Steve Pemberton's Taskmaster Crossword

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@Taskmaster Месяц назад

👏👏👏

@AcidDotCom Месяц назад

So surprised and happy when I watched that episode. Two brilliant shows combined! :D

@mattgio1172 Месяц назад

Not sure who's running the account, but Alex absolutely strikes me as one who would watch this whole video. Greg would get bored and start looking for a roast to eat.

@EuanBCFC Месяц назад

@@mattgio1172Sorry to break it to you but it’s not gonna be either of them

@mattmclellan123 Месяц назад

Is this the second Taskmaster contestant who has done a cryptic crossword? The first being Dave Gorman

@steve470 Месяц назад

@@mattmclellan123 At least the second. I would guess that Victoria Coren Mitchell has probably done one at some point.

@15schaa Месяц назад

I love Taskmaster, Steve and cryptic crosswords, so this was an absolute delight for me! Clue 24 down is also thematic to Taskmaster ("He follows Nick, losing task finally - a comfortable position") as Nick Mohammed is one of the other contestants this series. Incidentally, very clever people solved this crossword the day it came out and spotted the message, meaning us TM super nerds knew to expect Steve Pemberton (and someone called Nick) on the show before the cast was even announced!

@r.g.9717 Месяц назад

Oh my gosh that’s incredible!

@TPHRyan 20 дней назад

That said, Nick Mohammed specifically being on the show was revealed early as well, by way of an accidental tweet 😂

@FineAndAndy Месяц назад

Every explanation of a complicated cryptic crossword clue sounds like Adam West's Batman explaining the solution to one of the Riddler's clues, with a several step sequence of seemingly random word association that turns out to be correct.

@jaymontana2708 Месяц назад

You have finally put into words why these infuriate me and I just can't get into them lol

@jessevennard2640 Месяц назад

Wow. If you’re old enough to know, it’s spot on.

@patcat8950 Месяц назад

Slightly more recently, there's also the "Hello to you" scene from Red Dwarf.

@DevilboyScooby Месяц назад

Or the 321 clues with Dusty Bin

@justnigel Месяц назад

"Greg please give Steve all five points"

@st0rmforce Месяц назад

I want to cut together a load of out-of-context clips of simon into a video. "Trace of sewage found in abandoned septic tank. I mean it's brilliant. It's just beautiful!"

@tiagomarques9822 Месяц назад

I take pride on being quite fluent and knowledgeable in English, despite not having it as my mother tongue; however, I am always flabbergasted as I watch Simon solve a cryptic crossword, realizing the huge amount of words I never heard of in my life. Once I read that you only start to really understand a language once you start getting the humor in it; understanding clues in cryptic crosswords must be a goal many levels above that - not to mention setting a cryptic crossword… I find it fascinating!

@CatCheshireThe Месяц назад

One thing about the crosswords they're doing here is that they do tend to rely a lot on extremely British terminology, so even a fluent speaker might struggle with them unless they specifically learned English in the UK. Of course even if you do have that experience they are still quite difficult, as demonstrated here when even Simon didn't know a couple of the words and had to look them up at the end

@dolf370 Месяц назад

Same with me, I also consider myself fluent, but things like one-letter abbreviation 'b' for bishop in chess is totally beyond me (not to mention geographical clues, cricket and British lore I've never heard of).

@TheRoblington 17 дней назад

I'm quite sure that clues in cryptic crosswords are beyond the understanding of more than 95% of native British English speaking people. I am English, have lived here all my life and have a degree in English Literature and I only ever solve one or two clues in any cryptic crossword that I try. I look at people who can do these with complete awe.

@dolf370 17 дней назад

@@TheRoblington Thanx, that makes me feel a little bit less stupid.

@evergreentree8042 13 дней назад

I'm a native English speaker and I teach English as a first foreign language. I'd also never heard of some of these definitions.

@metroidman7592 Месяц назад

I had no idea what a cryptic crossword was when when steve showed it off on taskmaster. Im immensely more impressed now

@markjreed Месяц назад

I believe bacchanale with an e is a musical composition in an opera for a scene depicting a bacchanal without the e.

