never mind, caved and bought the guardian
― thomp, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
I've lost my mojo
re: the guardian, did anyone do araucaria's easter prize double? i'm sure he thinks running the clues together is terribly clever but the surface reading just ends up being garbled nonsense.
― ledge, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
A good 'un in today's Guardian:
Lothario, or Spooner's soles (5-5)
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
my brain is stuck going 'novar cassa' which i'm pretty sure is not a thing
― thomp, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
right lines...
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
and one from the observer at the weekend - Newspaper job (5)
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
demon lover, nice.
― woof, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
yep, well done! took me a while but I was really happy when I got it...
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
Just got there myself and made a little noise halfway between a groan and a snort of laughter out loud in the office. Which was awkward.
Not got koogs' yet, though...
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
what's the answer then koogs?
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
theft
which i only got as i had letters 1, 3 and 5. 'job' being newspaper headline speak for a big robbery, but that seemed unsatisfactory, like it was missing something. took 10 minutes to realise that it's also 'the FT'.
― koogs, Thursday, 26 April 2012 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah nice one!
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 26 April 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
from the latest games magazine
500 = 100 = 0 (4)
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
got it. won't spoil it.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
also, like it.
very neat
― underleg aeroboots i have smithed (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
took me a minute as I mistook 500 for 50
― we are not bemused (onimo), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
50 + 1 + 100 + 1000 = total (4)
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
One in crows nest reportedly is egomaniac (5-5)
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
---K
--V--/-A---
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
LICK
― Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
what was500 = 100 = 0 (4) ?
― kinder, Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
DISC
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yep
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
the sum of 50, 1, 100 and 1000 would be MCLI though. you mean the concatenation...
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
+ is a concatenation operator...
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
D IS C "is"
Oh but ledge set another, which onimo solved. Carry on, Cluru.
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
Irrationally revere courses containing seed of giant sequoias, e.g. (9,5)
I figured out the answer, but I'm still not sure how the clue works.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
anagram ('irrationally') of 'revere' with first letter (seed) of giant in it, followed by 'entrees' (= courses).
― woof, Monday, 16 July 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
ahhh, I was doubly screwed: never got entrees, so I was working on another way to get 'courses' via greens (like golf courses) and I have never seen 'seed' to mean first letter. Is that common?
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Get greens via courses, but anyway...
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
never seen 'seed' iirc, pretty sure i would grumble if i came across it in the wild.
― ledge, Monday, 16 July 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i don't like it
― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
tho it's kinda obvious what it's doing and since you're likely to arrive at the answer before you break down the clue i guess it's okay
didn't know sequouias were evergreen i must admit
― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
don't think I've seen it before, it does a bit feel off.
― woof, Monday, 16 July 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
I think it *would* have been obvious if I had gotten 'entrees,' but my mind never went there.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
Depicts, ultimately, under false pretenses. (10)
The way 'ultimately' works in this doesn't work for me, but I defer to the experts.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty easy, but fun I thought, from today's Guardian:
Off limits, like an exhausted kangaroo? (3,2,6)
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
Ha
― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
Assassin of sci-fi mob of Iowa (6)
― Like Monk Never Happened (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 July 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
btw mine was 'represents.' But anagramming pretenses it requires an extra 'r' -- so they're getting that from "ultimately under?" (Last letter of under?)
The way the clue reads seems like it should be the last letter of depicts (s) under anagrammed 'pretenses', but that doesn't work. Completely wonky, or just me?
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
wonky, but fair I reckon. I think the confusion is by design, so that's irritating. Don't like it tbh - don't really like that kind of word (lots of super-common letters, boring sequence), clue feels abstract, weightless.
(obvs just bitter because I didn't get it)
― woof, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, the theme of this puzzle was E; every word used only that vowel. Once I caught on, it made the puzzle much easier, but LOTS of super common letters.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
letters?
― ledge, Sunday, 29 July 2012 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
-o----
― Like Monk Never Happened (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 July 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
trying to think of a sci-fi assassin ending in 'ia'...
― ledge, Monday, 30 July 2012 08:46 (eleven years ago) link
or not.
borgia.
ha! got hung up on the sci-fi mob being "nova" which was probably overthinking it
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
from today's Guardian:
Pubs' motto, possibly? (7,2)
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
nice
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link