Puzzletome Crossword Puzzles
August 2024 Monthly Crossword
X and Y
Each of 4 intersecting pairs of entries are of the form X and Y. Clues for these have X and Y swapped, and are given without definition. The good news is that the *answers* to the 4 asterisked clues (also clued without definition) are themselves definitions for the X and Y pairs.
| Across | | 1 | Threesome keeping noise up (6) | | 4 | Rely on them to break law in initiation (8) | | 10 | Present popular street worker (7) | | 11 | Beer swallowed (four) (7) | | 12 | Two singles groping emperor's final son (a bit of a looker) (4) | | 13 | Throaty, angry outburst after quiet cure (10) | | 15 | American vessel gets amateur republican representation (6) | | 16 | * Insect in dock (7) | | 20 | * Calculate runway borders (7) | | 21 | Land of nostalgia is surely regressive to some extent (6) | | 24 | Can court intervening in old small charge cause death? (10) | | 26 | Character building eventually leads to thanks (4) | | 28 | Burn carbon and hydrogen (7) | | 29 | I get in to incur charges - of hundreds or thousands, say? (7) | | 30 | Kind of hard to reduce guns? (8) | | 31 | Clan base under attack (6) |
| | Down | | 1 | Excessively grabbing container (8) | | 2 | Baton aids swimming to beat soles (9) | | 3 | Costume change area partially hidden (4) | | 5 | Establish revenue base (4,4) | | 6 | Immoral - half like money promises (10) | | 7 | Thrill with gin cocktail (5) | | 8 | * Openers / tailender out getting leg break (6) | | 9 | Prickly heat beginning to infiltrate city bounds (5) | | 14 | It's launched for music dance around November (10) | | 17 | Set up in crib to experiment for this study? (9) | | 18 | Troubles suppressing head of race relations (8) | | 19 | Head cook mostly cooks without eggs (8) | | 22 | About to put down (6) | | 23 | * In a particular manner and German (5) | | 25 | Reduce recording rudimentary record (5) | | 27 | Indian nurse with morning realisation? (4) |
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