@nightwishlover8913 Месяц назад

You're right: Saint-Saens wrote a few - unfortunately, the clue "seems" to require a plural...

@novemberdag1127 Месяц назад

I (non-native English speaker) just thought the 'drunken bit' was the "ALE" in the end of the word haha

@SpencerTwiddy 16 дней назад

@@nightwishlover8913I’m sure one bacchanale spans multiple scenes.

@KeiFlox Месяц назад

How sneaky, PLEASE GIVE STEVE ALL FIVE POINTS.

@evah4431 Месяц назад

Never thought my two favourite sources of British video content would cross like this! :)

@57thorns Месяц назад

Success, I managed to figure out down 1 on my own! Now I can watch the video for the rest of the crossword.

@57thorns Месяц назад

And I nearly got two down as well... did not "back" the correct word before the substitution that I managed to find after googling a fact.

@Martijn-xb7ve Месяц назад

For completeness, at 54:07, there is the word 'all' :)

@eashanshenai4980 Месяц назад

Nice catch!

@nidoking042 Месяц назад

That is indeed how the Check All feature on the Guardian site works. It will remove any incorrect letters, so if everything is correct, the puzzle will show no change.

@peterdunlop7691 Месяц назад

Brilliant puzzle. Bacchanale with an e is given in Meriam-Webster. Loved Steve since League of Gentlemen.

@Shaun742 Месяц назад

The Riddle of the Sphinx episode of Inside No 9 was what got me doing cryptic crosswords in the first place, and 7 years later I'm still at it.

@AlphaAxle Месяц назад

once I saw this taskmaster episode, I immediately searched to see if you had solved it. So glad to see you do this!!

@Umbra451 Месяц назад

In mathematics (and physics, by extension) the focus of a curve is a point in the "middle" of it. It's not quite the center of it (for instance, an ellipse has two foci, equally spaced along its major axis) but it's certainly evocative of being central to a curve.

@zacharycampbell1002 Месяц назад

This is what I was thinking as well, I would say center a fair synonym because the focus of a circle is its center (well, technically, a circle is an ellipse whose two foci are the same point, but you know what I mean)

@epd807 Месяц назад

He died pinching a loaf. I immediately thought ELVIS!😂

@allyp305 Месяц назад

This is incredible- I’ve never heard of cryptic crosswords before, it’s amazing how you break down all the words to find the spelling and meaning. I feel like my brain got an exercise 🤣

@richardclegg8027 Месяц назад

Really glad you are doing this one. Dave Gorman's crosswords are also brilliant and original. I think you have done them in the past. He goes from strength to strength as a setter.

@JDGorman0808 Месяц назад

Love the crossover! Now we just need you and Mark to appear on Only Connect to finish out our crossover dreams

@jadeEpeace 29 дней назад

Thanks simon. Loved this extra crossword video. And even managed to get quite a few clues on my own, and a few others with some little hints from you! I’m disappointed at RU-vid though; I watch your crossword masterclass every week and it did not suggest this to me. The only reason I knew was because you mentioned it in your regular Friday video and so I went looking. Even thought the algorithm doesn’t seem to rate these videos, I absolutely love them! Please keep ‘em coming!! PS I’d love a little video where you explain the different types of cryptic crossword clue; standard, hidden, double definition, cryptic definition, and lit?? etc.

@lucy861 Месяц назад

I am here for this CTC and Taskmaster crossover ❤️

@KeiFlox Месяц назад

I always thought POLLOCK was with an O at the end, but apparently both O and A are accepted spellings!

@okmarshall Месяц назад

I had no idea either. Certainly in the UK we use the O spelling though, so I'm not sure why Steve went with the A.

@KeiFlox Месяц назад

@@okmarshall I've only seen the O spelling here in Canada.

@EmmaRossGB 13 дней назад

@@okmarshallBecause it fits the answer?

@theodoremurdock9984 День назад

I think the clue was supposed to be that a “scallop” is a fish without a tail…pollock just happens to almost work as well if you read the clue the way he did.

