Ye Olde Cryptic Game Thread

My last clue- you have to think about different meanings to words and splice words together. It's like an anagram clue but more cryptic. And like any good cryptic clue the answer is always staring you in the face, literally. I'm not giving any more clues than that.

 

so coppers might mean coins instead,just as an example.is that what ya mean mc?

 

It could indeed roamy

 

ok. i find cryptic very complicated,but i'll understand it better now that you explained a bit. thanks mc.

 

They're not designed to be easy cryptic clues

Endless coppers in verbal suspension are "hip" (9)

You have to consider what every single word in that clue could mean.

I changed the clue slightly also as I realised last night it didn't quite make sense the way it is meant to be read grammatically, so I added the word verbal. Kind of adds some to the clue as well as making make more sense.

Other clue again-

Biblical vessel, kind of going up in flames? (6,4)

 

Roamy, we'll work together on it. I had assumed that "coppers" reffered to the word "pennies". However, it is endless coppers so we take the last letter off whatever word we come up with. So possibly just pennie or even penni. Suspension I thought could be "hang" but verbal suspension could be "silence"...

I've just got it. Take penni and follow the direction of the word "in" in the clue and put it in suspension, or hang.

penni into the word hang

Hapenning. Another word for "hip"... If you're a beatnik.

Writing it out really helps sometimes!!

 

So, roamy, just to help you a bit for future cryptic clues, quite often the words are not what they first seem.

Copper can mean a coin, maybe (you already knew that)

Buzzer can mean a fly.

Flier can mean a bird.

Grower could mean a child or a plant.

And so on, sometimes you have to convert the meaning of several words in the same clue to get near the answer.

 

Well done sir, you are indeed correct! :2thumbsup:

 

ok. thanks mc an musty.i'll do that musty. i'll write it down.,an try that way so.

 

welldone musty.:lurk5: i've been studying. ha! ha!i think i'm gettin' the hang of it a bit now.an i understand the buzzer bein' a fly bit now too an a flier been a bird.crytic involves lateral thinking also it seems.an slicing is what mc ment bout cutting the words up an stitchin' them up all together again, like what ya did ta get the answer.

 

are they a scottish band mc?

 

vessel... We could be talking like a cup or grail (a more biblical vessel) or maybe a boat of some sort...

I'm so terrible with band names...!

 

i was thinkin' of the band the scripts musty.biblical/ script. but dose'nt add up with the letter numbers, an ark ya came ta mind too.a cup of grail Mmmmm.maybe!ya same here musty apart from the ones i'm inta.it could be one of a million bands.mc said no more clues! ha! ha! but if he's feeling generous an gives us the nationality it would help a lot.

 

There is already another clue to that clue somewhere in this thread

I'll rewrite it as-

1. Assist burning of ancient vessel? (6,4)

Another clue relating to that one.

2. Leader of 1. could be a prize servant (3,6)

Not giving away the nationality as that would probably make it too easy to google.

 

ok. thanks mc:2thumbsup:

 

i'm the first three letters of a vedgetables name.i change shifts ocassionally.what am i?

 

A car?

 

very hot mc. but the answer i'm looking for.

 

You mean NOT the answer...?

A cab?

 

correct! welldone mc.ie:a change from popcorn.an ya,sorry ,i ment not.ha! ha!:2thumbsup: