Daily mini cryptic - 11/22/2023

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• merlinnimue 🤓58s · 2023-11-23T01:53:14.985Z

  Spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out what a darce tree is... merlin fails +1

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  • bulletinfi constructor · 2023-11-23T02:13:09.950Z

    haha lol fair

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• Animating Dragon 🤓7:56 · 2023-11-23T02:13:43.199Z

  yippee

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  • bulletinfi constructor · 2023-11-23T10:35:41.153Z

    yippee

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• Lego 🤓3:48 · 2023-11-23T07:00:00.537Z

  woohoo! another nice puzzle. can you explain 1d & 2d? i got them but i don't get them

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  • Oliver Hardy 🤓5:15 · 2023-11-23T07:54:12.214Z

    Heron was a first-century engineer who proved a formula for calculating the area of a triangle given only the length of its sides.

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    • bulletinfi constructor · 2023-11-23T10:37:36.529Z

      Indeed that's correct! 2d is a double definition like that. And for 1d, the evergreen conifer is cedar, which is cycled (rotated) to get arced.

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• Oliver Hardy 🤓5:15 · 2023-11-23T07:59:46.571Z

  Nice cryptic - liked it a lot! 1D I assume that "Cycled" is an anagrind but there is no fodder to work on.

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  • bulletinfi constructor · 2023-11-23T10:36:39.290Z

    Thanks! Cycled here is just rotating the letters around. So cedar is rotated twice to get arced.

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    • Oliver Hardy 🤓5:15 · 2023-11-23T16:28:45.685Z

      Thanks for the reply; I haven't seen "cycled" other than as an anagrind. Shouldn't there be fodder, nevertheless?

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      • bulletinfi constructor · 2023-11-23T18:38:36.098Z

        Hmmn, I am not fully sure but I should have provided fodder here. Thanks for the feedback!

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        • Oliver Hardy 🤓5:15 · 2023-11-23T20:22:48.448Z

          Thanks again! It appears that I am mistaken about fodder. I don't recall coming across "cycled" in Daily Telegraph cryptics, so please pardon my ignorance.

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