CCC - 2020-07-09

musefan

OriginalGriff wrote:

Anagrams ... too easy!

Everything is too easy for you! :laugh: I look forward to your challenging non-anagram clue tomorrow.

musefan

Here is the other one I was thinking of doing, any harder? Dash on one and could provide topping? (9)

OriginalGriff

PEPPERONI?

"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

musefan

Yes. See, all too easy for you :) I am going to have to start learning from Greg's style of clue setting.

OriginalGriff

I slept well last night - the cat didn't join me as he was sulking about his food!

"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

musefan

You didn't forget the side of garlic bread for his lasagne again did you? I have read that certain cats are fond of that classic Italian dish.

OriginalGriff

Garlic? That's an allium, like onions are, and they are toxic to cats (and dogs). No, he's a picky eater, he goes off "brand X" after a couple of weeks, so we switch him to "brand Y", then "brand Z", and so on (all of which he likes to eat) and he sulks because he doesn't like change either ... :sigh:

"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

pkfox

Greg doesn't set them according to the rules which is why people struggle with them

"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

DerekT P

Like Andre Preview, he does set them to the rules; just not necessarily the same rules you're using.

pkfox

I use the rules I've used for 50+ years - I manage to complete the Telegraph, FT and others on a daily basis - Greg has a strange methodology where even the definition is cryptic so you have to solve it in multiple parts - nothing wrong with that but it is unconventional

"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP