What in Thoth's name is this word???

[dreamer_easy]

The clue: "Mince pie first taken up by the few?"

The letters: _P_T_ _ _E

I shall run mad!!!!

Comments

[piersb.livejournal.com]

I've did some web research to confirm before posting, and you can get cryptics in "The Atlantic Monthly" and "The New Yorker".

But they're both magazines.

[piersb.livejournal.com]

Bah. Ungrammar.

Please mentally remove the 've in the previous post

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a famous one though, like the Times (except not actually from the UK...)?

I even think I've done one or two of this mysterious one of which I speak, and didn't get very far.

However, search for cryptic crosswords in Google, and all the sites seem to be Australian or English. Weird.

Kate: Was Spitfire in yesterday's DA? I sort of did it, for the first time in ages, albeit with a friend. We got all but 3, which I thought was fairly good (especially since I was doing it upsidedown).

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

On our trip to Canberra I cut a few crosswords out of various newspapers - this was labelled "English Crossword", so I assume it was from the Times. A very British clue, too. :-) I haven't been keeping up with the Herald x-word, alas - I have a book of completely vicious Guardian ones! Jon turns out to have an instinct for the things, and is certainly more help than the cats, though they're always eager to participate, primarily by sitting on the crossword, the atlas, etc