although, thinking about it, the 'over' makes more sense attached to the first bit leaving the last bit as the definition. ROOD / DOOR btw.
― koogs, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
^^^ the more I thought about my initial comment, yes, this.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Monday, 2 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
the only "rule" afaic is that the clue leads grammatically to the solution
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 March 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
did ppl get my poem
― Luis Brañuel - Bell de Jour (wins), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
I appreciated it. Haven't got it yet though.
― ledge, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Hint: ilx
― Luis Brañuel - Bell de Jour (wins), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Stumped.
― ledge, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
--/-a--/--n/-a-
― Luis Brañuel - Bell de Jour (wins), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
we want hen fap
pls to dissect, thy bardy bacon sandwich
― ladies goatse to the queen (qiqing), Thursday, 5 March 2015 00:53 (nine years ago) link
whew\and then\fap
I used "small" as an indicator for initial letter, I'm not sure if that's allowed but I feel like I've seen it in the less rigorous puzzles
― Luis Brañuel - Bell de Jour (wins), Thursday, 5 March 2015 00:59 (nine years ago) link
"ye ejaculation", nice. thought that archaism must indicate something. i'm not down with 'small' but overall a+ v creative, love to see more along these lines.
― ledge, Thursday, 5 March 2015 09:39 (nine years ago) link
Make drunk supply a beer in it (9)
If "supply" is doing what I think it does in this, I've never seen that before and it's clever.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
that anagram jumps out at you (me) anyway
― koogs, Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, wasn't hard at all (Everyman), I just liked supply.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
I've seen supply before & was impressed, yeah. Enjoy stuff like that
― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Thursday, 12 March 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
sorry for British, today's Guardian
According to Spooner, Rooney's scandal is to put on a few pounds (4,6)
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Friday, 13 March 2015 13:06 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I figured it out without even knowing who Rooney is.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Friday, 13 March 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
American version: Gretzky, Kramer, Knight
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Friday, 13 March 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
I went for Mickey at first, before I just looked at the length of the two words and went 'duh.'
Re: supply as an anagrind, I had resort yesterday, another good double usage. I'd seen that used several times before, but it still catches me and gets me trying to fit 'spa' in there somewhere.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Friday, 13 March 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link
Apprehensive when a vote is taken about your vitals (7)
― ledge, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
I'm all done cooking piece of meat (9)
an easy one from chifonie, except the fifth letter is i. guardian reading ukippers will be up in arms.
― ledge, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:29 (nine years ago) link
(and the seventh letter is L)
― ledge, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:31 (nine years ago) link
Not gonna lie, that confused me for a sec
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Monday, 16 March 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
finished the everyman this week, first time in a while. the two hardest bits:
Recent plays by key dramatist (7)
Elephant keeper, married with a husband no longer in the game (6)
the one i can't explain is:
Man on board heard in the dark (5) (NIGHT. is that a homophone for KNIGHT? ah, yes. chess board.)
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Rattigan? Nope. The ur-terence.
― ledge, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
Comprehensive schooling not big on Roman playwrights, it seems.
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
me neither
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
I looked up a list of playwrights and it was obvious enough, especially as i had half the letters. Anagram of RECENT with an extra E (the 'key' part of the clue).
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
c'mon, this is rufus level. also:
Take part in march against rogues' gallery holding the ultimate banner (11)
― ledge, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Got the 1st one now, vg
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
Can't remember if rufus-level is good or bad
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link
Rufus is super easy level, and some of his cluing is a bit suspect ime. I don't mind his puzzles though.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
Rufus is super easy level, and some of his cluing is a bit suspect ime
yep, that's about my level.
― ledge, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
What paper is he in? Istr he made easy xwords that were nonetheless fun cause lots of themes &c, or am I thinking of someone else? Did a Simpsons themed one once eg
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Rufus is in the Guardian. Ledge, you always seem (to a newbie like myself) like a cryptic go to guy in this thread?!
