Although I know there’s a plethora of cryptics available online, whenever I want some cryptic fun I still do what’s available in The Age.
And today was NS for my cryptic hit, but I can’t for the life of me figure out the reasoning behind this one:
18 across: Note the sharp edge on the military post (8)
The answer looks like it has to be GARRISON, but other than G = note and ON = on, I can’t explain it.
Have I missed something simple and am now embarrassing myself?
New word to learn. An arris is “an architectural term describing the sharp edge formed by the intersection of 2 surfaces”
Now it all makes sense.
Good work, JD.
ARRIS didn’t look like a word to me so I didn’t even think to look it up in a dictionary.