Irregular Crossword (August 2007)

Clues

Across:

• 7: ...Are we playing Pokémon or Bridge? (9)
• 8: ...brainwashing? o.o (4)
• 11: The number would be more appropriate for its pre-evolution. (10)
• 12: ...why can Numel learn it, of all things? (4)
• 13: A blond who's friends with a redhead. (7)
• 14: I guess they realized they'd overdone that creamy yellow color. (11)
• 15: And what do you know, it did get new evolutions. (5)
• 16: Does he have a lot of lucid dreams? (6)
• 17: You can get it for free now! (6)
• 20: He just loves advertising, doesn't he? (5)
• 24: Apparently Cyrus's successor. (6)
• 25: Yay for mining. (12)
• 27: It's orange and you EV train with it. (9)
• 28: Stand aside. Happiny is now eggier than you. (6)
• 29: And we were just celebrating about being rid of Flash... (5)
• 30: Oh, come on. This capitalization doesn't even make sense. (12)

Down:

• 1: 130 base Attack and 120 Defense? Did it really need this? (9)
• 2: Do Pokémon get sent to prison? (8)
• 3: This move is so last month. (9)
• 4: The greatest television in the world, according to Google. (5)
• 5: Still pretty much the most practical healing item for most situations. (8)
• 6: This name so calls for religious humour. (5)
• 9: Couldn't you have made this place a little bit easier to get to? (13)
• 10: Oh, dear. Tentacles and vore. (9)
• 13: Apparently it's not a queen. (9)
• 14: Finally they get to levitate like they're supposed to. (10)
• 18: It doesn't sound like its type, or in fact like the only Pokémon that learns it naturally would learn it... and to boot, that Pokémon doesn't have much to do with this move anyway. (10)
• 19: Although we got used to it that way, I suppose it sounded more like a Bug-type move before. (11)
• 21: I guess the 'damaging non-legendary-signature-move Psychic attacks which the Abra family can't learn' list just gained a second member. (11)
• 22: 13 across's predecessor, so to speak. (7)
• 23: You can finally see it in action! (9)
• 26: Well, it was about time its type got a decently powerful move that more than a couple of Pokémon could learn and get STAB for. (7)
• 27: Found in Eterna Forest when Emerald is in the GBA slot. (6)

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