Clued In #323 | Keen eye for the cryptic
Mihir Balantrapu | 09 June 2021
Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In!
Some surfaces can be so coherent that they can utterly distract you if you let them. The trick is to get so much practice solving cryptic clues that you develop a sort of x-ray vision that can cut right through the illusion and see the hidden message clear as day.
CLUE:Keen to see the Queen over time (5)
Clue types: containment, abbreviation
An abbreviation for ‘Queen’ is ER, short for Elizabeth Regina.
Another word for ‘time’ is AGE.
‘Over’ is a containment indicator telling us to put ER around AGE and form EAGER, our 5-letter word for ‘keen’!