I'm aiming for one a day. Unfortunately for some of the time I will be camping, so I hope to manage this, but it might get a bit tricky if I have no internet access.
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...
Removing the beginning and end of one word to make another
Top and centre of playground construction (3)
The straight clue is top
You have to find a piece of playground equipment and then leave only the centre of the word.
Playground equipment =slide
Centre of slide=lid=top
Answer is lid.
The next one is similar but different
Improve on cuckoo perching inside (6)
"Improve on" is the straight clue
"Cuckoo" is an indicator for an anagram... but of what??
Perching inside = erchin
Make an anagram of erchin and you have....ENRICH!
Indicators
- Heartless
- Inside
- Emptied
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