Hi,
I was given a few books of cryptic crosswords for Christmas and I'm trying to get the hang of solving them. There are a couple of clues in the puzzle I'm doing at the moment where I've found the answer based on one half of the clue but I don't understand the other half. Can anyone help?
"Jack, a painter, reversed the mount" -> 'Ararat', but what is the significance of the "Jack, a painter" part?
"Fool round-call about a colleague" (9) -> 'Associate'. My logic was fool = ass, round = o and colleague is the definition. But what is the "call about a" part?
"Dejected daughter has answer that's not right" (7) -> "Despond". Answer = respond, daughter = d, that's not right = change respond(?) and dejected = definition? Does that sound right?
Obviously I wouldn't have got any of these if I hadn't had a lot of the letters already from other clues! If anyone can help me understand how I could have got them from a fresh grid that would be great.