Very instructive. Many thanks for posting this. Solving cryptics requires a challenging thought process. It was fascinating watching you and listening to you as you unravelled the clues to arrive at the answers.
hopefully you’ll see this, but i just came from your newest video, featuring the snake egg puzzle. It’s actually insane seeing how much your personality has changed over the last couple years. I’ve only been watching for the past 2 months I think and I’m blown away at how much more captivating your videos are now. Nothing against this video AT ALL, i still love watching it. It actually makes me very happy to see how much this channel has changed you (for the better).
Even after watching this get solved in an hour and trying to wrap my head around it, I STILL don't know how English crossword puzzle clues work. I just can't figure them out.
Same. It’s fascinating to watch but I’m so far from being able to follow his logic that this whole thing may as well be in another language. Absolutely no idea how he’s getting any of these answers
@@nightwalker4769 This is one of the earlier videos. In the more recent ones, Simon takes the time to more fully explain his processes of solving the clues.
Interesting to watch you solve, but also interesting that the buzz around this seems to have been based on the opinion of just the setter and his mate, which doesn't seem to be the most objective way you might judge things. I suppose that must be more than a little annoying to more deserving and yet less well connected setters!
Only a puzzle for experts like yourself, certainly, and well out of reach of the likes of me, but surely the Listener and Inquisitor are harder than that every time.
Took me on and off for a couple of days. Had to check with Google that some of the words I derived were actually correct. Gratifying that Simon had to use Google too for the same reason.. Thanks for the video. Great to see an insight on how a master goes out the solving.
An oldie, but a goodie, as they say. I found it very frustrating that the clues did not highlight as he clicked on the spaces, and I had to squint to see the numbers... As an American, I got a few of these more quickly than Simon, but some of those words? I'm not sure I would even have guessed them well enough to look them up! Definitely some hubris on the part of the setter and/or title maker there, nowhere close to the TImes monthly club special that Mark attacks.
If you mean the standard US crosswords such as NYTimes, I agree! Most of my North American sources for cryptics seem to aim for a pleasurable solving experience, rather than being purposely difficult.
I'm done, and can watch the video now. Time roughly on a par with a Mephisto or gentle Inquisitor, but gratifyingly little Big Red Book action - which probably means that I was being dim. It was rather better than expected actually, but there are some clues which I can't see getting past the big three broadsheet editors (not sure about the Telegraph). Thanks again for highlighting this puzzle - I'm glad to have tackled it.
I know this was posted years ago, but Simon needs to read the great Canadian masterpiece, ‘The Cremation of Sam McGee’. It may be the only time moil is used in an opening in all of literature.
I was watching this for the first time and I managed to get 21 across from you reading the clue the first time. I've paused to type this and I think the answer to that clue is SIPHON. Hopefully I'm right (I'll soon find out).
I guess these are just not the puzzles to watch as a non-native english speaker. I got Rhodesia, Slam and Adams before Simon did but thats it. And even after listening to the explanations a few of em didnt make sense to me
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Very instructive. Many thanks for posting this. Solving cryptics requires a challenging thought process. It was fascinating watching you and listening to you as you unravelled the clues to arrive at the answers.
hopefully you’ll see this, but i just came from your newest video, featuring the snake egg puzzle. It’s actually insane seeing how much your personality has changed over the last couple years. I’ve only been watching for the past 2 months I think and I’m blown away at how much more captivating your videos are now. Nothing against this video AT ALL, i still love watching it. It actually makes me very happy to see how much this channel has changed you (for the better).
Even after watching this get solved in an hour and trying to wrap my head around it, I STILL don't know how English crossword puzzle clues work. I just can't figure them out.
Same. It’s fascinating to watch but I’m so far from being able to follow his logic that this whole thing may as well be in another language. Absolutely no idea how he’s getting any of these answers
@@nightwalker4769 This is one of the earlier videos. In the more recent ones, Simon takes the time to more fully explain his processes of solving the clues.
Interesting to watch you solve, but also interesting that the buzz around this seems to have been based on the opinion of just the setter and his mate, which doesn't seem to be the most objective way you might judge things. I suppose that must be more than a little annoying to more deserving and yet less well connected setters!
Only a puzzle for experts like yourself, certainly, and well out of reach of the likes of me, but surely the Listener and Inquisitor are harder than that every time.
Took me on and off for a couple of days. Had to check with Google that some of the words I derived were actually correct. Gratifying that Simon had to use Google too for the same reason.. Thanks for the video. Great to see an insight on how a master goes out the solving.
I thought 54 was relatively straight forward seeing as da Vinci was famously a renaissance man and polymath.
I missed how 11 down (pith) worked. I see plinth, and "no space for ... new" means remove the 'n', but how does student mean 'L'?
An oldie, but a goodie, as they say. I found it very frustrating that the clues did not highlight as he clicked on the spaces, and I had to squint to see the numbers...
As an American, I got a few of these more quickly than Simon, but some of those words? I'm not sure I would even have guessed them well enough to look them up!
Definitely some hubris on the part of the setter and/or title maker there, nowhere close to the TImes monthly club special that Mark attacks.
IME American crosswords use even more recondite vocabulary than British ones do.
If you mean the standard US crosswords such as NYTimes, I agree!
Most of my North American sources for cryptics seem to aim for a pleasurable solving experience, rather than being purposely difficult.
I'm done, and can watch the video now. Time roughly on a par with a Mephisto or gentle Inquisitor, but gratifyingly little Big Red Book action - which probably means that I was being dim. It was rather better than expected actually, but there are some clues which I can't see getting past the big three broadsheet editors (not sure about the Telegraph). Thanks again for highlighting this puzzle - I'm glad to have tackled it.
I saw Rosebud and Dalek, quit while I was ahead.
You're in a different league to me.
I know this was posted years ago, but Simon needs to read the great Canadian masterpiece, ‘The Cremation of Sam McGee’. It may be the only time moil is used in an opening in all of literature.
Tarragon is the herb used in bearnaise, so it definitely tastes of it
Slam- only clue I got. Maybe being 🇺🇸 helps 😁
Same!
Maybe I'm jumping in too soon here, but Elizabethan "has to" is "must", but written with the funny s, so it looks like "muft"
Daktari was an old TV series, with no middle or end (k and i) = dakar
Edit: it feels like a hundred years ago, Simon 🤣🤣🤣
Again, this is probably unnecessary, but the old television series is Daktari
I was watching this for the first time and I managed to get 21 across from you reading the clue the first time. I've paused to type this and I think the answer to that clue is SIPHON. Hopefully I'm right (I'll soon find out).
monoPOLY *groans*
I guess these are just not the puzzles to watch as a non-native english speaker. I got Rhodesia, Slam and Adams before Simon did but thats it. And even after listening to the explanations a few of em didnt make sense to me
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