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@Arkturos saidI think I may need to start taking drugs; maybe then I'll see this in a different hallucination; I see some of these posts and think, hey, I am a smart guy, but what are they talking about?
Paul is being oblique and riffing off the Greek roots. It's one of the most defensive openings in chess.
P.S. -- Note to self: use fewer vowels.
Maybe I am not very smart at all.
I must admit, I am crap at cryptic crosswords.
@Martin saidOh, now. On my side, I think Paul is rather advanced and Orangutan is probably more advanced but less flashy and perhaps more modest.
I think I may need to start taking drugs; maybe then I'll see this in a different hallucination; I see some of these posts and think, hey, I am a smart guy, but what are they talking about?
Maybe I am not very smart at all.
I must admit, I am crap at cryptic crosswords.
I'm an American, and even though I had set and sold some American-style crosswords in my youth, this British cryptic offshoot has also been challenging for me. There's a learning curve involved, and there seems to be a whole undiscovered culture about how to write and interpret clues for these.
So, an additional clue: If you were to take a large African animal to the river for the sake of self-protection to the sound of a Talking Heads cover, and that animal might happily bathe in the river (no, not an elephant), which animal could it be?
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@Arkturos saidOK I'll give it a go
Oh, now. On my side, I think Paul is rather advanced and Orangutan is probably more advanced but less flashy and perhaps more modest.
I'm an American, and even though I had set and sold some American-style crosswords in my youth, this British cryptic offshoot has also been challenging for me. There's a learning curve involved, and there seems to be a whole undiscovered cu ...[text shortened]... r, and that animal might happily bathe in the river (no, not an elephant), which animal could it be?
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@Martin saidYeah, not quite solved yet, and I'll post it again in the next post.
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So I assume my answer was wrong?
I imagine that if you have cereal boxes over there (wherever that is) and you saw this on the back of such a box, you might get it immediately.
One moment please while I re-post . . .