Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Can someone explain Nef's clue?
Can someone explain Nef's clue?
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
To make "starsky" from "starship" you have to replace the letters HIP. The clue's a bit terse, perhaps.Comment
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Ah. I'd spotted that, but was obviously trying to read too much into it. Ta.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
I thought it was pretty good, myself.
You could interpret the replacement of Starship with Starsky as another kind of hip replacement the Hippy energy of the counterculture seventies replaced by the Californian police show.
But even without that surely you have everything you need. The word is clued, as is the definition. What more do you want?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
nefertiti wrote:
Oh. I'm not denying that once it's been pointed out - just that I couldn't work it out, even when the answer was there.I thought it was pretty good, myself.
You could interpret the replacement of Starship with Starsky as another kind of hip replacement the Hippy energy of the counterculture seventies replaced by the Californian police show.
But even without that surely you have everything you need. The word is clued, as is the definition. What more do you want?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Guy Potger wrote:
Not responding to you- more to Andy's "bit terse, perhaps" which continued a general confusion about what is deemed to be a good clue, what's too clever, and what's too prolix.nefertiti wrote:
Oh. I'm not denying that once it's been pointed out - just that I couldn't work it out, even when the answer was there.I thought it was pretty good, myself.
You could interpret the replacement of Starship with Starsky as another kind of hip replacement the Hippy energy of the counterculture seventies replaced by the Californian police show.
But even without that surely you have everything you need. The word is clued, as is the definition. What more do you want?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Must admit I'm stumped by Andy's too.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Nef, are you soliciting opinions on your clue?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
yes. Is it unfair, too terse, or otherwise insufficient, too clever? if so what would be a better one using the stars(hip) replacement notion or is the notion iteself fundamentally flawed?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
OK, well, to be honest then, I think it's a bit flawed, yeah. I don't think the wordplay's really precise enough (the "ky" in Starsky just sort of arrives from nowhere and doesn't do anything), and I can't really make sense of the surface reading (Starship Starsky? What's that?)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
My terse "a bit terse" comment meant that I'd probably given more pointers to what the solver was meant to do if I'd been writing the clue, not that it was a bad or unfair. If I were to be really nitpicky, I'd say that "starship starsky" doesn't hold a clue about its being the "operation" - that's at best implied. So speaking personally, I'd at least add that hint by saying something like "starship to starsky".Comment
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Would a hint or two for mine be welcome at this juncture?Comment
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I appreciate your honesty. We're really talking about aesthetics here, aren't we, as we might be on the music or the books pages? That's to say I can't see a flaw in the clue (as I could recognise in my "Extort ex-trot" clue of a few examples back). We both admire The Wire. Here we differ.
Myself, I prefer that kind of cluing to the more pedantic "inside" "back" type clues stuffed with codifications and abbreviations. Occasionally what I'm trying to do comes off. Sometimes it doesn't.
For me it's enough that "Starship Starsky" is (I think) a rather elegant example of a hip replacement- and i don't think it would have been improved with a reference to KY jelly-which I contemplated. Perhaps it should have been punctuated differently- or "Starship becomes Starsky" which I also contemplated. But that would have made it much easier - and much less elegant ( in my eyes).
And yes a clue would be great, thanks.Comment
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OK - "screwed" can also mean "fucked".Comment
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Or "shagged".Comment
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Gorgeous woman and mean rabbi leaving Brokeback Mountain rerun (8)Comment
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Knockout, in the style of a native of the Bush (5)Comment
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Knockout, in a manner Irish, dazed.
(6, 6)Comment
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Koala cult reefs broken up for decoration (3-4,7)Comment
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Most diligent like Hardy Oak-leaf cluster arrangement (11)Comment
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Sometime carefullest rag- one worth waiting for? (8)Comment
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Estragon, the Franco-German, crushed underfoot (9)Comment
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estragon, one of four penalties for foreign grasses
(5, 6)Comment
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Cep a l'estragon served in sports arena? Quite the contrary! (8)Comment
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