The Times Crossword Friday Masterclass: Episode 50

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@Matt-kl1pg 8 месяцев назад

"Well done brain...I'm very pleased with my brain for once" It's impossible not to love Simon's little conversations with himself 😄

@davidrattner9 8 месяцев назад

Half way to 100!! The BIG 50! Thank you Simon for making Friday mornings something special!

@khotsomoabi 8 месяцев назад

Surely a wingless fly is a walk

@glum_hippo 8 месяцев назад

a levitate

@debrabowen4276 8 месяцев назад

I love Simon’s tangents. So entertaining!

@longwaytotipperary 8 месяцев назад

Ditto!

@rachelriesling9112 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for putting the cryptic crossword up Simon! Because of you and the channel I’ve been getting into variant sudokus but I’ve always thought the cryptic crosswords were beyond me. But now I think I’d like to try, and hopefully having the definitions you highlighted will help!

@MultiNacnud 8 месяцев назад

If the Reverent Spooner was still alive would he be able to solve the Crimes Tossword as quickly as Simon ?

@n8style 8 месяцев назад

hahaha

@Antagony1960 7 месяцев назад

Well he _was_ an Oxford don, so quite possibly, yes! He would probably have hated Spoonerism clues though - as many top solvers also seem to, much to my consternation - as he was said to be extremely embarrassed by his affliction and being the butt of student ridicule.

@listey 8 месяцев назад

🎶 That's T in the corner. That's T in the spotlight, losing its religion 🎶

@andrewdipplecomedy 7 месяцев назад

I've watched a shed load of videos from this channel. I've learned so much and can even follow (just about) the most complicated of sudoku rules ... and yet this ... this is a mystery to me!

@DaC10101 7 месяцев назад

I think you are correct that a ream nowadays is 500 - because a machine will just count out 500 - but at one point sheets of paper were made by folding then cutting larger sheets. As you’d expect that would lead to a power of 2.

@callmemarcy77 7 месяцев назад

This series has quickly become a highlight in my week. Knew nothing about crosswords before but this has been a great way to learn some of the tricks ❤

@buffalo_bison 8 месяцев назад

Absolutely gutted about Klopp as well 😢. Thanks so much for another lovely edition of the Friday masterclass, Simon.

@Elaine-OHara 8 месяцев назад

Ah, my favourite part of the week :DD /E: I'm not a native speaker, and I liked the marked definitions. They took me from "able to follow along" to solving at least a few!

@Prazzie 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for another lovely solve. I always appreciate these.

@arthurcharest9061 8 месяцев назад

Tremendous solve! Sorry to hear about Klopp, as a support of no club, I’ve always enjoyed Liverpools play under Klopp, the league will miss him!

@glum_hippo 8 месяцев назад

Edition 50! I am here for it. Nice beanie!

@glum_hippo 8 месяцев назад

The explanation of the Buffalo buffalo buffalo sentence was incredibly and hilariously superfluous! I'm here for that too. I wonder if Mark Ruffalo's name could be employed in the same way, though there's no canonical meaning of the verb to ruffalo, nor is there a city called Ruffalo yet. Lots of work to do.

@stevewood8 8 месяцев назад

Another cracking video from Simon to make the crossword a little less cryptic. Love these. This week I'll be memorising the 'German articles' as my homework...

@TheFreeBro 8 месяцев назад

Happy 50th Simon. I’ve been loving this series

@emilywilliams3237 7 месяцев назад

I was so glad to have a chance to come back to this one, since I had missed it when it was first posted. Thanks, Simon, for the fun and erudition!

@Cthulhus_Mum 2 месяца назад

When I was 5 I read a kids book called “Spooner or Later” - also, my father’s favourite insult was “Dr Spooner would describe you as a shining wit” 🤣

@Cthulhus_Mum 2 месяца назад

Oops - just looked up the date of publication, and I was 6 - still, it was a concept introduced so early in my life that it still surprises me that spoonerisms aren’t most people’s Dad Jokes 😆🙃

@oak3001 8 месяцев назад

Hoorah! Friday's crossword video (and Thursday's crossword). Wonderful

@Ruddigore 8 месяцев назад

Some lovely clues today. I though Ant-Eater and Fig-Urine were fun, as was the spoonerism. A nice solve by Simon with many amusing asides.

@v_moloko 8 месяцев назад

For a non-native speaker who works in English and can freely communicate, these crosswords are still a total nightmare :) So it is a very interesting to see a detailed solve.

@bjornbeng 7 месяцев назад

Thankyou!

@twobitera 6 месяцев назад

The New Yorker recently did a similar thing and released a few of their cryptic crosswords with the definitions highlighted.

