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Can you solve this clue? -18

BySowmya

Oct 5, 2019

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We had a fantastic response to yesterday’s clue and a new record. 42 people managed to register their right answers in the blog, comfortably beating our recent record of 38.

Congrats to Raja Venkatasubramanian (our first one in – fourth time in a row), Sandhya Paruchuri, Camelia Oberoi, Abraham Mathew, Samit Kallianpur, Chitkala, Tulika Das, Manjunath Gawade, Arjun Mukerjee, Shrikanth T, Thejaswi Udupa, Ranjani Srikanth, Venkatraghavan S., Crypt Ella, LV, Amy Wos (4th name and daring to anagram mine:) – I’m watching you), Koteswara Rao, Adarsh Kumar Mohapatra, Shachii (welcome to the blog), Raghavan S V, Sohil, Suresh, Arvind Ramaswamy, Aniruddha Mitra, Max Jackson, Raju Umamaheswar, Lata Muthanna, Mukundala Balasubramanyam, Vinayak Ekbote, Radhika Anand, Santosh Iyer, Mahesh (welcome to the blog), Usha Mehta,  Aditya (welcome to the blog), Jawahar, Jyotsna Deo, Suresh Dorbala, Gayatri (welcome to the blog), Diwakar (welcome to the blog), Amirtharaman (welcome to the blog), Padmanabhan and R B Iyengar.

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The Clue was “Green tea, brewed for a young one (8)”. The Answer was “TEENAGER”. This is an “Anagram” clue. The anagrind is “Brewed” and it indicates that “GREEN TEA” needs to be jumbled. The annotation is  {GREENTEA}* . The definition is  “A young one”.

Once again, well done to each of you who not only solved it but also annotated it correctly in our blog post. Now, Can you solve THIS clue?

 Can you solve this clue? If you got the answer, leave a comment in the blog. If you wish to know more about our book, please check out https://www.1across.org/book/cc2/ or BUY IT NOW at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XVRYYXT

By Sowmya

Sowmya is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and independent financial consultant based in the Middle East (Bahrain). She is a puzzle editor at Amuselabs. She has set over 1,300 crosswords for various publications including over 1000 mini crosswords, cryptic crosswords (under the pseudonym Hypatia for The Hindu) and themed crosswords for Cat.a.lyst (part of The Hindu Businessline). Sowmya runs the Facebook group 1Across where seasoned cruciverbalists interact while setting and solving clues. She has published three compilations of crosswords viz Cryptic Crossroads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. She Tweets cryptic clues daily @somsram

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35 thoughts on “Can you solve this clue? -18”

  30. Fodder: LoOk ChAp LiEs So
    Regularly – indicates either odd or even positions of the letters to get the answer to the definition(which is ‘positions’)
    LOCALES

  32. LOCALES
    Definition : “positions”
    “Regularly” instructs solver to select letters from the fodder at regular intervals to arrive at answer .
    Fodder: “Look chap lies so”
    In this case select the first 7 odd Letters of the fodder (shown in uppercase) to obtain synonym of “positions”

    L o O k C h A p L i E sS o
    LOCALES

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