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Aryabhatta
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Cryptic Crossword Clues
« on: Mar 31st, 2008, 11:13am » |
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I intend this thread to be similar to the Rebus thread we had... people post cryptic crossword clue(s) and the others try to solve it. Apologies if there is already a thread...
If you don't know what a cryptic crossword is, you can find information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword
To start off, here is one:
1) cut cut cut (6,2)
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #1 on: Mar 31st, 2008, 2:21pm » |
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Does the (6,2) refer to something about the length of the clue, or is that part of the puzzle?
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #2 on: Mar 31st, 2008, 3:17pm » |
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(6,2) means answer is two words, one 6 letters long and the other 2 letters long.
So, yes, it talks about the length of the answer and is (usually) not part of the clue.
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #3 on: Mar 31st, 2008, 10:46pm » |
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To get the ball rolling, divide up?
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #4 on: Apr 1st, 2008, 1:21am » |
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on Mar 31st, 2008, 10:46pm, ThudanBlunder wrote:| To get the ball rolling, divide up? |
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No... but, If you can show how it fits...
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #5 on: Apr 1st, 2008, 2:04am » |
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censor it
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #6 on: Apr 1st, 2008, 2:23am » |
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action go randomly comes into my mind...
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #7 on: Apr 1st, 2008, 9:53am » |
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None so far. I suggest, with your answer you also include how it fits the clue. That way if a clue permits more than one answer, we can agree to that.
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #8 on: Apr 1st, 2008, 11:31am » |
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I think I've got one that fits
nicked it:
nick, edit=cut, cut
and the third cut is the real definition
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #9 on: Apr 1st, 2008, 1:01pm » |
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That answer may not be what you had in mind, but just in case it is, I suppose I'm up for the next clue.
If your clue was 1 across, mine is an intersecting down. But I won't say where it intersects yet. And if my first answer was wrong, it may not intersect at all. But I'm going to try to make this an actual crossword.
No sound before thugs take back streets (13)
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #10 on: Apr 1st, 2008, 5:04pm » |
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Your answer is acceptable tohuvabohu, though I had a different answer in mind! editedIT, first cut = edit,second cut = edit, third cut = the meaning
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #11 on: Apr 1st, 2008, 7:57pm » |
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on Apr 1st, 2008, 1:01pm, tohuvabohu wrote:
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I read it as:
{No sound (music abrev)}{synonym for thug}{ekat}... all means streets.
But the only 13 letter word I can think of for streets is "thoroughfares".
(damn it, my head seems to be filled with cotton wool)
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #12 on: Apr 2nd, 2008, 6:23am » |
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Now that I see it, I think Grimbal actually got it first, but he was being cryptic. So the first intersecting clue should belong to him. (My clue doesn't link with the correct 1 across, unless it's not 1 across. So let's just table this clue until we find somewhere it fits).
Noke, your head isn't completely filled with cotton wool. You missed a couple cryptic clues, but you're in the right area.
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #13 on: Apr 2nd, 2008, 6:33am » |
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Uh... could you please tell me how to decrypt my clue? Not that I don't know (how silly, who would believe that? Hey, I wrote the clue!), but I want to check that you've got it right.
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #14 on: Apr 2nd, 2008, 6:47am » |
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Okay, maybe not. I just thought censoring could be a cryptic reference to a type of editing, without using the offending word. It was your suggestion of using "it" as the second half that gave me my aha moment, and I thought it might not just have been coincidentally correct. Plus the fact that your guess didn't make any sense at all as a serious guess.
For a really cryptic hint at the right answer how about ebbtides
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #15 on: Apr 2nd, 2008, 7:05am » |
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My answer was just because when you censor a movie you just cut here and there, you cut, cut, cut.
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #16 on: Apr 4th, 2008, 11:09am » |
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Well, my cryptic seems to have killed this thread. Before everybody goes home for the weekend, maybe I need to give a clue or two, or suggest others go ahead and post additional cryptics without waiting for solutions.
Hints:
I was going for a 1 down answer to link with "nicked it" so the first letter is N.
The straight clue within the clue needs to be interpreted a little more broadly than Noke was thinking.
a couple standard cryptic code words that Noke missed in attempting to parse the riddle: sound and before
And a second cryptic that I thought of at the same time, but couldn't quite get the wording the way I'd like it, but maybe it's a little easier anyway:
To be or not, East to West, a man yet not. (5)
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #17 on: Apr 5th, 2008, 6:27am » |
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I've not got any new clue to offer, but the answer to tohuvabohu's is:
neighborhoods
Reasoning:
[No sounds] Neigh [before [...] take (rob) back] bor [thugs] hoods
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #18 on: Apr 6th, 2008, 4:22pm » |
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I blame the Aussie cryptic crosswords.
They're disappointingly easy, I got very out of practice.
Ummm, a meagre one...
Their corpse set to dance (11)
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #19 on: Apr 7th, 2008, 10:30am » |
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I solved Noke's, but I won't give it away because I used some help to figure it out.
Thought I'd offer one more:
Two coppers remember half a salad vegetable. (8)
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #20 on: Apr 7th, 2008, 4:19pm » |
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that's eight letters, right?
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #21 on: Apr 7th, 2008, 5:15pm » |
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Sorry, I keep forgetting to include the length. Yes it's 8 and the puzzle has been corrected.
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #22 on: Apr 8th, 2008, 8:05am » |
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Two coppers remember half a salad vegetable. (8 )
Cu Cu remember
Since Noke's clue was solved (I didn't get it, though, I guess it is anagram of their corpse ), I will post a another one:
Anaesthetic song? (6)
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #23 on: Apr 9th, 2008, 10:30pm » |
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yes. It was terpsichore...
Anaesthetic song?...
Snores?
The shortest anaesthetic I could think of was NO. Otherwise I'm stuck.
Oooooh, what if it was An aesthetic song... anthem
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Re: Cryptic Crossword Clues
« Reply #24 on: Apr 10th, 2008, 9:17am » |
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Neither snores nor anthem (which I suppose you were convinced of being wrong already).
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