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I gets confused around a thousand and fifty drinks (7)

Don't Dream It, SB It (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Thousand and fifty villa's home put under festival (11)

Large Hadron Collander (onimo), Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Glastonbury

Don't Dream It, SB It (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link

:)

Large Hadron Collander (onimo), Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link

gimlets

Role playing game to trump scurf (8)

ipso mothro (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 November 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link

correct

dandruff ;)

Don't Dream It, SB It (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 November 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Solver fled the country (4)

Don't Dream It, SB It (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 November 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Iran

Thousand and fifty short English valley (4)

Liverpool's former third best player (onimo), Saturday, 7 November 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link

glen

ailsa, Saturday, 7 November 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Vegetarian turns angry inside (5)

ipso mothro (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 November 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link

The greatest in Australia (3)

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link

Renaissance painter of fish, giving one away for nothing (8)

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Ali

George Mucus (ledge), Sunday, 8 November 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Angelico? (don't get 'giving one away' bit if so)

George Mucus (ledge), Sunday, 8 November 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes. No. But last letter is right.

-------o

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Depending on spelling, may not need that "giving one away for nothing" bit.

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Eight Italian, ten French and one German painter (4,3)
Dutchmen surround thousand and fifty little creatures (7)

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link

faust arp
gremlins

Don't Dream It, SB It (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 November 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link

sorry, first one's otto dix rather

Don't Dream It, SB It (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 November 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link

no
no
yes

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link

-i-----

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link

piglets?

ailsa, Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link

:)

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Fish painter is
--o----o

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link

haha that's great i was wracking my brain over "dutchmen"

Death to False Meta (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link

--o--i-o

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Pump less than three (5)

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link

<3

George Mucus (ledge), Sunday, 8 November 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.brandonterranova.com/miniprojects/Heart.gif

George Mucus (ledge), Sunday, 8 November 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Nice!

ailsa, Sunday, 8 November 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Explain?

Death to False Meta (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 November 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link

notation for less than three is <3, which is emoticon for heart, which is a pump. Seemples!

ailsa, Sunday, 8 November 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link

Hahaha that is brilliant. Wouldn't get away with it off-line, mind.

Death to False Meta (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 November 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

Ooof. The species of fish is news to me, but the answer's Bronzino.

woofwoofwoof, Monday, 9 November 2009 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Automatic substitution when grand bird enters the turf backwards (7)

woofwoofwoof, Monday, 9 November 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link

Letters, please

Raggett Out Of Denver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 November 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link

- - - T - - -

('the' in 'the turf' is doing nothing and maybe shouldn't be there)

woofwoofwoof, Monday, 9 November 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link

dogtits

koogs, Monday, 9 November 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes, dogtits it is.

woofwoofwoof, Monday, 9 November 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link

a quiet lol from this one in the grauniad today:

Electrical salesman might do this, say, for a woman's enemy? (9)

George Mucus (ledge), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Hysteresis?

Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Cellulite!

woofwoofwoof, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link

hurrah

George Mucus (ledge), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Eraserhead: confused, toxic, foreign (6)
Candy replaces nougat filling with original whisky (7)

Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Exotic

George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link

Support queue from the side (7)

I'm Still Stanning (onimo), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link

Want to say "brachial"

Candy replaces nougat filling with original whisky (7)
-o-----

Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link

bourbon. yer skating close to the ice there son.

George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link

skating close to the ice?!

George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link

The ice calling the skater thin.

Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link


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