I am now going to shamelessly gatecrash with my first even clue I thought up. A nail tangled up in the jungle (5)
― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Right, you've got it: a stake is "verse" than garlic, because it kills 'em, natch.
Isadora's is "liana".
― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link
I am not a headless pterodactyl. (4)
― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Let's say it starts with a vowel. And that the word has no letters from the second half of the alphabet.
― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Two blokes and a dead python (7)
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Incidentally, I couldn't get ONE SINGLE CLUE in the Graun today :(
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Was it Araucaria?
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Um, the Gaurdian one was Auster today I think.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
How about:
Missing digits? Some folks can't tolerate it. (7)
― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
"What a young man wears in clubs, perhaps" (5,4)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
(nearly there chel)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
... (8)That one? I thought it might be Anaconda, but I can't put it all together.
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
(I've got another one, but should I post it with two open clues?)
― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost: isn't "..." open? Because if not:
Look at the meter, glance it over, then avoid it, I'd say. (8)
― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
U a poet,#2421?
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Here's one more, then I should adjourn for a while:
"Flipped over!", the boy cries, but it's a false alarm: some would say it's a nice delivery! (4)
― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link
What's offered with litre in hacienda, possibly? (9)
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link