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• #727
This
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• #728
haha sorry just did a spoiler, haven’t woken up yet
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• #729
I disagree, not tenuous at all.
I think it is a really nice, totally logical clue. Which I expect hangedup just spoiled, inadvertantly.
It is one of those clues where you have to split the reading in an unlikely place, to divine the distinction between definition and word play.
In this case, I love how hidden that split point is. It makes the clue loads better IMO.
I also really enjoy how coherent the surface reading of the clue is. It's a sentence that could be uttered in an ordinary meeting without note or comment.
It's a contender for my fave ever minute cryptic clue.
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• #730
Click for detailed spoiler explanation:
The answer is *ammo*. The definition is *bullet*. This is arrived at by: Taking a (compass) point, in this case "*e*" (for East), out of the word *memo*, giving "*mmo*". This is then put after the third letter of *draft*, which is an "*a*", to give the answer of "*ammo*".EDIT - looks like the spoiler thing ruins the formatting. It looks fine in the preview pane. I will raise a bug.
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• #731
Yeah sorry if anyone just saw me post the answer. Had it all in my head and forgot which was the clue and which was the answer.
I liked the clue too, it was neat
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• #732
One under today.
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• #733
Two under, found it quite straight-forward with the more obvious wordplay making the definition obvious.
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• #734
2 under. Nice little clue
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• #735
Found this one very easy - but I wouldn’t have done before I started doing this game, it’s great.
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• #736
2 under
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• #737
2 under
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• #738
Same - I was clueless a week ago!
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• #739
Monday, innit?
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• #740
I didn’t get Monday’s, last week…
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• #741
Heh, I like today’s.
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• #742
Yeah that's what I thought today. Previously I'd have had no idea what it was on about but today I could suss it out easily which is nice.
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• #743
2 under
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• #744
Typical.
A twunder would get me to a hundred below par on my streak.
But I am totally stumped.
Grrrr.
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• #745
Par today
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• #746
Two under today but have my wife to thank. I was stumped. Few more moving parts than i could handle
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• #747
3 under, pleased with that!
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• #748
-1
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• #749
Go back to it in a bit. There are no new rules that you don't know already and once you get the big bit of the clue, the other bit falls into place.
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• #750
Par. I have now learned something else about cryptic clues.
1 over. Tenuous 🙄