@d4r4butler74 7 месяцев назад

But everyone knows that Cryptic Crosswords are Great!!! One of my weekly highlights is watching the Crossword solve, whether it is Simon or Mark, because of the different ways the words get twisted up.

@clivebrenchley5319 8 месяцев назад

Thankyou buffalo smelt buffalo smelt! Hope you boiler is fixed soon.

@B1GB1RDB4G3L 8 месяцев назад

Love you Simon, thank you for giving me something to look forward to every friday

@ConManAU 8 месяцев назад

I look forward to these videos every week, and I agree that there were some absolutely lovely clues today. (My wins this week were figuring out 1A and 2A before Simon, everything else was as usual a case of marvelling at his knowledge.) I will definitely try the highlighted version of yesterday's puzzle, which will be a good exercise for my brain.

@charliejoseph6465 7 месяцев назад

I’ve not been able to stop thinking about how much I want to go to a toast bar

@jonaclausson6698 8 месяцев назад

Little german lesson: if you refer to the newspaper it is "die Bild" and if you refer to the noun it's "das Bild" (=the picture). There is no 'der Bild' - exept in a grammatical circumstance if you refer to something in the newspaper.

@bibliopolist 7 месяцев назад

Little German lesson: Bild is no newspaper, it's a piece of paper with lies on it.

@jonaclausson6698 7 месяцев назад

@@bibliopolist i totally agree. And isn't it somehow weird that of all things this one is known in UK?

@gabrielgonzalez6841 8 месяцев назад

Just in time to watch it while having my lunch break! :)

@arthursharp9629 7 месяцев назад

Many thanks for this excellent video. It was very informative and entertaining.

@lilaluna8922 7 месяцев назад

I really got into cryptic Sudoku because of this channel. I'd love to try those crossword puzzles as well, unfortunately it's made way harder by English not being my native language. But it helps with building vocabulary.

@debrabowen4276 8 месяцев назад

Love these videos!

@francesT5877 8 месяцев назад

Thanks and best wishes for your heating situation.

@beanielowery6017 8 месяцев назад

Love these so much! Thank you!

@PotmosHetoimos 8 месяцев назад

Really great puzzle this week! I caught 17D just a few moments before Simon and starting cackling about it, and was very pleased that he found it equally amusing :D

@waynethomas7406 7 месяцев назад

Many thanks for the solve. I share your feelings on Klopp's leaving. One small issue, the lizard king was great Jim Morrison, the T rex is the king of the tyrant lizards. Best content on RU-vid.

@MrReading 8 месяцев назад

When you've just woken up and clicked the CTC video before checking the news headlines and find out about Klopp leaving from Simon 😢

@jodyvanliew2514 7 месяцев назад

Great solve again Simon .

@joeg451 8 месяцев назад

Great video as always. Very proud that 1 across was an instant write-in for me, as I'm still not very good at these. I'm surprised the snitch showed so many pros having trouble with this one as it didn't seem to give Simon any trouble at all.

@IanSteward78 7 месяцев назад

Great solve Simon. I’d be interested to hear what Mark found difficult as you seemed to fairly breeze through that one?

@elrobbo6 7 месяцев назад

The idea of highlighting the definition is a good way to learn I think. I'm very to this but it's fascinating watching your process. I still have yet to try to solve one though. But knowing what part is definition and what part I need to "solve" I think is a lot more approachable. Would be nice if you did more of those if you can spare the time. Cheers!

@vinyl1Earthlink 8 месяцев назад

Well, I already solved yesterday's puzzle, the problem wasn't really finding the literals. The vocabulary was pretty tough, many people will simply not know some of the words. It was only the cryptics that allowed me to finish.

@danecarter5454 7 месяцев назад

Fab video

@lizzyvv447 8 месяцев назад

Two Ctc related cryptic clues: Puzzle-solving enthusiast can change no nosy hitman. (5,7) Likes quickly solving crossword about fake grim flood. (4,9)

@lizzyvv447 8 месяцев назад

Inspired by A smooth Ninny and Flakier Fogdom.

@BryanLu0 8 месяцев назад

I'm not sure what the anagram indicator is for the second clue

@lizzyvv447 8 месяцев назад

@@BryanLu0 about.

@R..O..L 7 месяцев назад

"Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you will leave Oxford by the town drain" - a quote attributed to Rev Spooner while Warden of New College, Oxford. Incidentally, his successor in that position allegedly had underwear from his estate donated for use as part of Operation Mincemeat, so as to reinforce the suggestion that the body being dropped with fake papers was an officer and the sort of man to own quality underwear.

