Monday, April 11, 2022

Puzzle No. 54: Party Favours

Party Favours

By teamcrazymatt
The American 5 Down has wormed its way into this puzzle. In the across solutions, all instances of a certain letter must be moved to that answer's beginning cell and/or all instances of a different letter to its end cell in order to fill the grid properly.
(Originally published as MyCrossword #373.)
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Squares filled: 0/159
Exolve Print Notes Jotter

Across
1Saving skin, morons escaped gang, managing balancing act? (3-3-5,4)
9Pass fellow, oddly ugly, catching bird that's horrendous (8)
10Father, before formal, nearly collects last of my papers (6)
11Succeeded by including appeal in conclusion (6)
12Disheartened, three bears manage (among others) Abyssinian dock (8)
13Omit corps deserting shelled helideck (5)
15Initially a friend stands by maiden, one constant (9)
18Fast in sandwich shop before American leaving all there (9)
19Not the first clips of characters (5)
21Spoke about gallery's government support (5,3)
23Mention crankier grumps in their primes (4,2)
25Dated a lot, easily bedding ladyship with regularity (3,3)
26Nation west of Oman invested in limitless liquorish blend (8)
27Ardent guy helps a drunk weekly (6,9)

Down
2Drug unfocused nimble flyer (5)
3Leader of Google engineering as skilled, almost, as Windows? (9)
4Tension if lessons including insignificant things (6)
5Wise head of nation breaks away from invalided anarchic split parties? (9,6)
6Work quietly on books about English enemy (8)
7A top dog? (5)
8Distinctions from space in animated scene (9)
14Discharges satellite I'm sending up in stages (9)
16State tunnels around new footway at regular intervals (9)
17In secret, I advanced without noise (8)
20Don't stop to collect that French ball (6)
22Like that man, before conclusion of Dorian Gray (5)
24Chaps assembling for Easter (5)

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