| Used To Do Crosswords 01:04 - Jun 21 with 4918 views | Boston |
...a few a day if possible. Tea break as a lad comprised of a cuppa, sandwich and the quick Guardian challenge. Rarely did I not have it done in twenty mins. Never continued the habit in the USofA, dislike their versions, do one now and then but the layouts are poxy, they don't even put the number of letters after the clue so you get bogged down counting boxes, need a farkin coffee hour to plod my way through and don't get me started on the spelling. I know you can do 'em online, but it's just not the same, a paper stuck outa yer back pocket as you shovel concrete has a certain je ne sais quoi, doncha fink?
Needless to say cryptic is craptic. [Post edited 21 Jun 2017 1:24]
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 01:11 - Jun 21 with 3936 views | bob566 |
The Irish Times crossaire crossword is very cryptic if you fancy it. You'll have to pay a sub mind you | | | |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 01:14 - Jun 21 with 3934 views | Boston |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 01:11 - Jun 21 by bob566 |
The Irish Times crossaire crossword is very cryptic if you fancy it. You'll have to pay a sub mind you |
Is that a cryptic suggestion Bob? | |
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 01:20 - Jun 21 with 3928 views | Mistication92 |
I wish I could do cryptic crosswords.
I've started buying those little books of quick crosswords in Tesco. I've taken it as a sign I need to sort myself out, I'm 24 FFS. | | | |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 01:58 - Jun 21 with 3903 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
I usually get a crossword when I get home pissed after not calling. |  | | |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 03:55 - Jun 21 with 3875 views | FredManRave |
I used to watch Crossroads. Benny was my favourite character.
I-ll leave it there. |  |
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 06:48 - Jun 21 with 3842 views | Konk |
6 Down: Exhausting post round.
How many letters? Bloody thousands.
Still makes me chuckle.
I used to do the Guardian Quick crossword and Sudoku every day before I started cycling to work, and I still enjoy doing them now whenever I get the time. I actually gave an involuntary “Yes!” when I completed a particularly tricky Suduko puzzle in the Guardian the other day, which scared the sh it out of the woman sat next to me on the 141.
Pre-internet, in the morning my team at work used to collectively work through most of the papers’ crosswords, guess the ages of that day’s celebrity birthdays and then guess the hottest and coldest places in the list of published temperatures in the Guardian (Abu Dhabi was hottest 99% of the time). If we weren’t doing that, and it had gone midday, you could usually find about 75% of the team at any one point in the pub across the road, watching the horse racing, cricket, snooker and during the Olympics, getting quite animated about small bore pistol shooting and badminton. Good times.
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 07:28 - Jun 21 with 3801 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Boston, you ain't lying!
American crosswords are hopeless. Not just the lack of number for the amount of letters in the clue, but they bunch them together and so you end up completing some words by virtue of answering others!
However, I rarely do crosswords these days, well not since being introduced to crack cocaine a few years back or, as it is more commonly known: sudoku! Totally obsessed with the buggers. I like to mix my crack cocaine/sudoku with speed, as in, I set time limits. So you've really got to 'crack' on as it were.
Anyone else off their melon on sudoku? |  |
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 07:40 - Jun 21 with 3789 views | QPR_John |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 07:28 - Jun 21 by PlanetHonneywood |
Boston, you ain't lying!
American crosswords are hopeless. Not just the lack of number for the amount of letters in the clue, but they bunch them together and so you end up completing some words by virtue of answering others!
However, I rarely do crosswords these days, well not since being introduced to crack cocaine a few years back or, as it is more commonly known: sudoku! Totally obsessed with the buggers. I like to mix my crack cocaine/sudoku with speed, as in, I set time limits. So you've really got to 'crack' on as it were.
Anyone else off their melon on sudoku? |
Use to do sudoku my favourite now is kakuro | | | |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 08:32 - Jun 21 with 3742 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 07:40 - Jun 21 by QPR_John |
Use to do sudoku my favourite now is kakuro |
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 08:36 - Jun 21 with 3737 views | colinallcars |
I remember reading about the Guardinan crossword compliers. A lot of them are vicars, some cynics would say they've nothing else to do !
