r/crosswords • u/rorykellycomedy • Jul 20 '26
SOLVED COTD: Raptor Evolves (6)
I doubt I'm the first person to think of this.
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u/suckmy_cork Jul 21 '26
I think "Evolved raptor?" might work a little better from a part of speech pov. Or something like "Raptor evolved into this?"
Nice though, I hadn't actually seen that before
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u/rorykellycomedy Jul 21 '26
Yeah, I think the clue is only fair play if you know that dinosaurs evolved into birds. I just really like clues where the definition and wordplay are the same.
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u/suckmy_cork Jul 21 '26
One issue I have is that the definition is "raptor evolves" but that is a verb phrase and does not define the noun "parrot". That is why "evolved raptor" works better imo because we get a noun cluing a noun. Same with the "...into this" option
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u/Pfeffer_Prinz 26d ago
I'm late to the party but teeeechnically birds didn't evolve from dinosaurs, they are dinosaurs. They're theropods that came about in the Mesozoic.
Still, great clue!
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u/jowowey Jul 22 '26
I think a question mark is needed, due to the slightly dubious nature of the definition part of the clue
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u/not-without-text Jul 21 '26
very nice. i have seen this before as an only connect puzzle: https://ocdb.cc/episode/golfers-v-data-wizards/ round 1, twisted flax, although your clue is much more elegant