Sam's Sunday Cryptic XL

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• merlinnimue 🤓21:26 · 2023-10-29T21:43:11.778Z

  im forever jealous of you geniuses and your SCHUYLKILL6DThe Reverend's neat ability creates a river (10)[----------] in making puzzles, i wish i could understand it one day

  • 5a5AiPod engulfs significant other of a pill bug, maybe (6)[------]: "shuffle" suggests anagram to me, but there doesn't appear to be one... i guess trivial anagrams are anagrams too
  • 2d2D"I'm not talking about early American baseball legends, and there's nothing you can do to change it!" (9)[---------]: where does the a come from? i have the parse as immute around b.l.

  • sammisamsam constructor · 2023-10-30T03:54:29.705Z

    I'm glad you liked it! right on both accounts, I took out the "shuffle" and added back the "an" to the 2d2D"I'm not talking about early American baseball legends, and there's nothing you can do to change it!" (9)[---------] clue that I accidentally dropped somewhere in rewriting the clue. Thanks for catching those!
  • sammisamsam constructor · 2023-10-30T03:58:30.073Z

    Ok never mind in my other comment about the 'an,' but 2d2D"I'm not talking about early American baseball legends, and there's nothing you can do to change it!" (9)[---------] is fixed for real now!
• Pedagogue 30:31 · 2023-10-30T08:27:12.668Z

  Thanks for a very entertaining, if somewhat enfuriating, cryptic. I had to "cheat" on some of the clues. 20A20AYoung twins' whirlwinds (8)[--------] Nasty! Seeing Y as the result of "young" I couldn't understand where the initial C came from; of course, I should have remembered the obscure baseball player, that sport being so very popular in the UK! 5A5AiPod engulfs significant other of a pill bug, maybe (6)[------] "Pill bug" is not a common name in the UK. 13A13AReagan depicted a detective (5, 4)[---------] "Reagan" - definition by example? 6D6DThe Reverend's neat ability creates a river (10)[----------] had me mystified! I assume "ability" is SKILL but then I'm lost. 9D9DPair of jingoists leave an Asian capital's core (5)[-----] I assume "Pair of" means the first two letters of "jingoist" but I have never seen this indicator before. 23A23AHot Spanish bed at first tarnished a medal (9)[---------] In the UK, I've never heard of the Caldecott medal! CALDE must be a very obscure way of saying "hot" in Spanish. 24D24DWorkshop or work (5)[-----] Here we go again! US spelling foxes UK solver! 29A29ALeftist leader Michaels flips sign up (6)[------] This one had me tearing my hair out (and there's not much left to tear at)! More US spelling and "Lorne Michaels" - who he? 27D I thought I'd solved the blighter then that US Z appeared! In the UK you are more likely to see S.

  • sammisamsam constructor · 2023-10-31T02:53:52.917Z

    For 6D6DThe Reverend's neat ability creates a river (10)[----------], it's a spoonerism of "cool skill," leading to Schuylkill (a very American river, apologies). For 9D9DPair of jingoists leave an Asian capital's core (5)[-----], I've seen "pair of" to indicate the first two letters of something fairly commonly, tho maybe it's just a difference in which cryptics we're doing. "calde" is apparently not as commonly translated as 'hot' in Spanish as I initially believed, sorry about that! Lorne Michaels is a very famous TV producer over here, he founded and still runs Saturday Night Live and has been a background presence in American pop-culture for almost 50 years at this point

    • Pedagogue 30:31 · 2023-10-31T07:14:28.345Z

      Thanks for your reply; I suppose we must continue to be two nations separated by a common language. TTFN