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Doing today's cryptic in the NYT I have a couple that I think I have answers for but I'm not able to come up with a full rationale for them. Any comments?
I have _ _ N _ G _ T. The clue is "running into drunk this evening. I'm thinking T O N I G H T, where the T O N I is the 'into drunk' but I can't make the G H T mean anything.
The first T is the middle letter of G _ _ _ R clued 'swamp critter spat audibly' …
Nemmine. I just figured that one out.
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Yep, I reckon you have it.
running into drunk this evening =
Join together in a compacted form (into drunk) (this evening) =
(anagram of ‘into’) + (alternative for ‘this evening’) =
(toni) + (night) =
toni[ni]ght
In other words, 'running' is supposed to suggest conjunction plus reduction: 'run ni'~ing!
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And gator sounds like ("audibly") gaiter=spat as in spats, the things men put over their shoes eighty years ago
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Thanks mav and wofa.
I had figured I had the wrong spat. It came to me as I was typing the question in.
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and...?
[/tapping toe impatiently] ;)
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Actually, I've not come across that particular conflation-with-overlap before in this context. Have I been out of the NYT Sunday Puzzles loop for too long, or did you just devise it? :-)
baring + ingest, for example, with appropriate cluing-->baringest ===> BAREST
No, I guess that's discarding the overlap. Not the same thing.
Here's one:
Sign in the undergratuate physics lab:
"IN THIS LABORATORY
USE MORE OF THE FIRST FIVE LETTERS
AND LESS OF THE LAST SEVEN!"
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but where does the drunk part fit in?
(I don't get the cryptic words, I just get cross)
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I think that "drunk" in this context means the letters are mixed up.
formerly known as etaoin...
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OK not cross anymore. but I'll stick to the easy puzzles.
Ta, eta
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