A Mind-flexing Exercise

The suspect told me that there are four ways to flex my mind, but only one worked for me.

Row Clues


  1. Lighted anew / Made up of two chambers
  2. Harmful / Refrigerator
    City scenes / Surgical locations (2 words)
  3. Delicately / Flatmates
    Combine / Home of Friendship (3 words)
  4. Jack the Ripper, for instance (2 words) / Type of galaxy (2 words)
    Collapse (2 words) / Storage facility
  5. 300th anniversary / Converts back
    Drilled a burr hole / Fully exposed in Britain?
  6. Isolate / Shakespearean sprite
    Noisy quarrels / Trap for catching crayfish (2 words)
  7. Hindering agents / Topic studied in Course 16
    Making less significant? (2 words) / Like
  8. Allocating jobs / , and
    Arouse again / Punctuation symbol (2 words)
  9. Australian city / Short term investments (2 words)
    Purchase for moving cross-country (2 words, hyph) / Replace book
  10. Sports déjà vu (2 words) / Tiled
    Small communities / Things of distinction
  11. Forceful prevention / Ursa Minor (2 words)
    Speedy González y Bender, por ejemplo / Stewards
  12. Cause disturbance / Exceeded

Final Clues


  • Defunct French automobile
  • Girl's name
  • Greek deity
  • Municipality of Switzerland

Bloom clues

White


  • Flat cap
  • Fluttered
  • More rectangular
  • Brass band instrument
  • Position indicator
  • Italian director Vittorio
  • Large property
  • Knight of the Round Table
  • Vest material
  • Most recent
  • Full of spirit
  • Irritate
  • Shakespearean Duke
  • Superficial exterior
  • Spanish coin
  • Precipitated
  • Forest protector
  • Appraising
  • Employs again
  • Soft noise
  • Military engineer
  • Appeasing
  • World record holder for static apnea
  • Slopes
  • Small upright piano
  • Voice of Governor Ratcliffe
  • Exhaustively searches
  • Unexpected victories

Grey


  • Stiff bristle
  • Roman orator
  • Profanity speaker
  • Refusal
  • Fills with optimism
  • 'Metamorphosis' artist
  • Chlorofluorocarbons
  • Lubricate
  • Ancient vessel
  • Crippling
  • Cloak
  • Sugar-rich liquid
  • Aristocrats
  • Started a speech
  • Nobel Laureate Harold
  • Full page illustrations
  • Phone button
  • Completed again
  • Mechanical fasteners
  • Eleventh Hebrew month
  • One who influences
  • Sixpence (colloq.)
  • King of Iron Fist video game
  • Spatula

Pink


  • Stellar
  • Round loaves
  • Limits
  • 5-spot
  • Count of Monte Cristo
  • Gift recipients
  • Ipecac, for example
  • Place name not used by locals
  • Show of respect
  • Impart gradually (Brit. var.)
  • Instructive example
  • Personification of wealth
  • Wall paintings
  • Gather
  • Sorrow
  • Distant
  • Dwell
  • Directionless magnitude
  • Type of acid from rowan berries
  • More concise
  • Conclude (2 words)
  • Diaereses
  • Fearful
  • Oscitated