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quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
Puzzle Description:
Give it here! (7 letters) -See comment 1
#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 29, 2018
The description is a clue to the subject using cryptic crossword clue rules.#2: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 29, 2018 [HINT]
Every cryptic clue is made up of two parts; a definition, and a literal description of the answer using wordplay. They can be in either order (though not intertwined) and there is no separation between them.
Here is a page describing some of the techniques:
http://gamesmagazine-online.com/cryptic-crosswords/
or an easier-to-read PDF:
http://gamesmagazine-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CrypticsGuide.pdf
After LL/CL gets all the black#3: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Apr 29, 2018
EL 3 r3 = c24-26 w
LL finishes the right side
Two-way Logic left 1 r16 whether it goes in c8 or c9, the other column will be forced up and trigger the second 1 in r13. Therefore r13c4-7, c10-15 must all be white.
LL to finish
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.#4: Susan Eberhardt (susaneber) on Apr 29, 2018 [SPOILER]
Present#5: Gary Webster (glwebste) on Apr 30, 2018 [SPOILER]
Nice, Susan! The exclamation point on "here!" should have given it away (no pun intended), and clearly it did for you!#6: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Apr 30, 2018
It looks like a lobster to me, sigh.#7: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 30, 2018
Me too :)#8: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 30, 2018 [SPOILER]
An earlier version looked like a very harassed person screaming. You need to back up farther. Then you'll see it's the bow on a present.#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 30, 2018 [SPOILER]
For those just starting with cryptics, here's the breakdown of the clue:#10: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Apr 30, 2018 [SPOILER]
This is a double definition.
Give it : (definition as verb)
here! : (interjection as in a roll call)
Thanks, Joe, I do see a close-up of the white bow, outlined in red, on a black-wrapped present. If only my arms were 5 feet long...!#11: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on May 1, 2018 [SPOILER]
I saw some kind of insect :/#12: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on May 2, 2018 [SPOILER]
But do you see the present *now*? The idea is that the picture is also a little cryptic. One part of the puzzle is confirmed by the other, just like in a cryptic clue.#13: Ron Jacobson (shmily999) on Sep 4, 2020
I got this one!!! Yippie!
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