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okay, I was offtrack.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Maternity Ward?

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Bingo!

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Maternity Ward?

(Xpost)

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh I like it.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

One from Private Eye (the only one I can do this week):

Taken by piss-artist to be how to position two entries in a sudoku grid? (3,4,3,5)

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

One over the eight!

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Curses, I've been staring at that for half an hour!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Ok this one should be easy:
Dairy product made by EEC she-goat etc curdled (7,6)

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

cottage cheese

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

(But I still don't get the sudoku one)

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Recieved lush wisdom: Eight drinks is okay, any more makes you drunk.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

So if you've had "one over the eight" you're a piss-artist.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Pay no more attention = keep no more lists!

Is that some weird Canuck slang?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Awfully sad picture of slapstick (7, 3)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Custard pie.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link

But, um, someone else can feel free to post a new clue, I got nothing right now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

(I made this up, it's shit, but...)

Fred's lead in race is an absurdity (5)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

FARCE

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

correct

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Cross hog ill, disturbed by these female students (11)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

You need something in the clue to indicate that "race" is an anagram, also the f's not "in", it's "at the start of".

(xpost) schoolgirls

― crossword pedant (ailsa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

easiest one from today's guardian: MP teased about mad rush (8)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

(my clues are all shitty anagrams--FEEL MY CRYPTIC SHAME!)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link

stampede

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

You need something in the clue to indicate that "race" is an anagram, also the f's not "in", it's "at the start of".

Did you see where I said "it's shit"?

Oh and I'm assuming you don't have an 'a' in your name...

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

He'd be incredible if he weren't so fucked up. (3-1)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Huk-L (excellent clue, Casuistry)

Onimo, I was being helpful, or so I thought. I have never made a crossword clue up in my life, and wouldn't even attempt to due to my woeful lack of imagination - I'm just jealous of those who can do so and put me to shame, and doing my usual crappy thing of pointing out the speck of dust in another's eye before removing the plank in my own :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link

A cryptic pedant is snaking through Alabama. (5)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know why I can only come up with clues for people (or the board at large).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Shrink turns wife into mountain (8)

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Please explain the huk-l clue to my tired and rusty brain.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Anagram of 'hulk'. Who is incredible.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Sweet.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Jungfrau?

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh my god. Is it Jungfrau?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Pending that adjudication:
Blair goes around and about in church, that is, for festive treat (5,3)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Mince pie!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Yup!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Can this be a joint effort, because I haven't worked it out either yet:

Erif (8)

(From today's Araucaria)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Ok I know it now. Carry on!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Surely backfire or fireback or something - at least one of those may be a word. xpost obv.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I thought fireback. Though it could equally be backfire. Shit.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Reminds me of a variation on an old chestnut that was posted earlier:
ONMLKJIH (9)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link

backwater

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Ok, I don't get that and I didn't get HIJKLMNO either :(

Oh wait yes I do. H to O. H2O. Right.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, it was Jungfrau. That was a homebrew clue.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Why the "turns"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

So... who's up? Onimo?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

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