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#50 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2011, 09:23:44 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?
Nah, then we've all got nothing to do until you've come up with a clue (like now!). Solving the previous and coming up with a new puzzle, that's the trick.

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#51 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 12:39:35 am
Icarus flew east into the sun but did it make him more audacious? (7)

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#52 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 09:04:17 am

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#53 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 09:24:21 am
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?

I thought graphic alluded to both an anagram (vaguely) and the type of art but then it was throwing people off track a bit.

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#54 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 09:29:03 am
"Voice denied myth" - saucier version of cantos by Dante? [3,6,6]

A clue - should you need one

http://tinyurl.com/6cdlwu6

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#55 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 09:55:13 am
Can I play?

The answer is : the devine comedy


My clue is

Unsettled comedian lacked the energy to be funny (7)


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#56 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 10:10:13 am
You've got to put the answer to the previous clue in your own

(yours is "nomadic", btw)

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#57 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 11:20:01 am
soz try this:

Sampling of ink used to create the Divine comedy (4,9)

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#58 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 11:26:46 am
soz try this:

Sampling of ink used to create the Divine comedy (4,9)


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#59 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 03:43:55 pm
In the pink, flamingos without H5N1. (7).

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#60 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 07:20:59 pm
I'll show you I'm healthy! (7,3,7)

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#61 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 07:47:16 pm
[dullard]
Can one of you explain the wordplay?  :please:
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#62 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 08:04:28 pm
[dullard]
Can one of you explain the wordplay?  :please:
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Other than both halves mean healthy (which I assume you figured)?  :shrug:

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#63 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 08:30:55 pm
No. I missed the subtelty of "Flamingos without H1N5" - I was trying to fit a synonym for flamingo "outside" "flu"

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#64 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 12, 2011, 08:56:35 pm
Sorry, perhaps not the best clue in the world, one that needs a few unches filled in really, but I was distracted by the rugby and not much sprang to mind involving pink flamingos!

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#65 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 13, 2011, 02:23:23 pm
It was fine - nice to see arfk doesn't get them all immediately! Have managed all the answers but the starter (pre extra clues) and Kim's latest, but find thinking of worthy clues really difficult, very impressed with all the efforts so far!

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#66 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 13, 2011, 03:35:15 pm
Arrgh, got Kim's now as well but still can't come up with a decent clue, any online resources to help teach me? Don't wait if you've got it - I'll be here forever.

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#67 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 13, 2011, 03:54:53 pm
Llama leads Darwin to witness the fitness (7)

Once its solved, comments on possible improvements welcome!
« Last Edit: February 13, 2011, 04:00:05 pm by Duma »

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#68 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 14, 2011, 09:58:50 am

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#69 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 14, 2011, 06:23:27 pm
Is everyone else as lost as I am here?

 


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#70 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 14, 2011, 06:46:26 pm
Indeed. I have no idea. And a that picture just confused me more.

I don't even know which word we are looking for a synonym of.

Help.

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#71 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 14, 2011, 06:52:38 pm
I've got a 7-letter synonym* for llama, and a clue for it ready to roll, but can't fathom the wordplay.

Yvon Chouinard leans towards it, but his charity is specifically a llama one, isn't it?


* Not strictly a synonym, a llama is an example of one.

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#72 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 14, 2011, 07:01:01 pm
How do you know your looking for a synonym (of llama)? I'm a complete splat at this stuff so any pointers would be gratefully received...

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#73 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 14, 2011, 07:06:27 pm
The fact that the word camelid has 7 letters is close to an answer as I got.

If you have another clue let's hear it, the 24 hour deadline is nearly up anyway.


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#74 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 14, 2011, 07:11:22 pm
We don't, but you are nearly always looking for a synonym of the first or last word or phrase. It's never in the middle of the clue. Sometimes it's the whole clue that indicates the answer, sometimes both halves (like my clue).

Occasionally it's more complicated, but looking for a synonym is a good start.

 

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