Irregular Crossword (January 2011)
Clues
Across:
- 1: Pseudoscience in my pokemans?! (12)
- 5: Better off contesting. (5)
- 8: A bit of an unfortunate ability, it must be said. (6)
- 9: Doesn't evolve into Lapras. (7)
- 11: Eyes I dare not meet in dreams. (8)
- 12: Prevents rest. (8)
- 15: Proof that the grumpy Saffron City guards are English. (3)
- 17: Descending prime factors of 642 in the order 27 across, 7 down, and... well, I'll let you figure out the last one. (8)
- 19: The Earth is sort of like a bar. (6)
- 20: But it's so enigmatic! (11)
- 23: Undershrink. (8)
- 24: I blame this for the loss of Mantine's Remoraid! REPRODUCTION WILL DOOM US ALL. (11)
- 26: Klank klonk~ (5)
- 27: See 33 down. Think ethnic cleansing. No, I don't get it either. (11)
- 30: Critical hits: drumming on one's belly, apparently. (10)
- 31: Warning: do not wear on feet. (7)
- 32: A good example of prejudice being based on ignorance. (5)
- 34: Home by any definition, dammit. (13)
- 36: The most useless item ever. (9)
- 37: Made somewhat redundant - in gen V, tele is all the rage. (7)
Down:
- 1: Wouldn't want to be thrown out of one. (7)
- 2: Not so morally superior. (8)
- 3: Apparently observes SI standards. (5)
- 4: A living fossil, both here and there. (6)
- 6: Clearly not named by Saffron City guards. (10)
- 7: Unusually, requires a disambiguation page. In this case it's quite typical. (7)
- 9: I suppose the localisers thought the star bit was self-evident? (5)
- 10: I am going to make an educated guess about the meaning of the Italian and Spanish word 'tiro'. (10)
- 13: Probably bought in the same shop as 20 across. (10)
- 14: Not actually as good in real life. Unless you really like purple. (12)
- 16: They cost P1200, if only you could buy them. (5)
- 18: Tiny, tiny babies! (9)
- 21: Counter-intuitively, more than twice as cheap as 16 down. (8)
- 22: Used alongside a case for item storage. (10)
- 25: Eh, 's probably just Derren Brown. (6)
- 26: Ash: not good with computers. (6)
- 27: I can't decide whether this or 15 across is more mundane. (6)
- 28: 21 down's signature attack. (6)
- 29: e.e (5)
- 33: Of variable lustre. (4)
- 35: Frost: not very imaginative about the end of the world, apparently. (3)
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