[tomtom]

www.guardian.co.uk/saturdaycrossword

[Will Hunt]

Ffs! 

[tomtom]

Ffs! 

😂😂

[tommytwotone]

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.

[Duma]

Very much liked this from this week's quiptic:

Hugo Boss announcing no neckwear for a decade (

[Stabbsy]

Very much liked this from this week's quiptic:

Hugo Boss announcing no neckwear for a decade (

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

[Duma]

Thought they were pretty famously German? (Nazi uniforms etc)

[Stabbsy]

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.

[nik at work]

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.

[Will Hunt]

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.

[Stabbsy]

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?

[Will Hunt]

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.

[Ross Barker]

If it's a crossword, shouldn't we know how long the word should be?

[nik at work]

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??)

[nik at work]

Or just consider neckwear as a separate element I suppose, but that doesn’t seem as neat to me.

[Stabbsy]

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.

[Stabbsy]

One from yesterday’s Guardian that I’ve not quite finished yet :-

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

[remus]

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

so

Code: [Select]

(8)
turns in to (

[Ross Barker]

If it's Hugo Boss saying "no", as he's German wouldn't that be "nein", pronounced "nine", therefore giving us the decade "nineties"?

[SA Chris]

nice, but nineties are more than a decade ago.

[lukeyboy]

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...

[tommytwotone]

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?

[teestub]

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!

[tlr]

It’s not Exhibit.

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

[teestub]

A ha! Thank you