Homophone indicator
homophone
“homophone” is a homophone indicator in cryptic crosswords.
The wordplay points to a word that sounds the same when spoken aloud. Homophones use the imagery of hearing, speech, and broadcasting.
- Clue types
- Homophone
- Subtlety
- obvious
- Part of speech
- noun
- Themes
- sound
“Crime drama, we hear, served at breakfast (6)”
Answer: CEREAL
Definition: "served at breakfast". "Crime drama" gives a word meaning an instalment story: SERIAL. "we hear" signals a homophone — say SERIAL aloud. It sounds like CEREAL, the breakfast food (6).
Related indicators
- aloud
- announce
- apparently
- audibly
- broadcast
- by the sound of it
- declare
- echo
- express
- going by the sound
- hear
- I hear
- in a manner of speaking
- in conversation
- in speech
- in the ear
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