juff's cryptic crosswords

Hi all.  This is the second in what I've decided to make a series called "Bad Idea."  (I've gone back and labelled Mini #2 as also being Bad Idea #1.)   Basically a Bad Idea puzzle is one that breaks a fundamental rule of cryptics in some kind of way, trying to push things as far as they can and see if they break.  Did they break?  That's for you to decide I guess.  It's definitely a puzzle that might be more clever than fun. But I hope you have fun anyway!  I suspect that solvers who usually look at all the acrosses and then look at all the downs for their first pass will have a better time if they do the downs first for this one maybe?  But follow your heart.  Thanks to danandbabka , MP and Liari for the test solves! Solve in-browser PDF ipuz  

Today's puzzle is a real treat! I'm delighted to present this puzzle I made with my co-setters Saroota and Skaldskaparmal , both of whom are newer setters like me.  Check out their puzzles!  (Go Cryptic class of '22!) (Fullscreen solve here .) Thanks a ton to our test solvers, VraieAmy and Steve Mossberg . Also--solvers who spend time hanging out in the cryptic crossword Twitch.tv community might be appreciate this slightly alternate version which includes a couple in-jokes and references for that crowd.  And if you're not in that crowd, come join us!  I stream here on no particular schedule, but if you search twitch.tv for cryptic crosswords there are friendly and fun people streaming at all hours.