{"id":1674,"date":"2008-10-24T20:37:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/10\/24\/cross_words\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T20:37:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:37:14","slug":"cross_words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/10\/24\/cross_words\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh sod it, I am just going to come right out and ask for your help.<br \/>\nOur local Saturday paper has a great puzzle section, including the cryptic crossword from the previous week&#8217;s London Sunday Times, and the big complicated semi-cryptic one from the New York Times (I think it is also the Sunday version).<br \/>\nI am ONE CLUE away from finishing the cryptic crossword for the first time EVER.<br \/>\nI <em>think<\/em> I know what the answer is, but I don&#8217;t know why. This is almost as bad as not having any idea at all.<br \/>\nMy personal code of crossword ethics forbids me from consulting a dictionary or thesaurus. However I formulated the code before I&#8217;d even heard of a blog, so I&#8217;m gonna say that it is OK to ask for <em>verification<\/em> of an answer (not the answer itself) from my blog readers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nClue: Short national flag (4)<br \/>\n? R ? S<br \/>\nI <em>think<\/em> the answer is IRIS &#8211; a shortened version of IRISH, which is a nationality.<br \/>\nThat would mean that FLAG and IRIS are synonymous. However I can&#8217;t come up with an interpretation of either word that would make my answer fit.<br \/>\nHelp! I MUST know the answer before I can start tomorrow&#8217;s crossword! And there just HAVE to be some cryptic crossword experts on here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh sod it, I am just going to come right out and ask for your help. Our local Saturday paper has a great puzzle section, including the cryptic crossword from the previous week&#8217;s London Sunday Times, and the big complicated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/10\/24\/cross_words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}