@darrenbent7601 Месяц назад

I'm so glad that you posted this crossword. I am quite a fan of Taskmaster, and they played that episode the other day here in New Zealand. I did not realize how up to date the episode is. I am so glad that I can have a go at doing the puzzle myself at some stage too.

@jennwinter2243 Месяц назад

From the USA here. I am so glad you did this. I watched this Task Master episode the other day and thought about you! I normally don't watch the cryptic crossword videos (I can't even do standard crosswords)., but I am watching this one. :)

@10prozenthimmel Месяц назад

I recently discovered Taskmaster, and watch CTC regularly. What a Sunday treat for me! 🎉 (well-deserved too, since I got nothing for Mother’s Day, not even a call from my student daughter)

@estherwestbroek Месяц назад

Happy Mother's day! Give yourself a little treat to commemorate all the work you did mothering. Salute from a mother...

@10prozenthimmel Месяц назад

Thank you 😘 You too! ❤

@KeiFlox Месяц назад

What a treat, an extra crossword solve! Some lovely clues in this one.

@MarushiaDark316 Месяц назад

I think rather than a Master Class, I might need a Beginner's Class on these types of puzzles cuz I just don't get them at all. I'm fortunate I was able to get maybe two or three out of the entire puzzle on my own. I think the explanation of "the real part of the clue is always at one end like a math equation" was quite helpful.

@leco4529 Месяц назад

I also saw this on Taskmaster. So glad you’ve done it here.

@charlesbrookes959 Месяц назад

Yay more of these please! The Times is quality but i really dig the thematic crosswords with clever reveals you get in the guardian and independent

@JeffKotz Месяц назад

Thank you for this. You were the first thing I thought of when I saw this. Great fun, Simon!

@Rubrickety Месяц назад

I saw this Taskmaster episode (thank you thank you Taskmaster for making episodes available free on U.S. RU-vid soon after broadcast these days!), and wondered if it was going to make an appearance on CtC. Glad to see it!

@hclapp219 Месяц назад

Elan is also a car made by Lotus, which would fit with the automotive theme as well.

@IskarJarek Месяц назад

algorithm won on this one, never heard of cryptic crosswords, but imma try some now. thank you for the vid.

@archivist17 Месяц назад

What great fun! Thanks for the extra crossword content 😀

@Revenant77x Месяц назад

I knew when Steve entered this as a prize we would probably get a CTC video on it. I am very pleased that I was correct. Always a joy to see these videos.

@SweDennis Месяц назад

I know Simon uses the Chambers dictionary. When he says that initials have to be in the dictionary in order to be used, does that imply Chambers only, or any dictionary of reasonable reputation?

@77bears Месяц назад

the 11-across clue is really nice, once you realise it's trying to trick you with the homophones of "high hat" and "hi-hat" then the clue suddenly becomes easy to read. great video as always!!

@ibpants 28 дней назад

Cryptic crosswords make me feel like I'm having a stroke.

@janet-dn2ot Месяц назад

What a treat, thank you! A real bonus!

@ElectricFury Месяц назад

What a crossover! I absolutely love Taskmaster and of course, I love watching CTC!

@recruit_37 Месяц назад

Im glad you did this. I had a look at it yesterday but i didnt do very well at all.

@ghjk9592 24 дня назад

Just watched the episode of Taskmaster and remembered this video existed. I like to think I could get into cryptic crosswords then I watch you solve them and realise yeah I could do two 4 letter clues that's it. So many rules, ideas, constructs and concepts for writing the clues and reading the clues I feel you'd need a qualification in cryptic crosswords to understand

@aenamabag Месяц назад

Glad this channel got a Taskmaster bump. Great crossover.

@Vorash00 Месяц назад

Simon making sense of why I find it easier to do cryptic crosswords by reading all the clubs bottom to top!!! I always start with the last down clue and read every clue back towards one across notating and annotating as I go and only then once I’ve answers what I can within the clue list will I look at the grid and see what of the answers I have I can place for maximum impact to then attempt clues I didn’t pick up ok first inspection.

