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Cryptic Crosswords #2

· Por Dylan Kirscher · Publicado 2024-07-16T18:50:27.270Z

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  • K 🤓2:13 · 2024-07-17T06:46:35.341Z
    Fun puzzle! But could someone please explain MEANT and DATES for me? Thanks in advance
    • dilly 🤓2:05 · 2024-07-17T14:24:22.257Z
      4A: Implied; MEAN IT (“to not joke around”) without I
      3D: Sees; STEADY* with Y (“young commander” referring to the first letter in “young”) missing (“gone AWOL”)
    • JWords 🤓40s · 2024-07-17T17:54:03.041Z
      Nice stuff, smooth and breezy. Many setters wouldn’t be a fan of the noun as an anagrind in 3D, preferable would be [deteriorates] or [deteriorating] (though the surface would have to change). Love the use of AWOL but [young commander] isn’t very clear/precise for Y. Really like the surface sense though! Only other quibble is in 5A, I can’t justify [exist]=IS, you’d need [exists]=IS, although obviously it would break the surface.
      Fan of most everything else though, 1D is very clean.
      • Dylan Kirscher constructor · 2024-07-17T18:39:16.637Z
        Thank you for the feedback! Still new to this style of clueing, so I’m still trying to figure things out. I think it’s still an improvement from my first cryptic crossword though.
        • JWords 🤓40s · 2024-07-17T20:03:56.783Z
          Oh yeah for sure, please keep setting!
        • The Noah 🤓2:02 · 2024-07-18T04:02:57.207Z
          Interesting. For 1D, would you have changed it to “still exists like mythical creatures”?
          • JWords 🤓40s · 2024-07-18T08:36:18.278Z
            Not a fan of ‘like’ as a connector, I’d probably go with something like [Still exists as mythical creatures], though the surface is much worse. I’d probably look for a different clueing angle though. [Exist] and IS are conjugated differently, there’s no sentence where you could swap between them that would be grammatically correct, so I don’t think it’s fair/precise to use one to define the other.
            Some advice I’ve heard is this: if a clue almost works, then it doesn’t work. The surface of the original is lovely but the charade is a little bit off, and trying to preserve the surface while fixing the cryptic grammar might be harder than finding a new way to clue it!
        • Jake A 🤓50s · 2024-07-18T02:26:29.951Z
          Wonderful puzzle. Well done!
          • The Noah 🤓2:02 · 2024-07-18T04:00:27.549Z
            I did one!!! Great medium-low difficulty cryptic puzzle! That’s hard to do
            • snag 🤓2:44 · 2024-07-18T21:31:15.517Z
              fun puzz
              • Aaron Riccio 🤓1:39 · 2024-07-19T01:40:59.561Z
                A lot of great feedback here from people, and I agree with most of the points about noun anagrinds and not-quite synonyms. I'd add that above all, surface is king, so I'd be most inclined to forgive [deterioration] in 3D because it's such a nice split between [Sees] and [steady deterioration]. By contrast, a clue like 2D, which is grammatically sound, leaves me a bit cold: what is a [cater], and how would you respond to it? That's why 1D is your best clue IMO: solid grammar, solid surface, fun discovery. To be clear: really great ideas throughout this puzzle, and it was fun to solve.
                1A
                Capitals of Wales, Oman, Rwanda, Laos, and Denmark unite for Earth (5)
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                4
                5
                Horizontales
                1. 1A
                  Capitals of Wales, Oman, Rwanda, Laos, and Denmark unite for Earth (5)
                2. 4A
                  Implied to not joke around without I (5)
                3. 5A
                  Mythical creatures still exist (5)
                Verticales
                1. 1D
                  Feeble troublemaker in Wyoming (5)
                2. 2D
                  Respond to mixed-up cater (5)
                3. 3D
                  Sees steady deterioration after young commander goes AWOL (5)
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