Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Puzzle No. 24: World of Cardboard

World of Cardboard

By teamcrazymatt
Three of the four corners of this grid represent three of four corners with a similar property. 12D explains why you cannot reach the fourth corner or 51A 43D as you do so, but a 7D-25D 8A should keep you from further trouble.
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Squares filled: 0/169
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Across
2Average schmuck at last in grand love in a car (7)
8See 43d
11Corrupt person striking all but the end of Kierkegaard's answer (7)
13It signifies atmosphere outside England is argon (3)
15Singer from African country dropping first single (4)
17Trunk call ripped stitch (5)
18Beginning to apprentice jewellery-making; ready? (6)
20Towel off young member of Parliament? (5)
21Bravo! It's tremors! (7)
22Mathematician to again grease wheels, but not front of brakes (5)
23It squeezes half of body, starting to asphyxiate (3)
25Scraps out for turn in projects (4)
26Television hosts astounded before the second Hebrew character (3)
27Left out spoiled old coin? (3)
29Literary detective, before the end, returning to meddler (7)
31Removes regular pieces from federal free-trade union (3)
32Flying Kiwi has some intuition (3)
33, 3533, 35Fell over in expression of triumph, coming first in finishing fantastic race (4-3)
35See 33a
37Blunt affection in text following extreme egoism (5)
38Schoolbag locks after case is switched... (7)
40...exactly when having no bad shot at the table (2-3)
42Gentleman singer introduces revolutionary state of mind (6)
44At no time is hack switching poles (5)
46Epic conclusions to Lucas' extra-thrilling compendia (4)
48Garland's loose and inadequate at first to cover base of tree (3)
49Old Irish experts overturn mostly-shallow limits (minor) (7)
50Fair to change, removing pitch (4)
51Mass shot cell occupant, prisoner, from behind (7)

Down
1, 1001, 10Bank extra open to stand in for start of play in store (4,7)
2Climbing in Nepal before start of blizzard to make writer's point (3,3)
3Smoosh singer-songwriter's face into a club (3)
4Resident of Oz is all right getting up before alarm, crossing room (5)
5See 45d
6Judges start to gas a couple of geezers in America (6)
7, 2507, 25See instructions
8Third-rank boast (4)
9Relive mistake in Alabama - here, you'll find a bubble (3,5)
10See 1d
12See instructions
14Received drink, weaken, become a prisoner (2,2,4)
16Stoker succeeds a patriarch, at first (5)
19It comes before Oscar Simpson, judge (3)
21Coming to see removal of two caps before gingivitis is treated (8)
24Goes faster than dead shifts (8)
25See 7d
28Work on most of competitor's universal game emulator (7)
30Computer specialists test these etches, in recollection (5)
33Pinchy pants inducing sleep (6)
34Bear sounds, like 48 (3)
36Saturnalia: girl might drop piece of metal, holding up iron (6)
39Cross, frame large fighter of disease (1,4)
41Touched fabric (4)
43, 8a43, 8aNote substitute looks back on characters in Shadrach sacredly (4,4)
45, 545, 5Nothing comes up with latitude within, like some bets (3-3)
47American #1 in cinemas! (3)

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Puzzle No. 23: Into the Sewer

Into the Sewer

By teamcrazymatt
My sincerest apologies for the obscurity of 11 Across. I do not, however, apologize for the two abbreviations which come from baseball.
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Squares filled: 0/160
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Across
1With girl hiding inside, bandit shot loon (7)
5Adrift, with heads in a twist, we objectively lost Fort Rucker (6)
11Diablo demon's horror's ending; in other words, wrongdoing comes back, hits you (9)
12Grimace's abbreviated hairstyle upsetting Golden Arches - that's next to normal (5)
13Drive by flowing tide - few kelp on shore (9)
14Let out constant essence of vampy sex appeal (4)
16Average Joe left, according to Trump, "greater acceptance of union that's mostly great" (7,3)
18Fire outside of Zone 6, briefly (4)
20King's middle note, note, old note (4)
22Accent instructor has heart replaced by merciful doctor (10)
25Jupiter Jones' first offence ends in perv charge (4)
26Rubbing out involves pipe shrinkage (9)
29Montana city's borders are somewhere west of Russia? (5)
30Game about cheating around the lover, ultimately in ecstasy! (9)
31Parade by England's Club General (6)
32Threw out some extra she delivered (7)

