We thought a crossword will make the site more interactive. The crossword is expected to come out every Saturday(or every other Saturday) in the cryptic form, the direct clues will be revealed on Sundays and then the answers finally on Monday morning. The crossword here is a cryptic crossword. However, I have not stuck to the hard and fast rules of framing crossword clues. I assure you that most of them are crackable and fun. While some may have you flummoxed, most are directed at people who haven’t necessarily tried out crosswords earlier nevertheless are interested. If you feel cryptic clues is not your cup of tea, then wait for another day and you will have the direct ones to work with.Looking forward to comments claiming you have finished the grid in no time. Cheers!!
Karthik
This crossword is about homes in general. Look around to find a few answers.
Across
1. A bash was in progress? [4, 5]
3. The hen woke you up not the clocks tick? [7]
4. A mathematical function to restrict the value to some upper limit with an alcoholic drink? A small parasitic wingless insect (pl) with an alcoholic drink? [7]
7. To scatter over land for growth with a stream of air in natural motion.(pl) [7]
9. An automobile that is domesticated or tamed ? [6]
13. I let to solve it? [6]
14. Also a cricket shot where you scoop the ball up high. [4]
15. Where you would be if you were ROFL [5]
16. Torn cloth that is old angered the general assembly? [6]
Down
2. A hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position with manifestation of pride or vanity and assumed haughtiness? [9]
5. Wireless local area network that needs shortening? [4]
6. To annoy by complaining until rouge. [6]
8. A minor placed under the care of a guardian dressed in a long loose flowing gown? [8]
10. The fiber obtained from the husk of a coconut lands in a round cooking vessel? [7]
11. After a hat? [4]
12. Catch it!! goes the cry when the ball soars roof high. [5]
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Broke my head on this for about 10-15 minutes. May have gotten about 2-3 answers. Perhaps it’s because I have not done cryptic clue crosswords before, which I hear requires some practice.
Hopefully, the direct clues will be easier to crack.
I think the comment that the clues werent easy is true. I think i can attribute that to two reasons
1) normally cryptic clues also consider a description of the word in question accompanied by word puzzle or an anagram. While this is the standard format, i could not use it because,
The field of homes is a small subset of the english language/lexicon which makes it very easy to guess the answers once the description is present.
2) my inexperience in framing clues
hope the direct clues of today are easy.
If people want this format of cryptic clues on one day followed by dirct clues on the other, or the level of difficulty of the questions to be changed, please feel free to comment.