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-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

two weeks pass...

goes to hhell

Guess about where to sleep and eat and drink (8)

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

Buck naked thanks to Germans (5)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Danke

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

elegant!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you come up with that one? If so, it's your best yet!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link

It is, lovely surface reading.

Eli provides the answer to Nine Inch Nails song (8,3)

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that was mine. thanks.

Guess about where to sleep and eat and drink (8)
G-------

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I should have left out the "and eat"

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Guinness.

Hooray! (I hope nobody expects me to come up with one of my own now.)

― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Also while I'm here I will add to the chorus admiring the "buck naked" clue. Nice one.

― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

In trouble at herbarium? Hide! (7)

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

leather

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

yup.

Strong? The U.N.? Given where they're based, that's amusing. (5)

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

funny

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Eli provides the answer to Nine Inch Nails song (8,3)

Terrible Lie.

Nice clue, though!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

fifth avenue provides shelter (5)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

haven

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

fur throw (4)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

pelt

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

(not cryptic, really, sorry)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a fine clue, nothing wrong with double definitions!

broth can be very positive (4)

I wish I could make my clues wordier

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

soup

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"A lopping of sweaters", for example. (10)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Spoonerism.

(Can't believe that was in the CONCISE crossword yesterday - very mean.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I was wondering what was up with that.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, it's a bit easier if you know that it's supposed to be a cryptic, I spent some time wondering what the term for 'plural noun' is (I realise this makes me a mental).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Weapon rejected by a conservative is worthless (8)

"inspired" by a Times clue today.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Nugatory

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

cool, maybe you can help me with the Times one...

Weapon rejected by a politician in control (10)

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Ref rants about player sale (8)

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Transfer

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

(stuck at your Times one btw)

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

well bizarrely it has (so far) the same letter pattern as nugatory, ---U-A-O--

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

regulatory!

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Excellent! Little bit disappointed at "politician" for "tory".

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

regulatory - a luger is a kind of gun

(xpost, STOP DOING THAT)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

a friend and original lover (7)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

amateur?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 1 February 2007 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link

yes

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I get it now.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Does "concise" = "American-style"? That spoonerism clue would be fair game in a latter-part-of-the-week NYTimes xword.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

It means 'quick', the other clues are eg "household insect pest" "Salad vegetable" "horizontal bar - bird - complain"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

In honour of Ruth Crisp ('Crispa'), RIP:
The more people have of these, the more they want (5)

Excitement in my letterbox this morning: two newly published crossword books. (Should keep us going for quite a while what with the seven week old baby significantly cutting into solving time and all...)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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