Thread: Cryptic Clues
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Old 09-20-2012, 05:36 PM   #863
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*beats self over the head for excessive unhelpfulness*

Things that just fit by dumb hammering down (with the blows mostly landing on fingers):

Poros - Po is a river=flower in Italy, or could be a pun on Poe.

...Which is my best - and only - guess so far.

Things that might fit with some craftier and more diligent hammering:

Cair Andros
Celebros
Rauros
Aros
Ladros



There are no more "-ros"es, scions or no. I'm totally lost.


Aros makes very little sense cryptic-wise, so I think I can eliminate that one. Ladros and Celebros don't seem impossible to hammer to the right shape. Rauros and Cair Andros are a bit oddly-shaped if you take the -ros away.

Nothing makes sense straight-clue-wise.

I promise to think more about it this evening.


EDIT: I just found out that there is a Rau River in Tanzania. So Rauros also fits with the same logic as Poros, but both look equally ridiculous from the straight clue perspective.

EDIT2: I was thinking before that it's Elros because of this meaning of "el". I thought it somehow refers to "sacred". Well, I was wrong.
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