August 15, 2020 at 2:30 pm. Had no idea about how ACTON worked. None known. Last one in was QUIT, because I always forget about the letter Q. Jolly good. Words and phrases in a cryptic clue indicating a word that sounds like another. “Acton” was superb – bet he’d been saving that one up. I didn’t spot the …tan/gents graph/ite… nina. Other verb conjugations may be seen in practice: for example, "X excluding Y" = "X with Y excluded" = "X (exclude Y)". I can see now that 7d ACTON was also very neat, although I had no idea that MIA stood for ‘missing in action’ whilst solving, so the cleverness was lost on me at the time. Did have a tick against 15dn; and said aloud to myself upon solving 26ac “cor, that’ll stump the youngsters”. Click on any word in the list to see the entry in the Crossword Dictionary. Can’t remember… http://www.fifteensquared.net/2015/05/22/independent-8924-phi/. A slower than usual solve here, but that could just be because it was a Saturday morning. Caution is advised when using these to set a clue, as many are valid only in down clues (*asterisked); there is some disagreement as to whether indicators such as "returned" or "in retirement" may or may not be used in down clues. Needed to check up on ENIAC and “phat”. Nice. Most reversal indicators can be applied to any clue. Whilst looking for a nina I eventually spotted the spar/tan/gents and graph/ite/rate things. Re 7dn – ha, and only last week I tweeted “Ready for battle here between Ealing Broadway and White City, one’s assumed (6,8)”, which is kinda the same idea only the other way round…. heading north) and a few are limited to across clues (e.g.
Outstanding examples included: the Harry Potter clue for OPTOMETRIST where Harry meant ‘make an anagram of’ – which might have been done before, but surely never better; 1a GRAPHITE, which was very neat; 19a SHOWER PROOF; and then ITERATE at 23a with all those timeses and 15d with multiple ‘wrongs’. Thoroughly enjoyable from Phi today, there were plenty of easier clues balanced with a good smattering of very satisfying bits of inventiveness. First time I’ve seen ‘assumed’ as a deletion indicator – as in assumed unto heaven – deserves to be in a puzzle! A deletion cryptic device is one or a few letters being deleted from another word, to get to the answer. Reversals are words that make another word when written in reverse. In general, those suggestive of upwards motion are acceptable only for use in down clues.
ACCORDING TO HEARSAY ANNOUNCED AS WE HEAR AUDIBLE AUDIBLY AUDITOR'S AURALLY BY THE SOUND OF IT FOR THE AUDIENCE FOR THE AUDITOR FOR THE LISTENER HEARD HEARER'S IN AUDITION IN CONVERSATION … Words and phrases in a cryptic clue indicating that a word or part-word is to be reversed. However, I’m in the Highlands of Scotland still, so my COD goes to this bit of reverse wordplay: 8d Former copper heads for Scotland – Edinburgh mon!
Still thought I must be missing something esoteric though. Still thought I must be missing something esoteric though. Caution is advised when using these to set a clue, as many are valid only in down clues (*asterisked); there is some disagreement as to whether indicators such as "returned" or "in retirement" may or may not be used in down clues. In general, those suggestive of upwards motion are acceptable only for use in down clues. Phi has iterated the answers to the first and last across clues – Graphite and Tangents – as hidden Ninas in rows 5 and 11. Needed to check up on ENIAC and “phat”. This is an incomplete list of the most common anagram indicators used in cryptic crosswords. List of container and contents indicators, https://cryptics.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_reversal_indicators?oldid=4027.
This is a list of general deletion indicators, to connote deletion of specific letters or phrases from a word or words. Well done if you spotted that; I sort of did, but didn’t really think of it as a deliberate thing, which thanks to Bert & Joyce’s excellent blog (link below) with all the answers now seems obvious. This is an incomplete list of reversal indicators. Homophone Indicators. Click on any word in the list to see the entry in the Crossword Dictionary. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. They are used in cryptic crossword clues with reversal indicators. You can also subscribe by email and have articles delivered to your inbox. "badly", "erupting"). Note that almost any word indicating activity, movement or destruction can be used as an anagram indicator, and many other inflections are possible (e.g. Whilst looking for a nina I eventually spotted the spar/tan/gents and graph/ite/rate things. – making comment on language (6,2,6).
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