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A Crossword With An Amazing Hidden Trick

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@ShadowBeatzInc Жыл бұрын

Simon: "You may serve on a tennis court" Me, an American: "You get served food at a food court"

@57thorns Жыл бұрын

And once being served, you may have to appear in court, right?

@joshuaadams7091 Жыл бұрын

Damn dude seeing your name pop up just gave me so much nostalgia. Hope all is well with you, admittedly I haven't kept up with any of "The Crew" for a while now but y'all were a huge part of my high school days back in 2012 and I still go back every now and again for a good ol' nostalgia trip.

@omarzepedaaguilar Жыл бұрын

Is this the town of Salem guy?

@bryanroland9402 Жыл бұрын

As any child knows, cows GO moo, ducks GO quack. Also used informally for people, often with sounds like "aagh" etc. Thanks Simon. Enjoyed the solve.

@darreljones8645 Жыл бұрын

A usage popularized in the USA due to appearing in the "Dick and Jane" textbooks Baby Boomers often read in their elementary-school writing classes.

@clausewitzianwar Жыл бұрын

This definition is actually listed when he looks it up in the dictionary at the end, 6th line down: " to make a (specified) noise, as in 'go bang,' 'go moo' "

@jejejow Жыл бұрын

You can go on and on

@Cally.Summer Жыл бұрын

And the elephant goes "toot" (but what does the fox say?)

@fashnek 28 күн бұрын

@@clausewitzianwarNope, it’s under vt further down: “to say (used when reporting speech)”. And so then he goes, … And then I went, … Just go, like, …

@longwaytotipperary Жыл бұрын

It’s like watching an ancient Egyptologist read hieroglyphs on a cave wall, or a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat - totally entertaining and totally out of my skill set! 😍

@davidrattner9 Жыл бұрын

You always say the most perfect summary!!! :-)

@longwaytotipperary Жыл бұрын

@@davidrattner9 Thanks, David! 😊

@emilywilliams3237 Жыл бұрын

Wizardry indeed.

@longwaytotipperary Жыл бұрын

@@emilywilliams3237 🙂

@stephenlamb90 Жыл бұрын

You might "go ow!" when you are in pain, and Evelyn John was a diarist - a record producer of a different sort! Great work though, and a pleasure to watch the master at work!

@harstar12345 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes I think in kinda smart, then I come to watch these guys solve cryptic crosswords and I feel like I'm in a distant galaxy where the language is similar to what I speak but it's a mystery what people are saying. Geniuses.

@andrewzmorris Жыл бұрын

They're very good, but I think their aptitude comes more from practice than from genius. Cryptic crosswords are just a skill, and like any other skill the more you practice, the better you get.

@fulltimeslackerii8229 Жыл бұрын

@@andrewzmorris i’m inclined to agree but after watching dozens of their videos on cryptic crosswords, i’m no better than from before i found this channel. meanwhile their sudoku videos taught me so much in a similar time span

@longwaytotipperary Жыл бұрын

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 ditto

@AFastidiousCuber Жыл бұрын

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 Getting better at cryptic crosswords requires more deliberate practice and research than Sudoku I think. It is more like chess or solving a Rubik's Cube.

@stephaniemcintosh1930 Жыл бұрын

"Go" meaning "say" : Simon goes "Bobbins!" whenever he makes a mistake.

@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын

Sago ?

@terracottapie Жыл бұрын

Can confirm, it's common where I live, in NYC, but I am pretty sure that's a US thing which is why Simon might not know that meaning of "go"

@davidcarter4454 Жыл бұрын

@@terracottapie You hear it on this side of the pond too, but not that often. It’s normally used in reported speech e.g. “And she goes ‘what’s the point of that?’”.

@terracottapie Жыл бұрын

@@davidcarter4454 Yes, that's exactly how it is used here. I didn't know it was a UK thing too.

