Solution: The Copy Culture Cryptic Crossword
from the filling-in-the-blanks dept
Last Saturday, I posted The Copy Culture Cryptic Crossword, just in case there were any cryptic fans in the Techdirt audience. It turns out there are quite a few, including at least one AC who almost solved it in less than 24 hours. All in all it was a great response, and while I can't promise regular cryptics on Techdirt, I will definitely try to put another one together in the not-too-distant future.
But, for now, it's time to reveal the solution to last week's puzzle. The completed grid is below, followed by a list of answers. I've used some basic notation to show how the answers were arrived at wherever it's easy to do so in a self-explanatory way; as for the rest, I'll answer any questions (and accept any criticisms for sloppy clue-writing) in the comments! One reasonable concern was already raised, which is that BMG is not quite a "collection society" by definition, and on that one I offer a mea culpa.
![The Copy Culture Cryptic Crossword Solution](https://i.imgur.com/aBjR0wh.png)
1. Kick start (4)
BOOT
3. Right after six, America gets infection (5)
VI+R+US
6. With acknowledgements, reveals modification (4)
HACK
8. Collaborated on and bragged about bad grade at bad church (12)
CROW(D+SOUR+C)ED
10. Software publishers initially bemoan slow adoption (3)
BSA
11. Television standard is oddly not a sect (4)
NTSC
13. Terrible prefix and terrific prefix for the obsolete (4)
DINO
15. Note measurement for collection society (3)
B+MG
16. Cultural commons remixed old iambic pun (6,6)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
17. Activists cut short, shortly (4)
ANON
18. Amended drier amendment (5)
RIDER
19. Bully sacrifices rights for a fee (4)
TOLL