Cryptic clues

Husband has a tendency to cryptic remarks, or perhaps just doesn't talk. Put another way, sometimes we don't understand each other and we don't talk enough. One of way of remedying this is to travel together to work. So we sit in the car together for forty five minutes each morning and each evening. We might still not talk. Possibly because I'm quietly doing the sudoku while he drives.

Then I had this brilliant idea. Instead of the sudoku I open the paper at the crossword page. I cannot understand these cryptic clues bu he gaily romps through them. So I tell him the clues, and he thinks through them as we drive, occasionally talking in order to tell me how they work.

And we get communication!