Jake’s Mini Cryptic #8

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• Oliver Hardy 8:39 · 2024-01-28T00:55:04.244Z

  Disaster! I had to reveal every word.

  I'm not sure that BEGET is a valid homophone for "baguette".

  CAPRI = short pants?

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  • Jake A constructor · 2024-01-28T01:40:57.081Z

    Ah! I’ve done rhe reveal-all a couple of times today. Yes, literally a style of short pants. Capri pants are designed to end just below the knee or around the mid-calf area.

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• JWords 2:58 · 2024-01-28T08:47:41.707Z

  Thanks, but unfortunately also a reveal all for me! I think 1D could benefit from a question mark at the end. Is 5A intended to be a homophone of /eye hair/? If so, hair=hear definitely doesn’t work in my accent and I’m quite intrigued as to what accent says them the same way.

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  • Jake A constructor · 2024-01-28T20:44:27.026Z

    Thanks! Re 5A: it is intended to be a near-homophone. To my mind, a perfect homophone is well and good, but it is quite fun to have a word or phrase that sounds similar and use the context and literally sound things out to arrive at an answer.

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