Safe-cracking By Kea: The Best Crossword Ever? (Full Version)
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- One of the best Listener puzzles of all-time - solved in full
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That is just extraordinary. Both from the setter and from the solver (Well done, Mark!!). But especially the setter. I mean, I can't even begin.... That dial mechanism!!!😱😱😱
How do even go about constructing this??? Amazing.
For 30 across, the definition is "American leverage drives one", as a handcar is one of those railway platforms propelled by working a seesaw lever. The wordplay is AR (Arab) after H AND C (sign of available water, as in a hotel).
And for 14 down, TWILT is a dialect form of "quilt", and one of the meanings of "puff" is a quilted bedcover.
That was an amazing puzzle! Great job. :)
Once this is done from the "right point", I think this is instructing us to replace from the right side, clever
What an unbelievably complex crossword puzzle! Hats off to the compiler Kea, and hats off to you Mark for being able to decipher its mysteries! Just one thing, that shifting letters thing is actually also a rotation. That's why the cipher that shifts the alphabet 13 places is called ROT13, for instance. I would have tried that before actually replacing the letters, but that would have been wrong.
I can only imagine that the setter is really an AI. The thought of creating something like this with its twists and turns is just mind blowing.
An awesome puzzle. I'm so glad you chose to do do a full solve as well as the abridged version. 👍
Mindblowing
I can't even begin to think about the levels of genius it would take to create a puzzle like this. Absolutely phenomenal.
As Mark said, astonishing. Worth every second of the long version. The mind boggles at how much time Kea must have spent putting this together. Wow.
Truly CRACKED the cryptic that time! Incredible puzzle
How do you compile such a crossword? The missing letters act on the ring and spell out the words of the final clue! Then execute it to see kea's finger prints on the crime scene! Chief inspector Mark solved it without any reference! Holmes and Moriarity!
Phenomenal puzzle, the setter is a genius.
I like your channel. I do not understand these crosswords at all.
Check out the US version. Same principle, but they use very very few obscure words like UK ones. Also, every word in a clue makes sense and have much more rigorous rules, thereby making them way fairer to solvers. Still very very hard, but less obscure and tedious.
Probably the longest youtube video i've watched - a thing of beauty indeed. I was amazed that nary a reference was consulted -- I'm constantly looking things up in Chambers or wikipedia.
Did you notice that the clues in each rotation set are in alphabetical order?
Yes, and the number isn't in order too
Couldn't understand a word of it, but it looked amazing. Incredible mind, Mr Phillips.
I was prompted to notice this by the three clues in a row starting "Dope"...
I swear this video appeared early this morning, disappeared for most of the day and then came back just now but still says it was published 12 hours ago. Anyway, what a fantastic crossword; truly a work of art. Thank you for sharing this.
It was published by mistake earlier on today!
Absolutely love this, what a puzzle and what a solve!
For an added stroke of genius, the clues in each rotation are also in alphabetical order!
Me after finding REPLACE in the grid before Mark did "well I'm something of a crossword genius myself"
Superb video! No way could I have got anywhere near solving this ... Thank you.
I watched this whole thing amazed , very cool.
As someone whose first language is not English I watch and don't have any idea what's going on. I feel like a complete blank page: how does he know how many letters he has to use for a certain sub-clue. Watching a strange new world
Despite my love of all cryptic crosswords (e.g. Times, Guardian, Telegraph), by far the biggest reason that I've always avoided the one in The Listener is that I could never make head nor tail of the preamble 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe, finally, I will at least get to understand one!.....maybe 😜
Oh my days. That is astonishing. Chapeau to Kea and my thanks to Mark for highlighting a bit of beautiful Listener history. That was the crossword compiler’s equivalent to Ben Stokes yesterday. Unsurpassable.
I just can't understand how people could ever construct something like this. Is there a computer involved to find what words fit the gaps, or is it all from memory? Unbelievable.
I did use software to find words that fitted - TWILT and CHOLELITHIASIS aren't part of my everyday conversation. But I spent months getting the grid to work, trying different placements of the hidden words and the final 12 Ds.
@@kea2878 Was there any particular reason for the clues being alphabetically ordered within each rotation?
No, it was just for my own amusement, and as a sort of penance for not being able to have the clues in the conventional order and still spell out the combination.
15 minutes in, I suspect I know the first word of each instruction. Given the theme of rotations.
yeah, I was screaming 'left right left right left. just fill them in and go backwards' lol
30 minutes in and I am sure he is doing this deliberately.
About 35 mins in it becomes obvious the clues are LEFTSIX RIGHTFOUR LEFTFIVE RIGHTTWO LEFTELEVEN.
Mik1604 And the LEFT, RIGHT are obvious after about 15 minutes.
I'm pretty sure you were supposed to figure those out as a way to "guess and check" your crossword. If the letters didn't match then your original answer is wrong. It's a smart way to make the puzzle easier after they spent a good time on the original crossword.
Anyone else notice immediately when he puts the missing letter of 6 down (which should be the last letter of rotation 3) into the fourth location in rotation 5? Grrr.
Yes. But Mark later spotted and corrected his mistake. If that had been me, I would never have known at which point it all went horribly wrong 🤣
that was an amazing puzzle!
Wow !!!
Just wow !!!!!!
Brilliant!
So has anyone figured out the HANDCAR clue? It's driving me nuts!
I can parse it I think: The definition is "American leverage drives one" because a HANDCAR is an American object driven by pressure on the lever. Arab can be abbreviated to AR and this goes after "H AND C" (as in "HOT AND COLD") being a "sign of available water"! Simon
Watched 13 minutes, didn't understand any of the 4 answers entered in the grid.
I can do this too, just make me into a robot and give me a millenium or 2
i gussed the words at about 28:47 l/r/l/r...!
I don't understand this one bit at all
Okay...4 1/2 minutes into the video and I have no idea what the fuck is going on...
57 minutes in, I still have no fucking idea what is going on...
Almost an hour and 10 minutes in, and I figured out something before Mark! The first instruction is REPLACE! It's a diagonal down!
Okay...Finished the video, wow. Wow. Holy shit, that is an amazing puzzle...
Jfc