Things to know about tennis for crosswords: the judges can call "in" or "out", and, on a serve, "net" if your opponent gets the point or "let" if you get to try again. If you serve and your opponent misses it, that's an "ace". The scores use "love" for 0, and "all" second for a tie. There's a "win by two" rule, and the scores there are called "ace" (tie) and "deuce" (one different), with deuce being more specifically "ad in" (server ahead) or "ad out". There are three levels of granularity: "game", "set", and "match", from smallest to largest. Aside from these, there are a lot of players, of whom Arthur Ashe is the one who's not news. There are plenty of other details, but they don't come up in crosswords.
Whenever there's a number in a cryptic clue, always assume it's roman numerals! I got this from vio and then assumed the colour was violet. I know very little about tennis
From an American/North American audience exposed to Minute Cryptic I do think it's funny to see people annoyed about the tennis part given how often *cricket* knowledge is important in solving UK Cryptics, which as a Canadian I have way less exposure to than tennis.
I was trying to make six-love be L or W for loss or win and then using "replay" as an anagram indicator, so was looking for words that were "L[serve]" or "W[serve]". But there aren't any color related words for those.
I go the "VIO" pretty quickly. My thinking then was "Serve and let are tennis terms. Oh! Violet is a colour!" Lol, I don't understand tennis at all either.
Got that it started with vio from after six-love, and then thought of a colour and got it right because I do not have the tennis knowledge to know that a let allows a serve to be replayed for a zero hints and then needed to watch the video to understand all the wordplay. (A lot of people seemed to get it that same way. A couple of people got let but not vio.)
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Things to know about tennis for crosswords: the judges can call "in" or "out", and, on a serve, "net" if your opponent gets the point or "let" if you get to try again. If you serve and your opponent misses it, that's an "ace". The scores use "love" for 0, and "all" second for a tie. There's a "win by two" rule, and the scores there are called "ace" (tie) and "deuce" (one different), with deuce being more specifically "ad in" (server ahead) or "ad out". There are three levels of granularity: "game", "set", and "match", from smallest to largest. Aside from these, there are a lot of players, of whom Arthur Ashe is the one who's not news. There are plenty of other details, but they don't come up in crosswords.
Whenever there's a number in a cryptic clue, always assume it's roman numerals! I got this from vio and then assumed the colour was violet. I know very little about tennis
I'll have to remember it next time. Thx!
This one stumped me!
From an American/North American audience exposed to Minute Cryptic I do think it's funny to see people annoyed about the tennis part given how often *cricket* knowledge is important in solving UK Cryptics, which as a Canadian I have way less exposure to than tennis.
You would’ve definitely got it if you thought of Roman numerals. 6 letter colour beginning with VIO was a tap in
I got this one immediately from spotting the VIO from the six-love but had no idea where let came from so had to watch the video for the explanation.
Every time you said ‘I really can’t think of anything that would replace six in terms of letters’ i was screaming at the screen
I was trying to make six-love be L or W for loss or win and then using "replay" as an anagram indicator, so was looking for words that were "L[serve]" or "W[serve]". But there aren't any color related words for those.
I go the "VIO" pretty quickly. My thinking then was "Serve and let are tennis terms. Oh! Violet is a colour!" Lol, I don't understand tennis at all either.
Maybe I'd have been ok if I thought of Roman numerals
Got that it started with vio from after six-love, and then thought of a colour and got it right because I do not have the tennis knowledge to know that a let allows a serve to be replayed for a zero hints and then needed to watch the video to understand all the wordplay. (A lot of people seemed to get it that same way. A couple of people got let but not vio.)
Like you, I was 4 over par. I really didn't like this one.