Sentence examples for fair clues from inspiring English sources

He writes smart, precise, fair clues in a time-honoured style, as befits the author of the Chambers Crossword Manual.

Given that indirect anagrams were involved, and that several actors have played the title role over the years, these were simply unacceptable as fair clues.

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On the other hand, I can't resist Mr. Walden's tough-but-fair cluing.

I'm always looking to produce a set of fair fun clues using a wide range of devices rather than outstanding clues in their own right.

Luckily for us, the summer hiatus brought its fair share of clues as to what we'll see in the upcoming season.

Given a few clues and fair warning, could a writer prevent the next terrorist bombing?

In Araucaria's view, Guardian solvers would find that his clue was fair – and better.

I had a bit of trouble getting started, not guessing FAIR immediately for the clue "Expo" at 1 Across, and 1 Down didn't give me the help I needed.

Early in my time as crossword editor (though I could see its great helpfulness to a setter in trouble over a difficult clue, I insisted on killing off the convention that 'charge' in a clue was a fair way to reach ION in a solution. (I did so on the grounds that the convention was simply too wrong to be acceptable, since an ion is an atom or molecule, not an electric charge).

But a clue must be fair, and I can't quite shake off my early conviction that it should have two clear parts - wordplay and definition, a bit like the parts of an equation separated by the equals sign.