@jaxweby4343 Жыл бұрын

You say it doesn't look like magic, but the combination of standard cryptic crossword tricks I'm not aware of and words I'm simply unfamiliar with due to their age(/lack of frequency today) makes it hard to think any different. Always stunning to watch you unfold one of these!

@razielhamalakh9813 Жыл бұрын

Cats go "Meow", Simons go "Bobbins". But there's one sound that no one knows: what does the fox say?

@bobblebardsley Жыл бұрын

I wonder which will happen first, Simon remembers to click 'Hide' instead of 'Continue' at the end of the puzzle, or the Independent fix what is an obvious usability problem with their software...? 😅

@Astervista Жыл бұрын

A good match. By experience, bad user experience is hard to eradicate. On the other hand, Simon probably lives on another universe and will never have the time to learn such a mortal task as this. Still bugs me because these automatic check/continue vs hide shenanigans are so counterintuitive

@SomeRandomGuyOnYouTube Жыл бұрын

They could at least relabel that button to something more accurate, like Obliterate All Your Work

@bobblebardsley Жыл бұрын

@@SomeRandomGuyOnKZfaq Probably the least-work option which means if anything, this is what they'll do 😁

@Michieldecuyper Жыл бұрын

"It's not wizardry". Yes it is 😛 As a non-native English speaker, all you say makes sense, yet the way you reach the solution is pure magic

@DipanGhosh Жыл бұрын

Well.. watching Mark doing these is just too much for us. When Simon explains them for us mere mortals, it is enjoyable.

@gustavojuca6926 Жыл бұрын

@@jpryan90 I tried and only got "court". Granted I thought of serve as in serfdom.

@GeoffCanyon Жыл бұрын

Native speaker checking in, all I can say is, "Yer a wizard, Simon!"

@playhardtotame1122 Күн бұрын

I am from Germany and I love watching your videos. You help me deciphering these crosswords which I can't solve because I not only lack sufficient knowledge in the English language but also it's culture. And seeing Essen being mentioned in one of the crosswords made me genuinely smile. It's my hometown!!

@shifttheshaman Жыл бұрын

"He goes..." is pretty common here in Australia when talking about what somebody else says. "Then the teacher comes in. She goes "Who put the underpants on the fan?" and we all start laughing"

@PeterMoore66 Жыл бұрын

You may also serve (on a jury) in a criminal or civil court.

@nendwr Жыл бұрын

Always enjoy the crossword videos! That "Continue" button on the Indy's website has caught me out before - it's the much smaller "Hide" button in the top left that you actually want to click.

@danielbluebisson Жыл бұрын

Haha it’s quite funny because the continue button has also caught Simon out in exactly this way before

@amysteele2488 Жыл бұрын

Only one I got straight away was court. For the rest I needed Simon's brilliant brain

@moeafram2520 Жыл бұрын

I love cryptic crosswords, but these clues are on a whole other level. Very, very sneaky. Thank you Simon for breaking down your thought process!

@andrewzmorris Жыл бұрын

"Go" is a very informal way of saying "say". "I said 'x', then he goes 'blah blah blah'"

@technoneko8108 Жыл бұрын

Its crazy that the cryptic part can give you a word youve never heard of before

@postmodernist1848 Жыл бұрын

I am not a native English speaker, so the way Simon comes up with these solutions to the puzzles (which are, indeed, cryptic) blows my mind

@MrPartylala Жыл бұрын

12:30 today I learned there was a diarist called John Evelyn (hence he produced records of things) also, what a brilliant trick and a brilliant solve :)

@Astervista Жыл бұрын

It fascinates me the way Simon’s mind works. He remembers all the possible synonyms for anagram indicators, but still doesn’t remember that he has to use the “hide” button at the top after having finished a puzzle on the independent, which is the only thing I can remember

@Varksterable Жыл бұрын

Ikr. 'He' (for Helium, a transparent gas which disappears upwards) surrounding 'identity' (ID). Ending with 'Digital Evaluation' (DE). All meaning 'don't show' your 'personal' 'score.' A simple clue compared to some of the others; it's really weird he didn't get that.

