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Deal with some giant nonsense about an account (4)

George Mucus (ledge), Sunday, 22 November 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Dunno.

Bar vent releasing mysterious author (1,6)

Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Romy Schneider but I'll admit I felt it was fair to look up Sissi cos I've never seen it
I'm not blaming you. I figured it was gonna go that way.

Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Deal with some giant nonsense about an account (4)

-A--

George Mucus (ledge), Monday, 23 November 2009 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link

-a-- i probably mean

George Mucus (ledge), Monday, 23 November 2009 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link

face

Louis Cll (darraghmac), Monday, 23 November 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link

congrats

George Mucus (ledge), Monday, 23 November 2009 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link

By all accounts this killer is a jolly good fellow (7)

thanx/apols to Mark G

George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:55 (fourteen years ago) link

Vorhees :)

nearly 50 in vagina years (onimo), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Editor catches hell under fire (7)

O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link

shelled?

poster x (ledge), Thursday, 3 December 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link

B Traven for mysterious author.

Parenthetic hound (woofwoofwoof), Thursday, 3 December 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes and yes.

O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 December 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link

whence comes the 's' in shelled?

poster x (ledge), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed

O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link

i knew that ;_;

poster x (ledge), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Cover wager after getting the skinny (7)

the onimo effect (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 December 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link

--a----

the onimo effect (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 December 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link

--a--e-

the onimo effect (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link

blanket

ailsa, Saturday, 12 December 2009 08:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Correct.

ilxor found in mail sack (5) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 December 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link

Letters bite horses (7)

ilxor found in mail sack (5) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Monster enters seedy bars and splits (8)

alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Monster enters seedy bars and splits (8)
--alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs)

Divorces

joe, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes.

Other one should have been
Letters bite horse (7)

alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link

--s----

alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link

somewhere on another thread far far away james redd asks

ledge, why you no come to styptic xword thread anymore?

'cause i can't get your clues! and have been lazy in thinking of my own.

poster x (ledge), Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Korean soup's warmth rating: about medium hot. Shoot!

poster x (ledge), Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link

... (10)

poster x (ledge), Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link

should be soup not soup's, really.

poster x (ledge), Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link

also korean vietnamese, sorry for racism

poster x (ledge), Saturday, 19 December 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link

--o-------

poster x (ledge), Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link

photograph?

ailsa, Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link

yup

poster x (ledge), Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link

Can you explain? I guessed from "pho" and "shoot".

ailsa, Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link

tog = warmth rating; medium = par, turned about; hot = h

poster x (ledge), Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link

First of these is unfortunaely about half a century away from being a work of genius:

'59 revolutionary (5)

Revolutionary? What about? (3)

poster x (ledge), Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link

Very good, re photograph. Dunno about the other two.

ailsa, Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link

castro
che

Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link

no
yes

poster x (ledge), Sunday, 20 December 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link

felix

Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link

40% correct

poster x (ledge), Sunday, 20 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link

helix?

ailsa, Sunday, 20 December 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link

no, that would be 80% correct. Ignore me.

ailsa, Sunday, 20 December 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link

it's not that different from the other clue...

poster x (ledge), Sunday, 20 December 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Lenin.
Should be bored at work tomorrow, will check in with a clue then.

Parenthetic hound (woofwoofwoof), Sunday, 20 December 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Or sooner.
Tyrant's obsessive fan gets 51 (6)

Parenthetic hound (woofwoofwoof), Sunday, 20 December 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link

stalin

Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link

more letters for the horse clue?

poster x (ledge), Monday, 21 December 2009 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link

--s--n-

Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 December 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link


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