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er, licence.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

owns

― Ross G. (scatter), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Upside down! That's a nice, er, twist.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I should have used "dominates" for the standard clue actually! I forgot I was on ilx.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link

New clue!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I should have used "dominates" for the standard clue actually! I forgot I was on ilx.

You'd have had to change sumo to sumd.

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

horny setter gets mixed up in porno - it makes no logical sense! (8,8)

― MrArchel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

and if anyone gets that one without recourse to at least a dictionary I will crown you the official winner of this thread in perpetuity...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh now there's a challenge.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I needed help.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Help is what I needed.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Yep, I think it's a challenge I'm not up to.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll urge M to provide some letters.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

-y------- p-------

― MrArchel, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry that didn't work quite as i expected. try this -

.y...... p.......

this is one for all you latin lovers out there...

― mrArchel, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Hydrogen peroxide?

No wait, I already cheated and it wasn't that.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh I know this! It's Hyperton Something, hang on.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 February 2006 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't remember :( I USED TO KNOW THIS

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 February 2006 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link

How did you cheat, Ken?

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 2 February 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Anagrammer.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Quite a handy site, I normally use Chambers word wizards.

Anyway I've tried anagarms of hornysetterporno and hornyarchelporno with no luck. I GIVE UP.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Is that a web site? I used the anagrammer that came with my SOED.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I just googled it and it came up! It's scrabble oriented, gives you a list of words you can make out of the letters, in length or score order.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

hy------ p--t----

― art vandelay (what?), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

it's a rhetorical question, or at least a question of rhetoric

― art vandelay (what?), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

hysteron-proteron?

― frankiemachine, Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

A drum roll, please. I think we have a winner, one who probably knew the term without recourse to dictionaries or other reference materials.

Can we have a new clue, too?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

OK an easier one, I think:

O (8,6)

― frankiemachine, Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

not orginal btw - I would need a bit of time to think one up - I haven't read the whole thread and didn't realise I was meant to post a clue.

― frankiemachine, Thursday, 2 February 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Now that could be just about anything. I think this is a case where letter clues would make it harder to come up with an answer.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Circular letter?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I wanted it to be

O (9,5)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, circular letter is right. Well done. Could be anything before you get it but once you twig I think there's a certain inevitability to it.

― frankiemachine, Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

One of my favourite posters on one of my favourite threads!

is the 9-5 the current clue then?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 3 February 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Circular letter was what I had in mind as well, but I felt like there had to be even cleverer answers. Although 9, 5 is not coming to mind right now, so that might be cleverer.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 February 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

hornyarchelporno

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 3 February 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

9,5 is not coming to mind because it's not that clever. I don't even think it's a full-(f)ledged clue. Here are some letters.

-n------- -o---

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

(Something) round?

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

-n-----a- -o---

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 3 February 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

-n--e--a- -o---

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Universal donut

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Well it's either that or unisexual torus.

Nah I'm just yankin' yer chain. Really I have no idea.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

-n--e--a- -o--o-

But I like the Ledge's answers better. Remember, it's not a real clue and was not even presented as such.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

it seems to have grown an extra letter?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

-o-o-

Can somebody come up with a new clue please?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

And no, it's not unisexual robot, either.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Choose one mother to be the best (7)

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 3 February 2006 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

optimum

― frankiemachine, Friday, 3 February 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Universal donor.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 February 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

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