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3 Down. Speedbump ingredient. |
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13 across: portal to other dimensions; found in most homes. |
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It's not cryptic in this place anyway, but it should stretch a few minds outside the 1/2B. |
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I was thinking of something like
"Whither thou goest, imbibe"
"Nil Carcharodon, IRL" |
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Off the top of my head, here are some bad ones- though they get better as you go, really. The first two are especially bad, because they're *wrong*- they have to be misspelled to work, and the very first uses a non-word. |
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"Briefly, in a bell-like mood."
"Birds might flock together in a Chicago neighborhood."
"Powerful quadruped, to a typesetter."
"Nuns, cutely put together."
"She puts tin to work."
"Golden lieutenant follows fine art to foolishness."
"Stray found Halfbakery through middleman."
"Halfbaker with a crass heart is just confused."
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Sorry, I'm an American. Our crosswords are too easy; we get out of practice. |
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I used to try to do the cryptic crossword in the back of Harper's. It was hopeless. |
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Hey, UncleN, is the 6th one down beauxeault? AU+LT follows [can't figure fine art?] foolishness=bozo? |
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How's this for a newbie at it? |
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Sentence-ender's head with half-hearted treaty partner found to be concise in the middle |
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Never having done it before, I don't know how good or accurate this is. Maybe I can do cryptic crosswords after all... |
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Ah! Good call on the 6th down, gt... I'll bet that's it.
Beaux as in Beaux Arts, the French school of design. |
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Ha! And the 5th one down is Susen! |
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Of course. Beaux Arts. Doesn't cover the "e" though. From what I understand about cryptic clues, that makes it slightly imperfect...? |
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Yeah, maybe that's not very gould, uncle N. |
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Beauxeault (as explained), Ravenswood ("birds might" together = "ravenswould", "Ravenswood" is a Chicago neighborhood) and Susen ("Tin" = "Sn", "work" = "use", put one in the other for a "she" Halfbaker) are right. Sorry for both the imperfection on Beauxeault and not noticing it, it was late and I was tired. |
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"Stray found halfbakery through middleman" is *not* Dog Ed, though. |
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Oh, and Globaltourniquet: is "Sentence-ender's head with half-hearted treaty partner found to be concise in the middle" PeterSealy? (Sentence-ender is "period," its head is "pe," treaty partner is "ally," drop one of the middle letters because it's half-hearted for "aly," concise is "terse", put that in the middle and get PeterSealy.) |
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If so, it's better than "Briefly, in a bell-like mood," which put "terse" inside of "peal-y." I should have figured some way to drop an "r" from "pearly" but, as noted before, it was late and I was tired. |
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Lordy, lordy. Me mum used to devour crosswords; I, on the other hand, am with waugsqueke. Mee wee feeble brrain 'as been all buggerred, ya buggerrs! |
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All right. Hey, this is fun. I'm still chewing on that nuns one ("Nuns, cutely put together" = "eponymous"?), though. Don't tell me.... |
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(Seems like "Little rodent follows little horse while his tail climbs on top" would be good for that one... maybe a bit too easy, eh?) |
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PS: could #3 possibly be "hippo"? |
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"He mixes tranquil boot glue" |
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Uncle Nutsy. Eponymous. You little goofs. |
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(although you have to admit, "eponymous" would be a funny handle for a half-baker. REM has a record called that...) |
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Yes, I think the explicatory definition is optional, I'm not sure. In which case mine might me "He mixes tranquil boot glue for a tight world squeeze." |
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The last was indeed Starchaser (anagram of "crass heart," like the eponymous "nuns, cutely" = Uncle Nutsy); another one for Waugsqueke. |
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"Powerful quadruped, to a typesetter" is not hippo. |
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is tranquil boot glue mixed up. hey this isn't as difficult as i thought. |
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Waugsqueke misses one! "Powerful quadruped, to a typesetter" is not Rods_tiger. |
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Hey UB, since the oldest ones seem quite expired, might you provide their solutions? "Whither..." ad "...IRL", please? |
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Not all cryptic clues rely on anagrams and puns.
