Can you be out of just one | type? (4)
[SORT] = [SORT]
The question makes this an odd sort of candidate for a double definition, but I couldn't phrase it more positively because I really don't know!
Scribes could read one, learning lore primarily! (6)
[SCROLL] /and/ [Scribes Could Read One, Learning Lore] [first letters]
Originally I wrote a longer clue, then realized the first part was literally all I needed!
Losing his head, | he barks | at | chests (4)[without front letters] [he bARKS] [=] [ARKS]
Covert agents | made | Nina | take | New Jersey | with only two knights instead of three (5)
[NINJA] [=] [NInA] [containing] [NJ] [minus one {chess} kNight]
Talk | re: oughta | use an e-|rope on a ranch (5)
[homophone] [RE OUGHTA] [{spelling with an e not i}] = [REATA]
The e vs. i fillip wasn't required, but it made the clue better.
 LAT |  Seattle Times 7/9/14 sNYT |
Today's Cryptic clues include acrostic, anagram, charade, hidden, pun, and subtraction.
Three from LAT:
What Tweety said when he saw Sylvester's kitty girlfriend on his arm (6)
Get crazy when hot wind blows by bog to westward, but not at (2,7)
Calvino's odd muse (4)
Two from NYT:
Toasted ambrosia without Sir Barack (5)
In Iran, geckos have a place to graze (5)
Owen
ReplyDeleteI read your note from yesterday. If I am frustrating your attempts to establish this blog, let me know how I could help (including disappearing). No offence would be taken.
Meanwhile, to today's clues:
LAT1: What Tweety said when he saw Sylvester's kitty girlfriend on his arm (6)
Very nice. Sound the bugle!
LAT2: Get crazy when hot wind blows by bog to westward, but not at (2,7)
Hey, that would qualify for a Brit-crypt in its complexity. I guess that is why you felt the need to italicize, as an extra guide. One of the most famous Guardian “constructors” (“compilers” in UK) used the nom-de-plume Araucaria (aka the monkey puzzle tree). I guess he would have approved of this one.
LAT3: Calvino's odd muse (4)
VERY clever. That would definitely qualify.
sNYT1: Toasted ambrosia without Sir Barack (5)
Appreciated attempt to misdirect with Sir Barack, but there aren’t many of them out there. A little too easy to work back from the answer.
sNYT2: In Iran, geckos have a place to graze (5)
Quite a hot, mountainous place, too. A little too obviously clued.
NC
Here are 3 attempts at American-style clues:
ReplyDeleteTake a good look at what the Magi saw and where they came from (5).
Annoyed at choice of vehicle propulsion system in the Indian Ocean (10).
Western parts of Ulan Bator have returned to an archaic form of prohibition (4).
NC
NC: Please don't go, just try to be less British most of the time. An occasional one might be good for demonstrating the subtle differences.
ReplyDeleteThe magazines I set for may sound impressive, but they were not places people would go to for this type of puzzle, so I always kept my cluing very simple, a habit I still maintain.
I got all three of your simple clues (the middle one you've used before IIRC). I'll wait till tomorrow to reveal. I'm not a stickler for balance myself, but other setters would probably object to your last one on that basis.