Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ R _ _ _ / _ _ O _ _ _ _ _ _

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ R _ O _ / _ _ O _ _ _ I _ _

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

C _ R _ O _ / _ _ O _ _ _ I _ T

[Duncan Gardner]

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Carbon footprint from inane Ulster commentator's gaff- more tea, vicar? (10,3)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Duncan Gardner wrote:

As a little diversion, here's an alphabet jigsaw I knocked up while bored earlier. Solve the clues and then fit solutions into the grid. In each case the letter is the first of the solution, the grid is numbered only for convenience. Good luck!

A Accursed (8)
B Billiard table covering (5)
C Pepper (7)
D Greatful Dead fan (4,4)
E Online auction site (1-3)
F Icy desert (6,5)
G Leave (2,5)
H Unbeliever (7)
I Infectious disease (9)
J Non-fat eater in nursery rhyme (4,9)
K Leg protector (4,3)
L Humbert's girlfriend (6)
M Repair (4,4)
N Brandname painkiller (7)
O Motorcycle escort (8)
P Talking bird (6)
Q Leave (4)
R Aide memoire (8)
S Musical compilation (7)
T Animal-like (8)
U Ascending (6)
V Student sports event (7)
W Danger sign (7)
X Horizontal scale on graph (1-4)
Y Surely not? (3,4,4)
Z Musical instrument (6)

[Andy C]

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Greenhouse gas emitted by escargots, or Navy manoeuvres (12)

[nefertiti]

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Conservatory - lose one, badly and upset the applecart.

(11

Ps liked your carboon footprint wyatt, for me with less complex clueing that would have been genius.

[ad hoc]

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Compile poor controversy (7)

[nefertiti]

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Polemic may be a bit dire.

(8)

[ad hoc]

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Squash into diatribe narration (6)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

At the front of one's head as ribena drunk (9)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ R _ _ _ A _ _

[Wyatt Earp]

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F _ R _ _ _ A _ _

[Wyatt Earp]

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See revised clue above.

[Andy C]

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Lop off frontal part of forebrain, and mix it up (8)

[nefertiti]

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Did you not express a disapproval of combining synonyms and anagrams, Wyatt?

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

No, I don't think so. I find it very tough, indeed often basically impossible, when something's synonym-ed and then anagrammed; could that be what you mean? I've never minded the two happening separately to different parts of the answer, and indeed that's very commonplace.

Have you got the wordplay straight, it occurs to me? "As" = "for" and "ribena drunk" = "ebrain"?

[ad hoc]

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Airborne swine flu? No enjoyment, but some reward, in Angola (5)

[Hofzinser]

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100 Lweis wasted on Satan's first proselytiser (1,1,5)

[Guy Profumo]

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Why "airborne"? - i.e. The definition - orebrain [anag] I got fairly quickly.

[ad hoc]

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"up"

[nefertiti]

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I saw only that forebrain as an anagram of "ribena" plus "for" (synonym of as).

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

C S Lewis' sex video? (9)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

nefertiti wrote:

I saw only that forebrain as an anagram of "ribena" plus "for" (synonym of as).

Yes. I think it's fairly common to do that. Though I don't think it's that great a clue for other reasons.

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Airborne = "up"

I find it very tough, indeed often basically impossible, when something's synonym-ed and then anagrammed

yeah, that's a definite no-no, and I'm pretty sure you won't find it used as a device in even the toughest of cryptics that get published in the newspapers, as it not so much difficult as downright unfair. (And the same goes for removal - you can use a synonym to indicate the removal of a word if that word appears unaltered within another word or phrase, but you can't really use a synonym to indicate the removal of letters that are scattered across a word or phrase but which can come together to form a word - as ad hoc did in his last clue, as it goes, but "enjoyment" led to "fun" easily enough, and the directions for the setter were clear enough, that it was still solvable.)