Saturday, February 5, 2022

Puzzle No. 43: 25-Cent Return

25-Cent Return

By teamcrazymatt
This is a remake (same fill, different clues) of my earlier grid "That'll Be 25 Cents, Please." It seemed timely.
(Originally published as MyCrossword #323.)
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Squares filled: 0/152
Exolve Print Notes Jotter

Across
1Nationalist attending insurrection in pursuit of power (7)
5A dozen little helpers don't stop chasing limits of tomorrow (6)
10Parent of kid coming from a bar after work (4)
11Beam unsteadily, absorbed by Dick's retorts (9)
12Let's hear it out amid elms and let loose (2,4,2)
13Everyone that hurts gets permit (5)
15Be 6 in confines of time, looking back (5)
16Film's cryptically spaced-out reason? (5,1,3)
19Wanderer content cycling to mixer (9)
21Millions angry at first about posh region near China (5)
22Not the first clever Tory (5)
24Frenchman enthralled by universal religion, and mostly in the Caribbean (8)
25Country singer performing "Diamond June," but only the first half (5,4)
26Unfocused, shift eye (4)
27Score has quiet impact (6)
28Mr. Bill and Mr. Charles going west to end of spar (7)

Down
2Defender of a point embodying sport (9)
3Forward endlessly worries - little tense (7)
4Rock maestro performs music at last after dope's swallowed (9)
6Long ago, while in soggy stream... (7)
7Look around large pub (5)
8Solver follows my few leads regularly found in direction to get solution that's "yellow" (4,3,3)
9A mate is meeting prisoners (4)
14Note piercing, cutting soprano pop song (5,5)
17Arched to a bend to get some dice (9)
18Queen supports staff when under unceasing rally of pirate (9)
20Gets end of lasso over bats in building (7)
21Drained after parent stuttered (7)
23Bark at girl's right hooter (5)
24Unhappy Navy offensive (4)

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