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
Exolve Print Notes Jotter
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)

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