This puzzle has been solved, but a partial solution and a second chance to win 50,000 PEP is available here.
Solve to gain access to a Pepecoin prize wallet containing Ᵽ250,000.
Prize wallet address: PbiYF7Dpb2VJjNb4yNKqqeYNcL81fNbLwi.
Some clues’ wordplay generates an extra letter. The remaining clues contain a misprint (except for one instance, all misprints are in the definition). In clue order, the misprints describe what must be done with the other clues and their entries.
Good luck!
Note: This is an English-style ‘advanced cryptic’ like the Listener or those published by The Magpie. There are plenty of resources online about how to solve cryptic crosswords that may be of assistance to solvers.
Across
1 Cryptic PEP datum not quite correct (6)
5 Chapter encompasses the French male’s charm (6)
10 Freak’s mother cycling back (7)
11 Mares add 95 to Big Bird’s head (7)
12 Learn about chemistry project (6)
15 Lenses snapped in half after a view (2)
16 Relative wrote about $100 Colorado tax at a bar? (7)
17 Soul gossip (4)
18 Busk regularly in idle year (4)
19 Unease from embargo against Chinese leader and Latin axis (7)
20 Sod is careless and wanton on vacation (4)
22 Heap of mascaras left by short Arab (4)
25 Warrant principally executed on my pal, who’s in the red (7)
27 Neat reverend replacing duck in children’s toilet (6)
28 Granny getting into R&D with old man, initially by chance (6)
31 Broad following exposes façade (7)
32 Gee in pain, taking abrupt strain to the back (7)
33 Human statistician named Karl (6)
34 Ecosystem established by Pepecoin (compared to Dogecoin) (6)
Down
2 Leonard has puff with that woman (7)
3 Wheezing chapel master in bedlam must expel eccentric creep (6)
4 Make nuclear supporting charge (4)
5 Bone stuffed by pump-action (4)
6 Take ox from silent drunk (6)
7 Tweets from a stranger’s band jam (7)
8 After playing (with curious rear) masquerader may be this (6)
9 Look around Turkey with time for a …? (6)
13 Coy gnome rebuilt financial organisation (7)
14 Keep track of what patriot in Oman’s smuggling northwards (7)
15 Wore weave on earth (7)
20 Small PC letters on bottom of page 1, perhaps written in fold (6)
21 Swelter, going berserk for bottle in the ring (7)
23 Speech sums up media’s first failing (7)
24 Reason for calculator? (6)
25 Criminal ditches code of conduct (6)
26 The introduction of republicanism comes after British rule, preferably (6)
29 Veggie who’s of golden dye fame (4)
30 Downhaul flayed, partially? (4)
