i dinnae get it
Spooner doesn't have a landline in his lodging, but it won't stick in his craw (8, 6)
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
---e---- f-----
― postcards from the (ledge), Thursday, 8 July 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
wireless fsomething
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
nah
― postcards from the (ledge), Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i can't take this rejection, you need to appreciate the brainstorm ideas i bring to the table and end this little dictatorship thing you've got going on imo
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
you need to up your game son, these half-formed excuses for solutions do no-one any favours
four of your letters aren't all bad tho fyi tbh fwiw
― postcards from the (ledge), Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
boneless fillet ?
boneless I'm sure of
― Puyol Live in a Yellow Submarine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, got to be, phoneless billet. Nice one ledge :-)
― ailsa, Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://thepilver.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/csi-miami.jpg
― postcards from the (ledge), Friday, 9 July 2010 09:08 (thirteen years ago) link
or something, never seen the show meself
it's the LV dude does the cryptic 'supergenius' (ie cryptic) crosswords fwiw
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 9 July 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
might as well put this here eh
Angel horsing around? Take her out for karaoke (9)
― postcards from the (ledge), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
stumped badly here tbh
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
singalong
― embrace the flopping? no thanks (onimo), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
^
― postcards from the (ledge), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
anagram of angl osing (angel horsing with 'her' taken out)
― embrace the flopping? no thanks (onimo), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
v good
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
So I went on holiday and did a ton of these? Here are the clues where even after reading the answer I don't get it, can anyone explain?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
go on
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Potter's finest work is to encourage Formosan aggression (8,5)
Confined next to a bull (5)
Writer's well after visit - Theo left to think positive (6)
Morbid fear one hates to have (6)
A singularly heavy blow given in embarrassment (4)
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
WAIT WAIT I just got #3
Another one instead: Pillar of some mark to compositors (7)
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Answers in rot13:
rttfuryypuvanvaarevaxcbg (guvf vf gur bar V trg abj)cubovnbareboryvfx(translator here: http://tools.arantius.com/rot13 )
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
ok let's get to work
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
(Actually I'm back to not getting the third one, I get the simple definition but the cryptic bit *still* makes no sense)
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
ettfuryypuvan spells out 'to encourage attack on state not beloved of taiwan' formosan aggression, also a delicate type of pottery
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
vaare darts term
Confined next to a bull = inner. The inner is the ring next to the bull in archery. Presume also inner = confined, sort of. Inner rage, that sort of thing?
The rest, cannot really explain. Not even the one you worked out. Have horrible explanation for this first, but it's really bad
Xpost, yeah, like what darragh just said
― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
vaxcbg i only get the first part, the simple bit tbh
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
the first, not this first. There's no way on God's green earth I'd have got it though, rather than just fitting an explanation to an already-solved clue.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
'morbid fear one hates to have' is hardly cryptic at all tbh, not a good clue in that overthinking it would put you off imo
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
singularly heavy blow- CONKERS BABY
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"given in embarrassment" though? These are horrible, btw.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice work on vaare.
rttfuryypuvan is outstanding work - how is anyone supposed to get that? I kept looking to make 'Peter Rabbit'
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
boryvfx - term for a piece of kit one kept in the lower half of a compositors type case.
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
(They're from the Daily Telegraph 1986 fwiw)
What is 'one hates to have' doing, though? I agree it could be nothing.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
given the answers, and google, it's quite easy to pick these apart- but if i'd been looking at them all weekend they'd prob have driven me soft.
tho, tbh, i think i would have gotten the first one.
crosaire, btw, is doable online at www.irishtimes.com, the unmatched (imo) king of the art.
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Aye, it's a punctuation mark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(typography)
xposts again
― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow - nice knowledge on boryvfx - I didn't even know what a compositor was.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
one hates to have- just clumsy imo, wouldn't kill myself worrying about it once i'd filled in the letters
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
GOOGLE mayne, google!
Are these all done apart from #3 now?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha I used google on formosan aggression, then I still couldn't do it :(
Everyone agrees it's wrong to google when you're actually doing the thing, right?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
'given in embarrassment'
quite simply- none of my dictionaries and none of my brain cells and none of my internets can suggest even a single half-plausible explanatino for the remaining piece of this clue
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah googling is prob frowned upon while doing, tho perfectly acceptable after you've gotten it- else how d'you learn sure?
I really can't make #3 work, I can sort of make bits of the clue bit fit, but not the whole thing, and not convincingly.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess you must 'hate' as a necessary condition of 'having' the third one- ?
though i would be much happier with 'fear' over hate, and that's already in the clue so slapdash at best imo
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ie you must hate *something* to have a phobia
I have learned the word "emderatology" today though, which is nice.
xpost you can have a phobia without hatred though, so misdefinition just to give a double non-cryptic clue is totally misleading and wrong. There must be more to it than that. Where's the rest of the contributors to this thread when you need them?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i google
― thomp, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
araucaria or ximes had a quote about how the solver ought to be permitted 'a reasonable shelf of reference works'. eh. also, you know, sometimes you have PSALMANUGGLE or something and just need to go 'is this really the name of an extinct marsupial or am i wrong'
― thomp, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link