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#1100 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 25, 2013, 09:51:44 pm
yeah same answer.

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#1101 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 26, 2013, 08:47:50 am
Hold the front page. Angry protesters pass without tears (4,5)

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#1102 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 26, 2013, 12:09:38 pm
Latest grieveances listed in "Stop Press"? [5,6]

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#1103 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 02, 2013, 05:44:39 am
Latest grievances listed in "Stop Press"? [5,6]


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#1104 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 07, 2013, 05:01:04 pm
We all cool with this, or do you good people need another visual clue?


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#1105 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 09, 2013, 03:16:57 pm
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#1106 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 10, 2013, 08:35:13 am
Final scores lead to perfect eyesight (6, 6, 6) ..........

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#1107 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 10, 2013, 09:07:07 am
Blooming coach has Twenty20 vision (4,6)

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#1108 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 10, 2013, 09:26:34 am
Andy Flower

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#1109 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 10, 2013, 09:27:44 am
And the answer to the previous post is in the last post!

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#1110 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 10, 2013, 10:17:56 am
Good, now post a clue involving the answer, as per usual...

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#1111 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 10, 2013, 10:48:29 am
Balls, I missed the point (completely)
should have read the thread not the last post....

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#1112 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 11, 2013, 07:10:32 pm
Balls, I missed the point (completely)
should have read the thread not the last post....

When you're ready kidder…


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#1113 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 12, 2013, 02:49:52 pm
Has anyone out there got a clue with which to pick the ball up on this one?

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#1114 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 12, 2013, 02:52:24 pm
Andy Flower's new foundation (4)

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#1115 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 25, 2013, 02:40:27 pm
Andy Flower's new foundation (4)

Brown's way by root route - a marsupial's issue? (4,5)

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#1116 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 25, 2013, 03:20:19 pm
I am the first to admit i ain't the sharpest tool in the box.

Will somebody please explain in simple terms for simple folks how this thread works?

Marsupial's issue?

What's the answer?

Joey spunk?

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#1117 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
April 25, 2013, 05:28:55 pm
Joey spunk?

 :no: ....but I like your thinking.

Likewise I get may called a tool often; sharp not so much. But it's just a matter  of following cryptic crossword rules: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/03/how-to-solve-cryptic-crossword

...plus including the answer to the previous question in the new clue you set. So with the previous one:

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Andy Flower's new foundation (4)

...you know the answer's going to be at the start of the clue or the end: ie Andy, Andy Flower, or foundation, or new foundation, and is going to be four letters long.

Then you need to work out what sort of clue it is (see link for types of clue). The word 'new' might at first sight suggest an anagram is involved, using the letters of 'foundation' mixed up in some way. But given the answer's only four letters this can't be the case. So I guessed it was a kind of pun. And vaguely remembered that Andy Flower is the England cricket coach - actually looking at the thread this is spelt out, though I didn't notice - and that there's a new batsman called Root. And root is just about a synonym for foundation, enough for me to hope it's the right answer anyway and stick it in my clue. Which someone may want to get round to solving in the next day or so, so I'll say no more. Oh aye and a little bit of climbing trivia tends to get mixed in from time to time.





« Last Edit: April 25, 2013, 05:34:24 pm by johnx2 »

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okay should have said

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Brown's way by root route - sounds like a marsupial's issue? (4,5)
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anyone want a clue?

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I searched the UKC database for routes called root route but only found things called route right of root route and others. Am I barking at the wrong tree root?

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what some might call cheating (but we're reached that point), I would call barking up entirely the right tree. 

http://www.ukclimbing.com/general/search.html?cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&cx=012320157739014986830%3Azyxmlwsazli&q=root+route&sa.x=1&sa.y=13

(First hit - ignore sussex nonsense. Could also be done via the shite pun. A clue I for which I should apologise.)

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OK, I think I've got it but I'm struggling to link it to the shit pun. The fruit of the kangaroo's loins? Anyway...

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OK, I think I've got it but I'm struggling to link it to the shit pun.

issue = offspring = fruit  in about the tenth definition of each. 

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#1123 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 16, 2019, 09:39:39 pm
[Apologies for thread resurrection]

Seem to recall a few UKB-ers having ambitions around completing a Guardian Cryptic.

Well, based on how unusually quick I've coursed through today's, if you still have that ambition get on it!

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#1124 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 16, 2019, 10:14:46 pm
Do they do a Saturday one? Got a link?

 

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