r/crosswords • u/CoruscareGames • 15m ago
[COTD] Jesus, cisgender, on hormones goes crazy (6)
Clue written in a cold sweat im sorry
r/crosswords • u/foureyedclyde • 2d ago
Thanks u/director__denial for picking my “crap” clue.
This week, let’s try 7 down.
Good luck!
(but more importantly, good grammar, creativity and attention to detail)
r/crosswords • u/PierreSheffield • 5d ago
Thanks to u/someguyinthefridge for picking my deceptive car clue last week.
I'm off to Paris next week so the theme is France. The best Francophilian clues, answers or surface readings will win, although I'd advise against using anything like '...the French... ' to clue le, la or les. We've all written clues using that but that is also the reason it's now predictably cliché.
I'll aim to sift through la creme de la creme on the Eurostar on Thursday.
Bon chance. It will be a riot! (Is it too soon to make that reference?)
r/crosswords • u/CoruscareGames • 15m ago
Clue written in a cold sweat im sorry
r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 7h ago
day 283 of an experiment in which i press the "random word" button on onelook and make a cryptic clue out of it.
weeks 37 to 40 (days 253 to 280)
weeks 33 to 36 (days 225 to 252)
weeks 29 to 32 (days 197 to 224)
weeks 25 to 28 (days 169 to 196)
weeks 21 to 24 (days 141 to 168)
weeks 17 to 20 (days 113 to 140)
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edit: should read removing
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r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 1d ago
day 282 of an experiment in which i press the "random word" button on onelook and make a cryptic clue out of it.
weeks 37 to 40 (days 253 to 280)
weeks 33 to 36 (days 225 to 252)
weeks 29 to 32 (days 197 to 224)
weeks 25 to 28 (days 169 to 196)
weeks 21 to 24 (days 141 to 168)
weeks 17 to 20 (days 113 to 140)
r/crosswords • u/DomJC • 1d ago
Fair warning (hint, not answer): Does require relatively niche geography knowledge if you're not from Wales
r/crosswords • u/Imaginary__Bar • 1d ago
r/crosswords • u/Silly-Actuator-5447 • 1d ago
Long time lurker, and cryptic solver here.
I built myself a personal crossword app that pulls the grids from the all major crosswords I solve (Times, Guardian, Everyman, Private Eye) and puts them in one place where I can solve them in my own time. It also cross-matches solutions against the blogs (Fifteen Squared, TftT) for the parsings.
I also built in a sync with the SNITCH, so I can see how my solve times compare with other solvers (Times Cryptic and Quick only, since the Guardian, Observer and PE don't publish solve times).
This is personal use only, on a private server, and only I can use it. I'm confident that's fair use of the published crosswords, as I'm not reproducing them publicly or selling them on.
I'm sharing this because I had a few questions for the community:
Is there appetite for something like this amongst the community? Or do people prefer to solve their crosswords on each site?
What would be a fair way to build something like this that more people could use? Or, more specifically, do you think the major crossword publishers would ever allow something like this? I'm sure there's all sorts of legal and copyright issues that I don't want to get into, but there may be a way for licensing. I'm not a lawyer so any advice appreciated.
Throw-away account for obvious reasons.
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