![]() So, if your own clue snobbery becomes chronic, perhaps it might be worth trying your hand at a little compilation. ![]() Being able to plug in EROS after seeing Love god blah blah (4) is a blessing and a curse of being a top seed. Now in the clueing game myself, I realise that many solvers find a certain cosiness in well-trodden formulas, but also that there is no harm in a gimme clue here and there. "I could do so much better" I sobbed into the page shreds. At the height of the conflict, I would routinely abandon a puzzle mid-solve if I met this "classic" reversal trope, ranting ink-fistedly at my bewildered housemates about what I saw as reprehensibly clueing. I presume every devoted cryptic solver has a nemesis word - EROS was mine, particularly if the wordplay played out as above. God of love was in pain, retreating (4) EROS Painful return for Greek love god (4) EROS
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