Has this been done before I wonder?
Any cryptic crossword fans - have a go at this quick puzzle. All the answers are Dopers!
If I get really bored I might compile a full-size one some time - this is just a little taster.
The grid is in the link - unfortunately it doesn’t number the grid, but they run simply top to bottom and left to right.
Clues also reproduced here:
ACROSS
1.Cor! I fled chilly sack (8)
2.Cool! Crazy! Pointless ring logo! (8)
3.E.g. magical men confused heavenly girl (7,5)
4.(see 2 down)
5.Avid, but a musical star moderator (4,4)
DOWN
1.100 parasites rise on a crazy mixed-up southern master (5,5)
2.(and 4 across) Solo, backwards, on the level – not quite the thing for a Little Boy? (5,8)
3.Fossil creature: Latin god around south usually migrates (11)
4.I bond nylon with lady typeface moderator (4,6)
5.Guy with cap gets brown on island (9)
5 Across Tuba Diva
4 Down Lynn Bodoni
Thanks soooo much for posting this just as I’m getting ready to leave work!
Yep… nobody else playing?
I do believe that’s the lot… well done, y’all.
Really neat idea, Colophon. Now, if you can create one in which, say, 200 usernames appear … why, that would be cool.
I got them all except for 3 Down. Here are a few more clues (sorry, no grid) for you to solve.
- Shoe tree? Just the opposite! (9)
- Man juggling Izod, Tet (2, 5)
- Strangely, a final Southerner (6)
- Demon surrounded by crafty felines (6, 4)
- Perhaps be fable girl (7)
- Dude, escape to eat all in France! (9)
- Ay, I form match, crazy lady! (5, 4, 3)
- What really sentimental – or terrible – golfer may do (7)
- Trade around 1000 – bad market conditions for him (9)
- Woman blew in, scattered (6)
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You’ve done this profesionally, haven’t you?
Heh… my “Mangetout” clue was:
Skin disease? Seller is a vegetable (9)
But I couldn’t fit it in the grid.
Erm, your other ones have me stumped so far though…