(Sorry for the delay finishing the post: I had a battery problem.)
Do you find yourself following a pattern when you solve? All the acrosses first? Outside to inside? Or maybe no pattern: just solve whatever clue your eye falls on? When I solve straight cryptics I usually try to challenge myself by making a chain: only solving clues that intersect answers I’ve already got instead of picking off the easy ones first. For some reason, I did this one acrosses first though.
What’s your solving routine? Share it in the comments.
Link to puzzle: http://www.thenation.com/article/188105/puzzle-no-3344
Degree of difficulty (by standards of this weekly puzzle): easy
Hozom’s comment: Rising to the Surface, in which Hot and Trazom explain what makes a clue read well: the natural (non-cryptic) reading of a clue is called the surface. They also share a few clinkers. When I try cluing, I usually overdo it on shaping the surface.
Weekly cluing challenge (at Word Salad): MILLIONS, OREGANO, and PARODY—a three-way challenge (the aforementioned clinkers)
Back with the solution Monday. Join us this weekend for Sunday brunch: there’s a great variety cryptic on the menu.
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