World Cup Crossword

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Dinos Sfyris
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World Cup Crossword

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I've made a cryptic crossword themed on The World Cup. If you fancy having a go either pm me or reply here with your email address and I'll send it to you :)

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:I've made a cryptic crossword themed on The World Cup. If you fancy having a go either pm me or reply here with your email address and I'll send it to you :)

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The World Cup themed bit is putting me off; is there something there for the layperson?
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Yeah it's about 50:50 football and other stuff. Plus the football stuff is all pretty simple as anyone will preach I know next to nothing about football. It's also pretty anagram-heavy which should appeal to Countdowners and it went down a treat with my c4c guinea pigs at the inaugural COSHEF last night 8-) Also anyone worried about my dodgy cluesmanship will be pleased to know I've definitely improved since my early shitty efforts at making cryptic crosswords.

NB Only 1 out of the 3 people who've pmed so far gave me their email address which I need as its a Word attachment.
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Dinos Sfyris wrote:NB Only 1 out of the 3 people who've pmed so far gave me their email address which I need as its a Word attachment.
Could try googledocs?
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I've just tried Googledocs now having never heard of it before but my upload got rejected :(

Cheers for telling me about it though. It's probably something I'd use if my crossword was a raving success and I had to make lots more.

DO YOU WANT TO DO MY CROSSWORD???
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Quite enjoyable Dinos. Thank you. I did most of it while trying to avoid watching the second half of THAT game.

I am still stuck on 4 of them though. And I have now lost interest in the world cup until the final so please can I have the answers?
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Yeah although if you want to pm me the ones you're missing I can give you hints. Same goes for everyone else.

Anyone completed it yet? Ryan Taylor is 1 clue away from completion and Howard has 2 clues left.

Haha after typing that I've just had a text from Ryan saying he's solved the last one!
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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Yeah although if you want to pm me the ones you're missing I can give you hints. Same goes for everyone else.

Anyone completed it yet? Ryan Taylor is 1 clue away from completion and Howard has 2 clues left.

Haha after typing that I've just had a text from Ryan saying he's solved the last one!
And I'm down to one. Forgot to let you know last night that I'd got one of the two remaining clues.
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Howard has now finished as well :) If you don't like doing crosswords in the slightest but enjoy looking at a completed grid. Ryan has uploaded a photo of his finished puzzle onto Facebook, and my what lovely handwriting he has too!
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Dinos Sfyris wrote:and my what lovely handwriting he has too!
Awww thanks.
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I am really terrible at cryptic crosswords and can only get the anagram ones. I have 3 so far.
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There are 9 strictly anagram clues in total and 2 anagram+1 letter clues. Keep looking!
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Since tomorrow brings the end of the World Cup I'll reveal all the answers either on Sunday or Monday, along with a full breakdown of all the clues.
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