Educational crossword Clues ....Thematic crosswords!

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A FEW CROSSWORD CLUES ….FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION….


1. A ‘crazy’ ten to catch……….NET
2. A slangy professional carrying a heavy weight is charged positively….PROTON
3. A river…or something in a garden….FLOWER
4. ‘endless’ FEW ,hard metal…… FE is for IRON
5. It turns red or blue in testing conditions….LITMUS


More: (with explanations)
1. A HEARTLESS CEO is very dangerous……….now ‘heartless’ on surface means cruel….but if you are out of box….then heartless CEO could mean CO ….as ‘E’ is the heart of the word CEO…..
….so the answer would be CO….or…carbon monoxide….which is a dangerous gas !

2. SAG strangely….and it is formless….
'strangely’ is a clue….that means SAG has to be rearranged……to become GAS………which is formless……

3. RIM in a way…..is a diagnostic test….
this one is quite simple….RIM in a way is MRI ; Magnetic Resonance Indexing….which is a diagnostic test !

4. mad STREEX puts pressure
….now one has not only to be out of box….but grammatically correct as well !
….so ‘mad’ STREEX is EXERTS…..which is…..puts pressure !

5. diamond essentially is a tail-less bond…after car !
….a tail-less bond is bon……as ‘d’ is the tail….. after car….bon would be….
Carbon !!!
…………more soon !

Cross word clues for beginners !!!

Lets understand the funda of cluing for crosswords :


Note: All clues have ( normally should have ) ...a 'surface indication'.....that is to mislead.........and the 'real indication'....that leads us to the answer....

Example:

Clue : Original equipment manufacturer in short is this ! (3 letters)

Surface clue leads us to believe that the answer is describing a trait of an original equipment manufacturer...

whereas the answer is hidden....in short 'original equipment manufacturer'...which is OEM

So the answer is OEM

Another Example:

Clue : An hour when it is getting late for a team (6 letters)

Surface clue indicates that it is getting late for a team to do something...

Actual answer is hidden in .....an hour when it is getting late !

(Come on......pull up your socks !)

Eleventh hour is when it is said to be getting late

and a team is also referred as eleven

So the answer is ELEVEN ( not eleventh....as in crosswords one has to keep the grammatical emphasis of the clue as well !! a team can be called eleven not eleventh !)

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