Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Princess's hairdo suggestive of emergency flares (8)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Yen/Pound distress (8)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Thro' in toweling 'n' go, o superfluous, useless languishing supremo! (5,11)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
I don't get it; what was the answer to ad hoc's?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
L/ANGUISH?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Oh, right.
Though that would fit "Pound distress", but not "Yen", right?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
It's the definition bit.
Languish = "pine away in longing" = yenComment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Has he thrown in the towelling yet?
No?
Bah.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Nigel Worthington better suited to a carbon-copy club of mobile phone man - who are they? (10,7)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
----I-----/----L--Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
-C--I-----/S---L--Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
End result for Accrington Stanley, game postponed, one half completed. (4-3,4-5)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
I don't get DR's clue.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
I don't get the Accrington part. Man refers to Stanley, and the who are they is from the old milk ad.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
I'm getting A CC, and then something, perhaps, to do with ringtones? But I don't see what "club" is doing, or how to get rid of the E, and I can't find the definition part of the clue.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Per què a la terra wrote:
Accrington Stanley? Who are they?I can't find the definition part of the clue.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Fucked if I know where Nigel Worthington comes in to it, though. He's never played for or managed them in his life.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Just so we're all on the same page:
End result for Accrington Stanley, game postponed, one half completed. (4-3,4-5)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
You've all pieced together the various parts of the clue: CC for carbon-copy, ringtone for a mobile phone, and of course Stanley being a man's name, the ad reference was supposed to make it less cryptic, but that didn't work. Don't think Worthington had anything to do them, but just a dig at him after Tuesday's result.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
I guess there is something to be said for a William Webb-Ellis style creative bending of the rules, but there's a beauty and a clarity to cryptic crossword clues which make them enjoyable to solve and (sometimes) work back through the setter's thought processes. Being so cavalier with those rules makes solving your clues feel much more like random guesswork, and leaves one with a sense of "well it must be, I suppose". I really think you'd actually find it more enjoyable too if you spent some time really coming up with clues which were lacking in loose ends and superfluity. I know I would.
Sorry if this comes across as po-faced and a bit stickler-ish.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Ending the play off semi final in confusion in Scarborough (5)
ps DR's clue looks OK as a charade* apart from spelling the town A/CC/RING/TONE.
Unless I'm being even dimmer than usual, possibly.
PPS The useless bastard hasn't thrown in the toweling yet, but two of our three remaining first-teamers have.
For fuck's sake.
* a 'charade' simply means a word or words made up from smaller wordsComment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Filey craving US engineer? (5,5)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
How is Filey "in Scarborough"?Comment
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