Mini Cryptic #4: “Awful toilet paper”

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• merlinnimue 🤓1:39 · 2023-12-14T00:14:47.525Z

  5a lol

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• Oliver Hardy 2:41 · 2023-12-14T13:07:15.279Z

  Thanks for posting. 2D I don't accept "on drugs" as an anagrind. 4A I have never seen "VID" as a synonym of "film". Perhaps it is another outlandish Americanism. 3D Please parse, I don't see how to get SWIRL from the clue.

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  • JWords constructor · 2023-12-14T17:22:45.884Z

    I don’t share your view on “on drugs,” I’m sure I’ve seen it before and a quick google search brings up at least an Indy and a Times using it as an anagrind.

    VID I’ll concede, I vaguely recall seeing it somewhere but you’re right that it doesn’t really work, will certainly steer clear in future. I think the worse faux-pas is clueing it like that with only the i’s as crossers.

    SWIRL: Take regularly (every 3 letters in this case) So tWo tImeR wiLl. Def: spiral

    Thanks for solving and the feedback!

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    • Oliver Hardy 2:41 · 2023-12-14T22:02:58.263Z

      Thanks awfully for the feedback. Re: anagrinds; I use the lists available online. Could you advise on how you searched Google to get an Independent and Times puzzle, please? It would help me enormously in the future. I hope this isn't asking too much of you.

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• sammisamsam 🤓3:19 · 2023-12-14T17:52:42.332Z

  Personally I really liked 4A, I think "vid" being indicated by "film" works really well, but maybe I just spend too much time online. Can you explain 5A? I don't see where the "I" comes from

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  • Oliver Hardy 2:41 · 2023-12-14T22:08:56.105Z

    M from "money's primarily" and "awful toilet paper" is "one ply" - I PLY. I only got it by searching for synonyms of "suggest", knowing that the second letter was M.

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  • JWords constructor · 2023-12-14T22:58:09.743Z

    Thanks for the feedback!

    For 5A: Awful toilet paper = 1 PLY (as opposed to 2 ply etc.) = IPLY

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