Issue 16
Cryptic

Cryptic crossword, Issue 16

Can you solve it?

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9 November 2022

Cryptic #4, set by Humbug: Download as a PDF or read on!

Across clues

  • 1. XL age limit for 4 & 21. (5)
  • 3. Advanced zero with FF first embodied #FF0000. (7)
  • 7. Confused cats to sing wordless phrases. (4)
  • 10. 2.71828 and 9.81, for example. (2)
  • 12. He and I gathered around broken kilns. This year’s 4 & 21s were awarded here. (8)
  • 13. Information hidden in old Atari. (4)
  • 14. Every other alpha’s usually equal to 2. (1,1,1)
  • 16. Even split is irrational. (2)
  • 17. Smog endlessly enters sky, making it this. (5)
  • 18. Representation of most common 50. (5)
  • 19. Thanks for the article. (2)
  • 20. Opening of Oswestry Hospital’s maternity unit. (3)
  • 22. SIAM journal on scientific computing is a bit of quasi-science. (4)
  • 24. Confused Paris and East Germany? This is how fast a plane will take you. (8)
  • 25. I circle moon. (2)
  • 26. Berry hidden in a cairn. (4)
  • 28. This analytic number theorist is darn confused after former prime minister. (7)
  • 29. Latin manor in a mess. (5)

Down clues

  • 1. The point in Banach’s theorem for first nine Balls. (5)
  • 2. Odd rehash should be equal to 14. (1,1,1)
  • 4 & 21. 9, 15, 5 & 23, and 28 were awarded this prize for scarecrows?. (6,5)
  • 5 & 23. Probability theorist is getting by without gravity after mild uni mess. (7-5)
  • 6. They confused last email CC group. (5)
  • 8. Mixed CD at Hulk’s magazine. (9)
  • 9. She packed spheres by initially zinging ovals against empty Kia. (9)
  • 11. Magma blown up by a ray of energy. (5)
  • 15. Regularly though, he linked geometry and combinatorics. (3)
  • 16. “Perhaps edit parses?” Sophie implied initially. Is this okay?. (5)
  • 17. Start moving coefficient of friction up a level. (7)
  • 20. Interval without endpoints and centre of interval’s support. (6)
  • 21. see 4.
  • 23. see 5.
  • 27. 1101’s inverse was something in 12 in 2022. (1,1,1)

Matthew is a postdoctoral researcher at University College London. He hasn’t had time to play Klax since the noughties, but he’s pretty sure that Coke is it!
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