Please explain this crossword answer

[holyzombiejesus]

It's only the Everyman but I don't understand how you arrive at the answer (apart from the definition bit).

Time for quiet: pet dog becomes talking animal (8)

Spoiler alert

Cockatoo

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[Barry Admin]

Cockapoo is a dog breed that they have now.

[BlodwynPig]

Time = t

For = replaces

Quiet = p(eace)

[holyzombiejesus]

Oh for heavens sake how silly

[madhair60]

got it in 1 second. peace of piss.

[C_Larence]

Time = t

For = replaces

Quiet = p(eace)

I hate cryptic crosswords so much.

[madhair60]

thats because your stupid and cant do them.

[Spudgun]

Quiet = p(eace)

I took it as P for Piano (as in the opposite of Forte), but whatever.

[pancreas]

got it in 1 second. peace of piss.

mate

[Captain Z]

Pet dog: sounds a bit like hot dog. What do hot dogs look like? A cock.

Becomes: cocks come

Talking animal: talcing animal. If you were talcing an animal it might make you sneeze. Atchoo. Atoo.

Cockatoo

[Maurice Yeatman]

I took it as P for Piano (as in the opposite of Forte), but whatever.

You're right. Piano as in quiet/soft in music notation. Nothing to do with peace.

[Zero Gravitas]

Cryptic crosswords are akin to being indoctrinated into a cult, they break you down with abuse and orchestrated humiliation and then at your lowest point instil a load of gibberish about suiciding yourself to the snake UFO gods.

A terrifying seduction to let go of reason.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

yeah

[Cerys]

But that dopamine hit - there's nothing quite like it.

[bomb_dog]

What training courses can you go on to understand these fucking things? I mean there's one in every issue of Viz and Private Eye but I've no idea how to even start working these things out.

I DIDN'T GET THAT MEMO!

[C_Larence]

thats because your stupid and cant do them.

A loud sound reversed the disgraced comedian, perhaps it came from between the TV. 4,3

[BlodwynPig]

I took it as P for Piano (as in the opposite of Forte), but whatever.

That is a better one.

[FeederFan500]

The Private Eye one has some common clues as it's the same setter.

Sex is "it"
Balls is "ed"
Member is "MP"
Brenda is "er"
Sunak is "pm"

Old flame and sex? Balls taken off (6)

Is then

Ex (and) it? Ed | Exited

The worst cryptic I've seen is in The Cricketer where half the clue is a wikipedia entry and the other half a cryptic clue.

eg Warwickshire and England opener from the late 90s and later Sky presenter is a cut chess piece. (4,6)

[Pranet]

eg Warwickshire and England opener from the late 90s and later Sky presenter is a cut chess piece. (4,6)

I dunno, they have one like that sometimes in the back of the Unison magazine and I quite it, as someone who never learned how to do cryptic crosswords, feels like a gentle introduction to them should I ever want to waste the rest of my life and get into them properly.

[shoulders]

The worst cryptic I've seen is in The Cricketer where half the clue is a wikipedia entry and the other half a cryptic clue.

eg Warwickshire and England opener from the late 90s and later Sky presenter is a cut chess piece. (4,6)

Hurray, I got it. Can more cryptic crossword clues be simple trivia please

[holyzombiejesus]

eg Warwickshire and England opener from the late 90s and later Sky presenter is a cut chess piece. (4,6)

Asla Shking

[Alberon]

Most crossword clues just end up reminding me of this

[Buelligan]

Cock/Muff/Bumhole?

[madhair60]

mate

1 second

[Dr Rock]

What training courses can you go on to understand these fucking things? I mean there's one in every issue of Viz and Private Eye but I've no idea how to even start working these things out.

There's hundreds of books explaining the codes. A friend taught me.

[BlodwynPig]

Asla Shking

Bash Bishop

[Des Wigwam]

Most crossword clues just end up reminding me of this

Same - as an aside -

I have a project I will never complete (as I have not started it) to compile all of the clues and answers from the show.

Also - as a child I could never understand why someone would rather win some crockery or garden furniture or even a car instead of their own amazing robot that would be their friend.

Pretty sure it was constantly explained that you only got the ceramic representation as the prize. Not a surprise I can't do cryptic crossword clues is it?

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Dusty Bin (7,4,5)

[touchingcloth]

The Private Eye one has some common clues as it's the same setter.

Sex is "it"
Balls is "ed"
Member is "MP"
Brenda is "er"
Sunak is "pm"

That's the worst thing about cryptic crosswords, I think - the bit where you need to get into a particular setter's head to understand what a given clue means. Or where you need to know the memes like how instead of writing "the clue contains an anagram" it will say "confuses" or whatever - it's a bit like leaving CaB and expecting anyone else to know that Cunt of Death means the queen and that S4C isn't a channel.

"Time for quiet" to mean "there's a partial solution in the cryptic portion, and you'll need to swap a t for a p to get the solution" with a dogshit* way of getting to the p" is why I dislike them, because I suspect that same "quiet = p" has been used a million times before, like every time you see "silver" in a clue the odds are the solution contains "ag", or any time you "landlord" you can be sure it contains "al".

My grandad was a big cryptic crossword fanatic and did the Times one every day without fail, and is probably still doing them in Hellenistic sound and display components fucking hell. I was always quite keen to get into them myself as a puzzle fan, but I got disappointed when I realised that the "cryptic" element referred more to meme-y ways to rewrite traditional clues than it did to lateral thinking. I think what I had in mind before then was more along the lines of the sorts of questions they have in Only Connect.

*Cockapoo

[Dex Sawash]

thats because your stupid and cant do them.

That's me also