A cryptic crossword that I'm playing around with. I can't do it alone (..who can?), and not sure anyone who could would admit that....way too nerdy! LOL. Its in need of your love, your ideas, hints, clues and just 'way out there' word associations, or thoughts.
Cryptic Crossword
Across
8 Likely investigation about damaged lab (8) 9 Trojan bully (6) 10 Hostility making giants moan (10) 11 Celebrated Chinese dynasty (4) 12 Point for a number of patients? (6) 14 Container - a sort of basin - for pot plant (8) 15 Ways of approaching a goddess without middlemen? (7) 17 Shorten a game (7) 20 Struggle awkwardly with fish (8) 22 Ring composer? We rang composer! (6) 24 Antelope or axes (4) 25 Outline design for hotel suite (10) 27 Club with piano, say (6) 28 Yes, large waves revealing an aquatic mammal (4,4)
Down
1 Enclosure enclosed by iron border (6) 2 Eastern bishop unaffected by revolution (4) 3 Superannuated, set out to be catching fish (8) 4 To fascinate a disagreeable female we turned in (7) 5 Priest producing counterfeit article (6) 6 I can get ski resort to provide winter sport (3,7) 7 Audible measurement of depth (8) 13 Fellow creature turning up in quite famous book (3,7) 16 Brave heart of devil or a soul in torment? (8) 18 A toxophilite overcome with amazement? (4,4) 19 Essay about one mathematical function in three volumes (7) 21 Merit shown by The Waste Land (6) 23 Snare for negligent parent? (6) 26 A language from overseas (4)
I really really appreciate the sentiment Rav, Im sooooo glad to hear it!!! (Big smiles!!!)..MWAH
and as for your double entendre......"That's so Raven!"
1. Thats so Raven - The name of the longest running show on the Disney Channel
2. Raven Bird of high intelligence, perhaps the smartest bird to be found.
LOL comon .dont tell me you didnt even peek?!!!..LMAO.
Cryptic crosswords are so confusing! I always say that there are three types of people in the world those that can count and those that cant.
Always nice to have you drop by Chez. Hugs and smiles Dee.
..for an animated gif of a 'cobweb' for this post (Cobweb Site = A World Wide Web Site that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead web page).....to finally end up with a bad case of Dorito Syndrome, instead.
Dorito Syndrome: Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content.
Think I'll be waiting for Snowy to brush away the cobwebs on this one... LOL. Big smiles Chez. Dee
Ok...'fringe' for 1 down - Absolutely!!! (Did you see my notes above? That one had me stuck on another answer for awhile, but 'fringe' is absolutely the answer).
Dunno the last two. I think I'll have to attack them after a few large reds tonight. All becomes clear then, including the mysteries of the universe....
Cryptic Crossword 
