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    From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 6 10:42:10 2022
    https://i.imgur.com/ym5LTuQ.png

    i'm very curious...

    Do you have any hunches or Guesses on ANY of these ?

    Do you have any hunches or Guesses regarding the (specialized) Subj. matter?



    21 (DOWN) -- Holy one, abbr. ?

    [Holy ones: Abbr.] is a crossword puzzle clue that we have spotted 8 times.





    note that most of these CLUEs end with question marks
    ----------- is this a mark of a novice Crossword-Puzzle-Maker ?



    ___________________

    after looking at these questions (clues),
    i began to feel weird....

    -------- How Difficult are regular (or normal) Crossword Puzzles ????

    so i looked one up

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/04/20/pageoneplus/20ITT_crossword_palmer/20ITT_crossword_palmer-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg

    i felt so relieved when i saw that with
    regular (or normal) Crossword Puzzles,
    i know many of the answers (or at least have guesses or hunches)
    without the CLUE of how many letters.....

    Phew !!!!

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  • From Edward Murphy@21:1/5 to henh...@gmail.com on Sun Oct 9 15:16:04 2022
    On 10/6/2022 10:42 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    https://i.imgur.com/ym5LTuQ.png

    i'm very curious...

    Do you have any hunches or Guesses on ANY of these ?

    Apart from the clues themselves, you can sometimes deduce some details
    just by considering how they're numbered. Typical rules are:

    * Each clue is for a word/phrase of at least two letters.

    * The clues are identified by numbering the squares that begin a
    word/phrase, in order from top row to bottom row, and (within
    each row) left column to right column.

    * The pattern of black and white squares is symmetric when rotated 180
    degrees.

    * Each white square is part of both an Across and a Down clue.

    Unfortunately, cryptic crosswords tend not to follow those last two,
    which makes it a lot more challenging to approach them that way.

    Do you have any hunches or Guesses regarding the (specialized)
    Subj. matter?

    Googling 10 Across turns up
    https://ur.booksc.me/book/49210446/1fcde3
    where you can download a PDF that gives the grid (and, sure enough, it
    doesn't follow those last two layout rules). And from what little I know
    of the subject matter - _Finnegan's Wake_ by James Joyce - it seems to
    be on a similar level of obscurity as these clues.

    Another link provided within that PDF is
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/25476364
    and here's one for the next issue, which gives the solution:
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/i25476366

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  • From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Edward Murphy on Sun Oct 9 23:08:01 2022
    On Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 3:16:14 PM UTC-7, Edward Murphy wrote:
    On 10/6/2022 10:42 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    https://i.imgur.com/ym5LTuQ.png

    i'm very curious...

    Do you have any hunches or Guesses on ANY of these ?


    Apart from the clues themselves, you can sometimes deduce some details
    just by considering how they're numbered. Typical rules are:

    * Each clue is for a word/phrase of at least two letters.


    there are Never 2-letter Answrs in NY Times crosswords, right ?


    * The clues are identified by numbering the squares that begin a
    word/phrase, in order from top row to bottom row, and (within
    each row) left column to right column.

    * The pattern of black and white squares is symmetric when rotated 180 degrees.

    * Each white square is part of both an Across and a Down clue.

    Unfortunately, cryptic crosswords tend not to follow those last two,
    which makes it a lot more challenging to approach them that way.
    Do you have any hunches or Guesses regarding the (specialized)
    Subj. matter?
    Googling 10 Across turns up
    https://ur.booksc.me/book/49210446/1fcde3

    .me ------- means Middle-East ?

    where you can download a PDF that gives the grid (and, sure enough, it doesn't follow those last two layout rules). And from what little I know
    of the subject matter - _Finnegan's Wake_ by James Joyce - it seems to
    be on a similar level of obscurity as these clues.

    Another link provided within that PDF is https://www.jstor.org/stable/25476364
    and here's one for the next issue, which gives the solution: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i25476366





    these Two are pretty simple... Is there another easy one ?
    16 (DOWN) -- Better than better!
    21 (DOWN) -- Holy one, abbr. ?

    Image: https://i.imgur.com/GeYp21w.jpg

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  • From Edward Murphy@21:1/5 to henh...@gmail.com on Sun Oct 16 14:31:22 2022
    On 10/9/2022 11:08 PM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    .me ------- means Middle-East ?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.me

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.me#Known_hacks

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack

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