Do non-English newspapers or magazines publish cryptic crosswords (i.e. like those in the Times/Telegraph/Atlantic Monthly etc.)?
1,4,5,2 One doubts that an idiot changes and ponders needlework.
Do you mean non-english-language? Or just non-UK?
The Globe & Mail, Canada’s only reasonably respectable paper, prints a Cryptic Crossword every day which will generally take me about three days to complete. How perverse of them.
(If the link takes you to a regular crossword, you’ll find a link at the bottom to change it up for the cryptic version – it may be cookie-dependant, I’m not sure.)
jjimm: 5,2,5,3,5 – A county in Southeast England will test you incorrectly.
Actually, that’s too cryptic. (I fudged the first word so badly as to make it insoluble.) “Sorry to prove you wrong.”
Yes, I meant non-English-language. I suspect jjimm is right.
(Mild embarrassment…)
Actually, according to this page, there is such an animal as a french cryptic crossword:
Unless they just made it up themselves, which is possible, I guess.
I don’t think my clue was very good either. Hey, I only do 'em, and badly at that.
I never knew that they had them in France. Anyone know the answer?
To your clue? How about I DON’T THINK SO?
4,4,2,3,3,3 For career advice, ring loses turn before th’ guy Dave pie cook book
No, the answer to the French question.
Cheeky sod!
The answer is on the site Larry linked to. An English version of the clue might be
A pint of paint? (7)
which is what I felt like drinking after reading some of the excruciating clues here. I reckon they made that clue up themselves, though - I’m not sure that the way they’ve worded it would make sense to a French speaker, and I can’t find any other evidence of French-language cryptic crosswords.
They have them in Swedish, they don’t look like english crosswords though, no black spots/pattern. Solid letter grid usually. Can’t really give an example since I can’t solve them with my Swedish.
It’s true that there are crosswords in sweden, but they are not what youd call a ‘classic English cryptic crossword’.
As said, they don’t have the pattern of black boxes. Instead the clues are written inside the unused squares. Which means that the clues have to be very short.
For a rather typical example, look at korsord.se
AAAARRRGGHHH!!! WHAT? WTF? What is it? Its bugging the crap out of me.
micilin
(who used to do cryptic crosswords, but is over it now.)
Well since it gives me a chance to apologise to jjimm at the same time, the answer’s DON’T GIVE UP THE DAY JOB (donut loses U, anagram of “th’ guy Dave pie”, Book of Job). Not one of my best.
I’ve seen a Latin cryptic, but I doubt that they are very common outside of classical-studies colleges.
sex Romani et unus Britannicus te vehunt ab altero loco ad alterum.