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#25 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 10, 2011, 03:47:36 pm
 :-[

Oops. Haha!

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#26 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 10, 2011, 04:17:10 pm
Okay, okay, okay . . . I think i've got Duma's one. Is it hokey? If not i'll get my coat.

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#27 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 10, 2011, 04:31:02 pm
indeed - now you get to play setter.

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#28 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 10, 2011, 09:09:25 pm
I've come up with one. Apologies if it is rubbish. Here goes:

Hokey ancient headgear (3,3)

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#29 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 10, 2011, 11:32:55 pm
OK then.


You seem to have got the idea; however, the idea is just because you're finding it difficult doesn't mean you can abandon it and plough your own furrow - it is supposed to make you think!

(About a day is probably the right amount of time to leave it before demanding a response from the setter)

The clue that is "live" is

"Republicans answer ram" [13]

-EA-----A--E-

The clue could have equally been cast as

"Tories response to Ram"

(the capital letter on "Ram" is significant)

- and it is Ximenian - it's unambiguous, self-contained, and straightforward - it consists  of a clue, a definition, and nothing else - rather than Araucarian - "I don't have to mean what I say, but I do have to say what I mean"

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#30 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 08:13:28 am
and what part of that post is supposed to help us?

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#31 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 08:26:31 am
I've now got

REACTIONA--E-

but this is confusing when the orignal clue didn't have a capital  :shrug:

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(the capital letter on "Ram" is significant)

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#32 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 09:00:26 am
"Republicans answer ram" [13]

ok, i'll have a go...

Reactionaries leave note and sign for graphic art [7]

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#33 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 09:28:43 am
Is it "drawing"?  :-\

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#34 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 10:06:17 am
Could people also post an explanation of how they got their answer as well as another clue. It might help those who are useless at these things (i.e. me) get a bit better, or it might just confuse me even more...

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#35 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 10:15:26 am
Could people also post an explanation of how they got their answer as well as another clue. It might help those who are useless at these things (i.e. me) get a bit better, or it might just confuse me even more...

Tories/Republicans = Reactionaries

Answer = Reaction

Ram = Aries

Simple, non?!


Course, I didn't get it  :wall:

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#36 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 11:33:01 am

Reactionaries leave note and sign for graphic art [7]

posters?

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#37 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 11:50:51 am
OK then.


You seem to have got the idea; however, the idea is just because you're finding it difficult doesn't mean you can abandon it and plough your own furrow - it is supposed to make you think!

(About a day is probably the right amount of time to leave it before demanding a response from the setter)

The clue that is "live" is

"Republicans answer ram" [13]

-EA-----A--E-

The clue could have equally been cast as

"Tories response to Ram"

(the capital letter on "Ram" is significant)

- and it is Ximenian - it's unambiguous, self-contained, and straightforward - it consists  of a clue, a definition, and nothing else - rather than Araucarian - "I don't have to mean what I say, but I do have to say what I mean"
Except the original clue was "US Republicans answer ram" so you didn't have the capital R which would've helped, and it contained "US" - ie "something else" (though I'd happily accept US republicans for reactionaries). I think you started off a little hard for the level of most of us on this board, plus you had the rather large advantage of not having to use a random word in your clue - I found this bit really tricky!

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#38 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 12:54:29 pm

ok, i'll have a go...

Reactionaries leave note and sign for graphic art [7]

Is it DESIGNS?

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#39 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 01:05:16 pm
Is it "drawing"?  :-\


Reactionaries leave note and sign for graphic art [7]

posters?

Nope to both.

Definitely trickier to do an easy one with a big word like that I think!

I didn't get aliceroberts' til the hangman clue, though I figured "aries" at the end, I just got stuck thinking it might begin
 with "con"(servatives) having dismissed reply and response for answer.

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#40 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 01:10:06 pm
Except the original clue was "US Republicans answer ram" so you didn't have the capital R which would've helped, and it contained "US" - ie "something else" (though I'd happily accept US republicans for reactionaries). I think you started off a little hard for the level of most of us on this board, plus you had the rather large advantage of not having to use a random word in your clue - I found this bit really tricky!
Just read that back and it sounds bitchy - apologies, I'm just bitter I couldn't do it!

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#41 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 01:11:26 pm

ok, i'll have a go...

Reactionaries leave note and sign for graphic art [7]

Is it DESIGNS?

No...

This might be a better version:

Reactionaries take point and sign, leaving badly drawn art [7]

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#42 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 04:41:11 pm
"Republicans answer ram" [13]

ok, i'll have a go...

Reactionaries leave note and sign for graphic art [7]


Heavenly body can be found in Erotica, Russell said. [6]

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#43 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 04:57:23 pm
I almost got that one, bah.

I'd still like an explanation for the solutions please as I imagine I'll soon be lost, or at the very least could the solution to the previous clue be highlighted in the new clue.

i.e.
Heavenly body can be found in Erotica, Russell said. [6]

Or something similar please.

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#44 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 05:08:28 pm
Icarus?

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#45 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 06:08:18 pm
?

You're supposed to come up with a clue of your own, containing the answer - not just post the solution

("I've got it, I'm thinking of a reply" should be sufficient if no-one else is essaying a response though if it appears to be "stuck")

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#46 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 06:10:12 pm

ok, i'll have a go...

Reactionaries leave note and sign for graphic art [7]

Is it DESIGNS?

No...

This might be a better version:

Reactionaries take point and sign, leaving badly drawn art [7]


I thought the first one scanned better & was more elegant. (And more accurate in terms of the definition?)

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#47 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 06:11:49 pm
[You're supposed to come up with a clue of your own, containing the answer - not just post the solution

But if you're not sure it's coorect best to check in first no?

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#48 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 06:17:23 pm
[You're supposed to come up with a clue of your own, containing the answer - not just post the solution

But if you're not sure it's coorect best to check in first no?

No. Roll with it, if the setter comes back to gainsay your response, then it goes back. If it's gone on from there just follow the current thread. You'll be here forever if you need every answer corroborating.

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#49 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 09:19:37 pm
Reactionaries leave note and sign for graphic art [7]
This might be a better version:
Reactionaries take point and sign, leaving badly drawn art [7]
I thought the first one scanned better & was more elegant. (And more accurate in terms of the definition?)
but he didn't indicate the anagram in the first, or is that only in the easy crosswords I do?

 

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