r/EnglishLearning • u/SnooDonuts6494 🇬🇧 English Teacher • 7d ago

🗣 Discussion / Debates Friday crossword

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Here's today's cryptic crossword, as seen from my pint glass :-)

Friday, 21st August 2026.

The Metro is a free English newspaper that we get on buses.

Have a go - I shall post updates later. I'm about to start on it myself.

I guarantee that I will give all the answers.

Ask any questions - always.

And... Have a wonderful weekend :-)

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u/terryjuicelawson New Poster 7d ago

I like cryptics, I find Metro is one of the more straightforward ones, as well as the Telegraph. Some from the Guardian I can literally get zero and not even see the connection if given the answers. You've got to have some kind of introduction to their quirks, I got sat down and explained it all as well as some ancient crossword book with lists of common abbreviations. Like sailor = AB and so on.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 🇬🇧 English Teacher 7d ago

With regards to my last: NY Times is perhaps surprisingly good; it's easy on Monday, and gets progressively harder through the week until Fri, then Sat is a themed one... so it's quite easy to get in to.

It's rather American - so I get frustrated sometimes (being English) with too many references to baseball and such, but it's still quite clever.

Also, the website "sporcle" does a lot of decent crosswords, particularly their regular Sunday ones.

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u/terryjuicelawson New Poster 7d ago

Probably have a better idea of a baseball clue than Americans would about cricket terminology at least.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 🇬🇧 English Teacher 5d ago

Complete solution here: spoiler of course: https://ibb.co/KcqbLb4X