It claws at me. Ha! There is work to be done, but the pale lands have thorns growing from its roots. Work to be done, but my eyes cannot look away. Is a fish a trout? Can it swim to Prometheus? For, four, floor? More? Is the attempt a virtue and the vice failure or is the attempt an exercise in f...
Before we get to the art, we first have to go over museum etiquette.
A cryptic rebus is a rebus that has the form of a cryptic clue. That is to say, there are two parts to a cryptic rebus:
a definition of the answer
a subsidiary indicator of the answer.
A definition can take the form of a pi...
Solve the 5 cryptic clues to reveal a final cryptic clue. Solve that one, too.
Stiff butt inside capital punishment, initially (5)
Blinded tin turned ton with ocean sounds (6, 3)
Drink for Eastern victory (4)
Confused trope in pry land (8)
Inverted E triad gets angry (6)
(7)
So that's interesting. Researching for your puzzle I just learned that (assuming my source is accurate) the first instance of capital punishment had 25 offenses with murder not among them.
@Matt In the clue "Drink for Eastern victory", "[E]astern" precedes "[WIN]victory", which is out of order for WINE. Does the word "for" license the swap? Is this standard?
@Khale_Kitha The word or words in the clue that the answer is synonymous with are not arbitrary: They must appear at the beginning or end of the clue. They can't be in the middle.
I remember Deusovi talking about some pretty strict rules, one of which was that a Cryptic was seperable into two distinct halves, at least one of which must be definition, excepting a special case where the clue in its entirety is both wordplay and definition
Sorry, I feel like you're all being really strict on something that's not as strict as you take it. If we need to change the definition of the classification, on the site fine. But the definition of the puzzle class does not state this strictness. In fact, it states the opposite. Oh well;
Before we get to the art, we first have to go over museum etiquette.
A cryptic rebus is a rebus that has the form of a cryptic clue. That is to say, there are two parts to a cryptic rebus:
a definition of the answer
a subsidiary indicator of the answer.
A definition can take the form of a pi...
@Khale_Kitha, if you want to get a handle on the structure of my puzzles, you might want to look at my previous puzzles, especially at the simplified examples I provide in the preamble to each set.
You can also look at the top lines of those previous sets for generally easier examples.
The art-themed one is harder because it requires specific knowledge of art and art history.