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(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

three weeks pass...

nobody tried these on the other board, so:

crummy kids are Superman's cousins? (6,3,6)

contest failure results in argument (4)

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Onimo's fee for soul festival (8)

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 26 February 2007 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno, archel- needs?

bone mask (6)

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

My brain has atrophied - can you give us some letters for these?

― ailsa, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

crummy kids are Superman's cousins? (6,3,6)
contest failure results in argument (4)
Onimo's fee for soul festival (8)
bone mask (6)
-a---- --- ----e-
--e-
--t-----
----n-

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

contest failure results in argument (4)

beef

― ailsa, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

yes

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Onimo's fee for soul festival (8)

Wattstax

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yes

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

point coldly to island (6)

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Sicily

― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

No one ever got this one from the sandbox:

Bag lady complains about her naughty bits (7)

----a--

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I wanna say versace, but I don't quite get it.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope...

----a-t

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

stewart?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

lol vagrant

― onimo, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Onimo's right. :)

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

dang! I thought of that but couldn't see how it worked until now

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm in on nothing, gerry! (5)

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

crummy kids are Superman's cousins? (6,3,6)
bone mask (6)
-a---- --- -r--e-
-o--n-

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The second one's domino

(also, yeah, lol at vagrant - I was trying to make other rude words fit in there)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

yup. more letters for first one:
-a---l --- -r--e-

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

(I think this is gonna be the one that finally gets me kicked off the thread)

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, it's Hansel and Gretel, I think, but I'm only part-way to working out why - please explain properly?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god. awful! ;)

― Archel, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link

it has to do with Superman's name back on planet Krypton

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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