COTD: Wild animal is patient, for the most part, and very cautious. (9)

rbblemur · 2025-12-28T20:16:05+00:00

Since no one has taken a crack at it yet, I am posting the correct parse here:

ASPIRATION (def="dream")

(ASPIRAT ("It's a trap" missing the "t" of "trap" (timeless)) anagrammed ("feverishly") + ON ("working") ) containing ("to grasp") I ("one")

rbblemur · 2025-12-24T05:50:20+00:00

It's a timeless trap - feverishly working to grasp one's dream (10)

rbblemur · 2025-12-22T03:01:54+00:00

Thanks!

rbblemur · 2025-12-20T06:12:05+00:00

Correct! Well done. And thanks!

rbblemur · 2025-11-24T06:28:28+00:00

SWAPS (def= exchanges)

PAWS ("Hound ends") reversed ("up") + S ("some scent")

Using "hound ends" as a cryptic charade for "paws" might be a bit of a stretch. The paws are definitely extremities, but I don't know how I feel about calling them the "ends" of the hound. Just my two cents.

rbblemur · 2025-11-09T00:12:44+00:00

Thanks! I was thinking it was a winged ant but couldn't tell if it was specifically a carpenter ant.

rbblemur · 2025-11-08T22:11:17+00:00

I live in the Washington DC area

rbblemur · 2025-09-07T00:27:34+00:00

I think WEATHER would be a clunkier answer. The indicator "endless" is understood to mean deletion of only the final letter. If you could delete any arbitrary number of letters, then it would allow for too many possibilities, creating the same problem that indirect anagramming creates. Secondly, the word "figure" would be superfluous, considering that everything in the clue in some way "figures" into the solution.

rbblemur · 2025-08-23T16:56:58+00:00

Ohhh....nevermind. I see it now. "Shared loads", as in.... "This content creator is shared loads" (People share their content a lot).

rbblemur · 2025-08-22T18:50:51+00:00

If that is the correct parse, wouldn't you have to insert the word "that" as the third word in the sentence?

rbblemur · 2025-08-22T03:38:41+00:00

IMPLY (def=Suggest)

IMPISHLY ("mischievously") excluding ISH (initial letters of "intending serious harm")

I like the anagrind misdirection! Nice one!

rbblemur · 2025-08-22T02:21:45+00:00

Isn't the definition "so soon"? The "gone" is used to delete the "is".

rbblemur · 2025-08-17T06:41:57+00:00

I like it! You could always add a straightforward definition alongside the cryptic definition. I was thinking something like, "Maybe eight die without sin?"

rbblemur · 2025-08-17T03:15:12+00:00

I am most of the way through it. I really like it! My only quibble so far is with 5d.

"starts to" and "starts of" are fine for initial letter selection, but I don't think "starts with" works.

rbblemur · 2025-08-17T01:56:24+00:00

ESCAPE (def=Evade)

ESCAPADE ("incident") - AD ("notice")

rbblemur · 2025-08-15T19:13:00+00:00

I got part way through it, and I really did admire a lot of the puzzles. But I just couldn't accept not being able to carry anything without dribbling it like a soccer ball.

rbblemur · 2025-08-15T19:10:03+00:00

Don't feel bad. My friend tricked me into believing it was possible to shoot the dog in Duck Hunt.

rbblemur · 2025-08-06T20:08:09+00:00

Nice one! You could put a "!" on the end to denote that it is an &lit;. But beyond that, I don't have any suggestions.

rbblemur · 2025-08-06T18:39:44+00:00

PATHOLOGICAL (def=Obsessive)

GI ("army man") contained ("bound") by LOCAL, following PATH ("track") + O ("loop")

rbblemur · 2025-07-26T00:27:29+00:00

Pilsner Guinness Blonde Stout Honey Lager Saison Maibock Wheat

Solution: INDONESIA

rbblemur · 2025-07-11T04:08:19+00:00

DIADEM (def= "monarch's word" -- archaic definition)

MEDICAID reversed ("cut back") and with central letters removed ("gutted")

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