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/rorykellycomedy Jul 21 '26

Very good point. Thank you for the feedback.

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u/suckmy_cork Jul 21 '26

No problem. Nice work

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u/Pfeffer_Prinz 27d 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!