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Good day, a puzzle by Radler with some tricky clues for which I am seeking some answers to hopefully go on to crack the riddle. Thanks in advance!
( Preamble: Five answers in the completed grid can be arranged to form a well-known riddle. Find an answer to this riddle in the grid.)
cripticcrosswords.net/puzzles/prize-puzzles/mpp-121/
ACROSS:
1 Part of future potential Petty Officer s case file (8) : ??????W?
20 Condition on British affected compliance (10); ???N??????
27 Went out? (5) : D???D
30 From prisoner to minister to husband (8): ?????N??
DOWN:
1 Better and still sharing quiet concern (5): ??S??
3 Consider more sleep, nearly pinching Americans seats (8): ??H???S
7 Draft Union formation blocks move (7): ??A?I??
15 Current speed limits becoming slower to drive round bend (8): I???T???
4 Protection money spent finding flat (5): C????
( Preamble: Five answers in the completed grid can be arranged to form a well-known riddle. Find an answer to this riddle in the grid.)
cripticcrosswords.net/puzzles/prize-puzzles/mpp-121/
ACROSS:
1 Part of future potential Petty Officer s case file (8) : ??????W?
20 Condition on British affected compliance (10); ???N??????
27 Went out? (5) : D???D
30 From prisoner to minister to husband (8): ?????N??
DOWN:
1 Better and still sharing quiet concern (5): ??S??
3 Consider more sleep, nearly pinching Americans seats (8): ??H???S
7 Draft Union formation blocks move (7): ??A?I??
15 Current speed limits becoming slower to drive round bend (8): I???T???
4 Protection money spent finding flat (5): C????
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I'm still working, off and on, on a few clues for the other puzzle.
I'm still working, off and on, on a few clues for the other puzzle.
This might be a peize-winning puzzle for you, Matakari. I see you don't need all the answers, no completed grid... just the solution to the riddle. Once you've seen a couple of pertinent words in the grid, you should be able to ... remember the riddle* or work out the riddle.
* I think I heard it at school.
* I think I heard it at school.
The riddle's quite easy but the clues aren't.
1 - a rock star's (Petty) first name + outside letters of next word + 3 letters for 'file'/rank - your 'w' comes last
20 a medical condition anag ON BRITISH + C(ompliance).
1d 3 letters for 'better'/beat + 3 letters for a 'still' (photograph) ['sharing' the same 'p'] your 's' is wrong.
3 'Consider more' is the def - 4 letters for 'sleep' (minus the last one) about an Americanism for backsides/'seats' - your 'h' is wrong.
15 'i' for current + 4 letters for 'speed' around RIT(ardando) 'slow'
4 'Protection' in the bedroom minus 'm(oney)' - 'flat' is an American apartment.
1 - a rock star's (Petty) first name + outside letters of next word + 3 letters for 'file'/rank - your 'w' comes last
20 a medical condition anag ON BRITISH + C(ompliance).
1d 3 letters for 'better'/beat + 3 letters for a 'still' (photograph) ['sharing' the same 'p'] your 's' is wrong.
3 'Consider more' is the def - 4 letters for 'sleep' (minus the last one) about an Americanism for backsides/'seats' - your 'h' is wrong.
15 'i' for current + 4 letters for 'speed' around RIT(ardando) 'slow'
4 'Protection' in the bedroom minus 'm(oney)' - 'flat' is an American apartment.
Thanks, ProfessorMaisie! While I’m keen on finding the riddle, I also want to seize the essence of Radler’s clues which are so intriguing and so different from those of the Spectator's setters. I understood the parsing for all except 1(d) and (3d) for which I would like the answers. And once again, hints for the following would be appreciated to challenge me, thanks.
DOWN
6 Initially rejected genetic engineering, as solicitors do (6): ??E?C?
7 Draft Union formation blocks move (7): ??A?I??
8 Shocking example of royal getting round in (9): ??E?G???S
17 Gets up awkwardly turning left into hotel rooms (8): ?H???E?S
PS: For 1(D) I now have: T?E??
and for 3(D): R?R???S?
DOWN
6 Initially rejected genetic engineering, as solicitors do (6): ??E?C?
7 Draft Union formation blocks move (7): ??A?I??
8 Shocking example of royal getting round in (9): ??E?G???S
17 Gets up awkwardly turning left into hotel rooms (8): ?H???E?S
PS: For 1(D) I now have: T?E??
and for 3(D): R?R???S?
You've obviously entered some wrong answers, matakari - this is what you should have -
1d T?P??
3d R?A???S?
6d ??T?C? (an anagram minus 'g')
8d ??R?G???S ('example' is the usual 2 letter abbrev + a 6 letter word for 'royal' around 'O')
17 is a word meaning 'get up awkwardly'/scrambes with the 'L' changed to H for 'rooms'.
1d T?P??
3d R?A???S?
6d ??T?C? (an anagram minus 'g')
8d ??R?G???S ('example' is the usual 2 letter abbrev + a 6 letter word for 'royal' around 'O')
17 is a word meaning 'get up awkwardly'/scrambes with the 'L' changed to H for 'rooms'.
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