From today's Araucaria (I'm always inordinately pleased when I get even one of his clues!):
Semi-automated nun? (8, 2, 5)
― Neil S, Friday, 19 August 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
perngher bs unovg
― ^^^ this (onimo), Friday, 19 August 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
pardon?
― Neil S, Friday, 19 August 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
I rot13'd it as I'm not sure on how spoiler sensitivity works here these days.
http://www.rot13.com/
― ^^^ this (onimo), Friday, 19 August 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
aha I see, nice site, and correct answer, well done!
― Neil S, Friday, 19 August 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
cricketer's answer to question fed if bails dislodged (4, 5)
grrr
― koogs, Monday, 22 August 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
Asif Iqbal
(needed to do some googling there!)
― ailsa, Monday, 22 August 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
yes, not so much a name, more a bad hand at scrabble.
― koogs, Monday, 22 August 2011 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
(from yesterday's observer btw)
― koogs, Monday, 22 August 2011 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I go that, particularly nasty one if you don't know about cricket.
― Neil S, Monday, 22 August 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
last one for sunday's everyman.
Couturier isn't rich, radio broadcast (9, 4)
(i have 7 of the letters and it's still making no sense)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
dior, baby.
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
broadcast as an anag signifier?
― onimo, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
yup. originally a farming term for sowing or scattering seed.
Yearning for inside knowledge of cuisine (7)
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
cooking?
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
our survey says buh-bahhhh
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
kitchen
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
brain a bit flat this week, honest
i see now i was trying to solve 8,5 rather than 9,4 and was scratching my head over a word that was
N _ I _ R
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
yearning normally = yen but not helping here
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
NV has already grabbed the brass ring.
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://bestforpuzzles.com/cryptic-crossword-dictionary/anagram-indicators/
wow @ how many of these there are.
Boiled?
― onimo, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
nice site, but yeah i daresay a full list of potential anag indicators would be near limitless. can easily come up some not in that list: fabulously, facetiously, factorised, faked, farcical...
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
xp
yeah, think of vegetables bubbling about in a pot they get pretty mixed up
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
rubbish!
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
just thinking about a set of base concepts for anag indicators, of which others would be synonyms:
rearrange (duh) - 'boil' a rather poetic versiondestroyconstruct (!)falseinsanestrangedrunk (or is that under 'insane?)
forget it. i am no roget.
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Had a clever one recently: Skin cherry top in papier-mache (7)
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
epicarp
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Good lord. Would have needed Chambers in hand + many filled-in letters for that.
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
had the letters for the anagram but never heard of the word
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
i had it for a bit and miscounted the letters. something to do with fruit iirc
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Man, you guys are good! New word for me. At any rate, using "mache" as "chewed up" as anagram indicator was neat.
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i mightn't've picked up on that so quick if we hadn't already been discussing anagram indicators
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
i had 'rich' down as the anagram identifier in that christian dior clue... which didn't help.
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Or couldn't "radio broadcast" even conceivably be construed as as a homophone indicator, too (like "on the radio?")
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
it's a strange conventional thing, because "broadcast" so often signifies anagram it's unlikely to be used in another sense i think.
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
unless it's the actual clue itself
Yeah, I'm pretty new to these things, so I often figure out the word by process of elimination and then backtrack and go "broadcast = anagram?!?!"
Like the "papier-mache" one upthread; I just guessed it was an anagram and then went "WHY? Ohhhhhhh........"
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like you acquire a feeling for words that could signify anagrams, but maybe you just learn all the major examples over time
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Probably dead easy, but I liked it, from today's Guardian:
Adorable old mongrel (11)
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 6 October 2011 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
bump- anyone?
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:15 (twelve years ago) link
hint - Graham Norton. It is a lovely clue.
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:20 (twelve years ago) link
got nothing
― Dios mio! This kid is FUN to hit! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:24 (twelve years ago) link
and the hint ain't helping
http://www.virginmedia.com/images/graham_norton430x300.jpg
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://labradoodle-dogs.net/wp-content/uploads/labradoodle1-300x213.jpg
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
this is only telling me just how fucked my head is at the moment tbh
― Dios mio! This kid is FUN to hit! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://int.ch.liv.ac.uk/Lanthanide/Group_folder/Graphics/LAB.gifhttp://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/images/egyptian-god-ra.gifhttp://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/header2.jpg
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:40 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dur.ac.uk/geochem.www/group/pictures/labpictures/New%20lab%20pictures/Ultra%20clean%20lab%20copy.gif
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link