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Re:I was terrible at crosswords so I built an AI to do them by austinjp on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:38AM (#27023454)
(Not arguing, just adding some perspective.)

Penne is pronounced "pennay" in the UK in my experience, making this pun kinda dysfunctional.

Also as pointed out, UK cryptic crossword answers are phrases in actual use, not new word combinations.

Edit to add relevant example:

See 9 across ("Rotten people sin to produce malicious missive") here: https://www.fifteensquared.net/2021/03/08/independent-10733-...

I also noticed that "poisoned pen" isn't a phrase in British English, instead it's "poison pen" or more typically "poison pen letter".

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Re:I was terrible at crosswords so I built an AI to do them by StavrosK on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:00AM (#27023569)
Is it pronounced "pen" anywhere? That sounds very wrong to me.
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Re:I was terrible at crosswords so I built an AI to do them by austinjp on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:05AM (#27023606)
Indeed... it seems that the consensus is tending towards this being so bad a pun that it isn't even a pun :)
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Re:I was terrible at crosswords so I built an AI to do them by StavrosK on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:15AM (#27023661)
It's a poisoned punne.
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Re:I was terrible at crosswords so I built an AI to do them by whoisburbansky on Monday May 03, 2021 @04:59PM (#27030565)
Leads right into a clue hinting at Canadian origins, a la "poisoned pen, eh?"
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