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ha! Geronimo! (sorry gerry)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 August 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

After I am in the middle of mantra, I am kind of red (7)

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Friday, 18 August 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Belly taking away third from Sign Of The Four at the beginning (7)

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Friday, 18 August 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

First one is Chianti.

Many unwell - in short, it is from throat infection (10)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 24 August 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

tonsillitis

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Leaf Runner? (4)
-a--

Mistakes take me right to animals that eat leaves (8)

---a----

Rotten guitar player rocks with first lady and Jughead (5,5)

--e-- -----

Party needs a hat from the start (2,4)

-a ----

Fake one ending (4)

---a

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Saturday, 26 August 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Rotten guitar player rocks with first lady and Jughead (5,5)

Steve Jones

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Leaf Runner? (4)

Page?

Mistakes take me right to animals that eat leaves (8)

Giraffes

Party needs a hat from the start (2,4)

Da capo (Do + a cap)

Fake one ending (4)

I want this to be "coda", but I can't make it work.

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Saturday, 26 August 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Sexually satisfied women are said to be three things: unrefined, malodorous, and Irish (8)

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Saturday, 26 August 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Coda = cod [as in "fake"] + a.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes to everything.

Mother nurses eleven, tops (6)
-a----
Belly taking away third from Sign Of The Four at the beginning (7)
a------

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Maxima

Abdomen

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah. Thanks, ailsa.

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, she's good, ain't she?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm great :-)

Unfortunately I couldn't make up a clue to save my life, and I haven't actually bought a paper with a proper crossword in it for ages to steal clues from.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Off the top of my head then: Red Rum down without Her Majesty- beat that!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Drum. And you didn't even tell us how many letters.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

God you're good. My head's full of gin though, I can't count letters. Off-topic, but how was KenFAP?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

It was quiet. I was very drunk. We went to NPL and there was no bar queue, it was most odd. You weren't there, I notice. Other people were (me, the mister, stet, madchen, grimly fiendish, ward fowler at Mono, then dahlin, ally c, stew, probably some other people but I was pished and can't remember really). Part two in Edinburgh tomorrow, hurrah.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

A burning bed almost covered in disgusting fluid and kind of sheet (7)

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Promise witches worker (8)

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Room with medal inside to burn (7)

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Want letters?

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Promise witches worker (8)

Covenant. I'll get back to you on the others.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I think those were solved over on nu-ILX.

Biology question: horse flies or man? (4,2,4)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

---- o- ----

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

DNA search for the Guv (4,4)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

French father gets two notes for a starter (8)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Premiere.

Maybe you should make a grid.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe, but I've only got time right now for one clue at a time.

I'm into Yoko, Dad! (5)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Cute.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, nice! I really wish I could make clues up. I've tried, I'm rotten at it. My brain just works the other way round.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Biology question: horse flies or man? (4,2,4)

---- o- -a--

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Life on Mars

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes. What about the other one?

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

DNA search for the Guv (4,4)
-e-- ----

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

-e-- --n-

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, you've been watching Life on Mars, haven't you, silly me, not linking the clues together with other threads! All is clear!!!

(er, that'd be Gene Hunt then)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I should have just put that on teh Life On Mars thread.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sam, wake up! You're on the other thread!"

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Big Apple with rotten maggot goes to hell! (6)

Fuzzy five chill (5)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Vague?

Not sure on the first one yet though.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

-o----

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

New Atlantic puzzle is pretty good, I gotta say. Which would be of interest to who, Chris and Huk, maybe?

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not in the magazine anymore!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Note at the bottom of Times xword yesterday: "This puzzle, used in the Preliminary A round of the 2006 Times Crossword Championship, was solved within the time limit (THREE PUZZLES IN ONE HOUR) by 38% of the competitors."

Emphasis added. Between three of us we couldn't manage to finish this one puzzle in one hour.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 12 October 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Big Apple with rotten maggot goes to hell! (6)

did anyone know this?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

-o--a-

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Gotham... can't quite work it out though.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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