Pet peeve

[chickenfeet]

I hate crossword clues involving or appertaining to vegetation. I hate with a burning passion crossword clues that involve or appertain to stupid Tennysonian synonyms for vegetation.

Comments

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

So with you on the first.

Can't imagine what the second actually is, but somehow I know that I'm with you on that too.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Idaean Vine aka cowberry

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

Yep. With you. Is that today's Grauniad?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yes

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Be grateful not to be well-acquainted with me and my circle in RL; you'd have been so swamped with concatenated puns that a little thing like that wouldn't make the slightest impact!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Puns I can cope with (so long as they don't contain too much vegetation)

[theomaniac.livejournal.com]

I find it surprising that the categories of crossword clues mentioned are common enough to warrant hatred.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

English crossword compilers seem to be obsessed with gardening

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

It's not that. It's that they are the only clues that require a specialist knowledge that you don't automatically have.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

What English cryptic crosswords have in excess is sports references!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

they rarely seem to extend beyond cricket (OK) and golf (very much not OK)

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Your hatred is more erudite than that of most others I know. This is a compliment.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I'd have thought a hatred of crossword clues - that is, all crossword clues - would be sufficient.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I'm very fond of cryptic crosswords. It's sudoku that I don't see the appeal of. I did about half a dozen which was all it took to realise that they can be reduced by brute force.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Funny, I find sudoku addictive, and loathe crosswords. This is partly because I think of answers to the clues which, though they don't fit, are really good answers. And then I decide my answers are better than the actual answers. Clearly, I am not designed for crosswords.