A Hard Question
No-Feet McGee

The first two across entries describe two potential answers to a question. For all but one of the other across entries, it sounds like the definition is given assuming the first of these answers, but the wordplay (and the entry itself) is given assuming the second answer.


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  •  1  First option: takes over leaders with sound of buzzer (2, 2)

  •  3  Second option: on reflection, assembles core from bottom, with no extraneous leaders around (3, 2, 2)

  •  8  Return mail amidst more Spanish villainy (7)

  •  9  Kiss unclothed person cycling in underwear (5)

  • 10 Ring ring-- ding ding ding! (5)

  • 11 Members of panel lie still, clutching stomachs (7)

  • 12 Cured pork allowed in village (6)

  • 14 Loony cheeps in tree (6)

  • 18 Winning is smart again? (7)

  • 20 Summer adventure starts on both sides of long wood (5)

  • 22 Spanish runner has talent with UI switches (5)

  • 23 District attorney, lost among kennel experts, comes back (7)

  • 24 Strange desires anyway... (7)

  • 25 Quietly settle in San Francisco, e.g. (4)

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  •  1  Aha! Rum ethics hold perverse way of interpreting Bible (7)

  •  2  Wait for new president (5)

  •  3  Snooping around with no pretense of leadership (6)

  •  4  Nasty fellow eating right above basement (5)

  •  5  Former emotion: confused drug for love (7)

  •  6  Because Elsa evenly backs off (5)

  •  7  Draw new districts in central area above unknown individual (6)

  • 13 Some memos question forming holy buildings (7)

  • 15 Exercise in particular bra (6)

  • 16 Gossip from ones that listen among animal feed (7)

  • 17 Hangman, please! Regular members offer religious loves (6)

  • 18 Victor loses to second place in flower stand (5)

  • 19 Reportedly, the setter got less sharp and did nothing (5)

  • 21 Laugh about California regional (5)

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