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Cross/Pass

Solution

These are cryptic crossword clues. The crossword’s solution is:

D
T R
W O N D E R F U L
R A E
R E C O R D E D V S E T
H S E O
R C O
E M I S S I O N B
F A
V E R I F I E D
E
T E A C H
B
P U H
O S P E C I A L
W K N
B E L L O W S D
R

Across
3. Great, now Retirement’s finally solved (with broken “F” rule) (9)

WONDERFUL - NOW reversed + _D (finally solved) + anagram of FRULE

5. Took notes about wire with, initially, electrical defect (8)

RECORDED - RE (about) + CORD (wire) + E_ D_ (initially, electrical defect)

6. Zawu module’s place (3)

SET - double definition; Zawu module = S.E.T. and place = set

9. Finishing part of large mission leads to excretion (8)

EMISSION - _E (finishing part of large) + MISSION

10. Checked the answers? Never! (If I edited parts...) (8)

VERIFIED - hidden in neVER IF I EDited

11. Cheat carelessly to “help learn” (5)

TEACH - anagram of CHEAT

14. Elias’ PC could be better than usual (7)

SPECIAL - anagram of ELIAS PC

15. Screams is below around 50 points, ultimately (7)

BELLOWS - BELOW around L (50) + _S (points, ultimately)


Down
1. First of defuser’s reads creates fears (6)

DREADS - D_ (first of defuser’s) + READS

2. Light found in elevator challenge (5)

TORCH - hidden in elevaTOR CHallenge

4. LeGeND’s heartlessly taking (mostly) every Switches (6)

LEVERS - L(-egend)S (LeGeND’s heartlessly) around EVER(-y) (mostly every)

7. Really? Bamboozled Again defusal’s primarily pity (3 3)

TOO BAD - TOO (really) + BA + D_ (defusal’s primarily)

8. Starts to calculate other financial price (with dollars) for Royal_Flu$h module (11)

COFFEEBUCKS - C_ O_ F_ (starts to calculate other financial) + FEE + BUCKS

12. Er... after boss module, right? (5)

POWER - ER after POW (boss module)

13. Give full house, e.g. (4)

HAND - double definition; give = hand (over) and full house, e.g. = hand (as in poker)

Now that the crossword is done, we need to extract an answer. As hinted by the title, every clue contains a word from Password (Cross-word/Pass-word). In addition to this, there are as many words in each clue as letters in their answer (for example, “Give full house, e.g.” is 4 words long and has a 4 letter answer). Finally, the Password words used are only the first 15 words in the Password table.

Take the letter in the same position as the Password word, then order the letters with the Password words to get the answer

COOLER DOWNSHIFT