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Crossword time. The clues are all Spectrum related and fall into three categories:

1. “straight”, which are standard definitional clues (though those ending in question marks have slight twists),
2. “anagram”, which involves rearranging the letters, and
3. “cryptic”, which obey the rules in my cryptic crossword guide, except there is no straight part, just the cryptic part.

Each clue type is clearly labelled.

Have fun.

(I’m afraid the grid is not exactly symmetrical. Fixing the symmetry would have involved removing clues, so I thought it better to leave it slightly asymmetrical.)

(My cryptic clue guide is here: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=230.)

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ACROSS
1. Don Priestley game. [Straight] [7]
5. Cad. [Straight] [7]
8. Unreleased Activision game. [Straight] [9]
9. Something of a historic upset. [Cryptic] [1,1,1,1,1]
10. How to describe computer people? [Straight] [6]
11. Is it exhilarating to live life on this? [Straight] [3,4]
14. Educational title. [Straight] [7]
16. Helicopter game. [Straight] [7]
19. Boffin. [Straight] [7]
22. Prattle, the Americans' last letter. [Cryptic] [6]
24. Software house. [Straight] [5]
25. Floridian tool? [Straight] [5,4]
26. I heard a punishment. [Cryptic] [7]

DOWN
1. Gremlin Graphics game; graphical technique. [Straight] [4]
2. Peripheral. [Straight] [2,7]
3. Unknown spy? [Straight] [5,1]
4. A few blurs. [Anagram] [5,4]
5. See 20 down.
6. Pagan. [Straight] [5]
7. Image capture pattern; budget game. [Straight] [10]
12. Seasonal games developer? [Straight] [4]
13 & 18. A king chose orgies. [Anagram] [6,4,6]
14. Headless father and wife's head buried in stuff. [Cryptic] [9]
15. A'n'F game. [Straight] [4]
17. Attribute wizard. [Straight] [7]
18. See 13 down.
20 & 5. Military game. [Straight] [5,5]
21. No med should be taken upside down. [Cryptic] [5]
23. Dispute. [Straight] [4]
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9 icups
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6D druid
5A bounder
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7D Rasterscan
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1A Maziacs
1D Mask
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15 Down: Core
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10 Across: Little
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2D ZXPrinter
3D AgentX
4D SabreWulf
8A September
13D HoraceGoes
19A Egghead
16A Airwolf
18D Skiing
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21. No med should be taken upside down. [Cryptic] [5]
Demon? It's No med upside down, but the games of the same name are a bit fringe. This one?

[sayitwithconfidence]Demon.[/sayitwithconfidence]
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9 across, ICUPS was an inspired clue, I'd be well pissed off that Mat got it so quickly :mrgreen:
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24A Ocean (I hope!)
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17D Wizball
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11 across - THE EDGE
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1 Down: Mask
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25 across - MIAMI VICE
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20 and 5D Green Beret
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All correct so far, except Wizball.

Yes, Demon is niche, but it was all I could find that would fit.
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R-Tape wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 8:32 pm 9 across, ICUPS was an inspired clue, I'd be well pissed off that Mat got it so quickly :mrgreen:
He gets all the clues quickly!
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Rorthron wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 8:46 pm All correct so far, except Wizball.

Yes, Demon is niche, but it was all I could find that would fit.
wizball was my curveball... to annoy mr Tape:)
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Mat - bad boy, 60 minutes of Eurovision as punishment.
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26 Sanxion -
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23 down - FEUD
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[edit] pre-Sanxion... :(

ACROSS
14. Educational title. [Straight] [7]
22. Prattle, the Americans' last letter. [Cryptic] [6]
DOWN
14. Headless father and wife's head buried in stuff. [Cryptic] [9]
17. Attribute wizard. [Straight] [7]
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R-Tape wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 8:54 pm Mat - bad boy, 60 minutes of Eurovision as punishment.
Can I re-watch the 2003 contest? It had many great tunes, but a crap winner.
Tatu(Russia), Jemini(UK), Lou(Germany), Beth(Spain), Lior Narkis(Israel), Esther Hart(Netherlands), Fame(Sweden) - they all had great tunes.
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14. Educational title. [Straight] [7]
Horizons.

No question, back of the net.
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R-Tape wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 9:11 pm
14. Educational title. [Straight] [7]
Horizons.

No question, back of the net.
I'm just waiting for Kweepa to write that into his grid.
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