@jonas.groschwitz Месяц назад

Being subscribed to both taskmaster and CtC, I genuinely thought this was a taskmaster video when I clicked on it 😂 A pleasant surprise though, for sure!

@iseriver3982 19 дней назад

Brings a whole new meaning to his Inside No. 9 episode.

@user-xl4tz4dj7v Месяц назад

Combining two of my favourite things? And on Sunday, when I’m missing my daily cryptic crossword in the Globe and Mail? Hooray to Simon and Steve!

@DrDaveW Месяц назад

Six across. If anyone here is old enough to remember the BBC Saturday morning kids' TV show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. (I suspect I'm not alone!) The purple dinosaur mascot was called "Posh Paws". Meant to be the reverse of "Swap Shop", but annoying, not quite!

@thesimpsons17 Месяц назад

Steve's mind baffles me, such a talented man!

@salfordnurse Месяц назад

In the guardian if you do check all, it will remove the letters that aren’t correct, and Bacchanale is a musical composition depicting a drunken scene eg in ballets etc. would love to see you do one of Dave Gormans Guardian cryptic crosswords

@davidrattner9 Месяц назад

Thank you Simon for posting this special cryptic crossword for us!! To all the moms , grandmothers, aunts, sisters , and all special ladies that are celebrating today..Happy Mothers Day!!

@Anne_Mahoney Месяц назад

How delightful to get an extra bonus crossword! And a good one, too. 😺

@pjn7136 Месяц назад

I was wondering when this would come to your attention. Because I am an American I’m never sure if there is I time difference for the airing of TM episodes for our two countries. As an aside, I’d never heard of Cryptic Crosswords prior to discovering your channel, and enjoy your Friday videos where you work through one.

@KingdomCome811 Месяц назад

I would really like to see a full speed solve from both Mark and Simon. Probably wouldn't be much talking but would be very interesting to see.

@mace9770 Месяц назад

There’s a few of them on the channel. They’re incredible.

@emilywilliams3237 28 дней назад

This was very fun! I love the crossword content, even though I don't get a lot of it - but I feel that I am improving!!

@evergreentree8042 13 дней назад

24 down is a Taskmaster reference. Nick was a fellow contestant. Also the hidden message was 'Greg, please give Steve all five points'. (You overlooked 'all'.)

@evergreentree8042 13 дней назад

BTW, when I saw the episode I thought Steve Pemberton had become a cryptic crossword writer overnight just for the show. I wondered how on Earth he'd managed to write a cryptic crossword with a hidden message.

@justyouraveragenerd1493 Месяц назад

Amazing combination of my interests!

@Dr.Death8520 Месяц назад

I'm still never gonna be good at crosswords, but i really enjoy the wordplay that the cryptic clues have. Might even give them a stab now I know some of the rules

@BunnyTVS Месяц назад

There's a wonderful episode of Steve Pembertons 'Inside No 9' called "The Riddle of the Sphinx". The story is about betrayal and revenge centred around a cryptic crossword.

@TheBT Месяц назад

Yeah, the title is a spoiler if you know your Greek mythology.

@myfyrmadocjones Месяц назад

32:50 common spelling is pollock but apparently it can also be spelt pollack (I didn’t know that).

@bryanroland9402 Месяц назад

Re last Friday's crossword: The name "quark" was coined by the physicist, Murray Gell-Mann, and is a reference to the novel Finnegan's Wake, by James Joyce ("Three quarks for Muster Mark!" book 2, episode 4) In this context the word quark is an outdated English word meaning to croak and the line refers to a bird choir mocking king Mark of Cornwall in the legend of Tristan and Iseult. Talk about obscure!

@richardlyons7582 Месяц назад

What a bonus for us all.

@NoobixCube Месяц назад

I'm not big on cryptic crosswords. I've been trying the Times, and permitting myself a google when something is steeped in American culture or sport that I'm not going to get (I'm just a casual scrub). I was doing this one along with Simon, and I often reached the same answers, but for completely different reasons. I don't know if I was lucking into a "right for the wrong reasons" situation, or if the clues can be read multiple ways and arrive at the same conclusion.

