Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
"We hear" usually signifies that the answer (or part of it) is a homophone.
"We hear" usually signifies that the answer (or part of it) is a homophone.
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Yes, usually. But occasionally- as with Hof's initial answer - it is cleverly reinterpreted to mean "something we hear" - or - as in this case - to reinterpret the phrase "inbred parasite".Comment
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Weevil tour's all arranged, except classic single (4,4,4,2,5)Comment
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nefertiti wrote:
Yeah, but come on, nef: you're requiring the solver to do a homophone before solving and to link "we hear" with a word it's distant from and to change "our" into "we". You're being unconventional to an extreme here.Yes, usually. But occasionally- as with Hof's initial answer - it is cleverly reinterpreted to mean "something we hear" - or - as in this case - to reinterpret the phrase "inbred parasite".Comment
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I agree about the "our" - which I added in a misguided attempt to avoid confusion after Hof's initial solution, which hadn't occurred to me.
You and me bad- would have been better -my problem was a grammatical one rather than anything else.
But I continue to think that "inbred parasite, we hear" was a perfectly acceptable clue for weevil. we hear that the parasite is in breadComment
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I dunno, I mean, these things are pretty subjective, and a bit of playing fast and loose is generally fine. It's just that that clue has a double whammy: the unconventional "homophone of definition" instead of "homophone of answer", and the equally unconventional placing of "we hear". For me that makes it too tough on the solver. I'd have been OK-er with something like
Reportedly, inbred parasite
which pushes just one envelope.Comment
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Interesting- I would find that less fair- since "reportedly" is a more roundabout route to the punning of "inbred parasite". I couldn't of course change in bred parasite since that was the solution to the previous clue.
I prefer that kind of clueing - and solutions - but then I like sacrifices and smothered mates when playing chess. I guess they don't always come off...Comment
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Any road up, how we doing on the live one?Comment
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Working on it.Comment
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Got it -just trying to come up with a clueComment
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Play "Love will tear us apart"- and revise Majored outline
(5, 3, 6)Comment
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It would be helpful if you gave at least one consonant rather than vowels all the time, nef.Comment
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Got it. Hang onComment
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Messi squared the ball for Romeo and Juliet (4, 7)Comment
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By the way, in the last page problem, in Nefertiti's defence I was looking for a parasite that lived in bread when I read the initial clue. The problem was I could only think of mold. I also found myself much more confused once the our bad had been added)Comment
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thanks ad hoc. The "our bad" was a mistake - a hasty addition to avoid confusion which only created more.Comment
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Star Crossed, a real band (9)Comment
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aldebaran's location- Super smashing great
(8)Comment
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I nearly did "Star Crossed are LA band", but in fact they seem to be from San Diego (and, if we're being pedantic, to be all one word).Comment
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With a question mark?Comment
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She left Bullseye, perhaps for physicist (5)Comment
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G _ _ _ _Comment
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I have an answer, but I have no idea whether it's in any way close or not. I suspect, therefore, it's not.Comment
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Me too. A Hungarian physicist, Gabor Denes. Found him in a list of Nobel winners on Wikipedia.Comment
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