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Are there more elegant ways to do this? Yeah, probably. But it's sort of like speed coding vs. coding: superficially the same, but really very different, and the former is more of an exercise than a technique. (These random musings have, as always, nothing at all to do with the puzzle.) Today's exercise...




[Start] and [End]

The answer is a synonym of the title. Well, a near-synonym. Kind of an antonym. Anyway.


  • Because

  • Burn lightly around the edges

  • Device for hoisting

  • Gift on December 29th, in song

  • Last word in the title of a 1980s #1 hit by Simply Red or Mike + The Mechanics

  • Long for

  • Pulls apart violently

  • Raises

  • React to a faux pas, perhaps

  • Takes the advice of a 1980s poster with Phil Collins dressed as Davy Crockett (because Collins is apparently obsessed with Crockett, and because some clues are weirder than others)

  • Tells the authorities, like a canary who's also a rat

  • Watermelon leftovers

  • Word after "White" (for Jadis) or "Sea" (for Ursula)




__________(-1)
__________(1)
__________(7)
__________(-15)
__________
__________(-6)
__________(7)
__________
__________(-3)
__________(4)
__________(-13)
__________(-7)
__________





Aaaand, answer checker here.

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