Saturday, December 18, 2021

Puzzle No. 38: Undercover

Undercover

By teamcrazymatt
Normally, when one opens a book, one ought to start at the beginning and end at the end. This time, the solver should start reading at the end of the end and move as quickly as possible to the beginning of the beginning, revealing a relevant message. Open up!
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Squares filled: 0/100
Exolve Print Notes Jotter

Across
1Fool showing madness at heart chasing empty, cool love (5)
5Spirit of German army (5)
9He converted to French from now on (10)
10Mad, Ariel goes outside house to vent (3,4)
12Dickinson's before this place without a cap (3)
13Broadcast sin of the Father that's nearly true, turning up inside (6)
14Can weapon start to slice layers off 19? (4)
15See 26
16Conduct training after quiet bit of initiation (4)
17Some trees mostly smell bad (4)
20Adjourn to recommend initially changing parties (5)
23Direct line to find corrective power standard (4)
24Warm thanks following make-out (6)
26, 1526, 15A lot of heat coming from Speedo (nethermost region) (3,5)
28Long to have major problem with peepers (7)
30Captain of business inside, mostly renovating slapdash local (6-4)
31Remove some lacking heart - time to go first! (5)
32Declined wheat, and we did on occasion (5)

Down
2Catch film showing out-of-this-world royalty (4)
3Where Ham might be found in Genesis: in Nod, among shambles of yore (2,3)
426 cycling to see sci-fi hero (3)
5Note signal that's beginning to uplift for all to see (1,4)
6Tool that's outside stop by end of lane (3)
7Operator stands by back of large stone (3)
8Pull apart thong to expose clear skin (5)
10Fitting, given small place to live (3)
11Mount duct bearing top of roof (5)
14Strangeness atop mountain, say (5)
18Onset of lumbago for anyone worked up on the moon (5)
19Chapter 4: "Remove skin from red onion" (5)
21It cools for extremely long time (5)
22Portion of very edible cereal (3)
25Wheel about after starting extremely tense (4)
27A letter for when you might be getting there (3)
28Detective comes down on leader of strange Greek characters (3)
29Changed another modern novel (3)

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