Yeah, I just wasn't getting any of those from "most important," and not having "ness' either I was lost.
― Both Jandek and Authenty (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
that while grid was a bit rubbish if I'm remembering right
― pictures of people who seem to have figured out how to use dropbox (wins), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, since I'm relatively new to Guardian cryptics I've discovered the Monday setter, Rufus, is mostly easy-ish but some of his cluing is crap. Some of the tougher ones later in the week are incomprehensible to me, though...
― Okay, there's lil' Zipper again (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
sunday's observer everyman is just about my level and is quite consistent in its cluing.
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, I'll check that out. Going on a 2-week road trip and I need plenty of puzzles for entertainment.
― Okay, there's lil' Zipper again (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
the everyman archives go back to 2003
http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/2965
i have the first 30 in various stages of completion in the desk at work
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
^^^ this was a great tip, thanks again. Pitched pretty much at my level of expertise, fairly easy, with the requisite sailor = AB and member = MP type stuff, and a few answers I had never heard of: London tube train stations, plants called Aarons Rod and Pheasants Eye, Scapa Flow...)
― Okay, there's lil' Zipper again (Dan Peterson), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
you'll find it too easy soon enough!
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
Some of them already are! Like, Emphasized editor is under pressure = stressed!
― Okay, there's lil' Zipper again (Dan Peterson), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
"Chillax" in today's grauniad, but also this gem: Carroll had on record this laugh's etymological origins (7)
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:16 (ten years ago) link
jesus no wonder i hadn't got chillax
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
sounds like you need to... take a chill pill.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:32 (ten years ago) link
i got just over halfway thru at 3 this morning, still got about 8 to go
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:35 (ten years ago) link
anyone had any success with the Guardian's Bank Holiday puzzle? I got some of the clues but am nowhere near being them able to slot them into the grid...
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
Managed to finish it with copious help from thesaurus, google, parents. I started putting words in the grid before I was absolutely certain the positions were correct. Have you got the theme?
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
no, any hints appreciated, that might give me a helping hand!
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah, 9ac took a lot of getting but once i had it things cleared up a little, bottom half has some wicked words in it tho i suspect
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
the theme is (rot13) cynagf naq sybjref
and here are the more obscure themed answers my folks helped me with (also rot 13): puevfg cynag, rybqrn, znzzrr, nenyvn, arahcune (jngre yvyl), enzfba, hqb, dhvgpu tenff
xp, 9ac definition seems unfair or wrong, unless i'm misunderstanding. 13d a bit off as well, 8d a cheap trick, if fairly common. still got four to go.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
i think 9ac works properly: the def is a little vague until you realise what it refers to but fine then i think?
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:56 (ten years ago) link
still missing: 15, 21, 22, 25 across, 13, 16, 19 down, tho i think i know that last one, just can't parse the clue
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:57 (ten years ago) link
6d is a 9ac is all i can think. but it ain't? stuck on 16, 21, 15, yeah i couldn't (be bothered to) figure out 19d.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
oh i've got it. last three words of the clue are the key instruction.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
think of the definition as a quantity rather than a clue number
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:01 (ten years ago) link
ohmygod 19d yes, nasty!
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
21 across is lol, slightly unfair
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
ok i looked at fifteensquared to figure out 9ac, *that's* nasty!
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
i'm right about quantity, yeah?
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
just 15 and 25 to go
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:09 (ten years ago) link
finished
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
xxp yep. finished too, lol at 21.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
good crossword tbf, some of the clues on the edge of unfair
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:11 (ten years ago) link
13d especially, as you said, is not a good clue
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link
enough good ones to make up for it though. 1 and 12 my faves, 21 lolworthy as noted, 26 comes together nicely.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
1 is really nicely done
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:17 (ten years ago) link
finished the everyman in the pub on sunday for the first time in months.
― koogs, Monday, 1 September 2014 09:38 (ten years ago) link
I came up with this one, and I think it works pretty well if I do say so myself:
American who composed "Green Onions" seen around city in France. (7, 4)
― Okay, there's lil' Zipper again (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
Aw man, did I break the cryptic thread? Charles Ives.
Stumped by corset? There's a surprise! (6,2)
I've been happily doing lots of Everyman puzzles lately, but this combination of cricket abbrev., unknown-to-me synonym and Britishism answer I had also never heard before proved that, yes, I am American.
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
and yet you still worked it out because you had more than half the letters.
finished this week's this morning.
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
last week's included the name of a scottish oil refinery, but one i'd seen before.
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Sullom Voe! I had actually heard of that somewhere, but couldn't remember it for the puzzle. I cheated on that, and the corset. Also needed to cheat on: Welsh lake = Bala, and Coastal Vessels = Grabs.
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
we've not done the word-of-the-day thing for a while (coming up with a clue for a word from one of the many word-of-the-day sites, like the homemade jokes thread but less funny and for crossword clues)
Rad peanut shaped like a leaf (9, wotd)
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
(actually, looking again, i'm not sure i read the definition correctly. but it'll do)
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:08 (nine years ago) link
this page is no help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_shape
nor this one: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/
got it tho.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:18 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's actually 'violin-shaped', especially when applied to descriptions of leaves, not 'shaped like a leaf'. 8(
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:58 (nine years ago) link
everyman 3550:
Joker, male, is seen on Baghdad river (9)
easy to work out from the bits (especially as i had 3 of the letters) but a word i'd never heard before.
my favourite this week:
Arms race participant? (9)
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
that's gotta be one of the easier everymen, finished in ten mins. btw everyman, is that the setter's name or a target audience description in need of degendering?
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
Always assumed the latter
― 龜✊ (wins), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
i have 1.3 left to get.
cashier? minister of *space*?
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
cashier, yep. other meaning is obscure but flickers dimly in my brain. not space. c'mon. you can do it.
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
i don't see why cashier is cashier.
Dismiss teller (7)
ok, teller = definition. where does 'dismiss' come in? oh, synonym - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cashier didn't know that...
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link