Mixed Emotions by Miss Terry

Puzzle explanation

Fourteen answers were too long for their grid entries and had to have a jumbled (mixed) emotion removed before entry. The six unclued entries were formed by jumbling pairs of the removed emotions. The two emotions left over were WOE and HOPE, jumbled together to give the final answer WHOOPEE.

This puzzle was a tie-in with the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt in Boston, Massachusetts. Teams entering the Hunt had to solve a large number of puzzles, including this crossword, over the course of a weekend, in a race to find a hidden object.

Clue explanations

Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal

No Emotion Answer (removed letters) Explanation
Across
    GENERATIONAL (ANGER + ELATION) *
8 AGONY C(YANOG)EN EGO < in NANCY *
10   HAVING HALVING − (goa)L
11   NAPALM PAL in NAM
12   MENTO MEN + TO
13   FLOR FL + OR
15   NE PLUS ULTRA NEUTRAL * around PLUS
18 AWE LIM(EWA)TER (WAITER + MEAL − A) *
21   ÉTAT (b)ETA T(esting)
22   ONLY WANTONLY − WANT
24 LOVE TRA(VELO)GUE (AVE + LOG) in TRUE
26   GARAND RIFLE GAR + AND + RIFE around (cana)L
29 FEAR (FERA)CITY (AFTER ICY) *
32   NGAIO (AI + O) after NG
34 ANGER AR(RANGE)ABLE (ARAB GENERAL) *
36   BLAZER LAZE in BR
37 ELATION N(ATIONLE)SS (AS NELSON + IT) *
    REREGISTERED (DESIRE + REGRET) *
Down
    GENEALOGY (AGONY + GLEE) *
1 PITY E(TYPI)CAL (Y(et) P(ut) I(n) C(ategories)) in ET AL
2   ENA ANE <; ref. 35dn
3   RILL (t)RILL
4   ARMOURED CAR (AR + AR) around DECORUM *
5   IAMB (Will)IAM B(lake)
    OVERLEAF (FEAR + LOVE) *
6   NINE N(ewman) + IN + E
7 GLEE (ELEG)ANT (fin)E LEG ANT(iguan)
9 DESIRE EPHEM(ERIDES) EPHEMERID + E(ntrie)S
10   HORSE TRIALS (ET + RIAL’S) after HORS
14   PRAU (S)P(a)R(t)A(c)U(s)
    WATER HEAD (AWE + HATRED) *
    PTYALIZE (PITY + ZEAL) *
16 HATRED (THREAD)LET (HE RATTLED) *
17 HOPE T(OPHE)T TOP-HAT with E for A
19 REGRET IN(TERREG)AL (REIGN + ALTER(nance)) *
20   SRI (women’)S RI(ghts)
23 WOE L(OWE)R OWE in (L + R)
25   GLOBS G + LOBS
27   HAAR H + AA + R(emove)
28   ROEG RO(m) + EG
30   TRAT (s)TART <
31   ELSE NIN around ELSE = NIELSEN; ref. Joaquín Nin
33 ZEAL G(AZEL)LE GALE around ZEL
35   ANE (J)ANE(T)
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