Au Contraire, Mon Capitaine!
◆ · By SkepticalSig · Published 2025-03-18T14:29:25.401Z
Constructor's Note
Thanks for playing! I’m new to setting and feedback is welcome :)
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- snag 🤓9:30 · 2025-03-22T15:02:11.166Zvery good!
- Connor D 6:01 · 2025-03-25T22:29:18.036ZNice!Feedback: overall, really fun. A few minor things I can point out, but I solved it cleanly, so it's not bad at all!1a. "Over" isn't part of definition or wordplay, and it's difficult to call it a linking word - all parts of a clue should be part of the clue.4a. "Swindling" and "Con" aren't synonyms - you need "swindle" to be equivalent to "con".6a. No notes, perfect as is. Great clue.7a. My only note here is that the simple reading's a bit nonsensical - I didn't feel misled by it.1d. I liked the wordplay! Good and tough. I feel like the definition could be a little trickier though? I pretty much had it figured out just from that, and only needed to check my answer with the wordplay, which is a shame, since the wordplay stands on its own.2d. No notes, excellent clue.3d. Again, my only issue is that the simple reading doesn't have much meaning on its own.5d. Awesome clue.
- SkepticalSig constructor · 2025-03-31T14:11:05.581ZThanks for the feedback, this helps!!For 1a, I was treating “back over” as equivalent to just “back” but I can see how that’s a little verbose, thus clumsy.4a. This has been the most time consuming part of setting for me—getting all the tenses, pluralities, parts of speech all aligned