@zmaj12321 Жыл бұрын

Remembering anagram indicators is easy. There are so many, you can just pretend that every word in the dictionary is one and you'll probably be right most of the time anyways.

@Astervista Жыл бұрын

@@zmaj12321 You are right, the problem is not remembering which word in an anagram indicator, but for every word in the dictionary knowing if in that definition it is an anagram indicator, an abbreviation, a cricket term for ball, a hidden clue or the way Buddha called his lunch one day. “Oh yes scrambling, this word in Victorian English was the call of a seagull, so it is clearly a homophone indicator”

@DumbMuscle Жыл бұрын

I love the fact that Simon can spend half an hour spotting the most obscure clues to solve the crossword, and then completely miss the "REVEAL" button to show the answers when he goes back to talk through it (though agree that the UX on that isn't great on the site itself).

@seinfan9 Жыл бұрын

This is rendered more difficult for me not living in the UK.

@steve470 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, these are completely inaccessible to anyone who's not totally steeped in British culture. (This is probably why the sudoku variants took off for this channel, and not the cryptic crosswords.) Simon only notices/admits it occasionally, but it happens frequently. A non-Brit isn't going to see "publisher" and think of the letters "OUP", or see the word "church" and think of the letters "CE". (The latter was from a puzzle that Simon did previously, and which pretty much ensured that I'll never bother trying cryptic crosswords myself).

@stevewesh7327 Жыл бұрын

Simon, didn't you notice a few currencies also in the down clues? Steve K.

@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын

Ohh, get Christopher Collects to take a look, was there a down clue for cash ?

@teamcyeborg Жыл бұрын

I've been getting so into CTC crossword videos recently that I've even started making my own cryptic!

@zak3744 Жыл бұрын

So I was in the pub with my friend the other day, and I go to him: "There was this bloke on the internet wondering what go means in the crossword". And then he's like: "What do you mean?" And I go to him: "Well it was a synonym for say. And he didn't get how it was." And then he goes to me: "Maybe this fellow's a bit too 'formal RP' in his thinking?" And I was like: "Yeah, maybe." And then we both kind of went: "Well whatever." And then we finished up and went. 😉

@tonyroberts3926 Жыл бұрын

Simon reveals he is not an Archers Addict Ruairi, and his descent into being a gigolo, is a current storyline. (Yes, it is a story of farming folk but you have to keep up with the times.)

@Azeria Жыл бұрын

I wonder if you could’ve pressed ‘reveal’ after you’d solved it to get the answers back up?

@nickellis999 Жыл бұрын

It's funny how Simon goes: "Does go mean say?"

@thedrunkenelf Жыл бұрын

I got frigate right away due to years of playing Battleship as a child. I loved the city clue.

@GenWivern2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Simon: I wasn't bowled over by the crossword all told, but the gimmick is most unusual. Very much an Indy puzzle. 🙂

@mrkitewine7700 Жыл бұрын

It’s like those bizarre unfair riddles they used to have on the 3-2-1 game show in the 70’s. I’m sure if Simon was to go back in time and go on that show he would certainly win the top prize Mini Metro

@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын

Or get the dustbin - I am sure they made up the definitions after each clue to get the prize they had that week given out regardless of your guesses

@SomeRandomGuyOnYouTube Жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 I'm absolutely sure that Ted Rogers was provided different explanations for each clue so that whatever happened you ended up with the deluxe three-piece suite and matching dinette.

@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын

@@SomeRandomGuyOnKZfaq I wonder if this (or other cryptics) solve with different words to the same clues !)

