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@pkfox Obviously, when I said tomorrow's I meant Monday's. I started to post one last night but at the last second I realized it was Saturday, so I'll wait.
It'll probably be posted around 6am your time give or take so you won't have to wait until after lunch to start on it, but I won't be up to confirm guesses until then. I'll try to check in as early as I can but I'm too lazy to set an alarm these days. 😴
@pkfox This is what I came up with:
The police = COP
Never arrive on time = U LATE
COPULATE
Yeah, the clue has issues, but I remember my first attempts.
@pkfox said in CCC 03-10-2025 - Solution:
@FreedMalloc if you look up Barbican it is a word for tower
Yeah. I googled it when I saw the original answer. Until then I had never heard the word. I learn more things by accident than I ever did intentionally (not really true.,but it feels like it sometimes). I seem to remember the accidents better for some reason.
@PIEBALDconsult In cryptic crossword clues quiet translates to P. In music piano means quiet and is denoted as P. Very quiet is pianissimo or PP. It's one of the many oddities in cryptic clues. It's taken me quite a while to pick up on a lot of them and I still have a lot to learn.
@pkfox Ha! I got it! I showed my guess in your original post but I didn't look at the solution here until after I made my guess.
I don't think lad for boy is too English. AFAIK it's pretty common here in the US.
Now, BARBICAN, is an entirely different matter. Even had I put all the pieces of that clue together I would have rejected the result as not a word. :P
I'll post tomorrow's before I turn in tonight so you'll have it early am your time. Ok?
@pkfox Ok, I've looked at the clue but not the solution you posted (honest). Here's my solution.
Show appreciation for a very quiet boy around turn (7)
Definition: Show appreciation for
A = A
Very quiet = PP
Boy = LAD
Turn = U
A PP LAD around (surrounds) U
APPLAUD
Now I'll peek at the solution to see how I did.
@pkfox Much. As some of my early attempts clearly showed. :D
@pkfox Indeed it was. I didn't think of "sheds or" to mean remove "or" from storage. I also missed the untidy=anagram link. I think I might have gotten it had I made either one of those connections. I'm a bit out of of practice. I need to remember to step back when I'm windmilling and try another tack - like rereading the clue. ;)
@OriginalGriff It was a good clue. But, I failed to solve it myself. After an hour or so I peeked at the answer and saw I was way off in the weeds on this one - misdirection the key to a good clue. And, I completely missed the untidy/anagram link too.
BTW, I forgot to check back in yesterday, sorry if I left you in the lurch. Mea culpa. The old CP notified me on replies to my posts, I can't figure out how to get the new one to do that yet. I guess I need to get in the habit of checking in unprompted.
@OriginalGriff said in Oops. Since I retired I lose track of days ...:
Please ignore clue, I'll post it again when I should have (2,2,5)
😄 (2,2,5). I don't recall seeing that anywhere before. Fair warning, I plan to adopt it.
I took a programming course in BASIC as a senior in highschool. I really enjoyed it and discovered I was pretty good at it (at least compared to most of my fellow students). My class instructor said a 4 year degree was the best path to make it my career (this was in 1975). Best advice I ever followed. 4 years later I was a FORTRAN and Assembler programmer for UNIVAC, moved to C and then C++ on UNIX workstations and ended in C++ and C# on Windows PCs when I retired in 2017. Fun times indeed.
But, you are correct.
Early professor altered a misspelt manuscript. (10)
Early professor P
Altered "a misspelt" ALIMPSEST
PALIMPSEST a manuscript, in particular a reused manuscript.
Yeah, kind of a weak one. I struggled with the wordplay and wasn't really happy with it in the end. I was trying to hurry before I left town.
Early professor altered a misspelt manuscript. (10)
I can post one tomorrow but by the time I wake up you guys have had lunch. So, assuming I'm right, I'll post one tomorrow unless I see one already posted. I'm ok if you don't want to wait for the sun to crawl its way around to South Dakota. Also, I'm headed out of town tomorrow right after my lunch, so I may not be able to respond very quickly.
Dog starting to tire and stray? That's right! (7)
Starting to tire T and
Stray ERR
That's => that is IE
Right R
TERRIER a type of dog.
@theoldfool The hype is certainly similar. I remember all the doom and gloom articles. In 1999 I worked for United Healthcare on automated medical claims payment software. We had a guy there that got a house generator, several 55 gal drums of fuel, stockpiled food and whatnot. I asked him how many guns he had. When he connected the dots his eyes got big.
Now, all the articles I read seem to indicate that on the 14th my wife's Win 10 laptop will just up and die. No, it just won't get updated anymore. I'd put Linux on it but she has no interest in that. It has no sensitive data on it, she only occasionally surfs or does Word or Excel docs so she'll just use it till it dies. She does most of her online stuff on her phone anyway. If she ever needs a Windows PC I'll spin up my Win 11 VM.
@OriginalGriff You are correct! And, I see you've already posted one for today.
Sorry, I forgot I solved last Friday's. So here's (a probably simplistic) one for today if you like.
Short feminine alien? Somewhat of an obsession. (6)