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A cryptic distraction
1 Guiding the horse and the queen, partly stepping forward and to the side, it's no example of Italian Egypt. (6,6)
2 On the floor with a little time to crow about this meadow. (4,7)
3 Slowly shifting forever. A capital idea! (3)
4 Fighting far away in outer space, think bigger small thing. (10,9)
5 One more American than normal is a bit of a mess. (4,5)
6 Some of you, we and I headed north with the flower to the city. (3,9)
7 Making an effort in such a small area. (9)
8 The ghosts are all at sea, torn and buried. (6,6,6,5)
9 It's the natural end to this political advocate lordly, spinning oddly toward the rising sun. (4,6)
10 Sharp fireworks, a short break on time is too hot. (5,5,4,6)
11 Twice on the edge? (5,3)
12 Underneath that big area, the front of it is coming up and keeping us all in check! (7)
13 Searching for something underneath? (4)
14 Messing about this wee cracking tizzy thing. (6,10)
15 It's an ironic big old bear. (4,7)
16 It's all made up while it's in the air. (7,6)
17 A single dead body found to the North of this City. (11)
18 Booked more than one odd trip. (6,2,4)
19 The wine is in motion, it must be what his heir wants. (5,6)
20 Most of the farm was lost, oh my! We all read in the papers. (8,6,7)
21 A quick procedure will end this focal point. (5,3)
22 It's cooking for this messed up Doctor. (8)
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mezike wrote: 4 Fighting far away in outer space, think bigger small thing.
COSMIC FROG
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mezike wrote: 4 Fighting far away in outer space, think bigger small thing.
Star Wars: Armada?
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- anagrams: the answer appears in anagrammed form, preceded or followed by a word or phrase that suggests the mixing, for example Changing times for ITEMS.
- deletions: These come in three varieties, beheadments, curtailments, and internal deletions. The clue will hint at which is used. For example, Fiery bird without a tail indicates a curtailment, and it would be "flamingo" leading to the answer FLAMING.
- charades: the answer is in smaller words clued individually, as in Auto animal being a CARPET.
- containers: An answer like PATIENTS "contains" TIE inside of PANTS, so it might be clued as Hospital residents make knots in trousers.
- hidden answers: the answer is intact but camouflaged in the clue, e.g., Myopic colonel clutches flute has PICCOLO in it (shown underlined here).
- homophones: a word that sounds like the answer indicated by a giveaway phrase like "We hear," example: Counted frozen chicken out loud, as they say leads you to "numb bird" = NUMBERED.
- reversals: a synonym for "backward" or "overturn" in a clue tips this one off, as in Returned beer fit for a king gets you to lager, becoming REGAL.
- double definitions: No wordplay half in these clues, just two definition halves: Scooter was blue becomes MOPED.
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Traditionally you would also know the count of letters and words in the answer which I will now go through and add - I hesitated on this initially because it might give some of them away but I fear I may otherwise have made the clues too obtuse.
edit: Reading through them again, there are a few that do follow the logic of a true cryptic clue but it's not applied consistently across all of them.
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ChristopherMD wrote:
mezike wrote: 4 Fighting far away in outer space, think bigger small thing.
Star Wars: Armada?
One of those three words is correct!
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I'm terrible at these. The word count and size is my only hope.
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1 Guiding the horse and the queen, partly stepping forward and to the side, it's no example of Italian Egypt. (6,6)
2 On the floor with a little time to crow about this meadow. (4,7)
3 Slowly shifting forever. A capital idea! (3)
4 Fighting far away in outer space, think bigger small thing. (10,9)
5 One more American than normal is a bit of a mess. (4,5)
6 Some of you, we and I headed north with the flower to the city. (3,9)
7 Making an effort in such a small area. (9)
8 The ghosts are all at sea, torn and buried. (6,6,6,5)
9 It's the natural end to this political advocate lordly, spinning oddly toward the rising sun. (4,6)
10 Sharp fireworks, a short break on time is too hot. (5,5,4,6)
11 Twice on the edge? (5,3)
12 Underneath that big area, the front of it is coming up and keeping us all in check! (7)
13 Searching for something underneath? (4)
14 Messing about this wee cracking tizzy thing. (6,10)
15 It's an ironic big old bear. (4,7)
16 It's all made up while it's in the air. (7,6)
17 A single dead body found to the North of this City. (11)
18 Booked more than one odd trip. (6,2,4)
19 The wine is in motion, it must be what his heir wants. (5,6)
20 Most of the farm was lost, oh my! We all read in the papers. (8,6,7)
21 A quick procedure will end this focal point. (5,3)
22 It's cooking for this messed up Doctor. (8)
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