One is a halfbaked idea, just for fun
The other, an identity, is truly cryptic
"Your beast's too big", maintained the skeptic. |
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On a friendly shore, one summer's morn,
Was a carcass found, mauled and forlorn,
Of 'pending doom the reeve did warn,
His entreaties met with official scorn. |
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<mews and hides in a corner holding his head> My brain hurts...I've never been any good at puzzles like these...I didn't even recognize myself... |
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Is it sirrobin? (My head hurts too, StarChaser... these are
really twisting my brain.) |
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ir = infrared; rob = steals; ir + rob live in sin = sirrobin. |
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i still can't figure out "Powerful quadruped, to a typesetter." |
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does it have something to do with upper/lower case, or perhaps direction of the letters? (typesetters place the type backwards from the final print, don't they?) |
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is "Powerful quadruped, to a typesetter." = lubbit? |
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just a guess. it's probably wrong though. |
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waugs: i've added it as a suggestion for a non-lame halfbakery tagline, but i can't figure it out just yet. does "looks like" mean uses similar-looking words? or sounds maybe? |
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"powerful quadruped..." was killing me all weekend. |
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This sort of thing just makes my head hurt. And after sitting here looking at the 'Powerful Quadruped' it hurts even more than usual. If got a feeling that it's PeterSealy as 'a typesetter' contains a suspiciously large number of the correct letters, but I'll be damned if I can prove it. Oh my poor brain! |
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"Sutra cd" is an anagram for custard, but I don't know
what birds have to do with it. |
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I'm not sure, but Birds custard powder is a popular brand throughout British Commonwealth countries. |
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<Meet ink ordeal, on both sides of a shallow river crossing.> |
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drbob: i don't think the answer for "powerful quadruped..." is petersealy, as uncle nutsy had already provided a clue to that answer. |
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i'm still trying to figure out another way to say "spilled cat urine". |
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waugs: the second verse sounds like the plot of the movie "jaws", and "carcharodon" is the genus for great white shark, so they must be related somehow. he's saying in the first verse that the answer to one of his clues is a half-baked idea, so possibly the answer is an idea name? the answer to the other clue is an identity, probably someone's id here at the 'bakery? the question is how does a shark relate to the answers? and what the heck is "irl"? |
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anyone have any ideas? my brain is starting to overheat... |
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can you elaborate, please? anagram of absterge is beast + ger, maybe? |
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good job waugs! i didn't even see that erg=power relation. |
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may i make a suggestion please? typical cryptic crossword clues tell you how many letters are in the answer, as in the following example: "powerful quadruped, to a typesetter. (8)". in the case of multiple word answers, the number of letters in each word is given in the form (x,y,z,etc). i think that this might make the clues just a little easier to solve. |
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drbob, unabubba, waugsqueke, what do you say? |
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1,6,3,8,1
I can add this riddle as a further clue.
"I am the ultimate power,
But if you name me correctly I will disappear." |
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(IRL = In Real Life, no?) |
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btw, is anyone actually going to take in hand the daunting task of assembling all these clues and their respective answers into an actual grid with, you know, crossing words and all? just curious... |
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"Powerful quadruped, to a typesetter" was not Absterge when I wrote it, but, seeing as how Waugsqueke came up with a more clever answer than the actual one (Supercat), it bloody well is now. |
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Now, if I get the time, I'll see what I can do with some of the (no doubt better) cryptic clues floating about. |
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"The single litigant's index was poorly organized." (7,7) = tagline listing. single litigant is the anagram. |
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now why can't i get the spilled cat urine one? |
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spilled (mixed up) "cat urine" |
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Good spot, global. With an anagram like that, I'd change my login name if I were centauri. |
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I have an idea for tranquil boot glue. An adhesive for footwear that also acts as a soothing massager? |
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Yeast leper and Gas beret... someone PLEASE post those
as
ideas! |
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but not the eye stapler... |
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mihali & waugs, you've gone very close.
While these verses may seem verbose
Leave the fantasy world behind
The ID's from a place to bugger ya mind
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The plot you uncovered is on the right track
See through the puns, this problem to crack
This master thespian keeps coming back.
