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A Peer Review/Clueless crossword

As many of you know, there is a long running set of clue-writing contests on this forum, that began on March 31, 2011. Since then over 1200 words have been clued by a bevy of clever cruciverbalists. In these contests everyone sets a clue (or clues) based on a suggested word, people vote for their favorite clue and the winner runs the following contest.

Here is a crossword that consists (almost) entirely of winning clues from these contests.

A few notes:

1) You will note that the grid is HIGHLY irregular - best I could do, sorry.
2) The few asterisked clues were written by me as I just needed a few shorties to provide some checking letters. Those clues should be mostly write-ins.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AUNoK1yEzbjHE6HXitgc2HdNSnqhicaz/view?usp=sharing

Let me know here if there are any issues. I will post a solution file on Thursday, which will contain which contest the clue came from, and who wrote it (a trip down memory lane for the veterans, I think).

This will be fun, thanks Buddy! I think I know 1d 😊

What a brilliant idea, buddy.

What a great idea, Buddy, thanks!

Buddy, thank you very, very much! It must have taken a lot of time and effort to put that together, and it's very much appreciated. I will have a proper look in the morning.


PS I think there's a teeny typo - 23 A says (5) but there are only four cells.

Great idea Buddy - well done!

yes, 23A is (4) - and 24D is (5).

So amused to see 6d included.

I enjoyed this Buddy. There are a couple I haven't quite parsed. Ironically, I had the most difficulty with 30a, although it rang a bell ...

Bravo again Buddy, this was indeed a fun solve. 23a had me stumped and I had to revert to original thread to unpick it, perfectly fair though. I’m looking forward to finding out who set what and when.