Watch Where You Step LbNA #21756
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Apr 28, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | ??? |
| County: | Spokane |
| State: | Washington |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | The Fat Lady  |
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| Found by: | ??? |
| Last found: | Aug 31, 2008 |
| Status: | FFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Apr 28, 2006 |
[Author's Note: Some parents may find this box too scatological for their kids.]
For folks who don't spend all their time eagerly solving cryptic crosswords, a bit of tutelage is in order. Here are some websites that explain very basic forms of cryptic clues:
http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=solving:cryptics
http://www.pennypress.com/solvers/cryptic.shtml
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/newyorker.html
The puzzle at hand is not a crossword, but each cryptic clue, when solved, will reveal the next word or phrase in your instructions. The numbers in parentheses after a clue tell you both how many words you are seeking, and how many letters are in each.
I've tried not to stray into any of the less common clue forms, but still this will probably be difficult. Remember that a word form which makes sense within the clue's pseudo-sentence is not necessarily the correct interpretation of that word when it becomes a solving tool.
Take, for example, the clue “Retiring verb is without retro beading.”
--“Retiring” is an adjective that refers to the word “verb,” but it also a verb that is a simile of the solution word: RE-TREADING
--As part of the sentence, “is without” means “doesn't have,” but if we remember that “without” can also be the opposite of “within,” then we know that we are looking for a verb made from the outsides of the phrase “RETRo bEADING.”
Enough lecturing. Get solving!
1. Centers’ middle is keyboard command! (5)
2. Woodland Nell is a Latina's mad hurrah—loony. (7, 5, 7, 4)
3. Byway is eleventh plus one preceding Ave Maria, motherless. (7, 3)
4. Renegade Scottie’s third and fourth follow first four of Spock fan’s walk-on. (4,2)
5. Frankenstein’s love embraces kiddie rating for card game. (6)
6. Calvary’s symbol becomes irritable? (5)
7. Directive involves part of chickadee corp heading west. (7)
8. Messed-up trial goes after Hobbit’s area of earth, producing moderate path. (6, 5)
9. Al Hitchcock's 39 follow fear of Attila for stride count? (7, 5)
10. Preposition lies around front room, initial stems from winner’s place, and tree constitutes what we do for love (?). (4, 5, 4)
11. Maternity doc to start tennis game for peer. (7)
12. Now whim without breath and mediate together. (9)
13. Middle piano key falls from rock opening in a specific direction. (4)
14. We hear Dinah’s raw metal is an extinct species. (8)
15. Saint absent from post-op is crap. (4)
16. Former spouse comes against violated caveat to dig in an archaeological manner. (8)
17. Bearing is first two words of Natalie’s Story. (4, 4)
For folks who don't spend all their time eagerly solving cryptic crosswords, a bit of tutelage is in order. Here are some websites that explain very basic forms of cryptic clues:
http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=solving:cryptics
http://www.pennypress.com/solvers/cryptic.shtml
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/newyorker.html
The puzzle at hand is not a crossword, but each cryptic clue, when solved, will reveal the next word or phrase in your instructions. The numbers in parentheses after a clue tell you both how many words you are seeking, and how many letters are in each.
I've tried not to stray into any of the less common clue forms, but still this will probably be difficult. Remember that a word form which makes sense within the clue's pseudo-sentence is not necessarily the correct interpretation of that word when it becomes a solving tool.
Take, for example, the clue “Retiring verb is without retro beading.”
--“Retiring” is an adjective that refers to the word “verb,” but it also a verb that is a simile of the solution word: RE-TREADING
--As part of the sentence, “is without” means “doesn't have,” but if we remember that “without” can also be the opposite of “within,” then we know that we are looking for a verb made from the outsides of the phrase “RETRo bEADING.”
Enough lecturing. Get solving!
1. Centers’ middle is keyboard command! (5)
2. Woodland Nell is a Latina's mad hurrah—loony. (7, 5, 7, 4)
3. Byway is eleventh plus one preceding Ave Maria, motherless. (7, 3)
4. Renegade Scottie’s third and fourth follow first four of Spock fan’s walk-on. (4,2)
5. Frankenstein’s love embraces kiddie rating for card game. (6)
6. Calvary’s symbol becomes irritable? (5)
7. Directive involves part of chickadee corp heading west. (7)
8. Messed-up trial goes after Hobbit’s area of earth, producing moderate path. (6, 5)
9. Al Hitchcock's 39 follow fear of Attila for stride count? (7, 5)
10. Preposition lies around front room, initial stems from winner’s place, and tree constitutes what we do for love (?). (4, 5, 4)
11. Maternity doc to start tennis game for peer. (7)
12. Now whim without breath and mediate together. (9)
13. Middle piano key falls from rock opening in a specific direction. (4)
14. We hear Dinah’s raw metal is an extinct species. (8)
15. Saint absent from post-op is crap. (4)
16. Former spouse comes against violated caveat to dig in an archaeological manner. (8)
17. Bearing is first two words of Natalie’s Story. (4, 4)