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This hint shows straight definition and cryptic wordplay parts and helps you as the solver to understand how the clue is constructed. There may be only straight definitions if the clue is a multiple definition type, or cryptic wordplays if the clue is a cryptic definition type, where the clue is usually a play on words, puns, or uses misleading homonyms in its surface reading.
This hint breaks down the clue further showing the different cryptic indicators used and which parts they act upon within the clue. Various things are indicated as follows:
Link Word Synonym Example of Type of Anagrammed Hidden Selection Homophone Reversed
L __ M __ O __ N
Similar to a real cryptic crossword, this hint shows you checked (intersecting) letters with other clues that have already been solved.
lampoon
Ridicule with satire
This is the solution to the cryptic crossword clue : Ridicule the French politician having nothing on (7). Look below for an explanation to help you as the cryptic crossword solver understand it.
This is the explanation to the solution to the clue to help you understand how the answer was arrived at.
In this clue, [the French] gives you the French word for 'the' (LA), a [politician] (MP), which has [having] [nothing] (O), and the remaining word ON is part of the answer.
Nothing, which equates to zero or 0, looks like the letter O.
Ridicule is given by LA + MP + O + ON in a common letter, letter groups, and charade clue to build up the answer in parts.
Puzzler 436
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Taken on top form when in dead trouble (7)
In France I hesitate to show contempt by derision (4)
Dental assistant tried noxious compound (7,5)
Group of revolutionary old soldiers (3,8)
Performing miracle to win back (7)
Without notice, alter fitting (4)
Six clubs supported by one Peruvian wool supplier (6)
It's not true one can bear it (5,7)
