Authors: Brandy Buckingham and Robbie Buckingham
Summary:
Word chains:
WILLIAM - MOBILE - EGGROLL - LEVIABLE - EELER - ROW
PATRICK - KEGGER - ROYALTY - YOKING - GEEZER - RAMP
AVERY - YON - NONSINGING - GERM - MAYANART - TIENDA
KATE - EFFUSE - ECHIDNA - ANTHRO - OFFENDS - SHRANK
SCOTT - TERRACE - ERROR - RIOTACT - TEAPOT - TETRIS
Cryptic Clue answers:
Acolyte Yar shuffled, removing ace, kings, and queens (7)
anagram(ACOLYTEYAR) - ACE = ROYALTY
Alien chained to egg-laying mammal (7)
anagram(CHAINED) = ECHIDNA
At first, Geordi engineered radioactive meals for a microorganism (4)
first letters = GERM
Beginnings of Rules of Acquisition: Remove top grade tungsten in straight line (3)
ROA - A + W = ROW
Bird enclosure loses retrograde AI; Ezri initially goes in instead to label company (5)
AVIARY - IA + E = AVERY
Black-eyed pea for Riker (7)
double definition = WILLIAM
Computer game brought in to liberate Triskelion (6)
libera(teTris)kelion = TETRIS
Crazed group with last of Ferengi, ends of Loque'eque is ready to go (6)
MOB + I + LE = MOBILE
Disturbs Toff's last three objects (7)
OFF + ENDS = OFFENDS
Ergo, Gorn or Lily oddly gives Chinese snack (7)
odd letters(ErGoGoRnOrLiLy) = EGGROLL
Evil alien adept and can be taxed (8)
anagram(EVIL) + ABLE = LEVIABLE
In the end, McCoy approving the harnessing of oxen(6)
Y + OKING = YOKING
Janeway's back on remote (3)
Y + ON = YON
Laren goes after half of amaranth for college class, in short (6)
ANTH + RO = ANTHRO
Leaders of Romulus and Malon Prime are way off (4)
first letters = RAMP
Mesoamerican sculpture angered Yar at man (5 3)
anagram(YARATMAN) = MAYAN ART
Mexican store to draw leaders of Nuvians, Denebians, Andorians (6)
TIE + N + D + A = TIENDA
Montgomery is one from Edinburgh town originally (5)
SCOT + T = SCOTT
Neelix removing nitrogen, subtracting nine, including erbium for a certain fisherman (5)
NEELIX - N - IX + ER = EELER
Nomad must sterilize if you are guilty of this baseless fear (5)
TERROR - T = ERROR
Pair of Efrosians attach to fuse, gush (6)
EF + FUSE = EFFUSE
Picard's head stuffed in a tote - unfortunately, it holds his Earl Grey (6)
anagram(ATOTE + P) = TEAPOT
Quiet Ensign or Commander was made smaller (6)
SH + RANK = SHRANK
Speaking only has confused Nog sinning (3-7)
anagram(NOGSINNING) = NON-SINGING
Spock, a terribly disguised girl (4)
Spoc(kate)rribly = KATE
Strangely apt, Producer Berman is Irish saint (7)
anagram(APT) + RICK = PATRICK
Torres plays, loses, so takes ace from deck (7)
anagram(TORRES) - SO + ACE = TERRACE
Troi messed up several scenes; result could be read to the unruly (4 3)
anagram(TROI) + ACT = RIOT ACT
Ultimately, Borg made the jazz devotee Riker an old man (6)
last letters = GEEZER
Wild party involves mixed-up EKG and Barclay briefly backwards (6)
anagram(EKG) + backwards(REG) = KEGGER
Bonus: The following clues were to be used in an alternate version of this puzzle with a different solution:
Abominable monsters built from final pieces of every chocolate that Troi likes (5)
Egad! Getaway contains holo-imager for one (6)
Seasoning eaten by Picard's alternate (4)
Sounds like Toq's speeches (5)
Tin Bird-of-Prey joins charged particles to create Tibetan emblems (4 5)
T'Pol takes in Yolen primarily, meets leaders of Octran, Gorn, Yash-El to create classification system (8)
With tip of transporter, Wesley initially fell out of warp, finding cover (4)
ANSWERS TO BONUS CLUES:
Abominable monsters built from final pieces of every chocolate that Troi likes (5)
last letters = YETIS
Egad! Getaway contains holo-imager for one (6)
e(GAD GET)away = GADGET
Seasoning eaten by Picard's alternate (4)
Picard'(S ALT)ernate = SALT
Sounds like Toq's speeches (5)
homophone(TOQ'S) = TALKS
Tin Bird-of-Prey joins charged particles to create Tibetan emblems (4 5)
SN + OWL + IONS = SNOW LIONS
T'Pol takes in Yolen primarily, meets leaders of Octran, Gorn, Yash-El to create classification system (8)
TPOL + Y + O + G + Y = TYPOLOGY
With tip of transporter, Wesley initially fell out of warp, finding cover (4)
T + WARP - W = TARP