Robyn's Blog : crosswords

A different kind of clue

robyn.owens — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:55:00 GMT

Here's my favourite clue from this weekend, and it falls into another category (so far, we've had the anagram signalled by a word that hints at mixing up the letters (for example, "cooked", "could be", "wrongly" etc), and the clue that has the word hidden as the first letters of some of its words (signalled by "starts with" or "initially" or "first" etc). So what's the answer to this one?

Soundly disapproves of liquor (5)

Best weekend clue

robyn.owens — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:31:00 GMT

My favourite clue this weekend was the following:

An essential of pop music starts from realising how your taste hates Mozart (6).

She sits about her acre cultivating 100,000 words (8,6)

robyn.owens — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:38:00 GMT

While some are doing manly chores I like to spend the weekend doing cryptic crosswords.

To make it easy for you, here's another clue for the same answer:

Racists here? He's worriedly writing the volume (8,6).