PUZZLE 51 (CRYPTIC): OUT OF ORDER

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Solving Music: Macross 82-99 - Cool Soda

It's another Cruzzles cryptic! This one's got a very funky theme; I normally wouldn't choose to use 3-letter words in a cryptic, but it should be pretty apparent why they're there as you solve. Not much else to say about this one; hope it's fun.

Small plug: I made a sudoku puzzle called Stitches that was solved a few days ago on Cracking the Cryptic; go check it out! (There's a solve link in the video description if you want to take a crack at it before you watch).

Enjoy the puzzle!

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PUZZLE 40 (CRYPTIC): AAAAAAAAAAAA

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Solving Music: Neil Cicierega - The End

Welcome to the first installment of Cracking the Cruzzles!

Okay on second thought, no, please never call it that, I don't want that to be a thing.

This is my first cryptic, and I'm pretty happy with it, considering I'm pretty new to writing these. I normally tag puzzles with a difficulty tag, but I honestly have no idea how hard this plays as a cryptic, so I'll leave this one untagged. More than usual, I'd love to hear your feedback on this! Half of the battle here was getting the clues to work at all, so any advice on making the puzzle as a whole better would be a big help (especially from experienced cryptic setters). Oh yeah, did I mention this was themed? 👀

Enjoy the puzzle!

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