@robinbrown6530 Жыл бұрын

For those wondering, Ruairi is the Irish/Gaelic way of spelling Rory often pronounced Ror Ree. Or I suppose the more accurate way to say that is Rory is the English spelling of Ruairi. Edit: Well if I had waited 5 secs there at the end Simon would have said basically the same thing. Lol

@hobbyist518 Жыл бұрын

It's one thing to know that solving cryptic crosswords is a matter of practice. It's quite another to ACQUIRE that practice. Where do you even START when it's so archaic? Is there an extremely basic introductory guide somewhere? Or do you just start with standard crosswords that primarily rely on trivia and synonyms, and after years of solving THOSE, you move on to cryptics when standard become too easy? The reason I'd LIKE to get into cryptic crosswords is that they sometimes seem more solvable than your standard crosswords, because it looks like there are multiple pathways to the same solve in a single clue. If there was an easier version, cryptic crosswords for beginners, I think I'd be able to get into it. But I've never liked standard crosswords because it's often a matter of 'either you know the word or you don't, and if you don't you can't solve it'. Trivia, in other words. I prefer sudoku puzzles because anybody anywhere can theoretically solve them, no background knowledge or trivia necessary, though of course solving techniques help.

@pelahnar4 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if there could be, like, teaching cryptic crosswords. Where you could get clues/explanations for each of the clues. Like, the first clue you get indicates how you should be looking at it, the second gives some sort of trivia you'd need to know, and eventually (either once you get the answer or give up) it breaks down the full reasoning behind it. That sort of thing would make it easier to get the practice you'd need to attack a puzzle without the clues. I don't know that anything like that exists other than, like, these videos.

@grahamhawes7146 Жыл бұрын

If you go back to the Independent site and scroll down the games there is a daiy "easy" cryptic. I like to do these first thing in the morning to wake the brain up. Oh, sometimes I think they might be stretching the definition of easy but there are usually a few clues with hidden answers.

@saschabaer3327 Жыл бұрын

You get yourself a friend who is better at them than you, sit together and do them, while laughing about how ridiculous the clues are. It’s great fun and you do quickly get better.

@taintedstrike7513 Жыл бұрын

This seems like wizardry...

@jodyvanliew2514 6 ай бұрын

Very clever construction . Enjoyed this solve very much .

@nicktecky55 Жыл бұрын

Go = Say??? The song "Walk on the Wild Side" - Lou Reed. Simon's youth was clearly not sufficiently badly spent!

@roxirossetti6250 Жыл бұрын

That was so cool - I get a lot of tips from you. Love cryptic puzzles - they have spoiled other crosswords for me. Lovatt's are very easy but I have to remember to hear the clues in an Aussie accent to get some of the homonyms. Here in Canada we hear "go" to mean "say" and "went" to mean "said" a lot, especially when younger people recount conversations. Eg., "The teacher told me to be quiet, so I go, "Make me!" and she goes, "Vice principle Skinner would be happy to make you" so I went, "I'm not afraid of her!" etc., etc...Switching verb tenses is common in these accounts as well. Also the word, "like" which I neglected to sprinkle liberally throughout; it would be more realistic if I had done.

@beveragino Жыл бұрын

this feels less like purposeful knowledge and more like instinctual intuition. It's got my brain all jumbled trying to associate these clues with the words they provide.

@AndyeKAA Жыл бұрын

As a native hungarian i really don't understand how to solve this type of puzzle... I needed to read it on Wikipedia, how cryptic crossword puzzles work. I still don't understand. I still enjoy it to watch. Im really confused now....

@maurobraunstein9497 Жыл бұрын

The duck goes "Quack!" Simon goes "Bobbins!"

@Nanokarp Жыл бұрын

simon has never heard the song 'what does the fox say', else he wouldnt have doubted 'go' as a synonym for 'say'

@FluxMC3867 Жыл бұрын

just to let Simon and the others know about the puzzle the last and final city that would be found would be "Lomé" which is a city in Togo so now we know it's not "Rome" if he didn't hit continue.

@phileo_ss Жыл бұрын

It was my first time seeing a cryptic crossword. Didn't have a clue.... (pun intended)

@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын

We must make one where every answer is one of Simon's phrases - Scooby , Doo, Bobbins, Three In The Corner, etc

@MF-fd2ug Жыл бұрын

these are all extremly impressive but wow the first one stunned me. so clever.

