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#1126 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 16, 2019, 10:45:50 pm
Ffs!  :chair:

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#1128 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 17, 2019, 08:00:39 am
Should add that while it was in my opinion not too bad, there were a couple of pretty tough / poor (delete as applicable) clues.


Happy to offer hints if anyone's struggling.

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#1129 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 15, 2021, 09:04:40 pm
Very much liked this from this week's quiptic:

Hugo Boss announcing no neckwear for a decade (8)

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#1130 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 09:45:31 am
Very much liked this from this week's quiptic:

Hugo Boss announcing no neckwear for a decade (8)

Good clue. Wanted it to be Noughties, but couldn’t quite make it work. Hugo Boss reference seems a bit niche though?

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#1131 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 10:00:37 am
Thought they were pretty famously German? (Nazi uniforms etc)

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#1132 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 10:58:37 am
Thought they were pretty famously German? (Nazi uniforms etc)
To everyone, it seems, except me! And I thought it was just the Classics references I didn’t get in cryptic crosswords.

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#1133 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 12:22:20 pm
I thought there should have been a “we hear” or something similar in there…? But then that wouldn’t work with the second half of the answer.

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#1134 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 12:27:20 pm
I thought there should have been a “we hear” or something similar in there…? But then that wouldn’t work with the second half of the answer.

That would be "announcing".

Full disclosure: I'm still stuck with noughties.

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#1135 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 02:02:53 pm
Full disclosure: I'm still stuck with noughties.
As in you want it to be Noughties? Or you can’t see how I got there?

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#1136 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 02:24:43 pm
Full disclosure: I'm still stuck with noughties.
As in you want it to be Noughties? Or you can’t see how I got there?

The former. If Hugo Boss wasn't there it would just about work.

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#1137 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 02:36:05 pm
If it's a crossword, shouldn't we know how long the word should be?

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#1138 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 02:48:18 pm
I thought there should have been a “we hear” or something similar in there…? But then that wouldn’t work with the second half of the answer.

That would be "announcing".

Full disclosure: I'm still stuck with noughties.

But we hear or announcing still only works with the first half of the solution. It’s close to a lovely clue but doesn’t quite make it for me. (Could have changed neckwear to golf accessory??)

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#1139 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 02:50:37 pm
Or just consider neckwear as a separate element I suppose, but that doesn’t seem as neat to me.

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#1140 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 02:55:24 pm
I thought there should have been a “we hear” or something similar in there…? But then that wouldn’t work with the second half of the answer.

That would be "announcing".

Full disclosure: I'm still stuck with noughties.

But we hear or announcing still only works with the first half of the solution. It’s close to a lovely clue but doesn’t quite make it for me. (Could have changed neckwear to golf accessory??)
You need to split the clue and it works fine.

1. Hugo Boss announcing no.
2. Neckwear.

“For a” is just the linking words, decade is the definition. As I said, good clue, just didn’t get the Hugo Boss reference.

Noughties is almost there, in that you have n for no, anagram of Hugo and then ties. So all the letters are kind of explainable, it’s just that the wordplay doesn’t work.

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#1141 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 02:57:08 pm
One from yesterday’s Guardian that I’ve not quite finished yet :-

It’s viewed as what followed Labour’s Callaghan era (7)

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#1142 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 02:59:20 pm
If it's a crossword, shouldn't we know how long the word should be?

8 letters.

Duma's post was a bit cryptic because the forum turns

Code: [Select]
8)

in to 8)

so

Code: [Select]
(8)
turns in to (8)

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#1143 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 03:04:48 pm
If it's Hugo Boss saying "no", as he's German wouldn't that be "nein", pronounced "nine", therefore giving us the decade "nineties"?

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#1144 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 05:13:49 pm
nice, but nineties are more than a decade ago.

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#1145 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 07:18:00 pm
nice, but nineties are more than a decade ago.

The nineties are a decade though, so fit the clue. I'm sure nineties is right.

Stuck on the Callaghan one though...

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#1146 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 08:23:49 pm
One from yesterday’s Guardian that I’ve not quite finished yet :-

It’s viewed as what followed Labour’s Callaghan era (7)

I'm pretty sure it's EXHIBIT, right?


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#1147 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2021, 08:47:34 pm
One from yesterday’s Guardian that I’ve not quite finished yet :-

It’s viewed as what followed Labour’s Callaghan era (7)

I'm pretty sure it's EXHIBIT, right?

I'm terrible at these, but can normally see the logic with the answer. I got the other one after the German hints, but you're going to have to talk me through this one!

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#1148 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 17, 2021, 09:14:49 am
It’s not Exhibit.

Callaghan’s successor with another word for ‘era’ gives something that is looked at.

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#1149 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 17, 2021, 09:28:05 am
A ha! Thank you

 

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