I know, but I wanted to use "Monkey Time(s)"
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I wondered if the N was in the wrong place. "Funky"
― britisher ringpulls (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Suicide
― ledge, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes and yes.
Did I ever ask you this one?
Ape aches inside for beauty (5)
No I don't think so.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
A propos of nothing at all, my work did a Christmas prize crossword, with some winter festival themed clues, and I can see that one of them must be Diwali but I can't figure the clue out at all, which means I don't know whether they want the W spelling or the V spelling (non-intersecting square). Bah!
Anyway, it'd be unsporting to ask you guys, but still, I thought I'd complain here where people might understand my annoyance.
― britisher ringpulls (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Why don't you post clue?
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Healthy, sick or broke (6)ro---t
Mobile man around tree (6)-a--e-
Ape aches inside for beauty (5)--a--
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
robust!
― ledge, Friday, 9 January 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes!
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
peach
― ailsa, Friday, 9 January 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Yup.
Mobile man around tree (6)-a--er
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Hanger?
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 9 January 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Esoteric electronic duo confuse posh teacher (8)
― ledge, Friday, 9 January 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
-al-er
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
A kiss, hugs, a wave lead to something to get down to (8)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
^Greeting?
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Monday, 12 January 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
---i----
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Business? sine= wave but don't get buss = kiss.
--t-----
― ledge, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes. "Buss" is old word, used to be slang over here, you guys probably lost it earlier. Here's what OED says
buss /bVs/ n.2 & v.t. & i. Now arch., dial., & N. Amer. colloq.L16. [Prob. alt. of BASS n.3, v.1] (A) kiss.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Still can't get yours, sorry.
Kind of engine school gets an earful (6)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Autechre!
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 12 January 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
yup!
― ledge, Monday, 12 January 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn. For some reason I kept trying to work "Pole" in their. I still don't see how it works.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Mobile man around tree (6)-alder
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
anag, teacher + u (posh)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English
calder! d'oh, i even thought of his sculptures, but his name didn't spring to mind.
― ledge, Monday, 12 January 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Kind of engine school gets an earful (6)--a---
Races around a dictator (6)
Something following a queen and a metal-plated sun-god (5)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Races around a dictator (6)Ceasar
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yes
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, I'm sure this is wrong, but I've been trying to get into cryptic crosswords for a while with limited success. Any tips on why I'm an idiot and going about it all the wrong way would be gratefully received. The only answer that I got for this that seemed vaguely plausible was 'carat'. First off, I started with the thing that seems obvious, that sun-god refers to 'ra'. I wasn't sure about the metal-plated, I thought maybe it should be a single letter, but we can relate 'carat' to gold, and gold to metal-plating, so that's where the final answer came in. The queen could be Catherine, hence 'cat' surrounding 'ra'... but the 'something following' is a mystery to me.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
That's a good try emil.y, but not quite there yet. Don't feel bad about "going about it all the wrong way" - a lot of times the wrong way is the right way. I mean to say that's the kind of thinking that eventually gives you the right answer.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Train
The key to cryptic clues is that they normally consist of two parts, the definition, and a description of how to build up the word. So because there are only two parts, the definition either has to come first, i.e. at the start of the clue, or second, at the end. In this case it's the start, 'Something following a queen'. Then we get the word-play bit: sun-god is indeed 'ra', which is plated, or covered by, or inside, 'tin'.
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Company member is allowed to be involved in illegal activity (9)
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually I guess it should really be
Company member allowed to be involved in illegal activity (9)
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, yep, that makes much more sense. The reason why I knew my answer must be wrong is that I thought 'metal-plated' was in too strange a position to be the definition part (aside from the fact that it's not a true definition of the word I gave), but completely overlooked the fact that it could be 'something following a queen' rather than 'something following' (which made no sense to me), 'a queen', etc etc...
― emil.y, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, ledge is correct. Thing is, sometimes you can see what the answer is without fully breaking the clue down into its components. And sometimes by adjusting wrong guess you make your way to the right one. So don't get hung up about getting it wrong.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Think this should be 'races madly around...', fwiw. Otherwise either the anagram isn't indicated, or 'around' is doing double service.
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's better.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, it's spelled Caesar :-)
Am part of the way there to ledge's, but not enough to actually get an answer...
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
complicit
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
yup
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Well done. I'd got comp, but was trying to work in "let" for "allowed" which was throwing me a bit.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, I kept trying to get "let" in there too.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, I thought it might be something to do with 'licit' straight away, but couldn't get the 'comp', kept on trying to go with 'CEO' or similar... feel a bit dumb for not automatically thinking licit -> complicit.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Nobody's gonna try this one?
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I know how it works but can't think of any words to fit.
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I managed to cheat my way into the answer, so I won't give it here, but I'm pleased I was on the right track with one of the parts.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
King of the mouth getting me a lesson (8)
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 January 2009 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Tutorial
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Friday, 16 January 2009 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
search
― "Two Ears" Laybelle (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 January 2009 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link