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Easy cryptic 2

· Di Lego · Pubblicato 2023-11-05T07:35:03.136Z

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  • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-05T07:35:36.017Z
    Hope you enjoyed this one! Feedback welcome.
    • ads 🤓19:49 · 2023-11-05T10:54:08.380Z
      Nice one!
      • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-06T13:04:12.931Z
        cheers, glad you liked it!
      • merlinnimue 🤓6:59 · 2023-11-05T14:09:25.164Z
        I ended on 22d, which was a very nice definition... very 32a
        • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-06T13:04:54.998Z
          great! you were very quick! glad you liked it
        • Aaron Riccio 🤓10:46 · 2023-11-05T15:35:42.247Z
          I really liked 10A, 11A, 12A(!), and 15D. I think 19D is brilliant, and your best, because it misdirects entirely, turning what would be an indicator to some "Quite the opposite!" into the definition.
          If any of the following are intentional choices, all good! If not, these are tricky spots per the cryptic grammar I'm used to.
          5A "Spicy" is an adjective. "TABASCO" is a noun. "Spiciness found in blend of boa scat" might be closer to your intent?
          9A Some people hate seeing hidden words that aren't WITHIN other words (i.e., all of MAXIM being used). "Biggest" for "maximal" is, I think, OK. You also have a lot of identical indicators for hiddens—"in," mostly. I think variety enhances the sense of surprise and delight in a puzzle, but your call!
          17A Grammar's fine here, but the surface could use more sense, I think.
          29A Be cautious of extraneous words like "the." You're saying "From" (hidden indicator) [A] (sign it escapes); unless "from the" is an indicator (which sounds slightly off), this sort of thing can weaken your overall cluing.
          1D Mileage varies on this, but having "MERIT" be part of the answer and having "merit" in the clue for 1A feels redundant.
          22D I see in Britannica that this can be a spelling of TOLSTOY, but I'd personally want to indicate it as "var." or cue the language in which it is more often spelled that way.
          • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-06T13:14:47.832Z
            Wow, thank you so much for this detailed and constructive criticism!! Much appreciated. Yes, there were too many hidden words in this one with the clue being 'in' – I knocked it off in a rush without going back over the clues.
            In 5A I was hoping to get away with using 'blend' in the definition ("Spicy blend") as well as in the instructions ("blend of ___ ____"). Is this allowed??
            Yes, 9A is lame, I agree – as is 17A
            Good pointers for 29A and 1D.
            For 22D, it's still not totally uncommon to write 'Толстой' as 'Tolstoi' and even used to be the preferred form (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Tolstoi%2C+Tolstoy&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3) but point taken.
            Thanks again for your very useful tips!!
            • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-06T13:43:44.988Z
              I've changed 9A, 17A, 29A and 1A – better now I think.
              • Aaron Riccio 🤓10:46 · 2023-11-06T15:33:07.944Z
                Served and warrant is very nice as a misdirect to something negative (criminal warrant) as opposed to something positive (earned). Hope it was clear that I liked your puzzle!
                (And thanks for the info on Tolstoi/Tolstoy!)
            • sjones8888 16:44 · 2023-11-06T05:50:11.077Z
              Thank you very much! I'm new to cryptics and trying to get the hang of them. So an "easy" puzzle is welcome.
              • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-06T13:15:06.150Z
                Cool, glad you enjoyed it : )
              • El Gordo 42 16:32 · 2023-11-09T16:37:28.777Z
                Fun and fairly easy. 15D just gave me a headache, and it should not have!
                • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-13T10:35:28.459Z
                  Good job! Sorry about the headache!! >_<
                • frostyjhammer 11:46 · 2023-11-09T19:30:08.440Z
                  This was very fun, thank you. 😎
                  • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-13T10:35:38.883Z
                    Great! Glad you enjoyed it.
                  • Aaron 🤓15:26 · 2023-11-11T21:25:35.120Z
                    Good fun. Thanks
                    • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-13T10:35:45.907Z
                      Cheers!
                    • Oliver Hardy 🤓19:40 · 2023-11-13T07:36:28.826Z
                      Thank you for a great cryptic. 5A I thought this was clever, despite what earlier comments suggested. Using "blend" in the definition and as an anagrind is a neat trick. 29A Again, despite previous comments, I thought that there is no need to remove "the" from the clue; it was perfectly fine as it was. When clueing a hidden word I don't worry about how many extraneous words are used. There are different styles of crossword compilation; what suits one compiler may not suit another.
