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I really like this one from the times:

"What a young man wears in clubs, perhaps" (5,4)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't understand ledge's :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Black suit? Something suit.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Which one of ledge's?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

The "..." one!

(nearly there chel)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Short suit?

... (8)
That one? I thought it might be Anaconda, but I can't put it all together.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Sin safari group? (5)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought he said it was 'clueless'?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah? When he said in reference to yours, I thought he meant a different answer for your clue, with one more letter. Never mind.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Pride, that one is.

(I've got another one, but should I post it with two open clues?)

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Which clues are open right now?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

(though I think it is "black suit", so I guess just one)

xpost: isn't "..." open? Because if not:

Look at the meter, glance it over, then avoid it, I'd say. (8)

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

scansion!

U a poet,#2421?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh dear, I hope not!

Here's one more, then I should adjourn for a while:

"Flipped over!", the boy cries, but it's a false alarm: some would say it's a nice delivery! (4)

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Blood type I gave halfway to the end (5)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Flow

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Excellent.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh dear, I hope not!
Good, there's already too many on this thread ;)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Someone should research the phenomenon.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Er that's not a clue by the way, just a remark.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

A poet, a rainbow- almost hell! (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

me :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

(short suit and black suit are both nearly but not quite right)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

minor suit?

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

That's gotta be it. Thanks, ailsa.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Nicked from yesterday's Guardian:

What's offered with litre in hacienda, possibly? (9)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

OK I know what that is, but I cheated a little bit

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Yup ailsa!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I have been trying to make anagrams out of Hacienda+l for the last hour with no success.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 January 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha I used the anagram server in desperation when doing that crossword. And as is always the way when you cheat, the anagram immediately looked like the most obvious one ever...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Ok I cheated too... I dunno, I don't feel so bad for not getting it, it's not a word which is at the forefront of my vocabulary (oh if only there were more good Mexican restaurants in London).

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha Archel, that is exactly right.

Blood type I gave halfway to the end (5)
--e--

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

omega

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Mongrels upset over small examination (8)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

cursoral

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

No, there's no such word

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

-c------

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

scrutiny

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Beer acidity causes kind of infinity (5)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Aleph

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Musical I am in, a heavyweight work (9)

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Ledge, I'm ... (8). In the meantime,

Loser among posers doesn't show up (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Is ledge's "animation"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Probably

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Is yours "flakes", for pete's sake?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 28 January 2006 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Not animation, but you're close. Ish. Begins with O.

― ledge (ledge), Saturday, 28 January 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Operation.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 28 January 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

nice

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 28 January 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, Chris.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, but you are correct.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

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