Level 463 Solution

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Solution Grid

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Across

3. DRAGON
  • -
  • Chinese zodiac sign
  • Fire-breathing beast
  • Puff, for one
  • Mythical monster
5. PUPA
  • Insect stage
  • Cocoon occupant
  • Chrysalis
  • Metamorphosis stage
  • Stage after larva
7. ACHIEVEMENT
  • Great accomplishment
  • Feat
  • Axe literally bit by bit setter in opening or completion
  • The death of endeavour and the birth of disgust, according to Ambrose Bierce
  • Success
8. PLACEBO
  • Sugar pill
  • Controversial testing component
  • Medical test control substance
  • Fake medicine
  • Sugar pill, say

Down

1. ORTHOPTERA
  • Grasshoppers and crickets
  • Crickets and grasshoppers in hotpot, rare in a stew!
2. DECLARATION
  • Announcement
  • Second word of 17 Across
  • Apt anagram of AN ORAL EDICT
  • With 114-Across, source of the phrase formed by the ends of eight answers in this puzzle
  • Announcement.
4. INSOMNIA
  • Sleeplessness
  • Inability to sleep
  • Retirement obstacle
  • Problem addressed by counters
  • Certain counter's woe
6. PLACENTA
  • Womb nourishment
  • One end of an umbilical cord
  • First warm blanket?
  • Prenatal nourishment source
  • An embryo gets nutrients and oxygen through this

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