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Egg's Cryptic 49 (#001)

· Di CanterburyEgg · Pubblicato 2024-07-16T23:23:00.967Z

The first of (hopefully) many. No (#) indicators included--words might be (7), or (3,4), or (2-5), or (1,1,1,1,...) ... well, you get the gist. Happy solving!
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  • CanterburyEgg costruttore · 2024-07-16T23:29:14.660Z
    Cryptic explanations:
    1A: J + ET + PACK
    5A: ISO ("in search of") + PODS
    6A: gent[LE GROOM]ing
    7A: URINALS anag.
    1D: "high a lie" soundalike
    2D: T(ROUGH)S
    3D: AX + TOOL anag. + L
    4D: KASH(MI)R
    • quatrevingtneuf 🤓3:34 · 2024-07-17T15:06:59.153Z
      TIL how 1D is pronounced…
      • JWords 🤓4:16 · 2024-07-17T18:12:57.165Z
        Nice stuff, ditto on the pronunciation of 1D ahah. Love how the def is disguised in 4D (though some might complain that it should be [Led Zeppelin hit] to be precise — I think they’re known well enough as just ‘Zeppelin’ though!). Not quite sure in what sense ’record’ means ‘high’, and also what makes LEGROOM an American amenity, would love an explanation. Also wondering why you’ve omitted enumerations, I don’t think they’d give the game away for any of these clues. Don’t get me wrong, doesn’t bother me and there’s no reason to blindly do it because of tradition, I’m just intrigued as to what the benefit is?
        Thanks for the puzzle!
        • CanterburyEgg costruttore · 2024-07-17T20:09:56.399Z
          Thanks for the feedback! As for your questions: 'record' as in perhaps a 'high score', or 'all-time high'; the noun, not the verb. 'legroom' is an amenity for American Airlines, who are certainly known colloquially as just American. I like the added layer of difficulty, especially in small puzzles, of learning that a phrase is actually (2,3,2) rather than simply (7) while surfacing the solve; it also lets me obfuscate potential rebus squares or exclusions in the future. It might turn out to be more frustrating than fun, but I'll let commenters tell me so before I give my mea culpa and add them back in!
          • JWords 🤓4:16 · 2024-07-18T08:55:18.771Z
            Thanks! I’m nowhere near familiar enough with AA to read [American] as the airline ahah, but I see what you’re going for now! Still not sure I 100% buy ‘record’ for ‘high’, I agree that a HIGH SCORE is a record but not so sure about a ‘high’. But that’s just, like, my opinion, man.
            Totally get omitting enumerations when you’re doing subversive stuff with lengths and if that’s the plan for this series then I say go for it! Just be wary, since part of the reason it’s a convention in cryptics is because it’s another way to reduce the inherent difficulty of having unchecked cells in every word.
            • CanterburyEgg costruttore · 2024-07-18T18:00:30.157Z
              I think the best way to read it is "record temperature" which (at least these days) definitely implies "high temperature"; certainly on the looser side, but maybe we're just on opposite sides of that fine line. :)
              I've certainly done many, many cryptic crosswords in my life, so I know how much help enumerations provide; I also tend to make more difficult puzzles in general, so maybe I should see the writing on the wall and just enumerate. We'll see what happens with #002!
        • sammisamsam 🤓4:47 · 2024-07-17T20:12:35.591Z
          Fun puzzle! I particularly liked 5A (haven't seen ISO used in cryptic clues before but I immediately knew what you were going for!) and 4D
          • Aaron Riccio 🤓23s · 2024-07-21T23:37:27.654Z
            This was a superb puzzle. Every surface was solid and inventive, with 5A being the stretchiest for me because the [on the internet] indicator isn't connected to [looking for]. But I really enjoyed this; exactly the kind of cluing I'm looking for. [Jar-Jar] is exactly the right word to choose for a clue about an [alien crew] and [futuristic transport], the [American] misdirect sounds great in the surface, the [urinals] bit is a great anagram, etc., etc. 4D is probably my favorite; absurdity works when earned like this!
            • Aaron Riccio 🤓23s · 2024-07-22T00:42:22.065Z
              Oh, and obviously that's not my real time. I think it was at about 4:50 or so and then I paused it before answering the last question, but when I reopened it, my data had been cleared :(
              • CanterburyEgg costruttore · 2024-07-22T22:29:19.621Z
                Thank you so much! With 5A, I'm imagining like a Reddit post titled "ISO pods", so the idea is the whole thought is on the internet--though it is true that the "pods" synonym is a synonym online or not. Either way, I appreciate all the feedback, and hopefully I can continue making puzzles that live up to this praise :)
              1A
              Alien crew led by Jar-Jar's first futuristic transport
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              5
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              7
              Orizzontali
              1. 1A
                Alien crew led by Jar-Jar's first futuristic transport
              2. 5A
                Some crustaceans looking for shells on the internet?
              3. 6A
                American amenity: somewhat gentle grooming
              4. 7A
                Narrow urinals out of order
              Verticali
              1. 1D
                Record a tall tale? If you say so, sport
              2. 2D
                Televiewers disheartened about fuzzy channels
              3. 3D
                Chopping tool and crushing tool left to Mexican native
              4. 4D
                Zeppelin hit flying shark--I'm upset inside
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