Minute cryptic

dont do it.

You know the definition word.
How do you do a spoler on here?

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Unfortunately, you need to type in the html:

<details>
<summary>visible text<\summary>

Text to be revealed, blah blah, blah.
<\details>

take a chunk of cheese.

Interesting article (spoiler alert if you are still trying to do the Guardian's October Genius crossword)

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Easy peasy

Cheated in the end, still don’t understand

Ok here goes...

Nope, messed up the spoiler code!

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It’s so satisfying once you begin to understand how these work? Question for more established players: is minute cryptic easier than other cryptic puzzles? I’ve started trying to do other puzzles but they seem harder.

is minute cryptic easier than other cryptic puzzles?

Yeah, mostly. There are other easy cryptics out there (I think Metro used to have a daily one that was pretty simple), but most of the broadsheet ones are more challenging. Minute cryptic is a good one to show beginners the ropes.

My father in law does the Torygraph crossword everyday. Which I’m in awe of.

It's the easiest of the broadsheets - their old business model was to reel in the upwardly-mobile who felt they should be graduating to a broadsheet with an easy crossword, extensive sports section and reliably comfortable right-wing opinion pieces.

Way to deflate the man's fil worship man!

Me and my partner have started to print off the Guardian Quiptic and Quick Cryptic each week to take to the pub and work through and find them a good level to step up with.

My partner is not alone then, having purchased a printer solely for this.

That’s good to hear then. We just sneak it through the printer at work though.

Nope, messed up the spoiler code!

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Gradually rebuilding my lost streak from the great mobile Firefox no-button-pressy disaster.

13 days. (Should be about 125. Sigh)

And I think to myself, what a thrunderful world....

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Nice clue, but agree with @kl that they use this clue format a bit much compared to how often it appears in actual cryptics