yeah, it doesn't break the clue though?
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
the Graun is much fun today imo
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Thats nae fuckin good to us
Hey remember we used to post clues in here?
How far behind time am I to be this lonely? Fifty!(8)
― Bigsam: flotsam and jetsam @ whetsam? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
xp wellll i cheated on a few and idk if charlie for **** is one level of indirection too many... but i liked the ones i got, especially 20 ac, and yeah good theme well done mustn't grumble.
― Scuse me while I kiss this guy correspondent (ledge), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
I think you mean five hundred but I'll let you off as I half cheated to figure that out.
― Scuse me while I kiss this guy correspondent (ledge), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Very likely crosaire was the only reason i even knew my romans
― Bigsam: flotsam and jetsam @ whetsam? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
ledge is such a cheater
― deeja entendu (wins), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
It's the only way to learn, better to cheat than to be forever in ignorance.
Also the guardian web app makes it too easy :/
― Scuse me while I kiss this guy correspondent (ledge), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
Hmmm nope "forever ignorant" vs getting the solution next day, imma have to rule GUILTY as charged bailiffs if you would
― deeja entendu (wins), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Metal I dropped over the Atlantic (9)
Convert writing? Only text without margins (9)
if somebody could explain the answers to those that'd be great thanks
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
never mind the first one, i've sussed it. stinker
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:47 (ten years ago) link
Do you have em (or is the attempt to avoid spoilers cos thats a tricky ask)
― Our Deems, of the supposed "rapier" "wit" (darraghmac), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
Oh got it. Fair enough imo
i'm pretty sure i've got them both. first one definite, second one 99 percent.
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
fifteensquared.net has all the explanations you need
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 20 December 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
I never get these yet I got the first one in 0.5 seconds.I am always moaning about that kind of thing though I suppose
― kinder, Friday, 20 December 2013 12:53 (ten years ago) link
got the second one, wasn't what i thought, answer is perfectly logical
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
finished it
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
I came up with this so it might be a bit off:
Ex-prez in denial of guilt (3, 2)
― decomposable heroes of hipleprosy (wins), Friday, 20 December 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/12/the-fascinating-history-of-the-crossword-the-original-mobile-game/
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19a2zpwol4oampng/ku-medium.png
― koogs, Sunday, 22 December 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
singers of christmas song -- communist theorist and king of england after great vowel shift -- swap places (6,6)
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
Ha nice
― sad banta (wins), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
Probably not ~strictly rigorous~ tho? Idk I'm terrible with this stuff
― sad banta (wins), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah this is after several passes and i still can't get it to work right, quite
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 23 December 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
display of regret at death of child -- scottish communist theorist ostracised? (8, 5)
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
Not sure if this quite works, on several levels, but I hadn't thought up one of my own in a long time:
Ill gain (taking $1000) mistakenly cast away. (8)
― Glenn Miller-core (Dan Peterson), Monday, 30 December 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
today's Guardian:
Primarily pointing out Tim Henman’s earlier answer: “Djokovich is grass lover” (7)
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
grudging lol
― the undersea world of jacques kernow (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
before I think about that, is the misspelling of Djokovic intentional
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
oh wait, got the answer and the misspelling is irrelevant
yeah I c&p'ed it, it's just poor Grauniad copy editing I suppose. Though are cryptics copy edited I wonder?
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
Also Britpop themed clue today!
Blur in Country House, initially Oasis top it for urbanity (14)
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Solved that one quickly; took me longer to figure out how they put it together. Nice.
Here's one that I racked my brain over before finally deciding that the first half of the clue is overly vague/inaccurate?
Put something together in time for Christmas and Halloween. (6)
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbbryan ferry (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
Ha I like that! What would you use for the def?
― Punch Drake, Love (wins), Thursday, 13 February 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
Something to do with boiling?
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbbryan ferry (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 February 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
this one was nice I thought, today's Guardian as per
Light grey French perfume ingredient (9)
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:25 (ten years ago) link
Sweet
― Internet Alas (wins), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
u won't be getting the money back from him, presumably (10)
― politically autocorrect (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
grauniad
That is to say, to woo follows naturally (2,3)
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Thursday, 13 March 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
One I get, at last!
― kinder, Thursday, 13 March 2014 13:36 (ten years ago) link
ah very soft tho!
― unw? j.......n (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
easy once you get it, like all the best clues
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
Paul today:
Stick-like and sticky? But the name hasn't stuck! (9)
― every moser (wins), Saturday, 29 March 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
today's Everyman:
Passing remark? (6,4,5)
wins, what's the answer to the one above?
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Sunday, 6 April 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
thingummy
― two bunny rabbits on mushrooms singing Proclaimers songs (onimo), Monday, 7 April 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
very good
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Monday, 7 April 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
I don't usually attempt the Guardian, but I finished about half of it Friday, excellent for me. My knowledge of British history, TV and motorways is not good.
Anyone want to tell me how Some can go crazy over a drink (6) makes cognac?
― A Perfect Ratio of Choogle to Jam (Dan Peterson), Monday, 21 April 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
It's mostly obvious, though with one bit I'm not certain about. "Can go" is a "crazy" version (anagram) of cognac, without one of the Cs, which I'm guessing you can get from "some" if you know your crossword clues well enough?
― emil.y, Monday, 21 April 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
No it's backwards ("over") within "can go crazy"
― just hit submit post basically (wins), Monday, 21 April 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
"some" indicates the word being hidden in a larger phrase