To solve charade clues, think of the parlor game. Salt is its chemical formula here, NACL, and those letters slide inside a tree - PINE - to create a word for top. I also relished “salt injected into tree top,” which leads to an instinctual word grouping - “tree top” - that steers you wrong. The definition is just “ lucky,” and you have to insert a “fish in a can,” TUNA, into a talent - one’s FORTE. I was also a bit lost in “not easily upset, convict keeps on the move.” The definition part of the clue is “not easily upset,” which I think refers to the sturdiness of one’s digestion, described as ASTIR (“on the move”) in a CON.Ī couple of clues that delighted me were “lucky talent, catching fish in a can.” It certainly looks as if you need a type of fish in a word for can, with “lucky talent” as the definition, but you have to break that descriptor up. I thought that “false claim maintained by an extraterrestrial” might be an anagram of “claim” (with “false” as the tip-off) it took some fiddling around to realize that the little word “an” was the maintainer, or keeper, of a LIE, which solves to ALIEN. There are a few container clues today that may be easy to misinterpret. Other clear examples of this include HE inside TORIES, AS inside ROT, BUN in A DANCE and L inside ANGER. They can be pretty straightforward: for example, “a deity in the Keystone State temple.” “A deity” is A GOD insert that inside PA, the abbreviation for Pennsylvania, to get a type of temple, a PAGODA. When you encounter container clues, look for verbal cues like “in,” “into,” “inside,” “keeps,” “catching” or “held.” These clues have a surrounding element that contains another element as well as a definition of the entire entry.
A few scrambled words are “ El Prado,” for a big cat “Le Duc Tho,” for a modern storage option “foster care,” for someone making weather or trend predictions “Tristan,” for a passage (a commuter’s rather than a reader’s) and “senator,” for a crime that carries the highest penalty in this country.
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Once you move on to other types of clues, keep an eye out for a verbal hint on how to solve them, which varies from type to type.Īnagrams, for example, usually have a tip like “changing,” “wandering” or “adapted.” I usually catch an anagram or two when I first start solving, and this puzzle has some absolute beauts that help reveal crossing letters for harder clues. You’ll note that every word in a double-definition clue is used in one of those definitions. One of my favorite clues in this puzzle is a very clever double definition that refers to a tiny part of its clue - “prominent” - and the lengthy remainder, “reason for failing to get a dinner reservation.” NOTABLE (or “no table,” sorry!) works to define both segments. In this case, a “match” yields a flame - a LIGHTER, which, as an adjective, also means “less serious.” Look at “jumping around” for another case of this: “Jumping” is BOUNDING, like a kangaroo, and so is “around” - as in making boundaries on all sides. “Less serious match, say” is a brilliant example. For all their creativity, cryptics have clues that can almost always be categorized, and doing so almost always helps you solve them.Ī double definition is a clue that can be divided into two parts that are synonyms, albeit often surprisingly. If those terms are new to you, consult an online glossary when solving cryptic crosswords. There are a few double definitions today as well as anagrams, reversals, containers, a lot of charade clues, a hidden word and a homophonic pun.
This cryptic is typically whimsical, fun and squeaky clean, which in this context means that each clue is a neat little knot that unties itself without a lot of drama or extra string. CRYPTIC CROSSWORD - It’s always a nice surprise to see the Cox-Rathvon touch on a nonacrostic Sunday.
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