The Hall of Fire

And only last week Hobby, Wilko and I talked about how Snow-white and The Hobbit came out only three months apart in the famous dwarf year of 1937.

Coincidence? I think not

Reminds me of the Monty Python joke:

What's brown and sounds like a bell? - Dung!

Phonics? I don't get it....

Kobe perhaps?

OBE is Order of the British Empire, but how is K = two?

That's the way we do crosswords in Denmark too Jn, and they can be darn difficult too! but we have nothing like the cryptic clues.

So, the actual clue was just to make it more confusing? Exactly! you grasped the very essence of cryptic crosswords! :D It's just that , for me, there comes a point when the arbitrariness is so contrived that it's just groanworthy. To use one of your examples, Run for R because it's in Cricket. Eng...

Forgive my ignorance, but now the new "wrong" lyrics of Amazing Grace has been posted a couple of times, so I'm curious: what's the original opening lines?

That's part of the puzzle. Does "right" mean take the right part of "horses" or does it mean "r"? Is "outside" an instruction to put one series of letters around another or should we look for a synonym for "outside"? Is "to take for a ride"...

because srting etc. aint words.

And in my Chambers dictionary it says:
r or r. abbrev 1 radius 2 right.

Danish on the other hand has "common gender" and "neuter". That is, masculinum and femininum is combined in one grammatical gender. BTW in Swedish "människa" meaning "human being" or "mensch" is femininum, and can be refered to as she (or rather &quo...

Horses right to take for a ride outside divide in two parts, one definition and one cryptic clue: horses - right to take for a ride outside right = r to take for a ride = sting outside = wrap sting around "r" gives: STRING which is an answer to the clue "horses" That's the way cr...

Ah, thanks Aravar

I had no idea that sting could mean defraud.


Well that does it! Now the crossword is completed, and my mind is at rest. Thanks everyone who took the effort to help

It's the only word left in the crossword, so it fits all right. In cryptic crosswords (as in most English crosswords) only about every second letter intersect with other words. Exactly! What little I've seen of English cryptic crosswords comes down to the clues not fitting perfectly, but just "...

I know a few songs that use "sister" in the meaning "fellow human", just like "brother" usually does. I've always felt included by that. Depending on the context of course. I don't feel included in "womankind" that does sort of stress the gender in a way that ...

Perhaps it's STRING, as Vison I can't make it fit within the narrow limits of my logical capabilities, but if experienced solvers of cryptic crossword say it fits, who am I to argue.

Thanks Jn

But isn't there supposed to be a clue for "string" as well? I thought that it was a rule in cryptic crosswords that the clue should contain some sort of definition of the answer.

That means that "Long Island in Scotland? No! (4)" must be INCH, inch is also a scottish word for a small island.

Only the right horses left now!

Edited to add: Are you trying to imply something Hobby?

Wow, what a lot of responses, thanks all of you :D Well, the second one is TWELFTH. :) (or do I not understand the rules? are these all twisted? in which case, we must twist TWELFTH together with something sporting) That must be it! But I can't quite follow the clue, what is the "day of sport&q...

I need help :help: I've been working on this cryptic crossword from the Guardian for most of the year, since January 2nd to be exact. With some help from my sister and her husband we're down to only three words missing. It's the closest I've ever been to solve a cryptic crossword. Anyway, these thre...