We saw the connection several weeks back
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(?,?)| — | UnaBubba,
May 08 2001, last modified May 09 2001 |
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He is not a greek dad hanging around the Home of the Terriers |
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(HINT: MA residents may get this one a bit more quickly...) |
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gt, that or Cocktail Sippy Cup. |
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UB: Is it thumbwax? He annotated both of those ideas,
plus some correlation between lawyers and sharks
maybe?? |
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unabubba: the answer is "rods tiger" which is a play on words for "rod steiger", the famous actor. while i'm not familiar with his work, after a little net searching, it seems he played wc fields in the movie "wc fields and me". fields was a pool shark before he became a comedian. |
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The ID itself is in the form of a pun,
We know they're a baker who loves to have fun
If you met them at night you'd just want to run
Unless of course you had StarChaser's gun. |
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I had to switch to riddles. There was no way you guys were ever going to see the connection I had noticed. Rod Steiger was who we were looking for. |
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what really gave it away for me was the was the fact that unabubba mentioned that the id was a pun in itself, and that we saw the connection "several weeks back". i remember in one post, a while back, someone asking about rods tiger's id and what it meant, but for the life of me i can't find the post. the "bugger ya mind" bit reminded me of buxton and cornish, who are from england, same as rods tiger. but the shark thing really threw me off until i did a web search and found that steiger had portrayed a pool shark. |
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but who knows? i could be way off target here. we need unabubba to tell us if i'm right. |
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it's already been solved. see above: "beer harness" - globaltourniquet. or "cocktail sippy cup" - unabubba. |
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i'm trying the "shallow river crossing" right now. |
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sorry waugs, i misunderstood you. i think a cryptic clue means you have to make an extra effort to figure out what the clue means before you can solve it. so if you didn't know that "whither thou goest" means "wherever you go", then it gets difficult. but it helps to know the context of the answer, otherwise it can be downright impossible. that's why unabubba's and drbob's clues were important. see link, which can explain it better than my rambling can. |
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drbob: "[marked for deletion]", jutta's favourite phrase! |
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now that i've written this, does that mean that this entire thread will be deleted? i hope not. |
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mihali: you solved the clues successfully but whether or not all these annotations and this idea will now be deleted depends upon whether jutta searches on just the words or includes the '<' + '>'. |
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"Emancipate rats? How? I don't understand!" (3,3,3,8) = man the cow parasite |
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He is not a greek dad hanging around the Home of the Terriers (8) |
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home of the terriers is boston university = bu. |
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not a greek dad? = un-abba? ba is what i call my dad, who is greek, but abba? isn't that hebrew? maybe your thinking of abu, arabic for father. |
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put it all together and you get una--bba hanging around bu. |
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Abba is not Hebrew. Abba is an ancient greek term, derived from an Aramaic term for father (which I don't know -- I think it is very close to "abba") which in turn derives from Hebrew 'ab. As I understand it, it was used to indicate certain father-son relationship ("pater" was more general), that's why I used "dad" instead of "father". |
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Ancient Hebrew father is 'ab. Perhaps Abba was used then as now as a similar familiar term, in ancient Hebrew as well as Aramaic. I don't think you see "Abba" as father in any ancient Hebrew texts. Unless current Hebrew pulls it from Aramaic, which is possible. |
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Anyway, I could have said, He is not a Swedish pop sensation hanging around [BU].... Perhaps I should have... |
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ok, waugs, you've stumped me on the "cereal" one. i've tried anagrams of "his cereal" and "kid cereal", but i'm not getting anywhere. is it someone's id? an idea? some help please. |
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same goes for "hold to the ground in terror. (?,?)" |
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"Hold to the ground in terror." (?,?) = panic pin |
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"Switched the illumination where the members meet after dark." (?,?) = nightclub lighthouse |
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i'm stumped on the other two. solutions? |
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Good Heavens, I'm almost sorry I started this. |
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i give up, waugs. what are the answers? my brain can't take it anymore. |
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Wowzers, waug... hermetic. Very hermetic. |
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wow! you got better at making clues and i got worse at solving them! good job! thank you for the mental workout. |
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Neither is he after endless goading. |
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