"Pre...baked...no that's nonsense" Yea everything else was just straightforward

@filam7371

4 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂

I had never seen a crossword being solved - that was absolutely mindblowing. Substractions, reverse words, porte-manteaux... Never knew crosswords were that intricate. I'm also still looking for all those anagrams that were mentioned.

@M4TTM4N10

4 жыл бұрын

Do note this is a cryptic crossword, regular crosswords are not that intricate

@mphayes98

4 жыл бұрын

In the United States we do crosswords very differently, they're not as "puzzly" as the cryptic ones

I Got lost after the first clue. Would love to see one where you explain abit more about the process

I did solve this puzzle on the day, but my time was 70 minutes. That's 10 minutes over the time allowed to solve all three of these puzzles at the championships! I did know 'apocope', which really helped. Mark, you may be interested in the new leader on the main leaderboard, a fellow named 'obviouscheatwhybother'.

I very much enjoyed that, thank you. The puzzle looked like rather a good one, but it did rush past in a bit of a blur. :-) My best wishes for the championship.

That was very impressive.

I was shouting "Prepared" at the screen for ages ... but it was about the only clue that I would have got.

This makes me think... You guys should release a crossword app after the next sudoku app!

Wow. Incredible

What the hell is going on

amazing!

As someone who only just about manages to do the Times most days (but slowly: often 1 hour+), strangely I seem to do better on the 130 SNITCHes and the slightly tricksier ones they seem to keep for Saturdays, than something like a 90. APOCOPE was unknown to me but very fairly clued. Your organic way of working around the grid using letters you already have seems to match mine, but do you think it would be better to go through every clue at least once to find the sitters such as GNOCCHI and CUL-DE-SAC first?

For what it's worth, apocope is pronounced "uh-POCK-uh-pee". Fairly certain I had never encountered that word before today haha

@cameron1004

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he's being ironic... leaving out the last sound of the word

While I haven't a clue at all on British crosswords, I enjoy watching these morning (for me) videos. TBF, I haven't a clue on American crosswords either, my vocabulary on this kind of thing just isn't that great.

Great stuff🤩...there is no wonder why you guys are champions.

What are the best Crossword apps for beginners (especially like Homescapes) with more important "answer key" and without buying answers? Possibly $5 or less if its cost money. Crosswords for beginners!

can anyone explain how the definition works for CLOVER? 'ease in this'?

@phlogiston6292

4 жыл бұрын

Living 'in clover' means to be living a life of luxury/ease

@powt0wn

4 жыл бұрын

@@phlogiston6292 thanks!

hello welcome to wordle in a minute

Fabulous! I haven't watched you speed solve a Crossword before. I think you would yawn your way through what North Americans think of as crosswords. I would have taken longer than you just typing in the answers!

Lmao what a thumbnail

Could someone explain 13 across? (5:00)

@CrackingTheCryptic

4 жыл бұрын

Nancy's very = TRES because Nancy is a town in France, so they would use the french TRES for 'very'; a 'cross' is a PASS (in soccer at least); 'that's wrong' is the definition for TRESPASS

@AgentMidnight

4 жыл бұрын

@@CrackingTheCryptic Thank you!

Could someone explain 23 across please?

@RandomBurfness

4 жыл бұрын

I just looked up the definition of 'rhubarb' and it turns out it's an informal American slang for an argument. Therefore the definition should be 'rhubarb' with the wordplay being the rest. The 'dispute' is found reversed in 'beET UPSIDe-down', with the clue indicating it's a hidden being the 'found in' before the 'beet' and the indication the hidden is reversed is found in 'back-to-front'.

@caramba10

4 жыл бұрын

@@RandomBurfness Thank you, makes sense now (I would never have seen that)

How do you get from regular crosswords this nonsense clues? I wouldn't have gotten a single line. Not one.

@Tahgtahv

4 жыл бұрын

Right, you (as am I) are from the United States. British crosswords are *very* different. I suppose it's a matter of what you're used to. I think Mark has solved a US puzzle or two on the channel, but it's not very common.

@MsMattness

4 жыл бұрын

The guys on this channel has made several videos explaining ""easy"" cryptic crosswords in an attempt to learn people to do them themselves. Not an easy task, but the videos are interesting nevertheless. This is almost one of the rare videos where they attempt to do it as fast as possible and explain little.

I ... What ?

What the fuck...