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Clued In #310 | The answer cannot be found in material things Mihir Balantrapu  |  23 May 2021 Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In! Sometimes, the wordplay is fairly easy to decipher and you think you have found all the bits and pieces that make up your answer. But when you put them all together and expect to see it spell out the answer, it doesn’t. That’s when you realise that while the setter must make sure that all parts of speech match between answer, wordplay, and definition, he ...

Clued In #308 | Decoding the mundane surface  |  19 May 2021 Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In! The revelation of a cryptic clue is, we may imagine, the equivalent of Neo having spent a lifetime tied down by a deadening false Matrix world before suddenly sprouting the eyes to see the true pure green dynamic code of reality that had always underlaid the mundane.   CLUE: Fight after motor breaks down? When the solution to this might be printed... (8) Clue types: position, anagram Answer...

Clued In #304 | Pay attention and you will get your reward THCrosswordPlus Desk THCrosswordPlus Desk  |  12 May 2021 Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In! A setter is not all devious and the embodiment of pure deceit. They are obliged to be fully truthful about every piece of misdirection they are employing. So, the better attention we solvers pay to the clue’s wordplay, the more likely and certain we are piecing the answer together.   CLUE: Country song after limited expansion (8) Clue...

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Clued In #298 | Clues left in poetry Mihir Balantrapu  |  03 May 2021 Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In! Just like well-writ poem organises disjointed emotions and abstract subtext into an articulated frame of reference, a good clue too often involves a similarly transformative process that carries a lot of struggle till it blossoms into an Aha moment!   CLUE:Electronic record featuring, say poet (7) Clue types: Abbreviation, insertion The abbreviation for ‘electronic’ is E. Anothe...

Clued In #297 | A cute clue to cut through your gloom Mihir Balantrapu  |  02 May 2021 Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In! If your distress is acute, here is a cute cryptic clue from the good Dr. X to ease your pain and put a smile on your face.   CLUE:Baby girl entering is an angel (6) Clue types: insertion Another word for ‘baby’ is CUB. The accusative pronoun used to refer to a ‘girl’ is HER. ‘Entering’ is an insertion indicator telling us to put HER inside CUB, and form ...

Clued In #295 | Lean your brain towards the answer Mihir Balantrapu  |  28 April 2021 Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In! You have to be quite dogged and patient in your pursuit of the answer to a cryptic clue. You may also have to think outside of the box, lest you get your ears boxed by the clue!   CLUE: Dog — one lean boxer (8) Clue types: charade, abbreviation Another word for ‘dog’ is PUG. The abbreviation for ‘one’ is I, the Roman numeral. Another word for ‘lean’ is...

Clued In #294 | Clues sure are tough, but don’t lose heart! Mihir Balantrapu  |  27 April 2021 Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In!   CLUE: Openly ended final judgment disheartened Larry (5) Clue types: letter-pick, deletion Another word for ‘ended’ is OVER. ‘Final judgment’ is an indication that we need to pick the last letter of ‘judgment’, which is T. ‘Disheartened’ is a deletion indicator telling us to remove all but the first and last letters of ‘Larry’. That l...