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
rufus is good entry level stuff but even as a relative beginner i don't enjoy him - either the answer leaps out at you or if it doesn't the clue's rarely written in such a way that i'm motivated to think about it for long
arachne is easily my favourite i think
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
xp i meant my own clues - super easy and often a bit suspect. really need to go have a go at doing a full puzzle instead of the odd "ooh that'd make a good clue" moment of inspiration.
― ledge, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Rufus appears under that name in the Guardian and does the easy Monday puzzles, but has done stuff under other names for most other papers too (particularly the Telegraph iirc, although they don't name their setters)
I quite like his Monday Graun puzzles or at least think they're unfairly maligned but then they are, to quote ledge, "about my level"
(haven't finished a cryptic in so long I'm not sure I even have a level any more. got ledge's second, not the first)
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
I just this second got the second - actually brilliant imo
I like Paul, s/he seems to be quite consciously aiming for some kind of nu-auracaria upstart status, tho I'm a xword dilettante & can't really remember who is who
I seem to either complete grids or get no clues at all, & couldn't tell you why. Completed the guardian in hardly any time whilst on MDMA once
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking of a different person before I think, not rufus
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah I really liked the second! please could someone give a poor moron a letter or other additional hint for the first?
btw
Man on board heard in the dark (5) (NIGHT. is that a homophone for KNIGHT? ah, yes. chess board.)― koogs, Tuesday, March 17, 2015 6:30 PM
that "on board" thing appeared in a couple of Guardian Quicks recently! fine by me but my cryptic-fearing quick-crossword companion was not amusedhttp://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/quick/13964 12D "All the men on board? (5,3)"http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/quick/13965 17A "Horse's head on board (6)"
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
paul is my bf's favourite and has definitely been upgraded since araucaria died. they've brought out a few new ones in the past couple of weeks, i enjoyed screw's debut.
i really feel like there's a massive gap in the market for a setter with, like, modern references...not just the occasional beyoncé clue but incorporating modern slang. my least favourite aspect of them are the old-fashioned slang/military abbreviation shit that i just don't care about at all.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
-n--o-- xp
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Too many &lits in Rufus. Like I'm hanging with someone constantly making puns.
Maybe said before, but Paul is probably my favourite setter with Aur. gone – surprising and smart clues in any given puzzle, his* range of references & expected knowledge is vg for the modern Guardian audience, really good themer.
btw can I say again my friend's history and culture of crosswords book is great and everyone should read it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Girls-One-Each-Knee/dp/0141977108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426718920&sr=8-1 Chapter on the nyt xword in the simpsons quotes ilx (nabisco) iirc.
*he is male
― woof, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
^I'm interested, I read that dreadful hornbyesque book about being a crossword fan
just remembered that I did already know paul's sex cause I met a guy in a pub who knew him, there is some hilarious anecdote behind his name or something iirc
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Oh I asked for your friend's book for Christmas after yr previous mention and thoroughly enjoyed it, ty woof's friend
I liked the end-of-chapter roundup of some of the best/worst of the Telegraph quick crossword puns; these things brighten my life now I a) don't have the brainpower for cryptics b) have a local pub which takes the Torygraph
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
i really feel like there's a massive gap in the market for a setter with, like, modern references...not just the occasional beyoncé clue but incorporating modern slang.
ikwym - but I think there are setters who could do it (& would really really enjoy exploring a new field of play), but it's about the venue more than anything – you've got to publish somewhere where the audience will see smh references as fair. (sorry, too sleepy & tipsy to put together a whole ship-in-reverse hms/smh clue there)
― woof, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
fuckboys incapacitated as per Spooner (8)
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
modern slang still doesn't mean i'm able to work it out :(
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:08 (nine years ago) link
ps thanks for the letters wins, I had a feeling I was failing due to some voting time-based ignorance and tbh I still am but now the answer and likely components are apparent I'll do some googling, eh
no idea on the Spoonerism but perhaps it will come to me at 3am as these things often do
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:42 (nine years ago) link