![]() We have some primo examples of non-entirely-conventional cluing in Peshwari’s bald-faced “Nissan dormer?” and PeterMooreFuller’s letter-banky “Where gear components are, sometimes repeatedly, fixed” but Rakali gets the audacity award for the wordplay-creating-definition “House of cards without diamonds?” Something about the word produced repeated magic if you haven’t been back for a while, the whole thing is a very pleasant use of anyone’s time. Linguist and advocate of spelling reform Anatoly Liberman picks flowers as an especially thorny area when it comes to etymology.ĭescribing the subject of our next challenge, he remarks: “It is amusing what fierce battles have been fought over the origin of the word …” Reader, how would you clue FOXGLOVE? Cluing competition Here’s John Harris in his 1704 Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves:Ĭarnation, is a Term in Painting, signifying such Parts of an Human Body as are drawn naked … or what express the bare Flesh and when this is done Natural, Bold, and Strong, and is well coloured, they say of the Painter, that his Carnation is very good.Īlthough … don’t we have white carnations? We do, which is why some floral-word detectives think that the flower got its name some other way, namely from CORONATION. Splitting the wordplay between the R and the N disguises the way that the clove-pink shares a root with CARNAL indeed, CARNATION has a different meaning in art. ![]() This being Brendan, the feat was executed without any recherché vocabulary in the answers. Most of them have three words those that don’t have two. ![]() The same day, we discussed clue length a week before, we had a cryptic from Brendan, which you would be forgiven for thinking was a quick if you scanned over the clues and noticed their average length. We had a Quick crossword, which had the same clue four times (see left).
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