Puzzles

1891 Cryptic Crossword

Crossword
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Across

1. Ill feelings occasionally ebb and Abel got old. [3 4]
5. Surround inlet after headless one retreats. [6]
8. Digital brainrot scatters vixen's ashes regularly. [3 5]
10. Originally, Twitter lead to tilting - it's now called ragebaiting. [8]
12. Lackadaisical gospel lead to conflict over Messianic leader. [8]
16. For a Latin dance song, flip a coin: all Vivaldi. [5 2 4 4]
18. American actress, performing in Leningrad also. [7 8]
20. The German mutt follows a French challenger. [8]
23. Like the sons of Pitt and Bruegel, you distress heartless Greens. [8]
26. Remy once cooked for a special occasion. [8]
29. Root vegetable, only somewhat tubular. [6]
30. Arcane zeal pursues the Spanish doctor. [8]

Down

1. Herb, as I lodge! [5]
2. An online leak of files, by the sounds of it. [3]
3. Primarily literature; that is, fiction. [3]
4. Freeze seafood, or so I hear, after synthesising toad venom. [4 4 1 6]
5. Resounding noise, partially from the choir. [4]
6. Lug back large seabird… [4]
7. …eggs for apparently thousands a piece. [9]
9. Perceive in three directions. [3]
11. Bale seen stumbling around Beirut, for example. [8]
13. Quizzin' periodically with a submachine gun. [3]
14. I say "Pooh" and secure Canadian city. [8]
15. Stop upturning crockery. [4]
16. Buzz about, lethargy consumes me. [9]
17. Terribly evil! [4]
19. Cow often concealing a curious expression. [3]
21. Smash forcefully into broken arm. [3]
22. Character in ugly photographs. [5]
24. Fictional fairy - annoying in a videogame, originally. [4]
25. A head breaches centrally. [4]
27. Slip up with regard to Romeo. [3]
28. Expose escape route away from home. [3]

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