hobby #197
Cryptic Crossword Solving
Solving British-style cryptic crosswords, where each clue is a tiny two-part machine: a straight definition welded to wordplay (anagrams, charades, containers, hidden words, homophones, reversals, deletions) under strict Ximenean fairness rules. The craft is learning to distrust the surface reading, spot the device, and hear the 'click' when definition and wordplay agree on the same answer.
Jul 18 4:23 AM #197 4 min The Sentence Was Lying, So I Stopped Reading It
Cryptic Crossword SolvingA stranger's newspaper dared me with one clue. Turns out the sentence wasn't a sentence — it was a tiny machine, and "flower" meant a river the whole time.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- Meeting in the Middle Like a Cryptic Clue Bidirectional Search