7D had to change, but I've managed to keep the jist of a homophone of 'ex' working as the fodder.
"Ten" is a valid abbreviation of tenuto, which is a musical instruction to hold a note for full length. It seems easy enough to pick up on the cross-checks that I'm ok with this.
7D had to change, but I've managed to keep the jist of a homophone of 'ex' working as the fodder.
"Ten" is a valid abbreviation of tenuto, which is a musical instruction to hold a note for full length. It seems easy enough to pick up on the cross-checks that I'm ok with this.
I’m still struggling to get a handle on cryptic clue logic, so thank you for walking through the reasoning! Honestly, I’m rather pleased with myself I even got 3 of them without having to check!
This one was a step up from my other ones mini-cryptics, some clues like 1A (substitution containers) are getting quite into "cryptic-ese" and hard to parse without being comfortable with Cryptics. Nice effort!
Caroline 6:55 · 2021-10-05T19:37:08.209Z
Personal best! I got 5 answers :)
Thank you so much for the explanations. We'll get the hang of these eventually!
Nice Joah! 7D is a bit of a weird clue, and 9A has a deceptive definition of 'do', which might help misdirect people away from what it's trying to do.
Glad that you enjoyed it :)
spikeydlux 2:55 · 2021-10-07T18:39:32.562Z
I am very new to cryptics and I LOVE having the explanations of clue -> answer laid out for me instead of trying to reverse engineer them from correct(/ed) fill. Thank you!!
I'm glad you're enjoying cryptics and enjoyed the deconstruction. It prompted me to try something else, would you be able to lend your opinion on the efficacy of the blog I wrote here? (open in incognito if necessary)