more ideas please to help me new to this

[flower1948]

what is lateral thinking?? sorry new to this cryptic crosswords!! any other ideas

[dr b]

A good example is 15a in today's FT (12979): Hopper appearing as copper in "Gone".

the clue-writer wants you to think of actor Dennis Hopper as a policeman in a film, it seems. If you keep thinking that way, you'll be lost!

Think differently - think of the element copper (CU) in (inside) a word meaning "gone" (LOST), so you have LO(CU)ST which is a "hopper" or insect.

It takes practice but you have to be patient and hang in there.

[elcee45]

Very well explained dr b.

[Ethel]

There lies madness

[dr b]

Ethel - well, yes, but we all have to be go mad over something, don't we?

[dr b]

'have to go mad." don't know where the "be" came from.

[Harry-Wragg]

There lies (madness) is an angram of Ethel's Ire!

[BigDave44]

Careful, Sir Harry - remember what happened yesterday when you made a (sort of) witty interjection !!

[Jugglering]

Flower - have a read of this little site - the *lateral thinking* will then start to make sense !

http://www.ukpuzzle.com/crypticxwordguide.htm

As dr b says above, it just means "think differently". The compiler has set you a challenge and the fun in doing the cryptic crossword is getting the solutions right !

[Harry-Wragg]

flower1948 - please pardon the intrusion.

Dave - I have never made a witty whit dae ye ca' it in my life (sort of)

[flower1948]

thank you harry-wragg