@SiculusTheEpithet Месяц назад

I laughed out loud when he said "I don't think Whirr is a place in lancashire" when I already got that answer and I'm not even british :P

@DevilboyScooby Месяц назад

24 is a great clue; Steve is after Nick in the seating order this series.

@braveheart6816 Месяц назад

After I watched this episode of taskmaster i was hoping simon would solve it!

@bryanroland9402 Месяц назад

Re last Friday's crossword. I deduce from your comments about Titus Groan that you haven't read Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. Having spent many hours in your good company, I have some idea of your literary tastes and believe you'd love that Gothic masterpiece.

@michaellee7313 Месяц назад

Just to be that guy, Bxa5 would be the notation specifically for the bishop taking a piece on a5. Moving the Bishop to the unoccupied a5 square is simply Ba5.

@sh4dowchas3r Месяц назад

7 down is a punny doiuble definitition, which you got then ignored. Imagine David Lloyd, the former cricketer/commentator, saying "Where".

@stevesebzda570 Месяц назад

(Scratchy voice): "HELLO, and welcome to a special edition of Cracking the Cryptic." "WHERE, ..." Have a good day.

@janetnz3389 Месяц назад

Thanks a great training session. I complete my local cryptic but more by guess than deducted ... they are not this sophisticated

@weldy00 Месяц назад

Crossover of the century XD

@martindoyle143 Месяц назад

As I live in Manchester UK, I feel a sense of duty to defend the county of Lancashire from the slanderous accusation made by Simon in his attempt to answer 7 Down. I'll have you know we do not talk like The Wurzels this far north! My best guess is that the answer to 7 down relates to the county emblem of Lancashire which is the Red Rose (RR). The emblem of our neighbouring county (Yorkshire) is the White Rose. Perhaps both may be known to viewers clued up on The War of The Roses. For clarity, I'm referring the 15th Century conflict between the Houses of Lancaster and York... not the 1989 film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. I usually stick to Sudoku solves... but as a Taskmaster fan I thought I would give this Cryptic Crossword a go as a one off. After hearing his slur on the North, I think it is only fair that Simon should go and sit in the naughty corner with his 3s, no spotlight, and remain there until he either learns to behave, or loses his religion.

@williamdittmann9281 Месяц назад

Legend

@MrKiedis1984 Месяц назад

The Riddle Of The Sphinx is one of the better episodes on Inside No 9

@iabervon Месяц назад

He was supposed to bring the best thing that you can get into, and he suggested that getting into cryptic crosswords would be the best thing. I've done a lot of cryptic crosswords, but I've never gotten into one, not like Greg and Steve (in columns 2 and 8 respectively), so I couldn't say if that's the best thing. Greg was pretty dismissive of the idea of appearing in the newspaper, but he probably wasn't thinking of hidden in the crossword solution specifically.

@MultiNacnud Месяц назад

bacchanale is an orgiastic musical composition, often depicting a drunken revel or bacchanal. Source Wikipedia.

@stangerrits6712 Месяц назад

The crossover you never expected but always wanted 😁

@Kernel15 Месяц назад

Pollack and Pollock are both fish!

@sidarthur8706 16 дней назад

i couldn't work out 15 down, 23 across, and 31 across

@sidarthur8706 16 дней назад

ok now i know what a ewer is. i was thinking eves because it sounds like eaves which is a kind of guttering. but it's not neat enough. i still don't get the nale part of bacchanale and i don't know who agnes is

@davidgustavsson4000 Месяц назад

I desperately want this to exist in my native language. I'm proficient in English, but I have absolutely no chance at any of these because of the obscure references. I could probably do it in Swedish though.

@nightwishlover8913 Месяц назад

27 Down: It's Cockney Rhyming slang 32 across: is the American spelling, NOT English (or the original French)

@archivist17 Месяц назад

Tassie can also mean the end part of a pen.

