Tacky Harper's Cryptic Clues

color commentary and answers on the
[sometimes tacky] Harper's cryptic crossword puzzle
written in the proletarian "we"

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

i think this magazine ... is bad

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Hello Dear Readers, This is erica, writing in the first person lowercase. i used to love the Harper's cryptic and like Harper's...
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Sunday, September 10, 2017

Like Children - August 2017

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Hola, Dear Readers! We're late on this. We're going to try a drastically dieted down write up of just Theme and Tacky and that...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Identity Crisis - July 2017

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The Theme! Five unclued acrosses, with the hint that unclued 40A describes the other four. 40A turns out to be SELF‑DESCRIBED. Early o...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Split Personalities - May 2017

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The Theme! Ummmm ok so seven unclued entries populated with answers to fourteen unnumbered clues. And then the two unnumbered answe...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Armed to the Teeth - April 2017

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The Theme! Uhhhh it was fine. “Armed to the teeth” to evoke “gold teeth” and 1A divined by crosses is GOLD FILLINGS and ah sure haha n...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Diametricode - March 2017

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Hola Lovers, hola Dear Readers. It's been a minute. Shitty sucky suck shit is happening in our country, the USA country. The agents o...
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erica dreisbach is an artist, writer, and computer programmer in Chicago. She doesn't make meaningful distinctions between art, writing, and computer programming.

She describes doing cryptic crosswords as "at first it's like aliens poking you. But then later it's more like aliens offering you a delicious space snack."

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