Where can I find cryptic crossword answers explained?
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Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but I'm not sure where else I might be able to get an answer.
I've recently gotten into cryptic crosswords. However, one thing keeps annoying me. Even once I see answers, it's not always clear to me why they are the answers/how they were clued. I'll get clues like:
Do away with silo, back inside (7)
or
She might have a part in current Hair production (7)
and even once crossing letters and guesswork have let me solve the first as ABOLISH and the second as ACTRESS, I'm not sure how the wordplay parts fit together. I can see that OLIS is clued by 'silo, back', but I have no idea where the surrounding 'ABH' is coming from. Similarly I can see that TRESS is clued by 'Hair', but I have no idea where the 'AC' is coming from.
Sometimes I can solve things like this by Googling: when I search 'cryptic AC current', say, it tells me that 'current' can clue 'AC' as in 'Alternating Current'. But this is not always reliable -- I have no idea what to search for to answer my questions about ABOLISH.
What would be really helpful to me is some source of cryptic crosswords where the solutions come with some kind of explanation of how the clue should be interpreted. I've searched a bit online but haven't been able to find anything like this. Is anyone on here familiar with such a thing?
Thanks in advance!
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Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but I'm not sure where else I might be able to get an answer.
I've recently gotten into cryptic crosswords. However, one thing keeps annoying me. Even once I see answers, it's not always clear to me why they are the answers/how they were clued. I'll get clues like:
Do away with silo, back inside (7)
or
She might have a part in current Hair production (7)
and even once crossing letters and guesswork have let me solve the first as ABOLISH and the second as ACTRESS, I'm not sure how the wordplay parts fit together. I can see that OLIS is clued by 'silo, back', but I have no idea where the surrounding 'ABH' is coming from. Similarly I can see that TRESS is clued by 'Hair', but I have no idea where the 'AC' is coming from.
Sometimes I can solve things like this by Googling: when I search 'cryptic AC current', say, it tells me that 'current' can clue 'AC' as in 'Alternating Current'. But this is not always reliable -- I have no idea what to search for to answer my questions about ABOLISH.
What would be really helpful to me is some source of cryptic crosswords where the solutions come with some kind of explanation of how the clue should be interpreted. I've searched a bit online but haven't been able to find anything like this. Is anyone on here familiar with such a thing?
Thanks in advance!
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Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but I'm not sure where else I might be able to get an answer.
I've recently gotten into cryptic crosswords. However, one thing keeps annoying me. Even once I see answers, it's not always clear to me why they are the answers/how they were clued. I'll get clues like:
Do away with silo, back inside (7)
or
She might have a part in current Hair production (7)
and even once crossing letters and guesswork have let me solve the first as ABOLISH and the second as ACTRESS, I'm not sure how the wordplay parts fit together. I can see that OLIS is clued by 'silo, back', but I have no idea where the surrounding 'ABH' is coming from. Similarly I can see that TRESS is clued by 'Hair', but I have no idea where the 'AC' is coming from.
Sometimes I can solve things like this by Googling: when I search 'cryptic AC current', say, it tells me that 'current' can clue 'AC' as in 'Alternating Current'. But this is not always reliable -- I have no idea what to search for to answer my questions about ABOLISH.
What would be really helpful to me is some source of cryptic crosswords where the solutions come with some kind of explanation of how the clue should be interpreted. I've searched a bit online but haven't been able to find anything like this. Is anyone on here familiar with such a thing?
Thanks in advance!
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Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but I'm not sure where else I might be able to get an answer.
I've recently gotten into cryptic crosswords. However, one thing keeps annoying me. Even once I see answers, it's not always clear to me why they are the answers/how they were clued. I'll get clues like:
Do away with silo, back inside (7)
or
She might have a part in current Hair production (7)
and even once crossing letters and guesswork have let me solve the first as ABOLISH and the second as ACTRESS, I'm not sure how the wordplay parts fit together. I can see that OLIS is clued by 'silo, back', but I have no idea where the surrounding 'ABH' is coming from. Similarly I can see that TRESS is clued by 'Hair', but I have no idea where the 'AC' is coming from.
Sometimes I can solve things like this by Googling: when I search 'cryptic AC current', say, it tells me that 'current' can clue 'AC' as in 'Alternating Current'. But this is not always reliable -- I have no idea what to search for to answer my questions about ABOLISH.
What would be really helpful to me is some source of cryptic crosswords where the solutions come with some kind of explanation of how the clue should be interpreted. I've searched a bit online but haven't been able to find anything like this. Is anyone on here familiar with such a thing?
Thanks in advance!
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