@Raven-Creations 7 месяцев назад

Devastating news about Klopp, it reminds me of how I felt when Shankly retired. We didn't do too shabbily under Paisley, so hopefully there'll be a smooth transition this time too, and we can continue the winning form. Apart from Taiwan, I found this one quite tough at first. It's not that the clues were that hard, I just didn't seem on the same wavelength as the setter. Once I got a couple, it start to click, and got easier. I did like figurine. As I love spoonerisms, dad bets was an easy one for me. Bumper car was easy too, but I did have the B from debts. Having grown up with ER meaning queen an GR for king, I'm still getting used to having CR for king. Deadlocks was also quite an easy one. I happened to have recently looked into organdie and organza after it came up in another crossword, so I was lucky there. Anteater was brilliant. As you said, it was a nicely worded clue, but it was very witty too. I wonder whether keds get miffed about being called flies? Astringent was fairly transparently clued. I have no problem with using queens for rr, and given how many other liberties are taken with language and which are allowed, this is a really minor hill to choose to die upon. What about if queens was used to mean ERVR in a clue for fervour? E.g. Loud queens about university passion. Overall, a very nice puzzle, with some quality clues. I think the clues in last week's puzzle were more beautifully crafted, but this was well above average.

@mbstart 7 месяцев назад

Great as usual. Can I just say that those of us who are on their 50th view and are clearly familiar with most of the common tricks of setters, do not need to be told that gold can also be Or or Au, and dont need a quick visit to the famous dictionary to prove it.

@cloudbringer104 8 месяцев назад

A long time ago, I used to do night shifts. When it was quiet, I used to do crosswords to help me keep awake. I was stuck on one. I was doing a check, while turning a patient I turned to my colleague, and said to her excitedly, it's not flowers it's flow- ers. She just looked at me bemused. 😂

@sh4dowchas3r 7 месяцев назад

what do you call a fly with no wings? a walk.

@sh4dowchas3r 7 месяцев назад

or a ked apparently

@HeroDarkStorn 7 месяцев назад

"Eyeball was clever" -Simon, 2024

@joanabbott9531 8 месяцев назад

Papaver somniferum is the opium poppy

@heatherallan9767 8 месяцев назад

🌱thank you ✨

@jimi02468 8 месяцев назад

I've never done these and they look so difficult. I would not have guessed any of these. I didn't even know there was such as word as "ream"

@darreljones8645 7 месяцев назад

Three fun real-life Spoonerisms uttered by the Rev. William Spooner, a leading 19th-century Anglican clergyman and professor at a seminary: In a sermon: "The Lord is a shoving leopard". In praise of Victoria: "Our nation's queer old dean." Criticizing a student's lack of progress at his school: "You have tasted two worms."

@mjkluck 7 месяцев назад

Good stuff.

@etienneschramm83 8 месяцев назад

In German : Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach. (If flyes fly behind flies, flies fly behind flies). Not a lot more sense than Buffalo's buffalos buffaloing buffalos.

@craftsmanwoodturner 8 месяцев назад

Simon, you surprise me! Surely with all your guitar playing you know the song "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" by Simon and Garfunkel? "What a dream I had, pressed in organdy"

@phbarnes 8 месяцев назад

Anteater v lovely clue!

@JohnLeeShaw 8 месяцев назад

Thanks Simon for another enjoyable and instructive masterclass. A very nice puzzle and solve. Thanks also for your extra efforts for us. I do the concise crossword also in the Times, and sometimes find it easier than the cryptic and sometimes don't and would love some wordplay to go at. The problem is that there is often more than one possible answer and nothing to narrow down. Didn't Mark do something, in the early days of Cracking The Cryptic, where he first had just the definition of a puzzle and then where he just had the word play? I seem to remember him having some trouble with just the definition. Have a nice weekend, I hope the boiler woes are sorted quickly -- it's not the weather to be without!

@lashers 8 месяцев назад

8:00 - I assume the word niggling your brain was 'tawdry', which is derived from "St. Audrey's lace".

@rainerzufall42 8 месяцев назад

Heavy times for Liverpool fans! Heard about the departure today...

@nemuchan 7 месяцев назад

Or for gold isn't THAT weird Simon... it's litterally gold in French ! Hence the use in heraldy btw, it came along with William i suppose.

@ranajamal3848 8 месяцев назад

Great video

@adamheywood113 8 месяцев назад

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Those buffalo from Buffalo, that are buffaloed by buffalo from Buffalo, themselves buffalo the buffalo from Buffalo.

@rainerzufall42 8 месяцев назад

"Well done, brain!" ... Do you know the movie "Life of brain"?

@michaelpdawson 8 месяцев назад

I like that organdie is a type of muslin, and the clue had the word Muslim. A ream is indeed 500 sheets; a printer's ream is like a baker's dozen, having a bit extra.

