Cryptic crossword No 2,184
Wed 25 Dec 2024, set byjuff
Special Instructions: Christmas Special #2 - This puzzle was made collaboratively, live on stream at twitch.tv, Christmas Day 2024. Credits in the first comment. Two-letter fills are unclued and should be ignored.
Across
- Candy rocks with zero calories on the counter (4)
- I say the letters in the word out loud: "S-L-E-E-T" (3,6)
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- Twelve countries cope with leadership being fully demoted? (4)
- Travelling a real nice route in New York (4,5)
- Made fresh mutton to be eaten by butcher? (7)
- Solver: Please delete the last letter of a word for "support staff" (7)
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- What Cruella De Vil does the wrong way to get a boost? (4,5)
- Group had taken off from helipad, going west (4)
- I have additional questions about the way the murder was committed--to leap most of the way across one rock to reach another on a stormy night? [Oops, actually, this is a (4,3,4,5), ugh] (7,4,5)
- Mac tech who reconfigured, creating a mysterious inversion? (10)
- Another brand's commercial with petit fours oddly being eaten (10)
- Note possibly passed through cracked door (4)
- King born in France offers joint (4)
- It doesn't crack under pressure when peak force is redistributed (5,4)
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- Pair of delinquents in train car, staying on the lot (5-2)
- Christmas leader and Rabbi uphold making merry (7)
- Made an error in rent, just after the end of August (7,2)
- Creator of The Prince of Persia, cycling? (4)
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- Guests might stay here during boring holy month? (6,3)
- Pistols ricocheted for men (4)
Down
- Project with tasks being rearranged into less formal threads (6,6)
- Oscar writes one ultimately identical password (4,6)
- Getting to find another place to sit in the auditorium (7)
- One detective's last seen wearing something like a fedora, dig? (1,4,4)
- Comedian is mostly a B-performer? (4)
- Blow back about recreational course (7)
- Dolphin's sonic reverberation (4)
- Baller Jeremy at University of California gains experience building an open-source computer (5,2)
- Test from yesterday morning? (4)
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- See 30a
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- Stem from center of root carrying moisture (3,2)
- Spoiled tuna turned... the one before it was great! (1,3,1,5)
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- Collectively decide to pursue a discount opportunity getting cheese essentially in exchange for nothing (5,4)
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- Rinse epiderm daily (3,4)
- I search eastern Massachusetts for a neighborhood featured in elevator music (7)
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- Some bistros' food is retro in a way (2,5)
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- Live next to a field (4)
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- Device is in stock, launching first of December (4)
- Breakdown in text communications – are you at home? (4)
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