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Another meaning in diet info (10)

― Richard Jones, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

definition

― onimo, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Informed about tide info (8)

― onimo, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

notified

― ledge, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Crazy! A hydrogen powered vehicle! For an African island! (10)

― ledge, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Madagascar!

― Matt, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

\(^o^)/

― ledge, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I'll give a hint on mine:

Disgusting cheese pies (hold the mayo) set back clever schemes (10)

-t-----e-s

― lurker #2421, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Stratagems?

― Richard Jones, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes it's SMEGMA TARTS backwards, sans one M. Charming!

― ledge, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow.

― Casuistry, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I could've gone with

"A million prostitutes on their backs is a clever scheme indeed (9)"

But it wouldn't have enriched the world quite as much, I don't think.

― lurker #2421, Sunday, 11 March 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Cowardly policeman starts greeting in middle of paddywagon (6)

― ledge, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Yellow?

― lurker #2421, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Messed-up, vile, super-revolting (9)

― lurker #2421, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

yup. xp.

repulsive.

― ledge, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup!

Skinny girl's imaginary friend adds to my body image? (7)

― lurker #2421, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Sophisticated poster gets fork, followed by pen, another fork and shortened key for Song of Tomorrow (2,5,7)

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

-- --i-- -i-----

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

-- --i-- -i----e

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Skinny girl's imaginary friend adds to my body image? (7)

Are you sure this is 7?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

(I was thinking "gamine.")

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I always enjoy the solutions to lurker #2421's clues, but I don't even try to solve them.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, I'll take that as a compliment! :)

jaymc, it's definitely 7. "Gamine" is a nice thought, though.

The dashes thing would give it away, I think, so here's a hint: the solution doesn't involve any anagramming.

― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

waifish?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope....you're, er, coming at it from the wrong angle.

Aw, hell:

--a----

― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

sparish?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope!

--a-o--

― lurker #2421, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

How about, as a means of achieving both closure and continuity on this thread, setters post one extra letter a day until the clue is answered?

― ledge, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, here's mine:
-- --i-e -i----e

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought it might be "anatomy" but wasn't happy enough with why to post. Now there's another letter I'll throw that out there and hope someone can explain how it fits together. (Probably being stupid here, sorry)

― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

you're probably right:
ana+to+my

but i dunno why skinny girl's imaginary friend = ana

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Ana = shortened "anorexia" (there are "pro-ana" internet communities which are all "thinspiration" pictures of corpses etc).

― Sarah, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I am stuck on my stupid 'how to do cryptic crosswords' book by the way. It has suddenly got harder or I have got stupiderder.

― Sarah, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

ana = from anorexia
mia = bulima

It's a way that girls with EDs refer to their diseases.

― ENBB, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

so wherefore the "imaginary friend"?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

They are personifications of the diseases, I presume.

― ledge, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Anatomy is right! And yeah, anorexics/bulimics are known to refer to their friends "Ana" and "Mia" as codewords/personifications.

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

And ya see, it's clever because it uses "to my", and the apostrophe and the bebop and the...

</cosby>

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

haha I was thinking of 'Ana' as a skinny Anna and 'Tom' as imaginary friend because he's everyone's fake pal on myspace :)

― onimo, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

(this was in reverse engineering the puzzle of course)

― onimo, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

anorexics/bulimics

that should read "certain a/bs within certain online communities", obv

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Nordic bird gets the flatbed treatment, as it were (12)

― lurker #2421, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Scandinavian. Cute!

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Memo in re: ammo (8)

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

bulletin?

army hq costs nothing but heroin addiction ensues (8)

― Will M., Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

yep :)

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

freebase?

― ailsa, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Lodging has nothing but slabs of ribs (8)

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

barracks.

I really REALLY wish I could make these up as well as I could solve them.

― ailsa, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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