@peterbiddlecombe1939 7 месяцев назад

Spooner: strictly speaking, what he (or the Oxford students who made up most of the famous Spoonerisms) swapped was not first letters or syllables, but first phonemes, as in “The Lord is a shoving leopard” - the swapped “sh” in particular is neither a letter nor a syllable. “Alchemist” for Midas has to count as a bit of crossword whimsy. He turned things into gold created by legendary magic rather than proto-chemistry.

@jgreen2015 8 месяцев назад

I do The Sun crosswords as they have standard clues and cryptics and the standard clues help me identify the definition of i struggle with the cryptic

@Roblilley999 8 месяцев назад

Surely a wingless Fly is a walk

@philipbrooks402 8 месяцев назад

Simon, for something slightly different perhaps you could do a speed solve like Mark has done then explain the clues. PS I am not a Liverpool fan but every cloud has a silver lining. I am sure that Big Sam or Jose 'The Special One' Mourhino would be willing to take up the burden.

@n8style 8 месяцев назад

Would love to see a no commentary video of Mark racing through one of these to see how quickly he can do them, maybe as an addendum on the end of one these Friday videos

@Ruddigore 8 месяцев назад

He did one a few days back, albeit a Times Quick Cryptic, it took him about two and a half minutes to complete.

@n8style 8 месяцев назад

@@RuddigoreOh nice thanks for saying!

@n8style 8 месяцев назад

@@Ruddigore Just watched it, he's insanely good!

@kevinmartin7760 8 месяцев назад

Perhaps "queens" abbreviating as "rr" in 20 across is the same effect as "pages" being abbreviated as "pp" (for instance, in a bibliographic reference).

@EvieOConnorxoxo 8 месяцев назад

I too am devastated about klopp :(

@thescrewfly 8 месяцев назад

The reverend Spooner (allegedly) told one of his students he had "tasted the whole worm".

@Rubrickety 7 месяцев назад

Bison bison bison bison.

@geoffpinkerton63 8 месяцев назад

Buffalo, just felt I had to

@saucepirate8970 8 месяцев назад

These are great but they have so many words and phases that are not in the American lexicon. I would never think of words like "bumper" meaning great or the Jack Sprat rhyme.

@peethoagland8907 7 месяцев назад

"Awful" as an anagram indicator seems strange/new to me. Does anyone have any insights?

@Secretcicely 7 месяцев назад

So I went off and tried Thursday's crossword just using the definitions.. It didn't help me at all. I still couldn't do it 😞Its justs words I don't know: Imago, Diacritic, Agnes Dei. It is often the word play that helps. I'm still attempting the Metro Cryptic Crosswords.. They are more my level sadly. Thanks for these videos though, they are expanding my brain.

@elizabethskerritt9954 8 месяцев назад

I am feeling your pain. YNWA 😢

@frenchguy7518 8 месяцев назад

Definitions alone can be insanely obtuse. That's how the hardest French crosswords operate.

@BellmanDj 8 месяцев назад

Xabi Alonso?

@n8style 8 месяцев назад

So sad to hear Jurgen Klopp died, condolences to all his family *Edit* Oh wait he didn't die he's just leaving Liverpool? lol

@MichaelLamparty 8 месяцев назад

I believe King Charles is Carolus Rex in Latin, rather than Charles Rex. It is still CR nonetheless.

@MultiNacnud 8 месяцев назад

Carolus Rex 2012 album by Sabaton, different Charles though (the Swedish one 1682-1718)

@chris_wicksteed 8 месяцев назад

I know that's true of other kings, but I believe that the CR monogram does actually stand for Charles Rex, as the king signs his name 'Charles R' on official documents.

@francesT5877 8 месяцев назад

I’m pretty sure that I saw at least one instance of coinage where they deliberately put Charles Rex instead of Carolus to make it more readable to a population that is less versed in these things.

@MichaelLamparty 7 месяцев назад

@@chris_wicksteed Perhaps for this particular King. I knew of this abbreviation well before he was king from my history classes, plus of course Latin. Charles is only Charles in English and French as far as I know.

@ScottGenX 7 месяцев назад

look at all the women telling you how great you are. lol

@nakorbluerider 7 месяцев назад

Another attempt at an algorithm-themed cryptic clue to convince the algorithm to promote cryptics more. Observant after initially insufficient numbers, perhaps RU-vid comments almost at capacity (10) INSIGHTFUL Had trouble coming up with a way to make this idea work this time lol. Observant = Insightful IN from Insufficient Numbers, "perhaps RU-vid" is an example of a SITE, homophone (comments) to SIGHT, almost at capacity is FUL[L].

@AlonAltman 8 месяцев назад

All these crosswords use ridiculous vocabulary that Simon just expects everyone to know. I had no idea that "wan" means pale. Never heard that word before. It's always odd what Simon chooses to explain. We all know "or" is gold in heraldry, or what a cardinal number is, yet Simon makes a point to show the dictionary for those.