Minute Cryptic Answers
One cryptic clue a day, built to be solved in about a minute. We publish the answer with progressive hints and the wordplay explained in plain English. The latest puzzle is Thursday September 3 2026.
“Eggs squeezed out by a rooster? That’s unusual… most unusual (6)”
This clue's indicators are 'squeezed out by', and 'That’s unusual'. One of these is a deletion indicator - some fodder will discard some other fodder. And the other is an anagram indicator guiding us to find a strange or weird version of our fodder by rearranging its letters.
This clue's fodder is 'Eggs', and 'a rooster'. We'll need to find a classic cryptic substitute for one of these and use it with the letters of the other to construct our answer, as guided by the clue's indicator(s).
Our definition here is 'most unusual', and our answer will be a word for that.
Definition: … most unu
This clue's fodder is 'Eggs', and 'a rooster'. We'll need to find a classic cryptic substitute for one of these and use it with the letters of the other to construct our answer, as guided by the clue's indicator(s).
Our definition here is 'most unusual', and our answer will be a word for that.
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