Cryptic Connections
Each crossword clue can be resolved to an answer of matching length with the number in parenthesis.
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
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.
| Solve | City | Country | Location | Address |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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