Hah I've printed it off & will have a crack maybe Boxing Day but my initial reaction to these is always jfc
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Sunday, 24 December 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
I've started it, it's not so bad. As ever the special instructions are confusingly worded so they sound more complicated than they are - basically each set contains two complete clues, definition and all, and you have to add a letter to one of the solutions to form a new word. Does that make sense?
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
what's this about now?
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
saturday's guardian holiday crossword.
― koogs, Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
it's not on the site because it has two grids. i can post it if you're interested.
― koogs, Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
is this it? https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/2017/dec/24/jumbo-everyman-christmas-crossword
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Sunday, 24 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
no. two identical 15x15 grids with special instructions
― koogs, Sunday, 24 December 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
It's the prize xword
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Sunday, 24 December 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
this must be it https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/2017/dec/23/prize-crossword-no-27388
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Sunday, 24 December 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
That's the one
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Sunday, 24 December 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
each set contains two complete clues, definition and allno, one is undefined!
― Here comes the phantom menace (ledge), Monday, 25 December 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link
ps happy christmas!
Oh sure the new words aren't defined, I just mean that neither of the clues is just the wordplay part (which is what I usually dislike about "not further defined"), so eg a (6;6) has a pair of complete clues inc definitions but one will be for a 5-letter word & then you just need to add a letter to make another word. By maskerade's standards, not that annoying imo!And yes, merry x(word)mas!
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Monday, 25 December 2017 10:12 (six years ago) link
hmm putting it like that doesn't sound so bad. i've only been looking at this with the 1% of my attention left over from looking after a 21 month old, maybe that explains my difficulties.
― Here comes the phantom menace (ledge), Monday, 25 December 2017 10:36 (six years ago) link
Nice one in the Gdn today:
After drink, rock group has drugs for another group (8)
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 07:45 (six years ago) link
got stuck on '...eloes' then thought hmm maybe it's not elo, bingo.
― lana del boy (ledge), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
Oh that's a great one! Took me Ledge's comment to get it though
― carrotless, turnip-pocketed (fionnland), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
Couldn't get it, had to cheat and peek. "ES" for drugs bugs me.
This one made me laugh recently: Vegetable rubbish in dump (6)
― No energy, only great chaos (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
Can someone tell me that drinks one please? I think I have it but not sure...
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
Supremes
― stuck on the darraghmac (qiqing), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
Guessed REM right away as it's a short name that could fit in other words. Didn't get the rest.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
that's what i thought but wasn't sure about 'sup'.
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
sup = drink
Continuing the musical theme:
Type of rock garden looked a mess to begin with (4)
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 22 March 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
Glam
Here's my horribly formed clue for the day:
Submit before backwards hood and spread end out and in (10,6)
― stuck on the darraghmac (qiqing), Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
how about a hint?
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 25 March 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
DN
― stuck on the darraghmac (qiqing), Sunday, 25 March 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
Laughed out loud at this one in the Guardian:
Home with red exterior? Blow me! (8)
― hair-grabbing ear-grabbing fetishist squaredance caller (Dan Peterson), Monday, 23 April 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
Novel end for festival with electronic beams wrapping displays up (3,10)
please to explain. 'end of festival' is l, 'electronic' is e, 'beams' is in there as well, but the rest of it?
― koogs, Monday, 14 May 2018 08:21 (five years ago) link
"displays up" = serab = "bares" up, beams = smiles. It's pretty tortuous but I think it works?
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, 14 May 2018 08:26 (five years ago) link
i hope it was a down not an across clue...
― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 14 May 2018 08:28 (five years ago) link
This was a good one from Saturday's Guardian:
Children's book in minor novel (3, 5)
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, 14 May 2018 08:28 (five years ago) link
Bewildered risible shits (7, 5)
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Thursday, 16 August 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
lol
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 16 August 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
invisiturds
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 August 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
*applause*Guardian Cryptic crossword No 27,595, 17 Down: Jimmy Carr, with offshore banking, primarily fiddled (7)
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
I think I get it but I don't know how. Is it a word that could be split in two to form a verb?
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
Not sure I know what you mean. It’s a verb, one word, you could split it into two words but then it wouldn’t be a verb
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
like 'X is going to .... ...'
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
No sorry idgi
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
I think I done it wrong, will think on
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
i done got it, it's good. don't think it's strictly ximenean though, apologies for nit-picking. it's good, it's fun, that's all that matters \o/
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Thursday, 23 August 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
presumably summat to do with first violin
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 August 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
there was another great clue in today's Graun:
Let's take most of Harrison Ford's fantastic film (7, 2, 3, 4, 3)
― Neil S, Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
I don’t think I’ll ever understand what ximenean means because I don’t see anything remotely cheaty about the jimmy carr clue
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
I looked up the Jimmy Carr one. I'll forever be a newb at these but what part hints at the meaning of the answer? I was doing what i always do which is madly guessing the word then trying to retcon the clue.
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
oh nm I see it now
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
one day i will understand a single cryptic crossword clue
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
> I looked up the Jimmy Carr one. I'll forever be a newb at these but what part hints at the meaning of the answer?
SPOILERS
With the Jimmy Carr one, "Carr with offshore banking" contribute letters to the answer and "primarily fiddled" tells you how to get and what to do with those letters which leaves "Jimmy" as the definition. Then you just have to rely on your knowledge of Victorian criminal slang 8)
― koogs, Friday, 24 August 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
Well it's the worst kind of old-fashioned prescriptivist pedanticism which even i rmde at; but although the words are in the right order, Carr, with offshore banking, primarily can't really mean carr & wob. The second comma is the problem - Carr, with offshore banking primarily, would be ok, and more or less leave the surface reading intact.
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 24 August 2018 07:13 (five years ago) link
some kind of anag, 'something of the something something', need letters!
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 24 August 2018 07:14 (five years ago) link