@nickburton5871 Жыл бұрын

Loved your solve, Simon! Most I was miles away from, but a couple I beat you to, which pleased me unreasonably! Say = go, as in cows "go" moo. And I solved Vagrants having postulated Agra as the city. Thanks very much, Simon!

@andrewgrant6516 Жыл бұрын

Tall and tan and young and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes, each one she passes GOes "ahhh!"

@mjswart73 Жыл бұрын

He goes "Can 'go' mean 'say' in some sense?" And I'm like "totally"

@NavyBlueMan Жыл бұрын

I think "go" can work, for some reason the only context I can think of is as an instruction to say something. If I said, "You go, 'ouch'" maybe in the context of acting, it would work. But it's extra convoluted when trying to write it down Edit - this is off the definition page on Google INFORMAL say. "the kids go, ‘Yeah, sure.’"

@msclrhd Жыл бұрын

There's also the phrase "to go off on someone/one" and derivatives -- i.e. to become angry (sometimes referenced w.r.t. shouting, and sometimes speaking). E.g. "He went off on a rant about the difficulties of crosswords again today." where "went" is the past tense of "go".

@elLooto Жыл бұрын

At a protest you used to hear the chant of "here we go."

@ronniebrown Жыл бұрын

On 25D you might say (for example), "he goes, 'look at that'", which would be the same as saying, "he says, 'look at that'"

@mwoody_ Жыл бұрын

19:00 Q25 - I thought if you have your say, you have your go; or, When you're telling a story about something someone said, you might say " and then he goes: 'blah' "

@matthewjohnson6360 Жыл бұрын

reefer- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking marijuana cigarette, spliff, joint, stick cannabis, ganja, marihuana, marijuana- the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect

@mrmidlife2546 Жыл бұрын

I only spotted a few, but were there forms of currency in the down answers?

@hannaverlie6747 Жыл бұрын

This is insane to watch! Love it 😍😍😍

@emilywilliams3237 Жыл бұрын

A current slangy way of telling a story these days is 'So I go "Hey, Simon!" ' and Simon goes "Hello, Emily" " and I go "how're ya doin'?" and he goes "Fine, and you?" and so on. It is almost always present tense even when the story took place some time ago. Maybe that was the reference in that GOSLOW clue/answer. I love these cryptic crossword solves on the channel. They are fascinating the way watching a chess match or a bridge game by grandmasters is for me - I understand a lot of what I am seeing, but could never, ever think of doing it myself.

@cabbage-soup Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if it's all that current, as far as slang goes xD while i was reading your comment, I was reminded of Chicago's I Can't Do It Alone, and that musical is 50 years old now

@emilywilliams3237 Жыл бұрын

@@cabbage-soup Funny, I heard it just tonight in conversation with some friends. I do think it is "current" as in, used by younger folks (younger than I am). But perhaps not a comment slang in the UK, as Simon did not seem even to be able to put it into a sentence.

@TrekBeatTK Жыл бұрын

I'm getting better. I got three before watching this one

@Bouncyman8 Жыл бұрын

"It's sourcecode, not coursecode. I'm totally inept." Ah right, we were all thinking that...

@AdamGaffney96 Жыл бұрын

I think cryptic crosswords will always be one of those things I just enjoy from the sidelines, I've tried around 5-10 in my time and I think I've solved maybe 2 clues total, not puzzles, individual clues! Just so many works that are unfamiliar to me and it feels like futility to sit with a dictionary unless you know what you're looking for! I'll continue to do the sudoku and enjoy watching the crosswords from a safe distance. 😂 I've always been a mathematician not a linguist anyway (don't tell Suzie Dent though!) Also I feel like "Continue" with a smaller "Hide" in the box isn't as clear as they could make that. You're supposed to try be as explicit as you can in what the action of a button actually does. It should be "Return" or "Next Puzzle" or something like that. I feel like the "Hide" button should also be the same size and in line as I feel like it's a common thing to want to look at the puzzle when you're done.

