harlow
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Monday, 18 January 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a b-less broadside. i think i was tired, tbh.
― david eli roth (darraghmac), Monday, 18 January 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
that is so not a definition of crab dip
― ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 16:34 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This from someone who thinks "during a breakdown" is a good definition of "roadside"
OH SNAP
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway. this ones slightly unfair itself:
Two unknown terms translated in this problem (7)
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
jeez what a takedown.
― ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i know, right
---t---
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/Triggerhappysrt/mysteryghost.gif
― Parenthetic hound (woofwoofwoof), Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:39 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Place I never go to eat has horrible grub with a pickled cucumber, not hot, inside (6, 4)
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Burger King!
Big game for fabulous bird-of-prey (5,4)
― nothing good came of it (woofwoofwoof), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Super Bowl
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 8 February 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it's been a while
Float has wildebeest turning around in a state of discomfort after consuming too much booze (8)
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
should bumped it with this:
To bring back to life, always put intravenous drip in and flip over (6)
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
... hungover, but i don't know about the second one
― thomp, Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
revive?
― Jermaine Jenason (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
ya revive
a doy
― thomp, Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
rootbeer? (wilde guess)
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 29 March 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
nah thomp was correct. as was darra.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Monday, 29 March 2010 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
ya i no i said that?
― Jermaine Jenason (darraghmac), Monday, 29 March 2010 09:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ya sho nuff yo
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Monday, 29 March 2010 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP a proper legend
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0407/breaking29.html
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
"He never solved a crossword in his life" !!
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
and a sample, if you like
http://www.irishtimes.com/games/crosswords/index.cfm?fuseaction=showsample&xwtype=C?via=rel
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
guinness clerk sent to zimbabwe in the '40's, made up crosswords for a living, died at work aged 92.
i mean, this is how you do it.
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
hang on it ain't cryptic!
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
wait there's no way that's a crosaire
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
(xp)
http://www.irishtimes.com/games/crosswords/index.cfm?fuseaction=showsample&xwtype=C
Tomb opening for Irish compiler of crosswords (7)
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
cryptic
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
yo. rip btw.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Footballer in an unusual position (4)
― nasri like the wolf (onimo), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
if it's a footballer, then <shrug>
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Friday, 9 April 2010 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
bent
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Friday, 9 April 2010 09:00 (fourteen years ago) link
― you've been shite, son, in your daft pink boots (onimo), Friday, 9 April 2010 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
nani
― ailsa, Friday, 9 April 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
hmph
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Friday, 9 April 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
out of shape footballer (4) would be a good one for Bent maybe? Dunno. I'm not v good at this.
― you've been shite, son, in your daft pink boots (onimo), Friday, 9 April 2010 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link
nah i had a good idea the solution wasn't ever going to be bent, much like capello
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Friday, 9 April 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Joker starts to bum Two-Face (5)
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Friday, 9 April 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
janus
― A Century Of Elvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
you know it
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I've started doing the guardian cryptic again after a looong break and am not finding it too bad (Brendan the other day was Daily Telegraph levels of easiness), although Araucaria seems to have got much harder than he used to be (GR much stupider obv). You know you're in trouble when you don't even understand the answers, or why they're the answers.
And those reverse clues w' anagram indicators in Wednesday's really got me confused.
Bacon and eggs etc as clue to RAF basket (6,9) = cooked breafastSquare clue for a padre? (6,6) = parade ground
That latter in particular drove me nuts.
― Remember me, but o! forget my feet (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 18 April 2010 13:46 (Yesterday) Permalink
GamalielRatsey, this thread should really be called "This is the US crossword puzzle thread." For UK puzzles go here The official bored-at-work cryptic crossword pass it on thread. , although it has been relatively dead in recent times.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:34 (Yesterday) Permalink
Ah, balls. Sorry. Saw the mention of the grauniad crossword upthread and got my wires crossed. Shall hie me away to the other thread. Thanks James.
― Remember me, but o! forget my feet (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 19 April 2010 06:42 (4 hours ago) Permalink
― thomp, Monday, 19 April 2010 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually felt well clever when i worked out what araucaria was doing there. and then only managed to work out two of those clues.
― thomp, Monday, 19 April 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like i do better with the harder guardian setters (as in: sometimes i get all of halfway through the grid) because at least they're sort of funny/interesting. i've filled in four clues in rufus today and i'm just wondering why i'd care
― thomp, Monday, 19 April 2010 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
There was some Araucaria chat upthread a few months ago:The official bored-at-work cryptic crossword pass it on thread.
in which I sheepishly hinted that I find Araucarias massively offputting to get started on - obviously a v. smart guy, but I don't care for so many crossreferential clues limiting yr starting points, or for tricksy alphabetical themes which are his other schtick iirc, and as you've noted bad pun answers or impenetrable reverse clues for not particularly crosswordy phrases, most of which I don't get even from seeing the answer
(I have a book of his crosswords and I really like the 10 or so easy ones at the start before these things kick in. Probably just bitter that it's all way over my head)
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 19 April 2010 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i like easy araucarias. the U.S. states one the other week was good. i could actually do it. this was novel.
so today is actually Rover, not Rufus, which now I'm not looking for it to work like a Rufus I'm doing better. But it's kind of bad. 'A quarter of the year gone yellow with age' seems to be NO SPRING CHICKEN, which I guess is meant to be a cryptic def.? But seems to just work on some kind of approximate resemblance of meaning that I can't actually parse? Plus also 10a 'Cruel followers of a so-called marquis' - is this really just SADISTS? I kind of don't want to put it in because I want to be wrong.
― thomp, Monday, 19 April 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Argh. Don't like those either.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 April 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, I put a few answers in the grid and then just hit the reveal button for some others. Was also disappointed in "Familiar object of contemplation."
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 April 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link