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This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

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Cryptic/Quick Crosswords

chrissa1 | 22:37 Sun 05th Sep 2010 | Crosswords

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I am a self confessed GK Crossworder and for the life of me cannot fathom cryptic clues.
Can anyone explain this one? The clue is Explosive Devices and the correct answer is "Bombs". (Crusader & Squire XWord, today's Sunday Express.

The cryptic clue is "Shells; second reversed, second, second, second".

How the devil are you meant to get the word "Bombs" from that???? Please enlighten me.

Sunday Times 4397

old German currency and French ever poetic for salesman

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baitress

second = letter B second reversed = mo<
second = letter B then second = S

mac44

All I can see is mo (second) backwards in b s s all seconds.

swarbrules

A standard answer to second is S (as in Time)

The second letter of the alphabet is B

Another name for a second is MO

Then we're back to B

This gives SBMOB which, reversed, is BOMBS

chrissa1

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Good Grief, you Crypticers inhabit another world. Thank you.

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