Cryptic Clues
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For those of you who need instructions for cryptic crossword clues, check out this page . These have all been created by a variety of well-known constructors. There may be one or two that we might question, but they're still fun. Please explain all answers. -1. Sing about family caught in quicksand? (7) -2. Rat isn't scampering by front of church (6) -3. "La Boheme" centered around a city (5) -4. Sweatin', maybe! (2,1,4) -5. Duel with small puns (9) -6. Tadpole going upstream will set in slime (8) -7. Most pastry covered in onion goes for 2 cents? (7) -8. Beats members of czarist empire (5) -9. Don is turned down (3,2) -10. One year circumnavigating much of high country (5) -11. Assembles gun owned by a woman (7) -12. Using the library in Pennsylvania city (7)
The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
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Re: Cryptic Clues
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The Outer Limits
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12. Reading (double def)
If you're from Pennsylvania you pronounce it redding. Some out of staters pronounce it reeding, as does Mrs. Cue who's from Michigan.
Did you ever stop to think and then forget to start again?
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Re: Cryptic Clues
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2. snitch  isn't scampering (anag. ind)= snit front of church = ch
The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.
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11. Assembles gun owned by a woman (7) gathers - assembles gat - gun hers - owned by a woman 
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6. polliwog  will in goop reversed (going upstream)
The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.
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3. Miami  La Boheme=mimi mi(a)mi
Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
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Not sure, but worth a try!
5. Duel with small puns (9)
challenge(s) ; s = small ? ; challenges = puns?
9. Don is turned down (3,2)
put on = don ; also = turned on ?
I'm a man of few words, BUT I use 'em often!!
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5. Duel with small puns (9) Duel = SWORDPLAY small = S puns = WORDPLAY 9. Don is turned down (3,2) Don = PUT ON turned = reversal ind. down = NOT UP 10. One year circumnavigating much of high country (5) One = I year = Y circumnavigating = container ind. much of high = TAL(L) country = ITALY
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