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Daily Telegraph Cryptic 1806 Thursday May 4Th 2017

SwerBan | 13:40 Thu 04th May 2017 | Crosswords

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4d - Newspaper's sure misled about Republican (4)

H?R?

Thanks to all who can supply the answer and can also explain it.

Mephisto 2957

Sunday Business Post

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Flonska

HARD

Had (misled) about R.

Sure = Hard

scooping

Hard? Had (mislead, had, around R, republican)

donny48

How do you parse the newspaper ?

SwerBan

Question Author

Thanks, all!

But what is the reference to newspaper?

chelle7272

That part of the clue - newspaper - seems redundant?

donny48

I always assumed that no part of a cryptic clue was redundant unless specified as such.

SwerBan

Question Author

The answer is definitely "HARD" as acknowledged by the Daily Telegraph's crossword web-site. But the parsing of this clue is even harder.

chelle7272

Oh I agree donny, I was attempting to explain why it was being queried.

It is the Toughie though and I do struggle with those

donny48

As well as a "redundant" newspaper I am not convinced with sure = hard. I accept this is the answer but until shown otherwise I think this is a terrible clue.

dannyk13

Just submitted it and hard is correct, but the parsing eludes me., the only thing that comes to mind is that a newspaper is hard copy.

Toorak

Could hard refer to the fact that it is the toughie? ( newspaper's crossword)

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chelle7272

Yes I would assume it's a newspaper term but that suggests only newpspaers / writers use the word hard to mean sure which seems flimsy to me too. Happy to be proved wrong if I learn somthing new in corosswords though :)

donny48

It was said in one answer that sure= hard, I remain unconvinced of this synonym.

Flonska

My suggestion that sure = hard was in the sense of being solid (i.e. certain).

dannyk13

Chambers gives hard (of news) as definite .

Toorak

Ok

So newspaper's definite/certain/sure = hard = ha r d?

Flonska

Even "Big Dave" appears to have struggled with 'parsing' this clue . . . .

http://bigdave44.com/2017/05/04/toughie-1806/

donny48

I'm in good company then.xx

Lie-in King

I don't like it, it's too tenuous, but I'll throw it in the mix -

*IF* "newspaper's" is a synonym for "reported", then -

Hard - road leading down to a (fore)"shore" ("sure", reported) ?

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