Cryptic Stuff

[not_for_sale2025]

While it was done some years ago I see, I thought I would try a cryptic crossword-like thread for fun and to try and boost a little more interest here. I made up the below question for anyone interested in such a challenge. I thought the first person to get it correct might come up with the next question. A clue though - if you copy one from a newspaper or magazine etc., the answer can often be found on the internet. I can explain the answer for anyone who asks. 🙂

The prisoner at the cave would not stand for the electrically charged droplets of water.

(12 letters)

[twyngwyn]

back to you, dom

[twyngwyn]

here's a guide to structuring your clue:

 The common rule is: the definition is either the first word/group of words, or the last word/group of words. Try each of these as definitions one by one, see if the solution fits in with the rest of the clue.

[domino-710]

Ok - then over to you.

[twyngwyn]

just saying...because your clue for Persephone didn't have the whole meaning...I only guessed it because you said the countess should have got it....we're all learning here....have another go

[domino-710]

Twyn - the thread is ' Cryptic Stuff '.

cryptic crossword-like....................

I have tried to participate - and most of my ' clues ' have been recognised.

Sorry - but it has been a long time since I ' played by the rules ' - but in the interest of trying to keep the Community Spirit alive - I have tried, joined.

Over to you.

[countessalmirena]

There's also the &lit cryptic clue. These are quite hard to create.

[domino-710]

I did like Green Mythology. lol

[countessalmirena]

domino, your cryptic clues have been developing very nicely. All of us are learning with these in various ways, and I would definitely have had a good try with your Persephone clue had I not been busy caulking. (And finding that I didn't have nozzles with me, and I needed another caulking gun, and ... so on. Thank goodness for sugar soap; I got filler all over my hands.

Please do make another clue!

(Re Persephone, I suppose you could have thrown in a reference to a nymph on her own calling home, but I like how you constructed the individual pieces of the charade - very clever.)

[countessalmirena]

I was scratching my head thinking "Green" mythology? Did she mean Greek? and then thinking "Ah, as in Persephone being the goddess of Spring (and so of green things, the greening)... and bowing to your cunning.

[domino-710]

Ah no :

unreal bovine = mythical cow = Io (turned into cow in Green mythology)