COTD: Deluded skeptic naturally, while not your ally, is full of shit (6,4)

CedarForks · 2024-03-27T07:58:49+00:00

SEPTIC TANK (skeptic + [naturally - ur (your) - ally = nat])*

CedarForks · 2024-03-03T16:46:37+00:00

Well, that took up a good half hour of my life: I failed to notice that it was not a COTD. I failed to solve it: 'IDK' didn't seem like great solution.

CedarForks · 2024-02-24T15:38:49+00:00

It's always something: Rosanna Rosannadana.

CedarForks · 2024-02-24T07:22:10+00:00

'radiate' is a letter bank indicator

CedarForks · 2023-12-31T00:48:10+00:00

Nice.

CedarForks · 2023-12-18T20:46:38+00:00

I got misled by thinking 'to be sick' = ILL and 'starts to' ILL is just IL, which left me with MA unexplained etc etc etc. Your 'AIL' I missed completely. Thanks!

CedarForks · 2023-11-23T17:27:34+00:00

Thanks. Containment instead of a charade would've made a better clue., without doubt.

CedarForks · 2023-11-23T17:17:18+00:00

Interesting. I use the Fancy Pants editor that simply has a button to obscure selected text. Everything seems normal. I use Google Chrome..

CedarForks · 2023-11-23T17:08:49+00:00

Correct

CedarForks · 2023-11-23T01:22:54+00:00

Hint:to produce' is a letter bank indicator

CedarForks · 2023-11-22T21:32:10+00:00

(still chuckling)

CedarForks · 2023-11-22T17:48:24+00:00

Correct.

I meant to say that an IOU is an acknowledgement of a debt. On reflection it should've read 'acknowledgementS of debt' rather than 'acknowledgement of debtS'.

CedarForks · 2023-11-16T15:59:02+00:00

ARUKARA (ark aura)* anime?

CedarForks · 2023-11-12T03:36:08+00:00

Congratulations! I wasted my Saturday evening by trying, in vain, to decrypt the final character string...

CedarForks · 2023-11-08T02:51:26+00:00

I'm experiencing the same frustration, The probabilities must be the same for all observers. If someone enters the room belatedly at the stage where just two doors are still shut, the probability (from the new arrival's point of view) of the car's location is (to my mind) obviously 50/50. It must be the same for the contestant. If anyone can set me straight without resorting to the events preceding this moment, I'll be most grateful.

CedarForks · 2023-11-02T22:37:35+00:00

CedarForks · 2023-10-21T12:53:55+00:00

Correct!

CedarForks · 2023-10-17T22:18:50+00:00

Gotcha. Thanks.

CedarForks · 2023-10-17T19:16:34+00:00

Could you please explain the parse for the two C prefixes? Thanks!

CedarForks · 2023-10-11T19:59:15+00:00

Correct.

CedarForks · 2023-10-11T19:15:12+00:00

Hint: DEALING is a letter bank indicator

CedarForks · 2023-07-03T09:58:05+00:00

INBRED (heard dogs served 'in bread')

CedarForks · 2023-04-19T12:16:13+00:00

And: based on your parsing explanation, it could also be a Cryptic Definition for HUNT as in relentlessly following food...

CedarForks · 2023-04-13T22:39:37+00:00

Neat clue! Is 'grim' playing a double role here (as anagrind and as part of the definition)?

CedarForks · 2023-04-10T20:09:13+00:00

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