For Blaugust this year I decided to publish a series of cryptic crossword posts.
I'm aiming for one a day
Many of our friends over the years have said that cryptic crosswords don't make sense. They certainly do play with your mind, and that is why I take delight in them. I love the surprising discovery inside a puzzle and the challenge of twisting the usual thought patterns and making them do something different.
So here is today's offering...
Every now and then you get a repeat of the same thing .
This can be to form an answer like so-so or chop chop, or can take two answers to the same clue and put them together.
One example of this is
"Boost as one century follows another" (Advertiser Friday July 8)
So you are looking for two types of one century
Once century can be 1C (ic) (1=I and C =century in Roman numbers)
A century can also be a ton in slang
Put "ton" in front of "ic" and you have "tonic" (a type of boost)
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