TIMES 2 JUMBO XWORD BK 5 PB: 60 of the World’s Biggest Puzzles from the Times 2 (The Times Crosswords)

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BOTTLER– a bottler is an excellent fellow, or suchlike, Down Under; and an important job in a brandy factory Somewhat ironically, The New York Times complains that crosswords are a “sinful waste” in which solvers “get nothing out of it except a primitive form of mental exercise, and success or failure in any given attempt is equally irrelevant to mental development.” ( The New York Times will later become famous for its top-notch crosswords.) Depending on the difficulty and the specific newspaper editor, you might find cryptic crossword clues with weird traits like these: connected words. Today, he puts that love of puzzles into The Times Crossword, where he publishes his own The Cryptic crosswords are published from Monday to Saturday and on the last day that is Saturday, there is a prize crossword.

STATUARY - remove the last letter from STATUS(standing) then A, RY(railway, pair of parallel lines) ARCHIVAL - The ARAL sea is, sadly, no more. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, it is now, in one of our largest environmental tragedies, the Aralkum desert. For the purposes of this clue it contains CHIV, which is slang for a knife. Nho, but did know chivvy, which has the same root. The Times offers new crossword puzzles every day, both online and in print. Different types of puzzles also

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If you really want to get fancy with your crosswords, you can also create a crossword puzzle with a program like Crossword Compiler for Windows or CrossFire by Beekeeper Labs. USA Today Crossword: Besides free crosswords, USA Today also offers other games, like sudoku and mahjong. guy_du_sable : Sunday Times Cryptic 5005, by Robert Price — Take 2 puzzles and call me in the morning (just once!) [+19]

RHONE - sounds like ROAN, which can describe the white and coloured patchy coat of horses, cows, and other animals. LOHENGRIN - RHEINGOL[d] N*; Lohengrin is not part of the Ring Cycle, as Rheingold is - just another opera from Wagner. Me, I care little for the music or the man. To enter the contest, one has to complete the crossword and take a print out the same. This has to be sent to The Times registered office with all your personal details attached. The entry to the contest can also be submitted online for members of the Crossword Club

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I use the standard TfTT conventions like underlining the definition, CD for cryptic definition, DD for a double one, *(anargam) and so forth. Nho = "not heard of" and in case of need the Glossary is always handy All the crossword puzzles are available online via a subscription service that gives multiple benefits to its users like access to prize crosswords and a very rich archive of all previously published crossword puzzles by the Times Group which includes The Times Crosswords and The Sunday Times Crosswords This engaging and all inclusive crossword puzzle by Times group has gained a lot of popularity owing to its simplicity and interesting choice of words. These puzzles are very different than the usual cryptic puzzle where the clue is itself a puzzle and so is the solution. These are more definition based and the players are expected to choose the best possible word they can find and fit it into the given number of boxes. While there may be many possible words for one definition, only the one that will fit can be the winning answer. No fewer than four double definitions (DDs) here and plenty of deletion too, certainly contributory factors to making this a rather easy offering. Only the papal mini-bull held me up to any extent, but even that was pretty tractable. As a bull - of whatever size - should be.