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henh...@gmail.com
Oct 6, 2022, 1:42:11 PM10/6/22
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https://i.imgur.com/ym5LTuQ.png
i'm very curious...
Do you have any hunches or Guesses on ANY of these ?
Do you have any hunches or Guesses regarding the (specialized) Subj. matter?
21 (DOWN) -- Holy one, abbr. ?
>>> [Holy ones: Abbr.] is a crossword puzzle clue that we have spotted 8 times.
note that most of these CLUEs end with question marks
----------- is this a mark of a novice Crossword-Puzzle-Maker ?
___________________
after looking at these questions (clues),
i began to feel weird....
-------- How Difficult are regular (or normal) Crossword Puzzles ????
so i looked one up
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/04/20/pageoneplus/20ITT_crossword_palmer/20ITT_crossword_palmer-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg
i felt so relieved when i saw that with
regular (or normal) Crossword Puzzles,
i know many of the answers (or at least have guesses or hunches)
without the CLUE of how many letters.....
Phew !!!!
Edward Murphy
Oct 9, 2022, 6:16:14 PM10/9/22
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On 10/6/2022 10:42 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
> https://i.imgur.com/ym5LTuQ.png
>
> i'm very curious...
>
> Do you have any hunches or Guesses on ANY of these ?
Apart from the clues themselves, you can sometimes deduce some details
> https://i.imgur.com/ym5LTuQ.png
>
> i'm very curious...
>
> Do you have any hunches or Guesses on ANY of these ?
just by considering how they're numbered. Typical rules are:
* Each clue is for a word/phrase of at least two letters.
* The clues are identified by numbering the squares that begin a
word/phrase, in order from top row to bottom row, and (within
each row) left column to right column.
* The pattern of black and white squares is symmetric when rotated 180
degrees.
* Each white square is part of both an Across and a Down clue.
Unfortunately, cryptic crosswords tend not to follow those last two,
which makes it a lot more challenging to approach them that way.
> Do you have any hunches or Guesses regarding the (specialized)
Subj. matter?
https://ur.booksc.me/book/49210446/1fcde3
where you can download a PDF that gives the grid (and, sure enough, it
doesn't follow those last two layout rules). And from what little I know
of the subject matter - _Finnegan's Wake_ by James Joyce - it seems to
be on a similar level of obscurity as these clues.
Another link provided within that PDF is
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25476364
and here's one for the next issue, which gives the solution:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i25476366
henh...@gmail.com
Oct 10, 2022, 2:08:03 AM10/10/22
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On Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 3:16:14 PM UTC-7, Edward Murphy wrote:
> On 10/6/2022 10:42 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > https://i.imgur.com/ym5LTuQ.png
> >
> > i'm very curious...
> >
> > Do you have any hunches or Guesses on ANY of these ?
> Apart from the clues themselves, you can sometimes deduce some details
> just by considering how they're numbered. Typical rules are:
>
> * Each clue is for a word/phrase of at least two letters.
there are Never 2-letter Answrs in NY Times crosswords, right ?
> On 10/6/2022 10:42 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > https://i.imgur.com/ym5LTuQ.png
> >
> > i'm very curious...
> >
> > Do you have any hunches or Guesses on ANY of these ?
> Apart from the clues themselves, you can sometimes deduce some details
> just by considering how they're numbered. Typical rules are:
>
> * Each clue is for a word/phrase of at least two letters.
> * The clues are identified by numbering the squares that begin a
> word/phrase, in order from top row to bottom row, and (within
> each row) left column to right column.
>
> * The pattern of black and white squares is symmetric when rotated 180
> degrees.
>
> * Each white square is part of both an Across and a Down clue.
>
> Unfortunately, cryptic crosswords tend not to follow those last two,
> which makes it a lot more challenging to approach them that way.
> > Do you have any hunches or Guesses regarding the (specialized)
> Subj. matter?
> Googling 10 Across turns up
> https://ur.booksc.me/book/49210446/1fcde3
> where you can download a PDF that gives the grid (and, sure enough, it
> doesn't follow those last two layout rules). And from what little I know
> of the subject matter - _Finnegan's Wake_ by James Joyce - it seems to
> be on a similar level of obscurity as these clues.
>
> Another link provided within that PDF is
> https://www.jstor.org/stable/25476364
> and here's one for the next issue, which gives the solution:
> https://www.jstor.org/stable/i25476366
16 (DOWN) -- Better than better!
21 (DOWN) -- Holy one, abbr. ?
Image: https://i.imgur.com/GeYp21w.jpg
Edward Murphy
Oct 16, 2022, 5:31:26 PM10/16/22
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