Across
- 2. erstwhile, or perhaps former, name of the private military contractor Blackwater
- 5. strangely uninteresting dressing
- 6. consider: they're kind of like ostriches, shifty
- 8. a gesture of agreement? It's a put-on, fake
- 9. a screwy sideways-walking crustacean next to a Latin boat
- 11. amazing! A stupidly big bird
- 13. the most sanctified can be belligerent, hot-tempered
- 14. impromptu quarantine for a vulture
- 16. wicked weed -- it's the best
- 17. fix, reinforce a marine crustacean
- 18. unusual clefs… jk
- 19. author of a book about Screwtape and his devilish ruses and ploys
- 23. preserve fishy eyeball tissue
- 24. guilty, (mind), guilty: legal hearing
- 26. spoiled Pacific mollusk
- 27. terrible devious maleficence
- 29. has a single engagement and also a second; waters down a drink and mixes it
- 30. make real ablaze, in ruins
- 31. buggy? Maybe firs turn it off and back on again
Down
- 1. various stuff, miscellanea, objects, knick-knacks, strewn uncivilized-like by the hundred
- 2. drunk drank, getting energy and enthusiasm
- 3. shot unlucky bones
- 4. shackle a corrupt spy associate of Burgess and Philby
- 5. serious about leases
- 7. ſoa -- sorry, I messed that up, let me try again -- ſea-adjacent ſhallow bodieſ of water, ſeparated from ſaid ſea by reefſ or ſhoalſ
- 10. swapped sloppy morsel, then ate a bit of date
- 12. a Baroque version of "The Giver" adapted into a Baroque dance
- 15. warped pigment, liquid drip
- 18. not "bow"? Quite the opposite? That's nuts, I'd say, just crazy
- 20. tablet fluid? It's dry
- 21. a bargain? plumb wrong
- 22. salve or sabotage a small sheep
- 25. fringe, perverse, hellish home of heretics next to the heart of inferno
- 28. hearty, itinerant star?
- 29. the avant-garde painter Odilon makes a deep and incessant hum
- 30. bedlam hospital medical emergency department? that's concerning
- 31. Southern football cheer: "BAD LÕR"