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humoepat

koogs, Friday, 10 September 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link

otm

ledge, Friday, 10 September 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link

no shortage at the baker's ball (9)

soft one to get it rollin again

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 September 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

ho ho

ledge, Thursday, 16 September 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17216/17216-h/images/020-04.png

altho they look more like potatoes imo

ledge, Thursday, 16 September 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah well get to it

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Public Relations acquire copy of The Times, say (5)

ledge, Thursday, 16 September 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Paper?

pissky in the jar (onimo), Thursday, 16 September 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link

Orthodox type to convert natives all over the place, despite loss of holy book (12)

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link

aboriginals?

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link

with a random letter at the end, like

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link

most of all you're letting yourself down

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link

conservatives

portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link

without the s

portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link

the second s

portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link

ayup

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link

dealing with hounding press reporter, feel it was allowable in circumstances tbh

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link

what was the baker one?

Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link

a bun dance

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link

*groan, etc*

yeah i know but it's a crosaire standard and i thought it'd give ye a laugh

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link

like it!

Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link

maybe i'll do a bit of a trawl later and have a few like it to hand for again

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah man we could always do with more activity here, don't mind if its cribbed from other sources.

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link

grand i dont do them every day but next time a few clues catch my eye i'll post em.

that said would welcome another batch of the ones Gravel Puzzleworth (?) posted before they were kinda hardcore

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link

(bit iffy, this one)

Stolen small bed again (7)

meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link

cribbed

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link

y

meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link

hmm could try to work in 'double bed' tbh

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link

staying the french with cockney possession (7)

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link

sorry,

not staying the french with cockney possession(7)

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link

leaving

When Redd Turns To Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link

pfft

took longer to come up with the fecking thing

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Paul being annoying in today's guardian:

soldier, daft don (8)

portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link

^ friend got that, I was all GRRRRR but :) but GRRRRR

ledge, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, swore/laughed when I got it. Paul can be a real dick. My favourite setter.

1ac/d also great, but needs checked letters, and too long to enter on phone.

portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link

what's the solution to soldier, daft don?

No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link

I think that's kind of evil and breaking the unwritten rules

rot13 - pbzznaqb

meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link

ha

koogs, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link

i groaned audibly

Not the real Village People, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link

This was in the grauniad yesterday. Two possible solutions - the proper one is a bit meh but my colleague came up with a better alternative, perhaps more suitable for Private Eye.

Do bird (4)

ledge, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Shag

My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link

^ a bird with a bit of a hairdo

My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link

the other one fwiw is (in rot13) ebbx.

ledge, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link

l∞l (8,4)

Corny but it came to me and i liked it so there

l∞l (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link

Absolute zero

my strange quest for maynesonge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Infinite jest

my strange quest for maynesonge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link

^

l∞l (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Araucaria worthy imo

ledge, Saturday, 16 October 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Duh I only just got that one. Brilliant. (I was thinking the l l bit was the modulus, ffs me)

Not the real Village People, Saturday, 16 October 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link


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