Crossword Clue Game

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Next word is BLIND.

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  1. Winwood-Claption group needed this kind of Faith to find their way home
  2. What “an eye for an eye makes the whole world”, according to Gandhi
  3. Put your money in this kind of trust, to be impartial
  4. Favorite window treatment for a Venetian
  5. An impartial drug trial is double this
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Conventional clues:

  1. Type of date, faith or spot - see?
  2. Type of spot, so See No Evil.
  3. — Man’s Buff
  4. Malady of many old blues musicians?
  5. Too much light for Manfred Mann, or too little?
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Cryptic clues:

  1. Can’t see a tight spot, or fifty.

Tight spot is a BIND. Numbers should always make you consider Roman numerals, like L (fifty).

  1. Carry a concealed bindl?

An anagram, blind=concealed

  1. Ambush, with a side of shade.

Some of the cryptic clues are fairly conventional. Blindside = ambush

  1. Tatum, Wonder and Ray Charles are men, not mice.

These three musicians share a common affliction.

  1. Opera star Jenny obscure, after start of ballad.

B + LIND after.

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  1. Game hunter’s hidey-hole
  2. Venetian or vertical
  3. Morris Frank’s problem, requiring a Buddy
  4. Hold 'em big or small
  5. Sometimes a sour date
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  1. Visual quality of a bat
  2. Degree of drunk
  3. Type of eye turned for uncomfortable situations
  4. This type of man regards nods and winks equally
  5. Thomas Dolby’s state when she presented science to him
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In cryptics, although anagramming is common enough to be assumed, the clue often has the directions contained within it. For example, words might be hidden in there but backwards, and the clue might include “descending order” or somesuch. In the last clue, “after” is an instruction. But I did not find this the easiest word to work with!

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Your cryptic clues were more intuitive to me this time, but it’s going to take awhile before I can figure them out without already knowing the answer!

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I like all of these a lot, but since they’re all spoons’, I guess spoons wins! Mazel tov!

Honorable mentions:

Knowed_Out:
2. Degree of drunk

needscoffee
5. An impartial drug trial is double this

The drunk one, I’m still laughing at, and the double blind, well, I’m a sucker for the “inside knowledge” ones, albeit, on the Dope, that’s hardly “inside” knowledge-- but it would be on the Monday crossword in my paper.

Spoons’ clues were really strong in the Trivial Pursuit area-- actually, his whole set of clues blanketed a wide area of knowledge. I especially liked the “sour date,” double entendre a lot, since you can have a literal sour date if you pick one too early, and if you bite into it, it makes your eyes water (or mine anyway), momentarily blurring your vision.

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Thanks, Rivkah! Glad that you liked my clues.

Okay, let’s see what all of you can come up with for ESCAPE.

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Nicely done, Spoons.

  1. Houdini highlight
  2. The Great 1963 film, with Attenborough and Bronson, et al.
  3. Witch Mountain movement
  4. To bolt, break or bust out
  5. Pod purpose for Bond baddy
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  1. Ford compact SUV to help you take flight?
  2. Andy’s departure from Shawshank (but not Red’s)
  3. Kurt Russell’s getaway from New York?
  4. How to leave Alcatraz before your time’s up
  5. This velocity will get you beyond Earth’s gravitational pull
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And some cryptic ones. Hmm…

  1. Flees Cape Cod in a Ford?

fleES CAPE, (Ford) Escape = flees

  1. Way out of wars? Shuffle peaces.

Here, shuffle is an anagram instruction, not always given. Way out is Escape.

  1. Sounds like the start of spring before Good Hope headland

ES (sounds like S)+ CAPE

  1. Complete computer key, used by titled L.L.B An abbreviation is often a clue to use an abbreviation. In this case, Esq. is a “titled L.L.B and Esc. is an “incomplete” computer key

  2. Pease porridge hotfoot, if keeping it 100.

Here, 100 = C + PEASE = hotfoot

  1. Fromm flees Freedom?

Conventional, Fromm wrote Escape From Freedom.

  1. The end of time and the first part of fall guy

E is the end of time, plus the first part of SCAPEgoat

  1. Slip off peaches, slip off the eighth letter

Escape = slip off, H is the eighth letter. Sometimes they might use “eta”, the Greek name for H. Or hydrogen. Anyway, PEACHES - H = ESCAPE

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  1. For juvenile novelist Serraillier, there is none.
  2. Hit this key when all else fails.
  3. “Narrow _______” (nearly caught)
  4. Real title of “The Pina Colada Song.”
  5. In Shawshank Redemption, Andy’s triumph.
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  1. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones do this.
  2. Ford compact sport utility vehicle
  3. Type of room for which you pay to be locked inside
  4. Snake Plisskin will do this from New York and LA
  5. March 1944 event at Stalag Luft III
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Many fine entries this time around. A few favourites:

Clever! Never thought of that when I posted the word.

Something that would require a bit of thought, and might drive a solver to Google it. Well done!

Do you know, I was trying to think of a word when my eye caught sight of Paul Brickhill’s The Great Escape on my bookshelf, so I used it. Nice to see your reference to the actual event.

And the winner is …

The alliteration struck me here, as did the thought that went into it. I could see myself scratching my head over it if I encountered it in a crossword; at least until I had a few letters from the crossing words filled in. Great clue!

Looks like you’re up, Dr. Paprika.

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Thanks. The next word is HEART.

(More for my benefit than anyone else’s - but for those who may yet join - previous words have included: cat, nun, ghost, Bruce, America, coffee, deposit, stock, tape, paper, shadow, count, chicken, stand, step, frank, middle, drive, stream, case, scratch, clear, finger, table, spirit, blind, escape…)

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Good idea! Thanks!

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I agree. I got to wondering what we had used myself. We should keep a running tally of used words as we continue.

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HEART :

  1. Part of an organ recital?
  2. Racehorse quality
  3. Land of the midwest?
  4. February decoration
  5. Boxers’ decorative item, perhaps