Mental Monday #8 The Super Cryptic Edition

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  • This topic has 15 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated 1 year ago by Yak.
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  • Mental Monday #8 The Super Cryptic Edition
  • stwhannah
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    Blimey. I told Mark mine weren’t that cryptic. This one is proper. Got 10 so far.

    Posted 1 year ago
    Pyro
    Full Member

    One left to go (15 down) and it’s bugging me!

    Posted 1 year ago
    Hedgehopper
    Full Member

    Any idea what’s going on with 18 across? A 7 letter word and a 5 letter word yet I’m only seeing 11 spaces

    Posted 1 year ago
    Pyro
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    @Hedgehopper – looks like the numbering in the question is wrong, it’s 6,5.

    Posted 1 year ago
    Hedgehopper
    Full Member

    Ta

    Posted 1 year ago
    onewheelgood
    Full Member

    One left to go (15 down) and it’s bugging me!

    Got them all except that one and was stuck for ages. Just got it!

    Posted 1 year ago
    Pyro
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    @onewheelgood – gimme a clue, it’s doing my head in!! 😀

    Posted 1 year ago
    onewheelgood
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    @pyro – no spoilers! 🙂

    Posted 1 year ago
    vinnyeh
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    15 is killing me- is it actually a single word?

    Posted 1 year ago
    onewheelgood
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    Sort of. Don’t think you’ll find it in the dictionary though.

    Posted 1 year ago
    vinnyeh
    Full Member

    was starting to wonder whether that was going to be the case.

    Posted 1 year ago
    Pyro
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    The annoyed/frustrated geek in me thinks that if you wouldn’t find it in a dictionary, it shouldn’t be in a crossword…

    (That may just be the annoyed/frustrated geek who’s only just got it, and doesn’t think it was a good one…)

    Posted 1 year ago
    slowol
    Full Member

    I have to admit that doing the acrostic below at the same time helped me as the extra letters from the ‘magic word’ at the bottom helped me with a couple of clues.
    From thinking it was impossible I got there eventually.
    Thanks STW team.

    Posted 1 year ago
    landslide
    Full Member

    Glad to see some folk got all the way through this. Feel like the feedback is gentler than I feared too! 😀

    Posted 1 year ago
    Yak
    Full Member

    Yes, got it done. But had to call in the big guns of cryptic crosswords (Mrs Yak) to point me in the right direction. This sort of technique is obvious to her, but I am a cryptic punter.

    Posted 1 year ago
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