Crossword clue of the day

[flattythehurdler]

Because it’s the same setter and you get to know how he thinks. He/she quite likes cockney/ carryon type lingo.
You can imagine some Dickensian fishwife “daaarnt you give me that sauce”
I’m confident that is the reasoning.
A curse is not “impertinent”, it is either a bad spell, or would be called crude or vulgar by the setter. I may be wrong, but I don’t think so.

[flattythehurdler]

Not really. The we hear bit indicates that it sounds the same, not that it rhymes. I’ll post more such clues as they arise, but the setter is consistent here, and I’m confident that’s what he/she means.

[flattythehurdler]

I’d add that I have some personal rules for the clues I out on here.

1. I have to have got them myself without help
2. Not ones I perceive as too hard nor too easy.
   3 Not a string of anagrams
   4 I find the reasoning is both fair and clever.
   5 The word isn’t obscure. I really dislike clues where the answer is some French or American poet or book you’ve never really heard of

The most famous crossword clue ever set is simply

H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O (5)

[habanerocat]

@flattythehurdler

I’d add that I have some personal rules for the clues I out on here.

1. I have to have got them myself without help
2. Not ones I perceive as too hard nor too easy.
3. Not a string of anagrams
4. I find the reasoning is both fair and clever.
5. The word isn’t obscure. I really dislike clues where the answer is some French or American poet or book you’ve never really heard of

…and no Googling.

[Crutches]

Summary

Pique?

[Jahan]

water

[habanerocat]

@flattythehurdler

The most famous crossword clue ever set is simply

H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O (5)

Do you watch The 1% Club?
Loads of stuff like that…

[flattythehurdler]

I don’t. I just do the crossword on my phone when work lapses.

[habanerocat]

You’d like it, I’d say…

[habanerocat]

No excuse now…

[flattythehurdler]

And here we are.

Reportedly, London gangsters rage (5)

[backinatracksuit]

@flattythehurdler

Reportedly, London gangsters rage (5)

craze

[Jahan]

craze

[flattythehurdler]

Yep, that’s what it means by “reportedly” or “we hear”. The word sounds the same, not that it rhymes.
I just put that one up because of yesterday.

Here’s a nice one. Took me a while:

Crew prepare before last of folk board on ship. (9)

First letter is “G”. I’d never have got it otherwise. I was confused by it for a while, but I won’t say why or it’ll give it away.

[Jahan]

gangplank. The g is a big help.

[flattythehurdler]

It is.

[habanerocat]

[flattythehurdler]

God, your leaders have dropped bouquet (6)

[flattythehurdler]

Answer is odour

Easier one today
Tenerife can’t supply a place for surfing (8,4)

[backinatracksuit]

Odour has 5 letters