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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

mustang!

poster x (ledge), Monday, 21 December 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link

Gossip in gym class covered in vinegar (9)

Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link

grapevine

ailsa, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Commodore gone to find a long trail west (6)

poster x (ledge), Thursday, 24 December 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Oregon

Domnesty International (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 December 2009 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Cattle sound like fifty due (6)

Domnesty International (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 December 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link

lowing

ailsa, Thursday, 24 December 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, I just realised "like" is superfluous there and that spoils the clue.

Domnesty International (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 December 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link

I didn't think so, it might make you think "sound like" which is nicely ambiguous rather than "cattle sound", the "like" being that it is like putting L next to owing. Or something. It worked for me anyway.

ailsa, Thursday, 24 December 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link

haha thanks you've reminded me why I did it now.

Domnesty International (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 December 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link

Monkeys in Budapest (4)
Girl four around city of third man (6)

Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2009 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link

Apes
Vienna

Domnesty International (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 December 2009 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Noodle's right, right on the hour. Sticky! Smelly! (5)

Domnesty International (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 December 2009 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Dunno

About the greatest city in Colombia (4)

'tza you, santa claus? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 December 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link

Myrrh for Noodle's.

Parenthetic hound (woofwoofwoof), Saturday, 26 December 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link

myrrh is right.

James's is Cali

Domnesty International (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 December 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link

When Santa travels with unknown mass, acceleration, and speed (4)

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Saturday, 2 January 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link

xmas! very nice

nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 January 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link


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