@TheBT Месяц назад

‘He follows Nick, losing task finally, a comfortable position’ - The most appropriate clue for this crossword

@OldsoulKilljoy Месяц назад

Did I fully click on this thinking it was an episode of Taskmaster? Am I disappointed to find it was in fact Simon and Cracking the Cryptic? Absolutely Not

@0Taneb Месяц назад

My interpretation of "focus with Putin": "focus" can be taken to mean "zoom in on", and if you zoom in on a word you see its central letter. Not convinced by that though

@phyphor Месяц назад

That's the reading given by Fifteen Squared when this appeared in September last year: Guardian Cryptic 29,186 by Sphinx S(o)V(i)E(t) L(e)T(t)E(r)S [regularly] + [focus] of (pu)T(in)

@zmaj12321 Месяц назад

I think the focus of a geometrical shape (such as a circle or parabola) can roughly correspond to its center

@ndkndlvlsvls Месяц назад

this feels impossible for someone like me who doesn't have english as their first language

@mattmclellan123 Месяц назад

Anyone else from Taskmaster who creates Cryptic Crosswords? First Dave Gorman, now Steve Pemberton. You’d think perhaps John Robbins, Mark Watson or even little Alex Horne might be quite into them!

@steve470 Месяц назад

Victoria Coren Mitchell definitely solves them (with or without help from Tim Henman). Not sure if she's ever created any herself.

@zmaj12321 Месяц назад

It's great when I recognize a contestant on Taskmaster! Now we just need Simon to appear one day.

@_-_-Sipita-_-_ Месяц назад

i think the way to solve this is to literally forget the meaning of every word and arrange them into a different word

@jackfeldman3916 Месяц назад

GREG PLEASE GIVE STEVE ALL FIVE POINTS

@SyntheticFuture Месяц назад

Damn. These puzzles are so far beyond my understanding of the English language 😅

@victoriabrown8556 Месяц назад

Can confirm he did indeed get the five points

@MsNosis Месяц назад

I used to like Taskmaster, but found the bullying of Alex Horne just sad. contestants spitting him in the face and such. Not entertaining one bit.

@dolf370 Месяц назад

Do you know that he is the creator of the show? (If contestants have been spitting him in the face I think it's going too far, but he has obviously written himself into the show as the sidekick that is being continuously put down)

@MsNosis Месяц назад

@@dolf370 yeah, I know that. but I do not find it amusing when he is spat on regardless.

@dolf370 Месяц назад

@@MsNosis No, I agree on that, spitting on him is not amusing. My point was that it's part of the dynamic of the show that he is denigrated. It is part of the format, it's similar in basically all the different Taskmaster versions I've seen from different places in the world. (In sweden it is called Best in Test; the taskmaster is a middleaged woman and the sidekick is a short chubby man. When she is nagging and jabbing at the sidekick it is so far from her real personality that noone ever takes it seriously.)

@MsNosis Месяц назад

@@dolf370 yeah, and obviously scripted nagging is one thing, but spitting in the face... no, I do not find Taskmaster any amusing at all after that incident.

@dolf370 Месяц назад

@@MsNosis Pity one incident spoils it for you, but I do understand.

@phyphor Месяц назад

Ghettoes are *not* "dodgy", they are areas where minorities live and are therefore often underfunded (e.g. in the US) and are originally named for Jewish quarters (e.g. historically in Venice, the Venetian Ghetto). Unfortunately believing that a ghetto is a "dodgy part" indicates some subconscious racial bias, that we all have, hence calling it out so that it can be examined and understood. (Note that I am not calling Simon racist, just that we all have unconscious biases from living in the world.)

@bobber0001 Месяц назад

The more of these "cryptic crosswords" videos I watch, the more I come to dislike them. The clues are always such a stretch, and even though Simon does spend a moment or two to explain them, the wording is never justified to any degree. It all feels like some sort of "secret club" that the constructors and solvers are trying to keep people out of. There has to be a way to construct these clues that doesn't alienate the potential audience!

@JensGulin Месяц назад

Maybe try ordinary crosswords? Or knitting? There's always an investment for entrance, not everything is for everyone. That said, I do agree that it appears like gibberish, oftentimes even after explained...