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May 2024 Monthly Crossword
What You See
This month's puzzle celebrates an anniversary given by two undefined entries indicated by wordplay only. Eight further asterisked entries, also undefined, lead to elements of the anniversary celebrant. These elements should be replaced with those responsible for the entries. Clue lengths for these asterisked entries refer to the elements, not the replacements.
| Across | | 7 | Scoop out inner quarters of rue (6) | | 8 | Eastern leaders destroy Nazis with car (8) | | 9 | Bolt, perhaps, from small publisher? (8) | | 10 | Failed to score away (6) | | 11 | * Unused PVC I scrapped - with grotesque tiny leaf mold (5,5,5,3,4) | | 12 | Hub cap engine never starts most of journey (6) | | 13 | Cleaners left in school for time preparing (11) | | 18 | * Humble slater distraught (3,9) | | 20 | A tear with friend brought round for Mum? (8) | | 22 | Diminish one mass with quiet song (6) | | 23 | Bun fight had 100%? (8) | | 24 | * Love from article: Wizards (9,2,3,4) | | 25 | See see seizing eye see say? (6) |
| | Down | | 1 | Hunter drove around circle as normal (7) | | 2 | Anti establishment operating with nearly everything (8) | | 3 | Excess energy in primary muscles (6) | | 4 | * Vogue singer along with youth (7,3,5) | | 5 | * Naiad slain (canoed at an overfall) (5,3,7) | | 6 | Nerve to get decidedly topless (7) | | 8 | Green response to vehicle burn at OPEC assembly? (6,7) | | 14 | About to rise tearing after gold models (8) | | 15 | Ten harpy monsters on this? (3,5) | | 16 | * Woman on a chair towards acres pure (4,6,2,1,8) | | 17 | * Artistic final noir picture (9,8) | | 19 | Speaker lets out roar to enter (6) | | 21 | * Legal decision from French capital? (3,9,2,5) |
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