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Anyone feel free to jump in with another clue...

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link

For every green there's a deviant (7)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Heh, pervert...

Morning measure in a small amount is encompassing (7)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Minimal?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link

No. Some letters:

_ _ _ i _ n _

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

ambient?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

OK.

Cleaned up messed up dude on the street (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't really understand ambient as encompassing?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Really, Greg? It's the, um, dictionary definition.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link

am·bi·ent
adj.

Surrounding; encircling: ambient sound; ambient air.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

For Ken's: dusted? If so, I think "on the" is a bit misleading.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I know what you mean though Greg, it's hardly the most common usage any more - ideal for clue composers then really bwahaha :)

Yeah it's not 'on the' it's 'around', surely? But I'm no expert.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a good surface reading though... I'd maybe have clued it

Cleaned up messed up dude found hanging around the street

although even then I've stuck in an arguably redundant "hanging" to make it read better.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

From the Shorter OED

adj. 1 Surrounding, encircling, encompassing; enveloping.

From Merriam Webster's Tenth:
existing or present on all sides: ENCOMPASSING

But yeah, I know what you mean: encompassing seems to imply it's in the foreground, ambient the background.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

All right, Tom, give us a clue.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Exhausted, Ailsa crosses teh finish line (4)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Shot?

(What are you saying about Ailsa, Ole?)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Drinking with fellow ILXers (note: quietly, gin-addled) (7)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Er, should be "very quietly"...

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

fapping

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Not shot.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Beat? Is it "teh" or "the"?

I need to make my clues harder...

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Not beat.

Is it "teh" or "the"?

;)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Needle singer around club (7)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Last?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Not last. (It'll probably be obviously correct when you get it.)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

dash

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, I would have got that, had I seen it! Kudos for clever use of "teh" as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

He eats, shoots and leaves and is found in Pennsylvania! (5)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

ailsa: Kudos for clever use of "teh" as well.

Haha, more "WTF ENDS WITH A H?" desperate than clever actually.

Redd: Shot? (What are you saying about Ailsa, Ole?)

Still not sure whether you thought I was calling her a st. or a ho :)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

AMISH ? though I am not sure why. Sorry I cannot remember any great clues and making them up seems impossible. There is one something like: heart racing for a gamble (7)

― isadora (isadora), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck I am a complete looney obviously panda. how embarassing.

― isadora (isadora), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Ponder Alien Fish

― AJ Gerritson, Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Check out my dad's book of cryptics..self published.. http://www.norwayhillbooks.com

― AJ Gerritson, Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Mullet

Beers in ears cause damage (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

A certain poster is in the doghouse, I hear. (3 1)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

That'll be "Ken L" then.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

B-b-but Chris, where's the wordplay?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris and Huk,
I just bought a book of cryptics that originally appeared in the Canadian National Post. First clue of second puzzle contains the word Saskachewan.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link

hint!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

-r----

And for an old one:
Song sounds like it's about Ukranian waterway? (3,2,1,5)
-r- -- - ----r

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

cry me a river!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Cry Me A River!

shit xpost greg you jammy thing

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Well I'm going to pretend I got that first...

Unusual marriage of witch and a twitch (10)

(Either really difficult/badly clued or really easy, I can't tell any more.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Morganatic!

And one more letter for the other one
-r---e

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Lax tool forged salamander (7)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Is special Canadian knowledge needed for this one? xpost

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

That would be axolotl.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Where is everyone?

OK:
Driver has almost all of tablet, then occupational therapy (5)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

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