Has anyone any favourites they'd like to share? I came across a good one on Saturday. Liberality of Scottish capital metioned,(8 letters). I'll post the answer later if no one gets it, but I'm sure they will.
Wordplay in 15 clues lacks something crucial in one form or another
@LawrieAbrahams - I only just twigged - crucial as in pertaining to a cross! I wonder if CEE refers to Central & Eastern Europe - climbers - states growing after communism - tentative!
Wordplay in 15 clues lacks something crucial in one form or another
@LawrieAbrahams - I only just twigged - crucial as in pertaining to a cross! I wonder if CEE refers to Central & Eastern Europe - climbers - states growing after communism - tentative!
Ah yes, I hadnt spotted that.
I think that is too obscure. Chambers Dictionary is the crossword setter's bible and it doesnt have CEE as an abbreviation, only cee as in the letter C.
had another go yesterday, got several, cheated for most, some I get the full meaning but still can't parse: i) Fashion icon briefly hugged by top fop - PEACOCK ii) Bread covered by another lid, not quite screwed onto hash dish - LANCASHIRE HOTPOT iii) Intimate element going in earlier - case dismissed - ONE ON ONE - O (NEON) ONE - I suspect going in earlier is "S-OONE-R" and "SR" means case somehow? any guidance appreciated :-)
I) Fashion icon = Coco (Chanel), briefly means you take off the last letter. Peak = top. ii) bread = cash, that's in an anagram of another li (lid, not quite = li). Pot = hash. III) CASE just means the first and last letters of sooner.
a couple more from The Times ... get the main definitions but not the cryptic ones i) Wake in Fenland? Here refused place in hospital - WARD - ii) Hidden from public scrutiny with summer over? - UNDER THE COUNTER
Can this one really be a reference to the Super Furry Animals? Woody perhaps the one she loves? ... Woody Herman (musician), Hermann Loves Pauline (SFA song)
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5 letters,
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I wonder if CEE refers to Central & Eastern Europe - climbers - states growing after communism - tentative!
i) Fashion icon briefly hugged by top fop - PEACOCK
ii) Bread covered by another lid, not quite screwed onto hash dish - LANCASHIRE HOTPOT
iii) Intimate element going in earlier - case dismissed - ONE ON ONE - O (NEON) ONE - I suspect going in earlier is "S-OONE-R" and "SR" means case somehow?
any guidance appreciated :-)
ii) bread = cash, that's in an anagram of another li (lid, not quite = li). Pot = hash.
III) CASE just means the first and last letters of sooner.
i) Wake in Fenland? Here refused place in hospital - WARD -
ii) Hidden from public scrutiny with summer over? - UNDER THE COUNTER
Can this one really be a reference to the Super Furry Animals?
Woody perhaps the one she loves? ... Woody Herman (musician), Hermann Loves Pauline (SFA song)
Thanks @LawrieAbrahams
i suggest no spoilers and I’ll post answers as long as I get paper tomorrow.