Saturday, September 28, 2024

Puzzle No. 96: Pancake Batter

Pancake Batter

By teamcrazymatt
Each letter of the alphabet begins one answer in this crossword; clues are listed with their answers ordered alphabetically by enumeration. It is up to the solver to find the correct way to arrange the answers in the grid.
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Squares filled: 0/146
Exolve Print Notes Jotter

Clues
IFather joins with Molly twice for love? (4)
IITerritory occupied by wigwams as reported? (4)
IIIIIIChampion the leaderless resistance with nothing (4)
IVStuffy poophead is on edge (4)
VA wild love for everyone getting Tinder (6)
VIFinally solve puzzle to get to the Underworld (6)
VIIVIIJudge untruthful document admitting incorrect conclusion initially about the people of Israel (6)
VIIIVIIIGive a ring to crossword setter sick in bed? (4,2)
IXMySpace discharged racy writer (1,5)
XOld-fashioned queen is not informal (6)
XIShore leave (6)
XIIXIIRegular at keyboard in band went to the audience (6)
XIIIXIIIHospitable kiss before losing head in rejection (6)
XIVXIVYour novel gets ban after abridgment for West Africans (6)
XVHe had big hits with bass and alto live on track with Beethoven's Fifth (4,4)
XVIXVIEmpty eons following hollow dogma, rank and alienating! (4,4)
XVIIXVIIFriend accepted by guys rejected deadname? (8)
XVIIIXVIIIMost fast with saint after wrong repaid (8)
XIXXIXUndatable oddball with first of lovers going steady (8)
XXSucker meets with Yankee, catching ancestor in unsettled state (8)
XXIXXIOfficial, jester, and queen oddly shown at a loss (10)
XXIIXXIIMontana performer remixed my lyrics with cover from Undertale (5,5)
XXIIIXXIIITime to recognise union you and I had formed did any good at first (7,3)
XXIVXXIVEvery rag ultimately chasing nothing has swallowed presidential sex scandal (10)
XXVXXVAlmost drag icon (tube's Ol' Chum) over features (5,3,2,5)
XXVIXXVIConsole echidna with whiskey, endless ice, and hard punch? (7,8)

Sunday, September 8, 2024

Puzzle No. 95: Stomach Relief

Stomach Relief

By teamcrazymatt
(Originally published as MyCrossword #1393.)
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Squares filled: 0/165
Exolve Print Notes Jotter

Across
1Died at kings' home with dishonour? (6)
4Traveling towards the sunset, in haze stitch inflatable life jackets (3,5)
10Loose lips, heartlessly cutting, sinking ships (9)
11West between two mountain peaks, legend ultimately going up (5)
12No - I left corpse lying around here (10)
13See 22a
15Cut leg ought to be fixed with adhesive (3,4)
16Fatigue in middle of full organ transplant (7)
17See 22a
18Spooner's tired lover makes farm equipment (7)
20No energy; muscles reflex, curled up (7)
22, 17, 1322, 17, 13Lads' good translation includes last section of Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" (3,6)
23Upper class accepts thanks for being important (10)
25Some women voiced conclusion (5)
26Unfairer to be regularly seen round - long to become somewhat thin (9)
27Let's do it for one among the best of us (4,4)
28"Manifest destiny essentially succeeds; has to." —the US, frequently (6)

Down
1, 2401, 24Dead American in crowds; leaders of troops slung small pellets (4,4)
2Most offensive Disney sidekick cycling by castle completely naked (7)
3Unorthodox reasoning eventually key when at the limit during trek (7,8)
5Actor and striking director come together, prepared with adaptation of Burns' "Despondency" at last (6,8)
6You and I burning boot of Dodge and 2 dilapidated exhausts... (5,7,3)
7...also in the midst of spring at university in Berlin borough (7)
8Over Instagram, relished relaxing festive journey (6,4)
9Men lie – specs improper to pen; tend to contract that has one clause (6,8)
14Password in hobbit-holes, unexpectedly not none (10)
19Body found in rogue state (7)
21Framework of upper room in Latin style's latest (7)
24See 1d

Puzzle No. 99: Nature-Led