Broke Down
Hi! My latest puzzle is a symmetric themeless, which for some reason I feel like I should prove the world I'm capable of? But I think I also wanna keep the blog a symmetry-free zone, so you can find this puzzle at https://mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/1028 . Thanks to Skaldskaparmal and Pixlate for test solving, and thanks to Norah Sharpe for suggesting the signature clue idea. I think when I do this from time to time I'll use this space to wax on a topic, as if it's my blog. Today, I'd like to talk about connecting words. I don't really have any big philosophy on connecting words but I think I differ from the mainstream in a few ways that are worth presenting my take one. Firstly, I don't really get "with" as a connecting word. The promise of a cryptic clue is that it's going to give you two things. I'm not sure why, but saying "THIS with THAT" makes the two things that are supposed to be there into one thing in a way that saying