Issue 20
Cryptic

Cryptic crossword, Issue 20

Can you solve it?

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8 November 2024

Cryptic #8, set by Seuss: Download as a PDF or read on!

Across clues

  • 3. Debate the messy garment around uniform. (8)
  • 7. Drunk sort, you donut! (5)
  • 8. Flip heart to get third element. (2)
  • 9. Southern couple goes about introducing quirky rule to code square roots. (5)
  • 11. Slack organisation leads the (definitely humorous) university magazine. (9)
  • 13. Heartless warning of the problem that doesn’t ‘add up’. (6)
  • 15. Absurd ending to root expression. (4)
  • 18. Not down, not under, onto! (4)
  • 21. Kitten half-ate last shape. (4)
  • 22. while cryptic != solved:
         go round in circles. (4)
  • 23. Trolley intercepted by Descartes. (4)
  • 24. Example: initially, grab some items in one basket. (4)
  • 25. Lure into tangled net with frost. (6)
  • 27. Sangwin’s shapes, strangely, can reverse derivatives. (9)
  • 29. Itchy reeler cancels odds at half six. (5)
  • 32. $\mu=\rho V (v-at)$. (2)
  • 33. Cat beheaded after hospital spiral. (5)
  • 34. Base secret plan for my data table. (4,4)

Down clues

  • 1. A/hh! A hyperbola! (4)
  • 2. Del backed into 3/4 of curb. Del is crossed! (6)
  • 3. Record in fixing lumbar contraction. (5)
  • 4. Christmas lectures… during Christmas? (2)
  • 5. Milliequivalent of mass, energy and charge. (3)
  • 6. Hot or not: a reversal gate. (3)
  • 10. Engineer I rang is a ladder operator. (7)
  • 12. No issues, went inside, thank you! (6)
  • 14. “Eek!” (Goes outside around nerds). (5)
  • 15. Butcher loves to work out. (5)
  • 16. Rest, o-or cuckoo farm alarm? (7)
  • 17. Atomic centres alter nil cue. (6)
  • 19. Personal assistant measuring pressure. (2)
  • 20. Logic operation giving work-core. (2)
  • 24. Ned follows bear, gets decapitated, deserved. (6)
  • 26. Malty beer put out next to street. (5)
  • 28. Place to hide in Guatemala, ironic! (4)
  • 30. Hot or not: a Chappell Roan song starting. (3)
  • 31. A tree to reclimb regularly. (3)
  • 32. Odd muon shortens the moment. (2)

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