Looking back, | Jack Frost | was a | leader (4)
[reverse] [RIME] [=] [EMIR]
Poems | made for | laxative salts (5)
[POEMS] [anagram] = [EPSOM]
I josh | about | Nipponese partitions (5)
[I JOSH] [anagram] = [SHOJI]
Inside | Tibet, sympathy | was | starting for Ross (5)
[hidden] [tiBET SYmpathy] = [BETSY]
I hear the | KKK | is backtracking | on | asinine rhetoric (3,3,3)
[homophone] [KAY, KAY, KAY] [reverse] [=] [YAK YAK YAK]
 LAT |  sNYT / Seattle Times |
A charade and ? for words in today's Seattle Times / syndicated NYT of 6/24/14. Punctuation in cryptics can be deceptive, but question marks usually indicate puns or riddles:
Hated concoction teacher's neck dorsal (5)
Could pitcher be more femininely sheepish? (4)
A homophone, anagram, and combination for words in today's LAT. Words don't always mean the same thing:
Outcry for Oregon shellfish in reverse order (6)
Raucously pile on tower (5)
Raucously heap motel base (4,5)
OwenKL - I think I finally got another... 22a?
ReplyDeleteSeattle 1: The answer seems clear enough, but the cluing seems obscure. I am not sure how "hated concoction" is related to the fictional character, who may make concoctions and be hated, but why "hated concoction"? "Teacher's neck dorsal" seems out of order: "Teacher's dorsal neck" would seem to be the correct order.
ReplyDeleteSeattle 2: Easy Peasy, without looking at the crossword. "Pitcher" nearly always points to a certain 4-letter word.
LAT1: "Outcry" gives this away as too easy a definition. Nice cryptic cluing but readily figured out from the definition.
LAT2: Nice one. "Raucously" is a little vague as a "sounds like", but will do.
LAT3: Nice alternate use of Raucously here, and more accurate too. The phrasing is a little weak though, as it makes no sense.
Maybe "Raucously pet male. Oh, base!"
• Here is mine, from today's LAT:
"Call up and use dog for finding clues" (8,3).
NC
NC - Fortunately there's only a few 8,3's so I got that one - I'm on a roll! C, -T
ReplyDeleteOwen - I'm still trying to get the hang of this so here's my 1st cryptic try from 8/5 LAT:
ReplyDeleteDogs jump Bugs cartoon style similarly (5)
OKL & NC where am I messing up?
C, -T
-T: correct on 22a! As for your cryptic, I'm afraid you stumped me!
ReplyDeleteNC: the first four will always be easy. Think of them as loss leaders -- get people hooked first with stuff they can do, then hit them with one more that's, not really hard, but harder. I'll leave the really tough ones up to you!
He's a concoction teacher who is hated. Parsing. I was ambivalent on neck <-> dorsal, but the dictionary definition seemed to suggest the order -- it's the back of the neck, not the neck in back.
The last half of your clue is easy enough, but I'm stumped by the first 4 words.