Cryptic Connections
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Each crossword clue can be resolved to an answer of matching length with the number in parenthesis.
1. Gabriel, for one, enthralled by gearchange lever (9)
ARCHANGEL
2. Sponge cake--this is you? (4)
BABA
3. Receptacle's tip retracted (3)
BIN
4. Want to follow bishop having no milk or cream (5)
BLACK
5. Steel wool pad cutting the tail off fish (5)
BRILL
6. Group of craftsmen missing leader in search engine construction (8)
BUILDING
7. Am I missing from friendly kind of TV? (5)
CABLE
8. Topical rioting in statehouse (7)
CAPITOL
9. Shrink doesn't have right kind of lens (7)
CONTACT
10. Representative sample of how some people are born (including the brother of 20) (5 7)
CROSS SECTION
11. Returning tournament participant getting poor grades (4)
DEES
12. Chance for song (7)
FORTUNE
13. Hatch the end of a scandal? (4)
GATE
14. Very large soldier ant (5)
GIANT
15. 50th generation is getting old (6)
GOLDEN
16. Henry the First longs for Jonah (4)
HILL
17. TV doctor's abode (5)
HOUSE
18. Sacred wader is embracing bisexual (4)
IBIS
19. Jackson garbled "Lechaim!" (7)
MICHAEL
20. Geller's partial harmonic analysis (6)
MONICA
21. Letters from Athens Helios sent back (3)
NUS
22. Policy changes involving men related to international competitions (7)
OLYMPIC
23. Wild rant with hep cat (7)
PANTHER
24. Navy planes in disorganized state (12)
PENNSYLVANIA
25. Brushing can remove this pressure with equal redistribution (6)
PLAQUE
26. Destroyed La Paz hotel for Eloise (5)
PLAZA
27. Tip: include oxygen in serving of beer (5)
POINT
28. Top-40 music by English singers (chiefly John, Paul, and others) (5)
POPES
29. Flip prosecutor or false witness to force through a conviction (8)
RAILROAD
30. Broadway, essentially! (4)
ROAD
31. Data, for example, is hidden by Sandro Botticelli (5)
ROBOT
32. Dancer's boss is partially artisan tattooist (5)
SANTA
33. Rescues small class of birds (5)
SAVES
34. Initially, sailor enters a large body of water (3)
SEA
35. Sly Stone's number one hit "Kanye" (6)
SNEAKY
36. Birds fight inside boxes (8)
SPARROWS
37. Magician who works in a bank? (6)
TELLER
38. Very short social media post, having no time (3)
WEE
39. Member of the proletariat appearing in Shaw or Kerouac (6)
WORKER
Each of these answer could then be placed in their proper location on the grid, using the linked boxes as indication of the same letter.
These 10 clusters give a description to 10 locations.
1
Cape Town
South Africa
Sea Point Contact Plaque
-33.900731, 18.398926
2
Philadelphia
USA
Archangel Michael Saves Pennsylvania Railroad Worker
30th Street Station, 2955 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19105
3
Toronto
Canada
Sneaky Dees
431 College St, Toronto, ON M5T 1T1, Canada
4
London
England
Popes Road Black Panther
Under the Railway Bridge, Pope’s Road, Brixton
5
Vancouver
Canada
Giant Sparrows Olympic Plaza
49.271406, -123.106495
6
San Francisco
USA
Golden Gate Cable Cross Section
Golden Gate Bridge, Coastal Trail, San Francisco, CA
7
Los Angeles
USA
Santa Monica Fortune Teller Robot
N 34° 00.608 W 118° 29.750
8
Singapore
Singapore
Wee Bin NUS Baba House
157 Neil Rd, Singapore
9
Washington DC
USA
Capitol Hill Ibis
St SE & 2nd St SE, Washington, DC 20004
10
New York
USA
Brill Building
1619 Broadway, New York
