

"On the radio", by the way, is one to keep a special eye - or ear - open for. Via "rays", "sight" and "broach", we have RAISE, SITE and BROOCH.

Still, the general point stands.Īnd three more hearings, from the Everyman:Ģ5ac Building area? Eyesore, from what one hears (4)ġ9d On the radio, start to speak about a decorative pin (6) It turns out that the Miss Leeds pageant is alive and well in 2011 and held at the Halo Nightclub. there is, in this day and age, no such competition as "Miss Leeds", but it's a fair way of getting you to MISLEADS. Likewise, despite what Orlando may claim in cluing.ġ9d Yorkshire beauty queen, we hear, pulls the wool over one's eyes (8)
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And there's a thing: no dictionary I own has an entry for he-whore, a reminder that the soundalike may not be a word in itself, rather a series of sounds that get you to the answer. One more animal for now, from Puck:Ģ4ac Heard male prostitute talk out of his ass? (6)Īn ass of course makes a HEE-HAW, which - at least according to Puck - sounds like "he-whore". where "paltry", a word for "mean", just about sounds like POULTRY - "just about" perhaps accounted for by the question mark at the end of the clue. So we take a word for "no" - "nay" - and find an equine soundalike as the solution: NEIGH. Here's one in the FT from Cincinnus, known locally as Orlando: Let's see some more soundalike clues, with the tell-tale indicator highlighted in coloured italics next to the word we have to find a homophone for. The clues above give you a chance to think "hey! it's a homophone!" by suggesting either a mouth making sounds or an ear hearing them. the name of the man whose tomb has just been shielded from over-kissing: Oscar "Wilde", leading excitingly to the solution WILD. "Coax", when mentioned, is a soundalike for some COKES.Īnd a Sunday Telegraph clue that involves a name. To pet, when it's not a cute old American term for advancing to first base, is to coax. To your ear, it's the same as the answer, a musical work: the SUITE. The wordplay here is "melodious to the ear", and Chifonie wants you to think about how your ear receives a word meaning melodious, namely "sweet". Let's roll.ġ2ac Musical work that's melodious to the ear (5) And remember: part of the clue is a definition, the other part is wordplay. That is, they'll be easier than they might seem. In the examples that follow, beginners should bear in mind that if they met them in an authentic puzzling context, they will probably be reaping the benefit of working from letters entered from other answers. With a soundalike, the setter suggests words to you, you say them aloud in your head - or out loud, if you don't mind looking odd - and you hear the answer. It's often a moment of comic relief - though, as we'll see below, not everyone agrees. With soundalikes, it's about the listening rather than the seeing. Put another way: most solving involves working out a bunch of letters and arranging them to see the answer. Anagrams are coming up, but the soundalike more often provides what this blog is all about: fun. In this guide, we’ll show you the answers for Persona 5 Royal’s first 25 crossword puzzles.That's right: not anagrams. Crosswords appear in a in a specific order - so crossword answer 1 will be the same even if you don’t pick up the book until August.
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(If you can see the book on the LeBlanc table but Sojiro still has customers, try talking to them or interacting with the TV to make them leave.)Ĭrosswords act a bit differently than Persona 5 Royal classroom answers. Successfully answering a question increases your Knowledge stat without taking up any in-game time. Luckily for you, crossword puzzles occasionally show up on a table in LeBlanc, your cafe home. You need to spend it wisely to level up your Social Stats and spend time with all of your Confidants. In Persona 5 Royal, time is the ultimate resource.
