@Volatility I see that you accepted the answer of @TheGreatEscaper pretty fast! Maybe you could wait a bit more next time, it will give both of you more visibility :-)
I'm not feeling that one. There's no anagram hint for PT. Also, I'm not finding a SPOTTER <-> ENTHUSIAST link on either synonyms.com or thesaurus.com. (Which is my personal rule for making a cryptic -- I've got to be able to point to the synonym)
Fun fact; there don't appear to be any words made of PT inserted somewhere in an anagram of STORE, other than "strepto". Which isn't actually a word, just a prefix. And has nothing to do with enthusiasm.
A jester comes to court one day and entertains the crowd. At one point he makes a remark that reflects poorly of the monarch's intelligence. To preserve his dignity, the monarch challenges the jester to riddle him.
A riddle goes in the following manner
The one who barely didn't medal
The o...
In order to learn more about Emily Dickinson and T. S. Eliot, who made cameos here and here, cryptic rebuses are going to the library.
If you're unsure how cryptic rebuses work, you may want to check out this primer.
Because these sets are usually answered collectively, I will post a community ...
the rest is subsidiary (or potentially, a ddef and a subsidiary) that parse out to the same answer.
Silenus seems to be playing fast and loose with his own rules on this one though, in that a good number of these could arguably be just ddefs with no constructed subsidiary.
So I'm still confused how #13 works. I know the answer is right, but the rebus seems to be entirely subsidiary, no def - @Silenus hasn't done that before, that I can recall.
I ask you fellow puzzler to sincerely apprise, and answer me - Yes or No?
Is IV same as LV? I hope not. If you perceive the difference, your first is just fine I would know!
I ask you fellow puzzler to dance, dance on that rhythm of the legend Chris Benoit.
I'd U, as usual, I woul...
@Deusovi I'm not actually sure it's a &lit :) I'm not entirely sure what it is, but it draws the eye and the mind to it in a way not entirely dissimilar to a traffic accident. hehe
Keep at them --- It took me almost a year of staring at the saturday crossword until I started to get them. A lot of it is familiarizing yourself with the style.
(For double-def clues, it's best to choose two completely unrelated definitions. I haven't figured out what synonym of "poor" you're looking for, but it's likely that the "poor" meaning comes from the "infested" meaning.)
It's funny because I would have posted earlier, but I thought that the riddle part was too obvious - and I almost changed it again as I was posting it.
Nothing different in terms of cryptic rules (though they do vary in leniency a bit, I think), but differences in British and American English can be important.
In order to learn more about Emily Dickinson and T. S. Eliot, who made cameos here and here, cryptic rebuses are going to the library.
If you're unsure how cryptic rebuses work, you may want to check out this primer.
Because these sets are usually answered collectively, I will post a community ...
I ask you fellow puzzler to sincerely apprise, and answer me - Yes or No?
Is IV same as LV? I hope not. If you perceive the difference, your first is just fine I would know!
I ask you fellow puzzler to dance, dance on that rhythm of the legend Chris Benoit.
I'd U, as usual, I woul...
