Trying to think of insecty words featuring the letters "I go" but can only think of "imago", which might work with "perfect", but, err. Anyone got any straws to clutch at?
(like the thought of "I'm-a go" but assume it's a bit too modern and American - tiptoe around the racial elephant - for the Irish Times)
― sticky crisco (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
no that's it i think
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
not American: "my light is green" = "I'm a go"
so not "I'm-a" but "a go" = can go
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:36 (twelve years ago) link
i think that is it, though i don't think they're aiming for "i'm-a go", but "i'm a go"
oh, xpost
― thomp, Monday, 11 July 2011 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
i got 'i'm a go' but didn't bother looking up 'imago' lol lazy
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
ah, I suppose that works (file under things nobody I know says)
hooray etc
― the ascent of nyan (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 11 July 2011 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
Been burned by IMAGO before.
Did anyone do that Mersey Beat themed Guardian a few weeks ago?
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
do the grauniad most days but don't recall that one.
― ledge, Monday, 11 July 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
i quite liked
"Seat of empire (7)"
― koogs, Monday, 18 July 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ottoman!
― Neil S, Monday, 18 July 2011 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
From Sunday's Everyman:
Special peers, triumvirate reforming economic policy (11)
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
Perestroika, nice
― don't be so dayo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of possible avenues of enquiry with the way the clue is set, but the solution makes perfect sense. Very satisfying!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
SPOILERS!
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry koogs, I was unusually (by my standards) quick to answer your clue...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
(i meant 'perestroika'. i had the ....s.r.i.a but...)
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
aha sorry!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
so, how is your knowledge of oil terminals? i think i prefer the cricket clues...
Volume so staggering around large oil terminal (6,3)
obvious anagram, but the answer's a proper noun meaning that it could be anything.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
and as for 26 across...
O? (4,6)
(please, no spoilers)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:14 (twelve years ago) link
I had trouble with the oil terminal clue too, the answer is this though (link disguised to avoid spoilers!) http://bit.ly/opPoJ8
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
Annoyingly it's not a direct anagram either...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
ha, hadn't spotted that. i just wiki'd up a list of oil terminals and picked the obvious one.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
what letters do you have for the "O" clue? I've had an idea...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
two more than i had this morning, but it's still in the wilderness there in the bottom right.
. o . e / . e . . . .
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
Ah. I get it. http://bit.ly/3ufq3S
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
love letter
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
beaten to the punch
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
spoiler alert!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
Uh isn't this the thread for answering crossword clues? Seems a bit pointless to not answer them.
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
koogs specifically said no spoilers above...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
ah ok, sorry koogs
(though why post? just sharing the pain?)
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
no spoilers is a bit against the spirit of this thread, but I assumed it was something to do with Everyman being a prize crossword.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
now we know the answer, why "love letter"? "letter" I can see, obv...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
love (tennis) = 0 = O.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
aha of course!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
'no spoilers' is a bit of an ask when posting a clue itt tbf
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
> but I assumed it was something to do with Everyman being a prize crossword.
not really. i like to do these myself* it's just that it usually takes me til thursday before i give up on it.
* actually, not true. will happpily do them in the pub on a sunday. but that's real people, not internet mentalists (no offence!)
> no spoilers is a bit against the spirit of this thread,
i posted it because it was unusual.
not sure i like the answer though. 0 is not a letter and O is not 0.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
is there another thread?
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
for unusual crossword clues you don't want solved?
I agree, but then I don't have a problem with it being reversed and "love" signifying "O" (think that was mentioned upthread somewhere).
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
I liked this one from today's Guardian:
Language sounding like a vegetable when drunk (7)
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
(s(w(e(d)i)s)h)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
nope
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
but close
SPOILER DO NOT CLICK ???
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
yes well done!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Shouldn't (mightn't?) this clue Language sounding like a vegetable when drunk (7) have a ? at the end to signify its groan-inducing punniness?
― An influential prophet from Denton, Texas (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
i don't get the real answer (mine was better!)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
(hint) Shay, buddy, can you shpare a quarter for a drink?
― An influential prophet from Denton, Texas (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link