Alabama residence | rumored to attract tornadoes? (6,4)
[{city of} MOBILE HOME] = [{trailer} MOBILE HOME]
Some people revisit youthful | beginnings | by being | active (4)
[Some People Revisit Youthful] [initials] [=] [SPRY]
In | Kiev, it always | seems like | a musical (5)
[hidden] [kiEV IT Always] [=] [EVITA]
Omit the | tangles | and you have | a metaphorical potato (3,4)
[OMIT THE] [anagram] [=] [HOT ITEM {hot potato}]
Firm | dildos | with a partially hollowed core | are coming back (5)
[SOLID] = [DILdOS] [center letter removed] [reversed]
 LAT |  Seattle Times 7/20/14 sNYT |
Two from LAT:
Don't repeat the motif (7)
Getting a liquor license owner to begin serving a domestic wine (5)
Two from Seattle Times (henceforth ST):
A group of astrologers returning game enfolded in three quarters of this (3,4)
What unbalanced, disheartened teetotalers do before one totters (7)
And one that's so easy I'm not going to tell which puzzle it's from:
Thing with a crawdad's tail and a doodlebug's head (6)
Starting September 1st, we will begin referring to "the Seattle Times", and to "the NYTimes crossword as syndicated in the Seattle Times", simply as "ST".
Don't repeat the motif (7)
ReplyDeleteNice DD. Does the verb stand alone, or is it always a compound with "with"? I suppose as an order it would work alone.
Getting a liquor license owner to begin serving a domestic wine (5)
Nice acrostic.
A group of astrologers returning game enfolded in three quarters of this (3,4)
The definition might ruffle a few feathers, since the use of the definite article points to a specific, biblical, group; and "astrologers" might seem a little insulting. Unwise?
What unbalanced, disheartened teetotalers do before one totters (7)
Very precise and cute cryptic. "unbalanced" serves as a nice tie-in, too, to the definition.
Thing with a crawdad's tail and a doodlebug's head (6)
Agreed. However, there is no pointer to the fragment reversal, unless you have "head" and "tail" serving a dual role, which I suppose is OK.
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