explanations for some of the clues:
CAUTION: This post may contain spoilers or Wikipedia links.
(not sure yet)
Oilstone regularly contains finest variant of element (7)
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