Custom Minute Cryptics

I like making my own M.Cs so here are all of them I remember, and mostly I have come up with during class. And you get no hints. Email me if you think you know an answer.

How this works: These word puzzles involve word play to solve one single word/phrase with the number of letters in paranthesis. For example from the website we have: Features of iPad amazed early Apple consumer (4). Each clue contains Fodder, Indicator, and Definition. The Fodder contains the letters of the secret word, the Indicator tells us what to do with that Fodder, and the Definition is the meaning (which can be a little stretchy) of the hidden word! In this example "iPad amazed" is the Fodder. "Features of" is the Indicator. And if we look hidden in the phrase "iPad amazed" we see the word "adam," which is indeed sort of "early apple consumer," in the Biblical sense of course.

Each clue has its own word play, which could be anagram, replacing terms, selecting letters, or just anything really. These are a few I came up with.

- Cross section in grayscale?! (4)

- "You'd know why!" after entrance of a low forte (4)

- Stupid Norm O. is an idiot (5)

- ROTC Evan without an incorrect order, keeps in line with direction. (6)

- Nuclear reaction if reversed smushes small, small ion (7) (This is my personal favorite)

- Make it fall, lose it all while rowing, concedes a victory, and it leaves the water for land! (4)

- My bad, visual solution of functions "be" parts of a linear equation? (4)