Worst. Cryptic. Ever!

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Eltee costruttore · 2025-02-25T23:08:27.820Z
SOLUTIONS: 1A: TIEPO-TYPO (anag. of poeti) 4A: KETEL-KETTLE (LEEK back and taking content of faTal) 5A: SCENTS/CENTS-SENSE (triple homophone shenanigans that I feel sorry for inflicting on you) 1D: TIKKS-TICKS (Leads of Trilogy Ideally Keeps Korean Star) 2D: EATON-ETON (NOTE rising and taking A) 3D: OLLEE-OLLIE (bOLd fLEEt)
dilly 🤓5:43 · 2025-02-26T23:55:26.880Z
Also I solved your last cryptic and it was good so I reject the whole premise lol
- Eltee costruttore · 2025-02-28T22:16:39.952Z
  Ha ha, I am a little hard on myself, but if it spurs me on to make more I’ll take it!
dilly 🤓5:43 · 2025-02-26T23:53:15.723Z
I originally read the instructions as meaning that every word in every clue was misspelled, so I guess you could make an even worse puzzle haha. I really appreciated the thematic 1A entry. My nitpicks are that “content of” in 4A feels like it should clue everything between the first and last letters i.e. ATA, and in 5A, there’s no reason (I can see) why SENCE couldn’t also be a valid answer (given the rest of the entries are non-words). But otherwise pretty solid cluing throughout, and a fun gimmick, thanks!
- Eltee costruttore · 2025-02-28T22:16:02.204Z
  Ah, I should have been more careful with “content” and how ambiguous the misspellings can be. Thanks for the advice and hope you liked the puzzle nonetheless.
Errol Flynn 5:08 · 2025-02-28T12:43:47.859Z
Such a weird concept, and so strange to realise how other people would misspell things differently to me! Something that really threw me, however, is 2D - it's not a university, it's a public school (further research tells me there IS a university of that name, but as a UK citizen, I'd never heard of it before - is it better known in the US?)
- Eltee costruttore · 2025-02-28T22:18:25.112Z
  Oops, that’s on me. I’m Irish and looking at Eton from abroad I was sure it was a university of some kind or a type of third-level education. My bad!