A Conversation for Cryptic Crossword Issue 002
8 across is tricky...
Pinniped Started conversation Feb 23, 2003
On account of the fact that the clue's missing... 
8 across is tricky...
Pinniped Posted Feb 23, 2003
Ta!
...23 down has 6 letters, not 5
(If you can't do the s**ding thing, you might as well be pedantic...) 
8 across is tricky...
Pinniped Posted Feb 24, 2003
...on the other hand, there were a couple I wasn't at all sure about...
(If you're serious, you'd better say by when, and also give a few hints about how to do the grid in an Entry)
It's neat, BTW. I enjoyed it.
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8 across is tricky...
six7s Posted Feb 24, 2003
Pin,
If you look at the code http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/test975431 test975431 it *should* be fairly simple to copy, paste and modify
Otherwise, you could email me the clues and ... maybe not...
Good luck 
8 across is tricky...
Pinniped Posted Feb 24, 2003
to the power of
...when did you want it by? Sometime in 2007 be OK?
8 across is tricky...
six7s Posted Feb 24, 2003
Hey it's *fairly* straightforward, there are only 3 types of squares...
White and numbered
White and un-numbered
Black
20:07 GMT??
Yeah, I can wait that long
8 across is tricky...
six7s Posted Feb 26, 2003
Hi Pin,
I've made a new A page where I've improved the layout (hopefully) and simplified (I think ) the code
Now all the clues are in footnotes within the table grid, obviating all the messy cross referencing required in the original
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/test978636
A978636
Whaddaya reckon?
8 across is tricky...
Pinniped Posted Feb 27, 2003
Yeah, it's certainly neater as an Entry.
The footnote for the clues is good.
Still difficult for thickos like me to understand/adapt, though...
Which is why I've copped out and fitted new words to the same grid.
I'm slowly getting clues together.
Some day soon...
Pin
8 across is tricky...
Pinniped Posted Mar 4, 2003
Hi six7s
Ooops...you did another one, when I was supposed to.
Sorry I didn't apply myself. Story of a lifetime, yeah? Soon, honest.
It's half-finished already, look! It's down here somewhere...
See you're hanging on in for a civil answer in that Fr*nch thread. Best of luck. I sort of tried to forget about that one too. Dire, dire, dire.
I don't know what's worse about this place sometimes, the people who try to be funny but who are just offensive, or the people who get all self-righteous over the slightest bit of name-calling.
Someone suggested insulting Researchers in rotation somewhere. Could be an idea, that...
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