Okay, so today I want to talk about this whole “explained clearly” crossword clue thing. I’ve been messing around with crosswords lately, and this one’s a real doozy. It’s not just about knowing the answer, it’s about understanding how these clues work.
So, I started off, like always, by looking up the clue online. I typed in “explained clearly crossword clue” and boom, a ton of stuff came up. I saw a bunch of sites saying they had the answer, with like 30 or 40 possible solutions. I’m thinking, “30 or 40? How can there be that many?” It was wild. I started looking through them, seeing words like “interpret” and a bunch of other stuff that I guess could fit, but it wasn’t really clicking for me.
Then I started digging into how these crossword clues are actually put together. I found out that they get harder as the week goes on. Like, Monday’s puzzle is the easiest, and Saturday’s is supposed to be super hard. Sundays are somewhere in the middle, apparently. That’s something, I guess, but it didn’t really help me crack this specific clue.
I kept reading, trying to find some kind of trick or hint. I saw this one thing about using “…say” at the end of a clue to mean it’s a soundalike. Like, the answer sounds like another word or phrase. That’s kinda cool, but it didn’t seem to apply here.
Getting My Hands Dirty
At this point, I’m just staring at the blank squares in the puzzle, feeling kinda lost. I decide to just try some of the answers I found online. I started with “interpret,” since it was the one I saw the most. I wrote it in lightly, just in case. Then I tried to work on some of the crossing words, to see if they made sense with “interpret.”
But nothing was really fitting. It was like trying to force a puzzle piece into the wrong spot. I erased “interpret” and tried a few other words, but it was the same story. I was getting a little frustrated, to be honest.
The Aha! Moment
Then, I had a bit of an “aha!” moment. I realized I wasn’t really thinking about the “explained clearly” part of the clue enough. I was just focusing on finding a word that fit the number of letters. I started thinking about what it really means to explain something clearly. It’s about making it understandable, right? It’s about spelling it out, making it plain and simple.
- Brainstorm: I started brainstorming other ways to say “explained clearly.”
- Experiment: I plugged in some of the words I found into the crossword.
- Analyze: I analyzed whether these words also fit with other clues in the puzzle.
And that’s when it hit me. I went back to the crossword, and stared at the clue again, and after a few minutes, I finally saw what the answer would be. It is not hard to find the correct word.
So yeah, that’s my little adventure with the “explained clearly” crossword clue. It was a good reminder that sometimes you gotta slow down and really think about what the clue is asking, instead of just trying to find the quickest answer. It is not that hard.
