Yesterday's clue:
Plainness hides something unsaid secretly within borders (10)
Its solution: SIMPLICITY = SY + IMPLICIT
IMPLICIT = something unsaid
SY = borders of "SecretlY"
Ravi Sundaram, an early regular of udhirivedi, used to say a clue should be like Edgar Allan Poe's "The case of the Purloined Letter " (1844) hiding in plain sight. I don't know if this meets that criterion. At least it is about simplicity! Hope it is not like Sarojini Naidu's remark about Gandhiji, "how expensive it was to make him lead a simple life" (or something like that)
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Its solution: SIMPLICITY = SY + IMPLICIT
IMPLICIT = something unsaid
SY = borders of "SecretlY"
Ravi Sundaram, an early regular of udhirivedi, used to say a clue should be like Edgar Allan Poe's "The case of the Purloined Letter " (1844) hiding in plain sight. I don't know if this meets that criterion. At least it is about simplicity! Hope it is not like Sarojini Naidu's remark about Gandhiji, "how expensive it was to make him lead a simple life" (or something like that)
Visit this page to see all the solutions received.
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_"There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand._
_As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don`t understand._
_Some things are better left unsaid or voiced."_
- Anthony Liccione
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*"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. " -*
Benjamin Franklin
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*Implicit* describes things in which a meaning is implied or hinted at rather than being expressed directly.
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_Plainness hides something unsaid secretly within borders (10)_
_something unsaid_
= *implicit*
_secretly within borders_
= _within borders of secretly_
= _within *sy*_
_hides *implicit* within *sy*_
= *s(implicit)y*
= *simplicity*
= _Plainness_
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*Simplicity*
_How happy is the little stone_
_That rambles in the road alone,_
_And doesn't care about careers,_
_And exigencies never fears;_
_Whose coat of elemental brown_
_A passing universe put on;_
_And independent as the sun,_
_Associates or glows alone,_
_Fulfilling absolute decree_
_In casual *simplicity* ._
(Poem by Emily Dickinson)
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*Modern technology has never matched the simplicity and grace of the traditional pen.*
_In fact, you could say that there is still no *e-quill.*_
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