October Cocktail: Atomic Solution

49 of you solved the October Cocktail puzzle, Atomic, with 27 solving the original puzzle within a week 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, December 13, at 4pm Eastern.

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Negroni

The compounds, all eleven letters long, are

WETINFANTRY, FOSSILVERSE, TURBORONNIE, SPARSENICHE, CONSULFUROR, DECOBALTICS, OPERADONORS, HOYTTRIUMPH, MARINEONION, DEARGONDOLA

and are hiding the bolded elements. Their periodic table abbreviations give you four short words: SNAG, BASS, CORNY, and NEAR. These words are alternate answers to four straight definitions, whose original answers are shown in blue in the grid. The first letters, shown in red, make your final answer, NUKE. This cocktail was created in Las Vegas for tourists coming to watch the nuclear tests.

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.