Holiday Cryptics
#1204634
12/16/19 08:07 PM
12/16/19 08:07 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 53,466 Upstate NY
Pandora
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Sonic Boomer
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Sonic Boomer
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 53,466
Upstate NY
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For those of you who might need instructions for cryptic crossword clues, check out this page . These have all been created by a variety of well-known constructors. There may be one or two that we might question, but they're still fun. Please explain all answers. -1. Cold and detached male animal (5) -2. During New Year, girl becomes agent (8) -3. Print dress concealed by angel (9) -4. Something sweet from Missouri girls (8) -5. Silver onyx cross removed from rack (5) -6. Large, light coal (7) -7. Quality of willows or small evergreens, to a point (9) (hint: what do willows "do"?) -8. Proper ceremony is announced (5) -9. Worshipful one takes vow another time (8) -10. Knit a bag (5) -11. Sleigh went spinning from end to end (10) -12. Man announced song (4) -13. Without energy, pulls sleds (5) -14. Overturn a fruit dessert's layers (6) ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/6Q85MYgs/barsnowmen.gif)
Beautiful young people are acts of nature but beautiful old people are works of art
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Re: Holiday Cryptics
[Re: Pandora]
#1204686
12/17/19 01:48 PM
12/17/19 01:48 PM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 22,750 Bucks, England
Urban Worrier
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True Blue Boomer
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Posts: 22,750
Bucks, England
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This one may spoil the unblemished record:  5. Ag (silver) + "onyx" without the cross -> agony (= "rack "???)
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Holiday Cryptics
[Re: Pandora]
#1204712
12/17/19 04:55 PM
12/17/19 04:55 PM
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Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 17,630 The Outer Limits
Cue
Graduate Boomer
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Graduate Boomer
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Posts: 17,630
The Outer Limits
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14. Overturn a fruit dessert's layers (6) fruit desserts = tarts overturned = strat a = a strata = layers 
Did you ever stop to think and then forget to start again?
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Re: Holiday Cryptics
[Re: Pandora]
#1204745
12/17/19 09:04 PM
12/17/19 09:04 PM
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Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 9,027 Sydney, Australia
Koala
BAAG Specialist
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BAAG Specialist
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 9,027
Sydney, Australia
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4. Something sweet from Missouri girls (8) Mo-lasses 
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
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Re: Holiday Cryptics
[Re: Pandora]
#1204795
12/18/19 11:19 AM
12/18/19 11:19 AM
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Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 17,630 The Outer Limits
Cue
Graduate Boomer
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Graduate Boomer
Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 17,630
The Outer Limits
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2. During New Year, girl becomes agent (8) girl = miss new year = eary e(miss)ary = agent 
Did you ever stop to think and then forget to start again?
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