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• #1202
Good work!
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• #1203
I might not have scored well but I didn't need to watch the video.
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• #1204
I am still kicking myself for doing maths in a word play puzzle.
What a fool.
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• #1205
I did too. THE WORDS ARE TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO.
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• #1206
One under took letter, no idea how the clue works, just remembered some of the scientific buttons on my school calculator and took a guess.
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• #1207
Yesterday was GAME (gA backwards silver, “me” being the clue setter, who is a prick for this clue – does “game” really mean fearless? Isn’t it just “up for it”?)
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• #1208
does “game” really mean fearless?
No. Shit clue, yesterday's.
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• #1209
Yeah it does.
Game = Up for it.
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• #1211
I know, but does it in turn translate as "fearless"? Without being tenuous.
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• #1212
"game" and "fearless" can totally be used synonymously.:
"mashton would like to jump over this shark to get to the treasure?"
"Sure, I'm game" / "Sure, I'm fearless"Yes this is a bit tenuous, but these are cryptic crossword clues. Tenuous is par for the course.
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• #1213
I guess so!
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• #1214
It's more evicdence to suggest English spoken English is a violence.
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• #1215
it was something about silver being AG and the setter being me... it's come back to me - the clue was something about being brave when the setter confronted a silverback, and it was Ag (silver chemical symbol) backwards + me making "game".
Thanks - I had the GA bit, but hadn't got to the ME.
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• #1216
Twunder
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• #1217
Snap
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• #1218
Same. A good simple one
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• #1219
Yes, a pleasing clue to start the day.
Worth taking a step back and admiring the surface reading - I really enjoy it when the clue makes such consistent sense as a sentence, with a meaning that is (almost) nothing to do with the eventual answer.
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• #1220
Also, fnar, part of the process of solving it involves a word that is highly pertinent to where I solve the daily minute cryptic.
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• #1221
2 under
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• #1222
Took a hint, easy then, then a step back and look at solving the clue. Nice one under.
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• #1223
2
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• #1224
Ungh.
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• #1225
2+ not the direction I assumed it was going in
Even.
Like @mashton but I took two letters. Then when looking at the clue it made sense after some minutes.
It's all laid out there. You just need to know how to read it.