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posted 28-03-2008 08:40

 
Liverpool moptop badly desires. Ey! (10)
 
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posted 28-03-2008 08:57

 
A most challenging handicap is a traditional part of life in Merseyside (3, 5, 8)
 
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posted 28-03-2008 09:52

 
The Grand National's old retainer (5)
 
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posted 28-03-2008 11:25

 
Everything all right out there?
 
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posted 28-03-2008 11:41

 
I'm not seeing it.
 
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posted 28-03-2008 11:48

 
----N
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:03

 
I thought it was going to be Aintree as some kind of anagram out of retainer, but it's not 5 letters and doesn't work as an anagram anyway.
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:05

 
For those of us who haven't quite got the hang of crytic cross word clues, could someone post the answers and how they arrived at them?

Or is it closed shop?
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:06

 
T---N
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:09

 
Certainly, Jason. Any particular clue you'd like to see deconstructed?
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:11

 
That's a very good idea actually, and perhaps a good way to introduce novices into the fold.
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:15

 
All of them?
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:15

 
Jase: you don't deserve it, you sod, with your flounce nostalgia gags, but here goes.

The standard crossword clue comes in two parts, which can be in either order: one part is cryptic and the other is straight. This envelope can be pushed, but not too far and not too often.

Let's start with my first one. The author of The Good Soldier Svejk is HASEK. "Backing", that's KESAH. The cryptic part of the clue is "Stout fighters for autonomy get backing of author of The Good Soldier Svejk, and", which is FAT ETA KESAH AND. The straight part is "destiny intervenes" which is FATE TAKES A HAND.
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:16

 
Oh, and if WE could edit his first post so that newcomers (non-OTFers) might know the "rules" that might be nice.
 
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ICQ#: The Super Spurs Gender: Male Hulk Hogan n/a Bourbon Catch 22 Life+Lemons=Lemonade The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion Location: That London Birthday: 08/23
posted 28-03-2008 12:21

 
OK so Lachesis is an anagram (resolved) of "his case is" and had something to do with fate...
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:25

 
I must admit some of Wyatt's cross from cryptic to mystic, for me.

The good cryptic clue, though, as he says, is one that either points towards an anagram, some synonyms, or an inclusive (is that the term?) in one part of the clue, then hints towards the answer in the other part.

"Portuguese river runs as thick as shit (3)", for example.
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:25

 
Not quite. Lachesis is L (ie left, ie a "hand") before ACHESIS, which is an anagram (a "resolving") of HIS CASE.

Lachesis (so says Wikipedia) was one of the Greek Fates. Or "Moirae".
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:26

 
So with the following clue, "Fate takes a hand before his case is resolved":

Fate is the definition part. The rest is the cryptic wordplay.

takes really just introduces the wordplay. It sort of indicates "is composed of the following" or somesuch.

a hand could be either right or left. In this instance, the choice is L.

before is an indication of how the components of the wordplay should be assembled.

his case provides letters as "fodder" for an anagram, indicated by...

is resolved

So you have L + (an anagram of HIS CASE) = LACHESIS, one of the three fates in Greek mythology.
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:29

 
T---N, anyone?
 
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posted 28-03-2008 12:30

 
Damn, the diversionary tactic didn't work. I'm still a bit baffled.
 
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