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Constructing => General Discussion => Topic started by: super_aardvark on February 02, 2021, 04:17:38 AM
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How acceptable is it to use two-part clues in a theme? Something where the answer is two words that go together (a name or a phrase), but each word is clued separately -- something like "____ hockey / cat and ____" for FIELD MOUSE (to give a really lame example).
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Themes based on cluing gimmicks are often interesting. In order for it to work, I would think there needs to be some unifying element. In other words I don't think it would work if th theme entries were just random two-word phrases and the clues just straight definitions of the two words.
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Thanks, that's encouraging. All of the two-word phrases would be related, at a minimum (all names of animals, say, to follow my previous example). Do you think that would be enough, or do I need to come up with clues that are also related in some way?
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It's hard to know without seeing what you have in mind. For example, if you had BENGAL TIGER clued as "Asian bay / Detroit ballplayer", that might work. If you'd be interested in running a few entries by me, I'd be glad to take a look (mcclain.salem at gmail)