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Cryptic across

    1. disturbing siren, yet peaceful (8)
    1. lovely friend who helps you navigate Sydney (4)
    1. pop sounds like the smell of wine ingredients (5,4)
    1. a staple is cut and pasted? (6)
    1. white princess misses meeting at ice formation (9)
    1. a fluffy thing can imbue endless fun-sized nanoseconds! (6)
    1. excited and anxious for January 1 (5,4)
    1. Red ventures after the main problem (4)
    1. child’s brain, no centipedes within (8)

Standard across

    1. against (4)
    1. expression for “no” (3)
    1. less than junior (9)
    1. interpreter (abbr.) (4)
    1. concept (4)
    1. lacking water (4)
    1. to tweak (4)
    1. alt word for decrypt (9)
    1. can be green or black (3)
    1. district of Manhattan (4)

The cryptic across clues are also highlighted on the board.

Chaos down

    1. deleted (6)
    1. last word of platformer featuring black blob (4)
    1. often red versus blue (4)
    1. present at a filming venue (2,3)
    1. best couple turned overpage (3)
    1. help is often first? (3)
    1. of the air (4)
    1. start of Undertale true final battle theme (5)
    1. lightning conductor (3)
    1. word found in one of the other clues (3)
    1. prepare (4)
    1. mature by paying respects to the English (5)
    1. animal used by programmers of Rust (5)
    1. French RPG Maker game (3)
    1. She’s a well-known roarer (4)
    1. burst out (5)
    1. in summer, a student often becomes this (6)
    1. packed densely (5)
    1. archaic word for “until” (4)
    1. Unix find and replace (3)
    1. performance (3)
    1. Indian bread (4)
    1. reproduce red taco possibly without cat (4)
    1. 犬 (3)
    1. first letters of Stardew Valley carpenter (3)

Down contains both cryptic and standard clues in no particular order.

Crossword⌗

Welcome! I was curious how crossword makers assembled crosswords, so I decided to learn how to make one myself. To add a bit of fun, some of the clues in this crossword are regular crossword clues, and some are cryptic crossword clues. If you have never done a cryptic crossword, this video provides a quick introduction to how cryptic clues work.

What’s the theme for the crossword, I hear you ask? I guess you can find out for yourself.

Web UI⌗

You can input letters on the grid above but it doesn’t check your answers and it’s fairly easy to break. Please be nice to it - I hacked it together in one evening.

On most modern browsers (which have local storage enabled), your progress will be saved automatically.