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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

I see inside someone who looks secretly hot (5)

nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link

spicy

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link

damnit i had 'tom' for someone who looks secretly

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Whine about original spice (5)

nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link

fancy that! sounds like you could get splinters (5, 5)

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Games company angry about money awarded in law suit (7)

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 09:28 (fourteen years ago) link

letters? mine's --m----

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link

Mine:
---r-

nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Keep thinking yours should be "alimony"

nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link

'comp---'?

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link

curry

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link

my letters will give it away, but

w---- ----h

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link

WS

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link

:)

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link

explain curry?

--m---s

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link

cry around ur, whine about original

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link

although to be very picky, curry is not a spice! (spent ages going through the spices i know so i'm terribly bitter tbh)

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link

aha; i looked on oed and found 'to give (a person) curry: Austral. slang. To abuse, reprove, express anger at a person.', which confused me.

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link


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