Did that puzzle this morning on the train. I thought "overall" was fine, but elsewhere "ending in rubble" = E threw me. I kept trying to put "dreams ending" (S) into a word for rubble.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 August 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,644, 13 Down: Actors awarded stars? Done! (9)
Classic Paul but so does "done" mean this? Is it a farming thing?
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Friday, 7 August 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Haha I'm working through this grid atm, Paul is king of the xword dadjoke
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,644, 11 Across: Insect in diminutive temple, might you say? (8)
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,644, 21 Across: Behind — behind London it's sung out loud? (8)
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Friday, 7 August 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
more of a family pet thing. "we're going to have him 'done'"
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Friday, 7 August 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
I've never heard of that. Fixed, yes.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 8 August 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
there was a great clue in Saturday's Guardian crossword:
One attached to an arrangement of holes? (8)
― Neil S, Monday, 17 August 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
v good. christ i hardly ever get clues when they're posted out of context in this thread.
― ledge, Monday, 17 August 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
the previous week's prize crossword was also very good, once you get the theme http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/26645
― Neil S, Monday, 17 August 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
I completed the most recent prize crossword but couldn't get anywhere with that one
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Monday, 17 August 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
btw:
Activities of writer surrounded by cocks (6)
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Monday, 17 August 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
HA! That didn't actually get published, did it?
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
No that was me
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
On another note, a setter used UFFIZI as part of a clue last week. Seems a bit arcane, or maybe my world gallery knowledge is not all it could be.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
what was the clue? Uffizi is one of the world's greatest galleries...
― Neil S, Monday, 17 August 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
Went on securing gallery, ejecting one unknown thug (7)
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Save this nonsense for a bank holiday imo
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Saturday, 22 August 2015 10:48 (eight years ago) link
(Actually I'm enjoying this grid more since I figured out there were special instructions that don't show up in the app)
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Saturday, 22 August 2015 11:01 (eight years ago) link
Awful din that is not linked to major label (5)
Ha!
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 3 September 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
One of the few I got this week.
― koogs, Friday, 4 September 2015 04:18 (eight years ago) link
Pls can someone explain the uffizi one?
― kinder, Friday, 4 September 2015 09:10 (eight years ago) link
RAN containing UFFIZI
― oddesseslessness (wins), Friday, 4 September 2015 09:35 (eight years ago) link
yeah that seems fair enough tbh
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Friday, 4 September 2015 10:17 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah, totally fair. I'd just never heard of Uffizi.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 4 September 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
I think my other problem with this is Uffizi is *a* gallery, but it's not a synonym for gallery.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 4 September 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
Guardian Prize crossword No 26,669, 14 Across: Labouring obsession in creation of an icon, barmy? (11)
^liked this, finding the rest of this one hard to crack tho
― oddesseslessness (wins), Sunday, 6 September 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
yeah just came to post that one!
― Neil S, Monday, 7 September 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
Desert Youth's broadcast for intermediary of fly fisherman's cousin, perhaps (3,2-7)
Obvious, inelegant, and UK only reference. Thumbs up!
― steppenwolf in white van speaker scam (ledge), Sunday, 20 September 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
OK, helped by the fact that is on TV as we speak...
I thought broadcast was an anagram indicator, not a homophone indicator... Makes some sense though.
― koogs, Sunday, 20 September 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
that is ridiculous. yeah thumbs up.
― OshoKosho B'Gosho (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 September 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
idgi
― syphilis sive morbus cameronus (wins), Monday, 21 September 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fly-Fishing-Memories-Angling-Days/dp/009177909X
― koogs, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,691, 11 Across: Vicious, regressive Blairism, without originator strangely different (10)
― fappy board (wins), Thursday, 1 October 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
Googling Blairism leads to Atlanticism. so that
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 1 October 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
Paul being corny again, like it
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,692, 18 Across: Singer rated worst, two-starred, and rotter with wads to splash around (3,7)
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 10:23 (eight years ago) link
fell asleep before I got to the end of the clue
― nameReinhard Gruhl/name (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:08 (eight years ago) link
It's the exact opposite of elegant clueing but I appreciate this guys tendency to go for the groan
Btw isdg the fly fishing one
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
LP Hartley, author, could be cousin to JR Hartley, fly-fisherman. LP Hartley wrote...?
― Neil S, Friday, 2 October 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
Aiaiai
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link
I know right
― Neil S, Friday, 2 October 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
don't get the "Desert Youth's broadcast" bit?
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:19 (eight years ago) link
Gobi tween
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:21 (eight years ago) link
sorry (not sorry)
― Do you feel guilty about your wight western priva (ledge), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
jeez, would never have gotten that. seems unnecessary? clue would have worked just as well with just "intermediary of fly fisherman's cousin, perhaps"
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:23 (eight years ago) link
i aspire to greater things than rufusian minimalism
― Do you feel guilty about your wight western priva (ledge), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
The homophone is the best part of that one
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
I have to confess I used that exact homophone for a pictogram round when I ran a music quiz. (In the plural, for the Gobi Tweens.)
― emil.y, Friday, 2 October 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
(I also used Wand Erection in the same round. I am a terrible human.)
I like doing Rufus puzzles because he's pretty easy, but too many purely cryptic clues.
Also, for as long as I've been doing these you'd think I'd have learned that monarch, or similar, can = ER. Catches me every time.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 2 October 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed this clue in today's Graun:
Start of parenthood: man and woman having swell time? (9)
― Neil S, Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Do you feel guilty about your wight western priva (ledge), Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link