                      • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-13T10:38:19.939Z
                        Great! Glad you liked it, including 5A. I thought the 'the' in 29A was optional, but maybe more succinct without it. Thanks for the feedback – I appreciate it. I've just published another one which you might like too.
                      • K 18:56 · 2023-11-29T20:55:01.467Z
                        Hi could someone provide an explanation for 1A, 11A, and 31A? Beginner solver here :)
                        • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-30T05:09:49.114Z
                          Hi K! sure i can explain what i had in mind with these ones: 1A) the word "issues" is a clue that it's a hidden word – so XYZ issues ABC means there's a word which is hidden inside XYZ which means ABC: maDE SERVEd
                          11A) "gets messy" is an indication that there's an anagram (where you have to scramble the letters around) "rise up" is the meaning and "or it" is what you have to scramble – "or it → RIOT 11A) here 'adjustment' indicated another anagram, so you have to 'adjust' "a moss an" → SAMOANS, which means 'islanders'
                          i hope that helped!
                          • K 18:56 · 2023-11-30T13:31:06.938Z
                            Thank you so much! Would you actually mind explaining 9A as well?
                            • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-30T15:20:49.857Z
                              Sure! This one involves a subsutiution. In 'second of three' the 'three' relates to the three occurrences of the letter 'm' in "mammal". 'Eleven' in Roman numerals is 'xi', so you swap the second 'm' of 'mammal' with 'xi' and you get MAXIMAL, which means 'of the biggest'.
                              BTW, I think purest cryptic crossword solvers might not like this clue so much because the use of 'second of three' might be a bit too cryptic!
                              Hope it makes sense though!
                              Let me know if you have any other questions.
                              • K 18:56 · 2023-11-30T17:05:19.842Z
                                Ohh that makes sense! Thanks so much for helping me out!
                          • Lego costruttore · 2023-11-30T05:35:47.827Z
                            oh, and for 1A "deserve" = "warrant" because their meanings overlap when their verbs ('it didn't deserve further investigation' = 'it didn't warrant further investigation')
                          1A
                          Made, served, issues warrant. (7)
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                          Orizzontali
                          1. 1A
                            Made, served, issues warrant. (7)
                          2. 5A
                            Spicy blend of boa scat. (7)
                          3. 9A
                            Mammal swaps second of three with eleven of the biggest. (7)
                          4. 10A
                            Newborn – one neat mess. (7)
                          5. 11A
                            Rise up or it gets messy. (4)
                          6. 12A
                            Grain spelled wrong. (5)
                          7. 13A
                            Doesn't sound like the quickest gin ingredient. (4)
                          8. 16A
                            Froglet emerges when cutting old peat. (7)
                          9. 17A
                            Oddly secure at wolf so writes hastily. (7)
                          10. 18A
                            Convertor in glad apt organisation. (7)
                          11. 21A
                            Bewilder, in fact, a zealot. (7)
                          12. 24A
                            Even once it is fishing gear. (4)
                          13. 25A
                            Car parked between first and last Subarus leaves marks. (5)
                          14. 26A
                            Coin hole in this lottery. (4)
                          15. 29A
                            From sign it escapes and catches fire. (7)
                          16. 30A
                            I ate wad, chewed, and expected something. (7)
                          17. 31A
                            A moss, an adjustment, islanders. (7)
                          18. 32A
                            A splice redone? Very unusual. (7)
                          Verticali
                          1. 1D
                            Lose a messed-up diameter, lose a point. (7)
                          2. 2D
                            Fox slid around, doubled then tripled. (6)
                          3. 3D
                            Right before the current measurement to provide easy access. (4)
                          4. 4D
                            Clips between electrons to overshadow. (7)
                          5. 5D
                            Messes with orangutang lesbian. (7)
                          6. 6D
                            Forehead or back in black and white. (4)
                          7. 7D
                            Fish allowed, given ankle-deep water . (7)
                          8. 8D
                            Penrose broke the corkscrews. (7)
                          9. 14D
                            By heart or at a mix-up. (5)
                          10. 15D
                            Fight sight near a disaster. (5)
                          11. 18D
                            Provided Lisa unties her relatives. (7)
                          12. 19D
                            Ant on my back? Quite the opposite! (7)
                          13. 20D
                            Finds fresh talent and reuses the spell. (7)
                          14. 21D
                            Deform a tsunami, giving the set-ups. (7)
                          15. 22D
                            Leo emerges from tools it broke. (7)
                          16. 23D
                            Stronghold let acid mess with it. (7)
                          17. 27D
                            It erupted from alphabet naïvely. (4)
                          18. 28D
                            Markdown a hundred from scale. (4)
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