Certainly there are plenty of religious references in the defintion parts of the clues. |  | | |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 09:06 - Jun 21 with 3712 views | MrSheen |
FT Saturday Polymath quiz crossword. Virtually Impossible to finish even using google.
Disease affecting love apples (6,6)
In India, an action by workers involving the encirclement of their employers (6)
A group of civilian soldiers, common between the 16th and 18th centuries (9) |  | | |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 09:08 - Jun 21 with 3707 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 09:06 - Jun 21 by MrSheen |
FT Saturday Polymath quiz crossword. Virtually Impossible to finish even using google.
Disease affecting love apples (6,6)
In India, an action by workers involving the encirclement of their employers (6)
A group of civilian soldiers, common between the 16th and 18th centuries (9) |
last one mercenary? |  |
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 09:15 - Jun 21 with 3692 views | MrSheen |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 09:08 - Jun 21 by Metallica_Hoop |
last one mercenary? |
Trainband, apparently. No, me neither. | | | |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 09:20 - Jun 21 with 3684 views | Pommyhoop |
Do this in under 12 minutes and you could've helped crack the enigma code...
Took me 14..
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 09:45 - Jun 21 with 3670 views | stonebridgers |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 09:20 - Jun 21 by Pommyhoop |
Do this in under 12 minutes and you could've helped crack the enigma code...
Took me 14..
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One of my favourite wind ups of all time involved break time quiz from one of the papers. Our team leader used to run through these questions to our team during the break so I used to pop into the local W h smiths get the answer and send them round to the team. We arranged to answer certain questions and came up with elobarate answers as to how we knew about different things We kept this up for months before we told him but not before the 50 year old Chinese woman got a question right about snoop dogs latest album name as she had a guilty pleasure for rap and knew who won the first rugby World Cup and she had been a winger in a woman's side when she was younger. | |
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 10:22 - Jun 21 with 3651 views | zicoshoops |
That old favourite....
Five letters begining with 'T'...........'To egg on'
Toast.
Exit stage left........ | | | |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 10:31 - Jun 21 with 3646 views | johncharles |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 08:36 - Jun 21 by colinallcars |
I remember reading about the Guardinan crossword compliers. A lot of them are vicars, some cynics would say they've nothing else to do !
Certainly there are plenty of religious references in the defintion parts of the clues. |
First one I got in this morning's Guardian - TWITTERATI. So they are dragging themselves into the 21st century 
Personally, I just like to doodle. I use the crossword as a cover. |  |
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 11:25 - Jun 21 with 3604 views | Mick_S |
What's this then?
hijklmno
5 letters. |  |
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| (No subject) (n/t) on 11:59 - Jun 21 with 3569 views | johncharles |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 10:22 - Jun 21 by zicoshoops |
That old favourite....
Five letters begining with 'T'...........'To egg on'
Toast.
Exit stage left........ |
You could also have
GSEG. (9,4) [Post edited 21 Jun 2017 12:06]
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 12:08 - Jun 21 with 3547 views | RBlock |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 01:20 - Jun 21 by Mistication92 |
I wish I could do cryptic crosswords.
I've started buying those little books of quick crosswords in Tesco. I've taken it as a sign I need to sort myself out, I'm 24 FFS. |
I feel ya mate. I'm 25 and sit in front of the TV with a big book of The Times' crosswords from the year. About ready for retirement really |  | | |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 12:13 - Jun 21 with 3537 views | johncharles |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 11:25 - Jun 21 by Mick_S |
What's this then?
hijklmno
5 letters. |
Water
I knew that one but it took my brain half an hour to dig it out.
H2O | |
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| Used To Do Crosswords on 12:14 - Jun 21 with 3537 views | HantsR |
| Used To Do Crosswords on 11:25 - Jun 21 by Mick_S |
What's this then?
hijklmno
5 letters. |
WATER !!
I like the Private Eye crossword, a little bit esoteric but topical - an acquired taste but I think, worth it.
I also occasionally do the Times Quick Cryptic in TIMES2. I used to have a go at the Times2 crossword, which is usually good general knowledge and occasionally challenging. |  | | |
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