@nemuchan Жыл бұрын

To go = to say as in for example : She was angry and went "get out of here !" and then i went "you wish!"

@justarandomdood Жыл бұрын

18:36 I think I got this one (paused the vid here, dunno if Simon realized later) but I think "and say" is indicating "lo" as in "lo and behold"

@stevieinselby Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the clever hiding of cities in the across answers, but this video just reminds me why I don't like cryptic crosswords - they require too much eclectic and arcane "general" knowledge, along with knowing all the secret codes and handshakes, before you even get to the actual lateral thinking part of the clues. With a sudoku or pencil puzzle, you can _in theory_ work everything out from first principles (even if sometimes the logic is way beyond what I'm capable of), but if you didn't know that there was a write called John Evelyn or that soldiers are known as OR then you're completely bobbinsed and no amount of thinking will help you.

@davidcarter4454 Жыл бұрын

What is bobbins? To prevent what just happened, you could take off one letter which you know for sure and put it in again at the end when you’ve done the others. The fact that you can’t re-review your answers is a bug they need to fix. Maybe you can if you are logged in, or a subscriber? Great solve and lovely puzzle, well done you and setter.

@bibliopolist Жыл бұрын

When that dude went, like, "is go a synonym for say?", I went, like, "yeah". And is Ulm a city? Yes, the birthplace of Einstein, and it's pronounced more like "oolm" (but with a short vowel). You might have heard it as the last part of the name of that famous German baroque composer, Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-Schplenden-Schlitter-Crasscrembon-Fried-Digger-Dingel-Dangel-Dongel-Dungel-Burstein von Knacker-Trasher-Apple-Banger-Horowitz-Ticolensic-Grander-Knotty-Spelltinkel-Grandlich-Grumbelmeyer-Spelterwasser-Kurstlich-Himbeleisen-Bahnwagen-Gutenabend-Bitte-Ein-Nürnberger-Bratwurscht'l-Gespurtn-Mitz-Weimache-Luber-Hundsfut-Gumberaber-Schönendanker-Kalbsfleisch-Mittler-Aucher von Hautkopf of Ulm. The city is also featured in a famous German tongue-breaker: "In Ulm, um Ulm, um Ulm herum".

@Pigeon0fDoom Жыл бұрын

As a non native English man, I just can get a grasp on your explanation.

@bristolrovers27 Жыл бұрын

Great to see an excellent solve of an even excellenter puzzle !

@archivist17 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic fun, but some grunty clues. Oddly, Frigate was the only one I got straight away. I think it's less so now, but classes of warship was the sort of military knowledge (like Other Ranks) that used to come up a lot in the past, especially in the Telegraph, which was my dad's paper, and the Times. Loads of aging Colonels, I expect.

@pintpullinggeek Жыл бұрын

25 across is a bit tricksy because it puts the "scowl" part between the "...say.... "I'm in pain"". If you were to say you're in pain you might "Go ow"

@kevinmartin7760 Жыл бұрын

At 31:44 I was shouting "click 'HIDE', not 'CONTINUE'" Simon's been here before on a previous puzzle...

@zmaj12321 Жыл бұрын

Oh, apparently John Evelyn is a famous diarist, aka a "record producer." Fun!

@fryboy2164 Жыл бұрын

if you look at 34:35 under the section that says vt, end of the second line, it says "to say (used when reporting on speach)"

@MrJungle123 Жыл бұрын

Ruairi is pronounced 'Rory'. I know. I know. Me either.

@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын

As in Mrs Brown ?! Never Knew

@MrJungle123 Жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 no. As in 'Rory'.

