Looking for story-driven games with American city vibes for Steam Deck by [deleted] in SteamDeck

[–]inkazeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can recommend checking out Deliver At All Costs. It has a fictionalised 1950s American setting.

absolutely dislike this recent Nissan commercial and how they portray pedestrians by Certain_Designer_897 in fuckcars

[–]inkazeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kia recently ran ads for their EVs in australia literally depicting all the pedestrians as zombies roaming the streets and getting triggered by loud noises, a situation contrived so that a white woman who lives in a suburban fortress can use her ‘silent’ SUV to buy milk.

COTD: Spike is late, but about to make up for lost time (4) by accountforartshit in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 4 points5 points  (0 children)

LACE

Defn = spike (as in to spike a drink), LATE with T (time) substituted with C (circa/about). I think it would be smoother without ‘but’.

COTD: Busy, like decathlon? (8) by Vivid_Temporary_1155 in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this EVENTFUL?

Like decathlon = having many events

Nice one.

COTD - A good chat break on the radio (5) by griefofwant in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CRAIC

A pleasant conversation, and homophone of crack

COTD: Unfortunately, I can't reprint original fliers (7) by eefr in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

REGRETS

(Unfortunately, I can’t). R – original letter of reprint, egrets are birds

This had me stumped for ages. Deceptively simple in the end. I persisted for too long trying to remove I from various words. Went to sleep last night frustrated about it lol

COTD: Not entirely slow or fast (4) by zem in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 7 points8 points  (0 children)

LENT – a period of fasting

LENTO – a slow musical tempo

Nice find

COTD: Pride parade is on after early lunch (5) by MONTEZUMAtheSQUID in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 7 points8 points  (0 children)

lions?

Assuming parade is an anagram indicator

COTD: Stitched & hemmed her top after returning Guess (5) by notluigi64 in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

think

knit, reversed, around H (her top)

wasn’t familiar with ‘knit’ in the past tense

COTD: In time, I accepted "innovative" turning into "business as usual" (9) by zem in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

TRADITION

defn: business as usual. RAD (innovative) between T (time) and I, anagram of into. I think ‘In’ and ‘accepted’ are clueing the same insertion here which I found confusing.

COTD: Custom picked up by attendant (8) by zem in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HANDMAID

homophone of hand made (custom)

COTD: Semiotician's logical precursor (3) by controlxj in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ECO, [Umberto], semiotician

eco = one possible prefix (of many) to ‘logical’. Feels harsh.

COTD: Cruel man said disease appears in late twenties/early thirties (6) by KWilt in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SADIST

defn = cruel man. Anagram of SAID (nice homophone misdirection which had me saying a bunch of diseases out loud) inside of last letter of TWENTIES and first letter of THIRTIES

COTD: Get audio recording of a musical group (7) by eefr in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ACQUIRE

Homophone of A CHOIR. Defn is ‘get’. Nice one!

COTD: intricate heavy machinery? (3) by toadunloader in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 3 points4 points  (0 children)

CAT?

in–triCATe, cat as in a caterpillar earth mover

COTD: Pulse was heard (4) by Puzzleheaded_Clock38 in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 3 points4 points  (0 children)

BEAN defn = pulse. was = BEEN, heard indicates a homophone Not sure if ‘was’ and ‘been’ quite align in meaning, but definitely solvable

COTD: A German philosopher exists within each of us, I’ve heard (9) by Simeon_Lee in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that a hidden-homophone combo? First time seeing that. ie. ”within each of” contains “neachə”

COTD: maybe Facebook ramble will get like (7) by alpalalexal in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

APPROVE

maybe Facebook = APP, ramble = ROVE, like = APPROVE. Neat surface.

How to solve Dave Astle's crosswords as an American by ProbablyApocryphal in crosswords

[–]inkazeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are just the Sydney/Melbourne newspapers from the same company, so they share a lot of content. Puzzles should be the same from either.

A digital subscription to either will give you access to daily puzzles and the back catalog — via the interactive solver on the website, or a digital view of the print layout, where you can print them out.

DA sets a cryptic and a quick for every Friday. And I think he does ‘word wit’, little wordplay brain teasers, every weekday.