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Compound Interest Crossword Puzzle

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Crosswords are interesting, but when you use compound words, they get really interesting. Compound words comprise two smaller independent words within them. Many of the clues (marked) have clues for the two smaller words plus one for the compound word. Leverage both types of clues to get the compound word quicker.
Author: 1nn1 - Diff: Harder

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    • Complete Clue List

      Across
      1. Not on + distance between two points = Unavailable on the web
      5. Large expanse of water + Places for sleeping = Ocean floors
      9. US President's wife (5,4)
      10. Music hit from the past: Golden ____
      11. Atmospheric gas + sweeping = Touching up a photograph
      12. Chris, English pop singer. "Fool If You Think It's Over"
      13. Pull forcibly + physically in contact with a surface = Mythical creature
      15. Door unlocker + Rock = Mainstay
      18. Crockery item + Allow = Biological clotting agent
      19. Landlocked African country
      22. American rapper, son of jazz musician Olu Dara
      23. Period following + Cheap phone (sl.) = Device where extra fuel is ignited in a jet engine exhaust
      25. Son of Jared and father of Methuselah
      26. Legally take (another's child) to rear as your own + Competent = Appropriate to use for one's own
      27. Men deprived of their genitalia
      28. A light pink + Upper part of the body = Carrot Top

      Down

      1. Removed or separated + Arm ending = Ungraciously nonchalant
      2. Soft hair of animals + Alternatives link-word = American outbreak of public anger or excitement
      3. Place a body in a tomb or grave + Walking in long bounds = Make unwanted involvement
      4. Base of the Natural Logarithms + Brief failure = Go by (as in time)
      5. Blue atmosphere + Jumped head first into water = Parachuted
      6. Indefinite article + lasting a large amount of time = Preposition (moving in a constant direction)
      7. Seaduck + To a lower level = British quilt filled with feathers or down
      8. Leak slowly + Time in years = Gradual escape of liquid or gas
      14. Belonging to owner of neck 'apple' + Larger village / smaller city = Pitcairn Island settlement
      16. Viewed + wiped clean of dirt or grime = Sprinkled very fine particles of wood
      17. A band for tightening + Methods or manners of doing something = Highways surrounding an urban area
      18. A light red + Ocular apparatus = Conjunctivitis
      20. Express grievances publicly + The chief of a group = Pejorative term for someone who is not bright
      21. Gap between shoulder and hand + Collective possessive pronoun = Protective covering (British)
      23. When necessary (2,3)
      24. Person with high moral principles OR a person who is member of the aristocracy