Cryptic Word Square #1

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• nate costruttore · 2025-02-18T13:00:36.971Z

  Bit of an experimental one this week – feedback welcome!

  1A/1D: Large number; R (briefly run) + AFT (back) / back; REAm (large number briefly) + R (run)

  5A/2D: Fiat offering (as in fiat currency); half of autEUR + O (wheel) / Fiat offering (as in the car manufacturer); AUTeur + O

  6A/3D: On; anagram (curls) of A POET minus [th]E ending / curls (not the best def, sorry); FROSt (a poet) minus the ending

  7A/4D: Drink (rosé) / picked up / tone (colour); triple def / Drink; homophone (picked up) of "taupe" (tone/colour)

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• dilly 🤓4:35 · 2025-02-18T15:18:12.254Z

  Really impressive! Despite the iffy def I think the 6A/3D pair was my favorite. Really curious how you went about the construction for this one, especially with a fully checked grid, seems like you’d have very little flexibility!

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  • nate costruttore · 2025-02-18T19:36:36.516Z

    Thanks dilly! My approach was mostly to pick a word for a row then scroll through the options that gave me for the corresponding column (or vice versa), trying to spot common elements I could use to my advantage (eg REAR and rAFT both containing a word for “back”). I also got pretty lucky on some of them - AUTO/EURO was the last fill which just so happened to work perfectly with “auteur”.

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    • dilly 🤓4:35 · 2025-02-18T20:49:45.122Z

      Oh wow I thought for sure AUTO/EURO was the seed!

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• kieranjboyd 2:17 · 2025-02-18T20:29:24.772Z

  This is so cool and well-made!

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  • nate costruttore · 2025-02-18T21:43:58.137Z

    Thank you!

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• Will M 1:22 · 2025-02-20T00:23:39.826Z

  Incredibly clever, amazing job nate!!

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  • nate costruttore · 2025-02-20T03:59:40.211Z

    Thanks! :)

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