r/crosswords • u/Competitive-Aide-678 • 3h ago
COTD: Pat is third Irish (4)
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r/crosswords • u/SirJimothySmalls • 3d ago
AOTW: ?P?A?E?
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Thanks to u/zc_eric for bestowing such an honour upon me.
Let's move up to the north-west corner and tackle 1D:
?P?A?E?
https://www.onelook.com/?w=?P?A?E?&ws1=4&ssbp=1&scwo=1&sswo=0
I look forward to judging your clues next Sunday.
r/crosswords • u/SirJimothySmalls • 7d ago
TOTW: Oh I do like to be beside the seaside
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Many thanks to u/deeppotential123 for selecting my clue in last week's TOTW.
Because I'm currently on a train to Brighton (for work, alas, not pleasure), let's all take a promenade along the front together.
I'll be back to dust the sand off you next Thursday.
Judgement day!
My runners up are:
It’s created using spades, and shaped by laddie on vacation (10)
Trademark ingenuity. Very impressive.
What’s buried in James Earl Ray’s home (3)
- By u/zc_eric
You see the answer first and you wonder 'why not James Earl Jones?' and then it hits you.
My winner - because it tickled me - is:
WHO CARES ABOUT THIS SEASIDE RESORT? (7)
An old chestnut given a new lease of life thanks to a cleverly disguised definition. When the notification came up on my phone, part of it was cut off and I genuinely thought I'd riled someone up and they were shouty-complaining about my theme selection!
r/crosswords • u/Acceptableintthe80s • 10h ago
COTD: Vigorous daily sex causes disability (8)
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r/crosswords • u/controlxj • 6h ago
SOLVED COTD: Tore through abstract shapes with elocution primer to provide syntax for lispers? (11)
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r/crosswords • u/TheLetterKappa • 12h ago
Cryptic crosswords (preferably in book form) with similar difficulty to the Guardian's Quiptic?
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I'm still relatively new to cryptics, but find now that the super-easy ones are a breeze for me while the Quiptic is just the right level of challenge for me!
When it comes to non-cryptics I much prefer a physical book to a website but it seems that the only Quiptic book is out of print (and fetches £20+ on eBay!). Is there a (readily available) book of cryptics with a similar difficulty?
The regular Guardian Cryptic is beyond my understanding for now, but would the Times' Quick Cryptic be a similar level?
r/crosswords • u/ShotandBotched • 15h ago
SOLVED Cracking The Cryptic rejecting MC clue ultimately: "Work of art?!" (8)
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r/crosswords • u/Vivid_Temporary_1155 • 13h ago
COTD: Foreign settlers are illegally streaming (7)
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r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 16h ago
SOLVED COTD: Say, for the sake of argument, a big tear rips? (8)
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r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 22h ago
SOLVED COTD: Necessary to adjust boy to a girl (10)
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day 269 of an experiment in which i press the "random word" button on onelook and make a cryptic clue out of it. sorry for the lateness
day 266, day 265, day 264, day 263, day 262, day 261, day 260
day 259, day 258, day 257, day 256, day 255, day 254, day 253
weeks 33 to 36 (days 225 to 252)
weeks 29 to 32 (days 197 to 224)
weeks 25 to 28 (days 169 to 196)
weeks 21 to 24 (days 141 to 168)
weeks 17 to 20 (days 113 to 140)
r/crosswords • u/BloodyDisaster247 • 22h ago
SOLVED COTD: Rooster alerts individuals to a murder? (5)
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r/crosswords • u/Darazu_ • 19h ago
COTD: Farmer's complaint after losing crops - "it's a headache!" (8)
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Bit of a silly one!
r/crosswords • u/HighCountryBob • 18h ago
SOLVED COTD: Without scruples, gypsies rightly rejected semi-collaborator (6)
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r/crosswords • u/molx69 • 18h ago
Clue help
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Trying to parse
Sleep in the Spanish quarter, after eating first with Doctor Nick (8)
Answer is EMBEZZLE but I don't know what to do with "quarter" or "doctor"
Found in the archive here https://axiom-puzzles.com/cryptix
r/crosswords • u/Vivid_Temporary_1155 • 1d ago
COTD: Route through empty alley leads to indifference (6)
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r/crosswords • u/Junior-Specialist-97 • 2d ago
COTD: Spooner’s rod fished a songwriter (4,6)
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Another clue I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about. And each time I tossed and turned as it happens! There are words I could add or change to make it easier to solve but I have high expectations of you lot.
r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 2d ago
SOLVED COTD: Critical section about object (8)
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day 268 of an experiment in which i press the "random word" button on onelook and make a cryptic clue out of it.
day 266, day 265, day 264, day 263, day 262, day 261, day 260
day 259, day 258, day 257, day 256, day 255, day 254, day 253
weeks 33 to 36 (days 225 to 252)
weeks 29 to 32 (days 197 to 224)
weeks 25 to 28 (days 169 to 196)
weeks 21 to 24 (days 141 to 168)
weeks 17 to 20 (days 113 to 140)