@gatlygat Жыл бұрын

As Little Britain said.... "and she goes...she goes...... she just goes"

@bazcuda Жыл бұрын

22:05 Why is it the world never remembered the name of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern -schplenden -schlitter -crasscrenbon -fried -digger -dangle -dungle -burstein -von -knacker -thrasher -apple -banger -horowitz -ticoleensic -grander -knotty -spelltinkle -grandlich -grumblemeyer -spelterwasser -kürstlich -himbleeisen -bahnwagen -ggutenabend -bitte -eine -nürnburger -bratwustle -gerspurten -mit -zweimache -luber -hundsfut -gumberaber -shönenddanker -kalbsfleisch -mittler -raucher von Hautkopft......of Ulm? 🤣🤣🤣

@skasperl Жыл бұрын

Some down clues do have currencies in them, is there a clue hinting at that?

@squallleonhardtt327 Жыл бұрын

goodness me, i thought it was just me! Had to scroll quite far in the comments to see someone else mention this....

@joelstevens5670 Жыл бұрын

What a brilliant idea, hide cities in most of the clues of one type and then use the remaining clue as an indicator! Of course Ur had to be in there (it is indeed Biblical, often referred to as Ur of the Chaldees). Incredibly surprised/delighted to also get ENGINE ROOM (I was looking at the words ‘mooring need’ backwards and stumbled across the answer, then realised why it worked). Finally getting to grips with some of these anagram and reversal indicators!! 😅

@lordofthe6string Жыл бұрын

I've been trying these a lot more lately, but I get maybe 1 or 2 each time haha. 2 down on this one, I was sure it was 'some' because it's composed of the melody parts so and me (I now realise it's mi) and not all of something is some of it lol.

@GordonjSmith1 Жыл бұрын

Loved it, more please!

@sebastienlecoq3956 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all great and clear explaining. Still wizzardry.

@tomjackson3432 Жыл бұрын

Great solve but, as an Irishman, your pronunciation of Ruairi (in English it'd be Rory) wasn't quite so good! Irish spelling actually has pretty strong logic but, similar to English, it doesn't really have Latin roots and created its own logic when people started using the Latin alphabet. It's arguably less confusing (if much less common) than English. See "ough" as in thorough, tough, cough, hiccough, Lough, through, though, thought, though and plough.

@agirldownunder9299 Жыл бұрын

I love seeing the crosswords and the game streams. You've got me signed up for daily crosswords to solve recently

@TrekBeatTK Жыл бұрын

Ruairi sounds like "Rory".

@partylikeits1969mark Жыл бұрын

Ruairí I believe would equate to Rory in English. Pronounced rure-ee

@user-gy5cx5db2i 4 ай бұрын

"go" as "say" is a working class way of speaking so this may explain why you have not come across it before...

@brock2k1 Жыл бұрын

I probably couldn't get half of these even after watching the video.

@shadowfox1221 Жыл бұрын

"It's probably pronounced Ronan" made me laugh. Gaelic names are notorious. I'm Irish but work with people in continental Europe and India, and hearing attempts to pronounce Aoife or Medhbh is hilarious.

@insectbah Жыл бұрын

So cool!!

@ThePeadar2211 Жыл бұрын

"Carmen Burana"

@Melissanoma Жыл бұрын

Is there a good source of cryptic puzzles that an american could do? These are always too british for me to possibly figure out. B road, OUP, hibernia, etc.

@Pwecko Жыл бұрын

I got seven right before watching the video. I would never have finished it.

@nemuchan Жыл бұрын

Wait you're a Monty Python fan right ? Then surely you've heard of the German composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schiltter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumeraber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm ?

@th.nd.r Жыл бұрын

What’s the city in “inner city” though?? Nercit? Erci? Er City? Also, brilliant video. Love the cryptic crosswords on the channel, and I loved the theme of this one. The clues on their own are good, but seeing the cities in all of them just made it that much more impressive

@essentialatom Жыл бұрын

"Each OTHER across answer" :)

@th.nd.r Жыл бұрын

@@essentialatom thank you!!

@mikeimho Жыл бұрын

"Ulm, is that a German city?" Yes, Albert Einstein was born there in 1879.

@mikeimho Жыл бұрын

And Monty Python also briefly mentioned Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm