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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Show us whatcha got, NV.

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

Noodle! Write one, skip none! (5)

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

Penne!

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

(Very good)

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

NICE!

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

Stupid - having none of these? (8)

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

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

clueless!

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

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

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

date?

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

Coyote's Peak? (4)

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah, you're OK. Acme, innit?

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

Lol. Yep.

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

Ho ho! Very lateral, nice.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

media

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

Ok do it now then!

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

I don't get the Coyote's Peak one.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

[Insert picture of Roadrunner here]

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Doesn't fit but: Actresses

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Mistress?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

yup. your turn

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

someone want to explain that last one to me ?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

of of of of of of of of of of (10)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

oftentimes

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Frequently

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

um yes

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

What beanz said, but probably the other answer is correct.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, frequently.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Ste:
Mi's + tress

You don't like it, you get what you pay for.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Is oftentimes a word?

Lover asks non-commissioned officer to a dance (8)

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

haha oftentimes is awesome!

I think the explanation is notes = (mi)s, hair=tresses, woman could be mistress, Ste? So stuck to would just be "next to".

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

yes oftentimes is a word, and would make more sense to me

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

FOUR MINUTES TILL FREEDOM

I don't even get "frequently"!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link

me neither

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I just got carried away with of-ten

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The clue is of x 10 = often = frequently. According to the place where I saw it before.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

oh right, i'm dumb, i couldn't see the hair/tress part. i was looking for musical note references for some stupid stupid reason.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

and great thread, but gotta go home. g'night!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Though oftentimes will do, since no letters were specified. Fight amongst yourselves.

(night)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Oftentimes is clearly awesomer.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, it is. I liked that it went a stage further, as oftentimes is a bit too literal for my liking, but it's still a great word.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

A great cryptic clue should make it hard for you to see the word again without thinking of the clue, which that clue very much does for "oftentimes" but not so much for "frequently".

I wish I could remember exactly how my favorite clue goes, but I think I mentioned it the last time we did this thread anyway.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

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