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H------n

A false reversal indicator?
This was perhaps an exaggeration. You want I should have said "shrink wife mountain"? What am I, Tarzan?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's another one

My bird for a kingdom! (3)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

handymen?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

DING DING DING!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

oh! BRILLIANT

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Shrink leads wife into mountain maybe?

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

This bird clue is hard!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, no it isn't. Auk!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it my clue now or onimo's or ledge's or all three?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Auk! D'oh.

Well, whoever comes up with one first I guess.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, my brain is dead so newspaper one:

pub arranged to have meals in every bar (6)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

upbeat

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

While I was away, I came up with this

Mad scientist's fearless leader worked to recognize his large mug (12)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

frankenstein, but still working on why...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, recognise is ken? right, gotcha.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Cry of a cockney bird (3)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

(I kept thinking it was going to be H----eck, with possibly a -bn- in the middle, and was trying to see if there were any famous Jerry H--bnecks or something.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

owl.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

new blood!

new clue!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

While we're waiting for isadora, here's some more:

Push back pariah in disgust (5)

Savage morning in New York (6)

Ego-less holding back holding Aussie eatery (10)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 23 December 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Virgin to provide experience to freshmen (3,5)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Restaurant.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 December 2005 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Repel.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 December 2005 08:09 (eighteen years ago) link

What's still unsolved? Savage morning?

(VL's is new blood right?)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 23 December 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Right.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

(I feel a bit daft calling everyone by screennames on a thread like this - should we do some introducing while we're waiting for Ndawny to mean savage? I'm Greg)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 23 December 2005 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi dere I'm Ole!

Mocking God's mother and ourselves (5)

(if it proves too hard, substitute FPBGGVFUNEGVFG for ZBPXVATTBQ (encoded in ROT13)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Momus!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Indeed! Did you get it without applying the hint? (It does involve some semi-obscure mythology...)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

The original pass-it-on rules seem to be ignored; fine by me.

Request the first of the fold (5)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

(BTW that was *not* directed towards ailsa for not immediately coming up with another clue)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, I am rubbish at making up clues, have none to hand and had buggered off to the shops to collect my turkey. No offence taken :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 23 December 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

pleat

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Pigged out in NYC (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Hint: it has the same answer as the other one you haven't solved.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Gotham.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't see how "blood" works in "new blood", which is what I otherwise thought that clue was.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

The "to provide experience" is a clue for "to blood" - football managers often talk of blooding young players into a team, as in giving them a game to get them more experienced (is that the bit you didn't get?).

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

This one is too easy:

Santa saw "Heck on drugs!" in part of Canada. (11)

(xpost, oh, I've never heard that term.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

The "to provide experience" is a clue for "to blood"

Correct in essence, though the equation "provide experience to" = "blood" was the precise intention. Transitive verb and all that.

Redd H's "pleat" is right, as if s/he or anyone else needed telling.

This one is not mine; I proposed the answer @ web somewhere and person came up with a stroke of at least near genius going something like

Starting in one country, Roman spouse replaces myself, changes, and ends up in a neighbouring country (10)

Argh now I feel I cannot do any justice bcz cannot remember properly...

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link

(It's a bit unfair due to my misremembering; please do not let it hold up flow of thread bcz I = drunqX0r)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

It sounds perhaps clever but I can't get a toe in.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Azerbadjian?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Saskatchewan!

― reclusive hero (reclusive hero), Saturday, 24 December 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link

But of course. Your turn!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link

(The near-impossible country one was yhkrzobhet (rot13) by the way.

Orytvhz -> "V" ercynprq ol "hkbe" ("jvsr" va Yngva) -> orythkbehz -> punatrq -> yhkrzobhet)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Yowza.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Mixed-up muppet sauce (4)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 24 December 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I think, in a crossword, that would be gettable, in that you would have some letters and you'd get the answer and then slowly work out exactly where it came from with regard to the clue. But as a standalone, yikes, it's nasty!

(xpost - mole?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 December 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

(Yup)

I almost wish I hadn't read/decoded the clue, as I think it is almost gettable in that the two countries ARE usually mentioned in the same breath.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 24 December 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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