Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Solution for 29 May cryptic crossword clue




The girl keeps one to compete with more weight (7)
Solution – heavier

A container clue.  See sidebar under the list of popular posts for more info.

The definition part of the clue is “with more weight” – and if you have more weight you are “heavier” – so that is pretty straightforward.

The rest of the clue has to be picked apart to see how it works.

“The girl” is represented in the solution by “her”.

Her “keeps” “one to compete” ie contains something that represents those words.

“one to compete” firstly “one” is represented by “a” in this case.  Sometimes it means “I”.  And to “vie” for something is to compete for it.

So He + a + vie + r = heavier.


A big shout out to Angela of Tracing Rainbows who was the first to solve this clue.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Your comments are most welcome. I have currently disabled anonymous comments due to unwanted spam. Cheers