April Cocktail: Disco Sour Solution

55 of you solved the April Cocktail puzzle, Disco Sour, with 43 solving the original puzzle within two weeks without any help. Congratulations to all! Below is the solved grid and an explanation of the final answer. A full solution, including cryptic solutions to every clue, is available for download on my Patreon page. If you haven't joined, sign up at https://www.patreon.com/negronis_cocktails, which will also give you access to future puzzles. The next Cocktail will launch on Saturday, April 11, at 4pm Eastern.

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Negroni

Five answers need to have the letters PH replaced by a single letter before entry into the grid. The single letter replacements (pink in the grid), in grid order, make the first word of your answer, DANCE. In addition, the five 13-letter theme entries contain the word DISCO within them (light blue), with one letter altered. In the order of which letter was altered, the replacement letters (rainbow color order in the grid) spell out the second word of your answer, PARTY. The final answer, DANCE PARTY, is exactly the kind of event that would lend itself to this kind of color-changing cocktail.

About Me

My name is Martin Reinfried, and in some circles, I am known as Negroni. I have been writing puzzles for a long time, both for work and for fun, and I have always been enamored of cryptic crosswords, especially variety cryptics. I have written several variety cryptics, some for fun, some appearing in the MIT Mystery Hunt, and some published in the National Puzzlers League's Enigma magazine. Most of the variety cryptics I have written can be accessed at negroni.fun/puzzles. I am a software engineer, and I have been a co-founder of a couple of companies, including Shinteki, where I wrote a mobile app to run puzzle-based events. I live in Telluride, CO with my wife Dennise and son Max, and I look forward to providing you with a steady stream of variety cryptic puzzles.