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Adorably Deplorable

Hi folks! Felt like making a normal puzzle for once - today's one resides over at MyCrossword and along with the venue comes a different and, more importantly, British cryptic style and vocabulary (you have been warned). Other than the change of style, it should play on the easier side of things. Anyways, here you go: Puzzle Link Have fun!

Under 21

So uh, I did a puzzle with  Frisco. (omg its so silly and so dumb and i love it and Frisco thank you so much for working with me on this) This puzzle uses some - uh - contemporary fill. You'll see what I mean. Working on this puzzle was just such a joy and a pleasure, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it with a friend in the crossword world. Go do a Frisco puzzle; he usually makes American-style puzzles, and they're all great! From Frisco: "To those who've been yelling at me to make a new cryptic, I hope they try and solve this puzzle, realize it's too hard and then never ask me to do anything ever again. Thanks so much to Pixlate for sponsoring this video!" Thank you to  skaldskaparmal and  joeadultman for test solving. I hope there's plenty fun in "Under 21"! (btw Frisco wrote the hints for the Acrosses so you have been warned) Full-Screen Solve

Show's Over

Hi, it's me again somehow. This blocked normal-ish puzzle is a calming of pace from the absurdity and complexity of some previous puzzles (only one sentence in the preamble!). Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy the theme for what it is. Thanks to MP for the test-solve: you can find him  here . This puzzle is also up on  MyCrossword . Full-Screen AmuseLabs Link

Variety Cryptic 4: Keep Solving and Nobody Explodes

 This one's going to be a bit different, so I suggest reading this post the whole way through.  The idea for this one first spawned when watching one of  juff's streams , a fellow constructor and a very entertaining solver. In it, they were doing a co-solve of a certain puzzle - I forget which exactly - and I thought wow, this whole cryptic business is much more fun and exciting with a friend along to help. This cryptic has been inspired by the game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and is thus designed for TWO solvers. You can still solve it with one person, though if you can get a friend to play along the experience should be better. One of you is designated the role of the DEFUSER. The defuser is allowed to look at the bomb (i.e. the grid and clues) and NOT allowed to look at the manual. The other is designated the role of the EXPERT. The expert may only look at the manual and NOT the grid or clues. Work together to decipher the clues and the instructions, test your com...

Themeless: Crow's Feet

Hello folks! Welcome to 2023, I hope this year brings about a great positive change to any shit you got going on (unless your life is perfect in which case, damn you for having all your shit together) To celebrate: here's a themeless with a seed entry I've wanted to work into a grid for a while. Many thanks to lila  for test-solving, she is much better at these sorts of things than I am! Anyways here's the puzzle, enjoy! Full-Screen Solve

Variety Cryptic 3: Dramatic Change

Wow! I think this may be the first time I've ever created a grid and actually finished the cluing not long after. This 14 x 14 bad boy hopefully should be a fun little challenge. I recommend using a notepad, you might wanna write things down. I feel as though as I write more clues, my constructions begin to have their own sort of style? idk tell me if you find anything recognisable about the way I set. Either way, thanks once more to @kieranjboyd#1688 for advice in filling the grid and skaldskaparmal for a greatly valuable test solve. Happy Holidays, Merry Solving! Puzzle:  Full-Screen Solve

Variety Cryptic 2: Criminal!

 Hello again! Well, it's surely been a while, hasn't it? Look, there's not really much to say here, hope you fun yadda yadda yadda thanks again to @kieranjboyd#1688. Have funnnnnnn!!!! Direct Link: https://amuselabs.com/pmm/crossword?id=550b6f2c&set=20db72de1a937ed9d565a280e02beb3ef36e7257c2ab08cfe5ab7083dae4dbfd&embed=1