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I should work on this one a bit more:

80s film's unstable drip. (5, 2)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link

No idea about achy breaky hearth - and 80s film? Talk about a vague definition!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link

haha

Rocky IV!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link

IV! Jesus, I'd even recently been thinking about using IV for drip in a clue of my own :-(

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha nice.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Noo cloo!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh alright then, even if I haven't answered any recently... here's a cumbersome monstrosity of my own.

"Clown to the left of me, joker to the right, here I am, stuck in the the middle", says Spooner, "being neither one nor the other" (7,7,3,6)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

-a---y

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

-a-e-y

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Bakery?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Yup.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Two in a day, I'm on a roll, and I only needed half of the letters :-)

I'll go make a clue up.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Chaotic sex recoils without end, you think that's funny? (9)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Excelsior.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I just wanted someone to say it to one of my posts.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

― RoxyMuzak½ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I am intrigued by ledge's but no joy yet...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Falling between two stools?

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Or stalling between two fools?

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

oh sorry, must be the first one.

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yep indeed. Maybe should have lost the quotes from the 2nd bit of the clue.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I have nothing to contribute. Sorry. That last one was excellent, by the way.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Just missed out on a Cuban (5,3,2,5)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Close but no cigar

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I need to make these harder don't I?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

No. That one was nice.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

More loopy than variable bit rate (7)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Battier.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

This may be my worst yet. I think they may be more fun to put together than to solve.

Sung? Lean lady remixed the song of the year (4,4,4)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Auld Lang Syne

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Auld lang syne.

Did we have another clue for that upthread, or was that in an actual crossword I did recently?

Dent setter's iron (7)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

This may be my worst yet. I think they may be more fun to put together than to solve.
This is certainly my approach to clue construction

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Want to say "impress," but don't know how the IM works.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes. Setter's = setter is = I am = im

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

IM = I'm = the setter (of the clue)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Fix broken plates (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's another:

Closet saint or leave in a vat (7)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link

First one is staple

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Yup. Other is
--o----

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Storage?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Yup.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 20 January 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Elvis didn't want to go to this church beside the Spanish Main (7)

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 20 January 2006 09:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Aaargh - you know when you get an answer in yourhead which you don't think is right but every time you look at the clue it's there in your head?

Seville, for no other reason than it has Elvis in it and is Spanish.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm a frayed knot.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link

how many letters?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I kill myself,, I really do.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyway, I got storage, so here's one I just amde up!

Something mystifying's going down at church, I see. (7)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

You've heard the overworked postman gag I trust...

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, yes I have :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

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