Evil Birds

 Hi folks, this week's puzzle(s) are 15x Themelesses written with two separate clue-sets. [Think Brooke Husic's Regular/Experimentals, or The Good, The Bad, The Ugly by Frisco and I]

The "Adversarial" clue-set is named as such because that's how I approached clueing it. The hope is that you might get snagged at a few points but with persistence emerge victorious. Hopefully, the payout is satisfyingly crunchy and not frustrating! 

I'd love to hear honest feedback on how your solves go! Thanks to Frisco17 for the test-solve.

Regular Clueset

Adversarial Clueset





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