Down
2Hint connecting beginning to middle (7)
3Criminal stealing junk (8)
4Passage is located between major road and borders of Louisville (5)
6Butler left field with rose, pursuing heart of handmaidens (6)
7Floor I oiled around start of Sunday worship (7)
8Smooth edges of sword cut by a knight (4)
9Liberate mad scientist clutches; start to discharge man of duty (9)
10Gossip about Don's sister is fleeting, not kosher (8)
15Amazon woman excited nerd, showing Hamilton (9)
17Bring back ruined pants nowadays (8)
19Master engineer hides most excellent current devices (8)
21Stain (start to scratch) book checked out, returning image of waste disposal system? (7)
23Defrock the French one - church is concealed within (7)
24One who borrows not as many drugs (6)
27It isn't odd weather? Inside, spin tire (5)
28Soviet Union essentially crumpling beneath noisy seas (4)

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Puzzle No. 22: Minesweeper

Minesweeper

By teamcrazymatt & nardelli
Nine mines can be found within this grid, all of which should be labeled with an exclamation point (!). When the grid is complete, reading the mines from top to bottom, reading each mine as the top letter of its column, will spell out an appropriate phrase.
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Squares filled: 0/144
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What is the message spelled out by the mines? (5,4)

Across
4Fat cat moseying around, accepting being apathetic, primarily losing interest (9)
10That woman's quiet, especially at first (3)
11I heard you are replacing church leaders: in reflection, capital (4)
13Moneymaker welcomes in Ted Cruz every so often to produce old diamond shape (4,3)
14Eight compounds constructed by building in a time after victory (7,1)
15Commotion at house after leading (5)
16Bumps ball in unusual scene (11)
18Athena to a Roman villa's walls after 1:45 (7)
19City-state-country: a bit over halfway to right answer (6)
21Fragrant shrub in a mess, tangled amid fringes of jungle (9)
23Write a line of punishment (5)
24Date of Future initially shows Usher to point of departure (3,3)
27Sweet detective has misinterpreted clue (6)
29Loud donkeys' cries at Scottish hillsides (5)
30This monkey is Indian; however, in the end, this man is American (6)
33Excited a manliest of male reproductive organs (9)
36Put out tax, serve return occasionally (4)
37Synthetic plastic cream spilled over cook's rear (8)
39Story's headline about boxer coming out of the closet? (5)
40People of Brazil are mostly found beside gold area (5)
43No male I name ever only telling me the odds for The Running Man (7)
44Medium, small... large missing from... look! (4)
45Noisy young people pick men? (6)
46Weakened grips, and Parisian becomes faint (12)

Down
1Person, never slipshod, essentially says they'll go (5)
2Tweeted from perch I'd constructed (7)
3Green wife of little green man (3)
4Flightless bird is regularly immoral (3)
5Fools united in irregular stances (8)
6"Dost thou perceive? Solicit the old, as we say today!" -Spooner (3,3)
7Bill American hospital department for first of September maples (5)
8To start, Great-Uncle Virginia swallows a tropical fruit (5)
9Company that's living inside functions with touch of soft eroticism (10)
11Distinguished in spaces, in time (7)
12Famous plaintiff has eggs (3)
17In slam, rocking about, Queen rocks? (8)
20Ancient god is a character (3)
21Jerkiest movement of ocean rider (3,5)
22Backward nation plays host to leading range of clusters of producers of spores (5)
23Stripping way beneath average social climber (7)
25Notes extremes of native hunger (6)
26Characteristic of iron personality: having no heart of granite (7)
28Novice is, at first, too like Picasso (6)
31Big Bird regathered pieces of her honor (5)
32Checked out departure east, then steal chopper going north (8)
34Drink, writing "'Tis but a scratch!" (4)
35Lead empty lives in the Spanish silence (5)
38Honest man found in tabernacle (3)
41Perhaps Crimson Tide's second-half comeback follows radical opening (3)
42Morning in Earth Science's beginning with some organic compounds (6)

Puzzle No. 99: Nature-Led