Then WORD and BEARERįor example, say why Scotsman receives excercises in Arabic ( 8 )ĮGYPTIAN. But some people may like to post, if they can and wish to explain.īLIND DATE - No explanation needed - right ?Ĭeremonial officer shortly has information on native servant(11) I also will be posting some clues with answers, requesting for explanation. My idea is to explain the clues for some time and later move on to simply post the interesting ones without any explanation. Jumble with great, ou ou.Ĭlueman: interesting, post more! It would be cool to make it like a quiz. OU twice- first letters of Oxford and university doubled. MATE-partner.ĭouble firsts from Oxford University struggling with Greats? Grossly undignified(10). Report of European partner’s final defeat(9).ĬHECKMATE-final defeat. RE –extreme letters of rare.CUR-dog.Īpt to draw out nothing, getting into endless trouble(10)įELICITOUS-Apt. ILL-Illinois briefly.STARRED-played leading role. Talk of the devil and he is there!ĭoomed state briefly played leading role (3-7) Here is the very person to speak about Satan(4,2,3,5). OWN GOAL- that aids the -objective.Įntertainment not just associated with female(7)įUNFAIR- Entertainment. Have objective that aids the opposition(3,4) Unscrupulous duplicitys not occupying high ground(3-5 ) From: clueman rash*) on: Sat Oct 9 22:58. Lids are raised when we see this in a physical sense. Surprising revelation as lids are raised(3-6) Have the landed gentry become so unpretentious? (4-2-5) LOWER CASE (I is always upper case and wont go into the lower case. Georgia, upper class girl showing awkwardness (9). The letter I is removed from SOFIA (Bulgarian capital).įor Leonardo, virtually everything is unsophisticated (10). Piece of furniture removed from European capital (4). Vehicle a doctor used, pinched by such a braggart (10).ĬAR-vehicle. From: clueman rash*) on: Mon Sep 27 11:00. From: Cygnus pcp0*) on: Fri Sep 17 12:46.Ĭrowned head surprisingly up-to-date with change of government (4,1,4) ISLANDER-Corsican(perhaps leads you to think about the category to which Corsican belongs.Corsica is an island).I-I. I blacken the name of a Corsican, perhaps.(8) From: clueman rash*) on: Fri Sep 17 10:25. MOCKS(synonymous to ridicules and trial exams). Involve volunteer troops in border rising(6).ĮNTAIL-involve.volunteer troops -TA(territorial army). Virile Chinese leader suppressing church(5). IGNORAMUS-an unintelligent person.It is an anagram of or amusing(key for anagram is unfortunately). One is not intelligent or amusing,unfortunately(9). From: clueman rash*) on: Mon Sep 13 18:11. Show off (I think is the answer.parade means to exhibit and also parade cancelled means show off) lovely confusing language.english. Good one in the morning(don't know whether its an old edition on the net)ġ6 Parade even though parade has been cancelled (4,3) chap: bloke, early in afternoon: at 1, chapati: sort of bread. Sort of bread a bloke takes early in afternoon(7).ĬHAPATI. ROOST.root:part of plant,supervisor initiated : s, roost: resting place. Resting place supervisor initiated in part of plant (5). OPUS-ops:operations-surgical procedures,U:university, Work in university, involved in surgical procedures(4). I'll post some clues and answers from statesman as i said earlier. From: clueman rash*) on: Mon Sep 6 23:22. So, why don't we just take some clues and try solving them. Love crossies, and i like the mystery rather than an algorithm. Starting with a simple one.loud noise in a mystic language. Well.Let me see if anyone joins the discussions here.Till then. Sometimes it's nice to keep talking alone.But when you do it alone in public. I'M - put into LA (the French)-LIMA-capital of PERU Let me post a few more abbreviations/notations: From: clueman 210.*) on: Thu Aug 19 23:10.Įlements in periodic table by name could be represented by their symbols: I have compiled a list of such abbreviations.If people are interested, we can carry on discussing. Today I present a few standard abbreviations used in CWP. I want to make it intelligible to people who are new to crossword puzzles(CWP) also. My reference will be The Statesman Daily Crossword Puzzles.Ofcourse we can discuss CW puzzles from other newspapers as well. I intend to share with you some cryptic clues alongwith their answers and the method involved in deciphering them.Also I am unable to match the answers 100 % with the clues at times.In those cases I'll place them in this forum for some one to explain.
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