Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Puzzle No. 52: Grouch

Grouch

By teamcrazymatt
(Originally published as MyCrossword #386.)
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Squares filled: 0/157
Exolve Print Notes Jotter

Across
9Log essence of stay in harbour (9)
10Mathematician often refuelled car when about to leave (5)
11Got to split after the start (7)
12Forgetting a line, losing focus, uselessly rewrote novel (7)
13Prince leaves exclusive university before end of month (4,5)
14Furious charge, chasing leaders of rebel army (5)
15Tug really turns back before king (4)
16Friends rolling back front end of shirt cuffs (5)
18Small butt? Small butt (4)
22Strangely was to contain hollow Cornish vowel (5)
23Comic represented by Chock Full o' Nuts is extremely raunchier (5,4)
24Hot application that is beginning to receive more content (7)
25Deviant's forbidden to invent writing (7)
26Clown left, dropping a boot again (5)
27Introduce maiden lost during emigration at sea (9)

Down
1Northbound alert for run-in; noticeably swerve to miss (4,4)
2This latest plain disturbance that's behind us (3,3,2,3,4)
3Anthropomorph is mostly sampling ancient religion (7)
4Dump stuff underground (8)
5Ample sustenance at last, not at all disgusting (6)
6State manic wonkery (3,4)
7Almost complete, except organic salad (5,3,2,5)
8Times before education is obliterated (6)
17Once in a while, cops look up beneath a moon (8)
19Danish places are bikers' fancy right away (8)
20Encountered books' hidden message reading upside-down (3,4)
21Orchid genus planted during fair to sit elevated (7)
22Has picked up advanced arithmetic by a desert (6)
23Odd to discount upper-class antiques (6)

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