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It's not that hard!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Amelia Earhart!

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 23 January 2006 09:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Old King tried to hold back the tide - he was a confused cunt (4)

Sorry - came up with the idea of filthy x-word clues at the w/end. I was pissed though. And Private Eye pretty much do it already.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think PE have ever used cunt or fuck though, sadly.

Cnut.

Do I have to make up a dirty one now? I will have a think...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck art: international relations reformed merry man (5,4)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Friar Tuck. Continuing with the theme:

Cockney chum takes other key, the cad (12)

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 23 January 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link

motherfucker! nice!

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 23 January 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

This may be a bit tenuous:

Synagogue confused with learner wearing bit -- nonsense! (8)

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 23 January 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

bullshit.

― MrArchel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Easy tiger.

What's the synagogue bit about?

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

shul is yiddish for synagogue (from the same root as school). anagrammed along with 'bit' and 'l' for learner.

― MrArchel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Blimey. I'm going to get shown up by my own husband aren't I (if that's really you).

Your turn then!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

problem at start getting milk jug, cups and pot to balance on tray, i hear. (8,7)

― MrArchel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm stumped :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

It must be teething something... but teething trouble doesn't seem to work.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

no it is teething trouble
at least it was supposed to be!

― MrArchel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

as in sounds like (i hear) 'tea thing' trouble.

― MrArchel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought it had something to do with wobbly service.

Amelia Earhart!
And I was trying to Saint-Exupery work!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Is the tray just one of the tea things then?

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

yes

― MrArchel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Righty-ho. Good clue, I like!

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

ta. your go

― MrArchel (what?), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Writer Roland Barthes inspired sound adjustment of scrotum. (6)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 23 January 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

(Just wanted to get a dirty one in before that fad was forgotten.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 23 January 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Even when I wake up early, it's after the British kids are tuckered out.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 23 January 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

The Cherwell crossword used to be like 80% dirty clues at one point - "X taken from behind", "X gives head to", "X slips into"...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Like garlic (or verse), it's taken internally (5)

― lurker #2421, Monday, 23 January 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

(Oh, and the one before is "Balzac", isn't it?)

― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Mais oui.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link

hmmm... well, i don't know. any chance of a little clue? maybe a letter?
i thought it might be 'stake' as it's like garlic in that it kills vampires and it's in the clue (it'*s take*n), but i don't think that's right as i can't work out the 'verse' bit. any other ideas anyone?

― art vandelay (what?), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe its like a vampire-ish accent "I vant to suck your blood" "its even verse than I feared"?

I am now going to shamelessly gatecrash with my first even clue I thought up. A nail tangled up in the jungle (5)

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe its like a vampire-ish accent "I vant to suck your blood" "its even verse than I feared"?

Right, you've got it: a stake is "verse" than garlic, because it kills 'em, natch.

Isadora's is "liana".

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link

How about:

I am not a headless pterodactyl. (4)

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Ever since I came down with this cold I haven't gotten a single one!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Ever since I thought up some clues to try out I havent gotten a single one. What's a letter in the headless pterodactyl?

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmmm, that'd give it away, I think...

Let's say it starts with a vowel. And that the word has no letters from the second half of the alphabet.

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Tell me it's not iamb.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link

That's like, triple riddle, no clue!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I like it.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Ajax isn't cross with infernal writer. Here be penguins! (3,5)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Aja/Dante.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Not that that means much to me...

Two blokes and a dead python (7)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link

... (8)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Ellipsis?

Incidentally, I couldn't get ONE SINGLE CLUE in the Graun today :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

That'd be straight! Nah, it's clueless - with ref. to yours...

Was it Araucaria?

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

chapman!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha, that's great.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks :)

Um, the Gaurdian one was Auster today I think.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

From abroad I'm the opposite of too much (8)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Imported! ("I'm" + "de trop") Wow, that's a nasty one.

How about:

Missing digits? Some folks can't tolerate it. (7)

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

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