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Gonna get lunch, I'll try and think of one while I'm out. Feel free to post any you think of...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

OK, another old classic:

H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O (5)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Water

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

A ship that nobody caes about (7)

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

cares about

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

(to be honest, I stole this one from I'm Sorry I Havn't a Clue, so it's less of a strong cryptic clue, more of a weak pun)

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was going to say that's "frigate" - I read it in one of those made-up-definitions-for-words things in the newspaper not that long ago.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Back from LUNCH mm sandwich. Quite proud of this one:

Point at vase, a codename for orgies (11)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure that's going to be "bacchanalia" due to alias and and the orgy thing, but I can't quite work out why.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

not quite!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Do people want some letters?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, yes please.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

S------L--S

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

saturnalias

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

doh

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

New clue!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Rat you hit corrupted power (9)

Too easy for letter hints

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Authority

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Authority - xposted AGAIN!!! goddamnit!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Next!

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Flaky apple crisp holders (5,5)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

not tarte tatin is it?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Nah, it's paper clips. (anagram)

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Paper clips!
xpost!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

And I was gonna say
caper pails

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I was gazing at 'space plirp' thinking 'hmm, maybe not anagram after all...'

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

And yes, they have cryptics in the US, but they're rarer and you have to know where to look for them. And yes, it was probably 3 in the morning. I have been weirdly sick and my sleep schedule is totally kerscrewed.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Noodle! Entertain us!
(that's an exhortation not a clue)

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Bugger, I didn't realise it was my turn. Do I have to provide a clue now?

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Show us whatcha got, NV.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Noodle! Write one, skip none! (5)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Penne!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

(Very good)

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

NICE!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Stupid - having none of these? (8)

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

(Yeah NV it's basically pass-it-on but if there hasn't been an unsolved clue for a while anyone can post one. I don't think anyone is too fussy about any of it unless we have to do some work or something) (I have spent the last six hours entering printed-out spreadsheets back into excel in a different format, any requests for the actual original spreadsheets has been greeted with blank incomprehension)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

clueless!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

When to eat out after the end of the world (4)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

date?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Coyote's Peak? (4)

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

yup k/l! sorry, that's probably not a very good one.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

I have the death lurgey flu brought on by people manfully struggling into work all full of germs all week, and I don't feel well, and we are watching the world's worst TV movie ("Supernova" starring Luke Perry as an astrophysicist who accidentally predicts that the sun will go supernova by putting a minus sign rather than a plus sign in one of his calculations, whilst rushing to save his wife from a serial killer), so the distraction of crossword clues is excellent.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Errrm, I'm buggering off to play Total War in a minute, I'll post a answer later if you need one.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Nah, you're OK. Acme, innit?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Lol. Yep.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Ho ho! Very lateral, nice.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

OK, I just cooked this up for you:

Woman's notes stuck to hair (8)

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Mind if I do one out of turn?

Transmitters in rhymed iambics (5)

oh xpost... come back to it

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

media

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Ok do it now then!

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

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