somehow i knew it was elbow related...
― koogs, Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
today's guardian is a tour de force, starts off v entertaining, ends v irritating when you have to cheat for all the words that you've never heard before.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25565
― watercooler challenge (ledge), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
and don't look at this link if you don't want spoilers or clues, but holy hell he's led a busy life.
― watercooler challenge (ledge), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
This is driving me crazy:
How one behaves in the evening (7)
A_E_G_S
I'm 99% sure the G is correct, which leaves only one solution I can see, and I still don't understand it.
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
sure about everything else?
― steep? that's where i'm off hiking (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
'evening' is a pun, answer is 'avenges' imo
― steep? that's where i'm off hiking (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
Ohhhhh, evening as in getting even? ffs......
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
don't shoot the messenger
― steep? that's where i'm off hiking (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
^ trying to work that into a clue
― steep? that's where i'm off hiking (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
d, your screen name is proof you're WAY better at punning than I am!
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
heh, still?
― Streep? That's where I'm a-striking! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
this is ridiculous, but anyway:
Pregnant with a girl after being smashed by a randy young stag - Spooner isn't bothered (5,3,1,5,4)
― ledge, Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
--t--,---,-,--c--,---
― ledge, Friday, 23 March 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
--t--,---,-,--c--,---- i mean
?
― Singularities Going Steady (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
really struggling with this one
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 March 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
decided against really struggling with this one tbh (sorry ledge)
― less of the same (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 March 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
No no that's totally fair, I don't expect anyone else to share my enthusiasm for forced wretched spoonerisms.
--t-r --f a ---k- -a-k
See I'm more or less spelling it out, wheres the fun in that?
― ledge, Sunday, 25 March 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
Working too hard can give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack?
― Singularities Going Steady (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
water off a duck's back but no idea why
― less of the same (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 March 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Daughter/ water spoonerism. Don't get the rest though.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
daughter off a buck's whack. buck=stag, whack=smash (as in ws).
i think we should all just put this sorry episode behind us and move on.
― ledge, Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
srsly
― less of the same (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
I was trying to work out some buck/fuck spoonerism but that's as far as I got
― kinder, Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
unmoving, curiously moved, moves uniformly (7)
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
noticeably stopped hitting (8)
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
because of a long lock, a strong hold? (8)
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
injure again for relief (7)
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
might just make a crossword tbh
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
fortress
respite
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 March 2012 10:31 (twelve years ago) link
that's right pick up the soft ones first
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 26 March 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
noticeably stopped hitting (8)striking?
― A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Monday, 26 March 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
ya
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 26 March 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
marches?
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 07:52 (twelve years ago) link
no but not bad
― less of the same (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 08:00 (twelve years ago) link
that one might be a little dodgy tbn but sure we'll see
― less of the same (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 08:01 (twelve years ago) link
can you explain what "stopped" is doing in the "striking" clue?
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 08:02 (twelve years ago) link
downed tools kinda thing
― less of the same (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
ah right i get it
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 08:18 (twelve years ago) link
tch tch
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 2 April 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Saw one in the Guardian Friday before last I wanted to share with you all but now I can't remember.
― Singularities Going Steady (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 April 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
a_n__i_a
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 2 April 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
fucked that up eh
amnesia
― God arrives for the apocalypse, having been traveling at the speed of (ledge), Monday, 2 April 2012 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
explain?
― kinder, Monday, 2 April 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck knows
― God arrives for the apocalypse, having been traveling at the speed of (ledge), Monday, 2 April 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
eh that wasn't the answer to the 'unmoving' clue! It was just a throwaway pun on the previous post.
Just sayin like
― less of the same (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
give us some real letters then man
― i remember when there was time for klax (ledge), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
fuckin phone does successive underscores as a filled line ffs
ends in ia
― less of the same (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
inertia. don't know why.
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link