Hot butter instrumental in adult material being on no computer (7)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Popcorn!
Now I have that stuck in my head.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Way out alien abducting eleven (4)Great Scot, I'm moonstruck! (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Exit
― Emmet Otter's SugBan Christmas (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes.
Rum Michael Jackson album with vehicle crashing into me (7)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Bacardi
― last night i dreamt somebody shoved me (ledge), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes.Frozen soiled buried around in a hard nut (6)
Still waiting on "moonstruck" one.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Slight reclue:Frozen soil packed up in hard nut (6)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
tundra?
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Yup.
[i]Great Scot, I'm moonstruck! (5)[\i]
-n---
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
This top class thousand fewer wouldn't lead you anywhere. (7)
great scot - ben?
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
-n-m-
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
onimo?
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
:)
― there are other prophets you know? (onimo), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
How one would announce the lead in to a confused dictator?
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
(9)
aimless
― last night i dreamt somebody shoved me (ledge), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
^7
― there are other prophets you know? (onimo), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
too easy, i knew it.
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Heavy sound shatters river (6)
How one would announce the lead in to a confused dictator?No idea about this one.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 July 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
introduce
― whatever, Friday, 17 July 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't get the 'confused' bit.
― ledge, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
duce is italian translation of dictator. that's all i can think it is.
― whatever, Saturday, 18 July 2009 07:58 (fourteen years ago) link
So it looks like it should read: How one would announce the lead in to r confused dictator?
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
a lead in is an 'intro', was the thinking. 'duce' is the ictator, 'confused' a reference to the anagram.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
What anagram?
― ailsa, Monday, 20 July 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
eh. now i'm confused. move on, move on.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
a lead in = intro
to a = i.e. joined to the next part of the clue
confused dictator = duce (confusion as in it's a translation of 'dictator')
it's a pretty shit clue tbh. using 'confused' to designate a translation of a word is just fcking lazy. but the setter didn't put 'mussolini' in the clue because it would have made the answer too obvious and he/she couldn't be arsed to come up with something better.
― whatever, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i think you could just drop the 'confused', and trust people to figure duce = mussolini = dictator.
― ledge, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
yup, it's a shit clue.
― whatever, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
easy tiger
― ledge, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
here you go in chaos courted (9)
― whatever, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
meh. i've seen better, i've seen worse. it's certainly neither worth twenty posts of criticism/analysis nor the amount of ire it appears to have generated in your good self.
i've already pointed out that 'confused' was an error on my part, as there wasn't an anagram- it wasn't substituting for translation. the rest of it seems sound enough, tbh.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 20 July 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Spanish circle jump (6)Uptight around before trench (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Spanish circle jump (6)
spring
― whatever, Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Uptight around before trench (5)
canal
― whatever, Thursday, 23 July 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yes and yes.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't get 'canal'?
― ledge, Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
c (circa) before anal (uptight) = trench
― ailsa, Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
d'oh, I should've got anal
^ poor attempt for 'quoted out of context' thread
― ledge, Thursday, 23 July 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
dough around wood (4)open, strong and smelly (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
cash
― whatever, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I think for the second one I should have worded it
open, loud and smelly (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Frank (got it before the rewording, but confirmed further)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Loud Smiths album to electrocute sound system and big mother (5,5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Frank Zappa! Nice.
I can't really do these, and I'm not happy with this (may be so poorly constructed as to be insoluble) but I am bored, so, feel free to point out flaws... gently.
Root of all conflict three points behind deceased prizewinners (8)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
does it end in 'dens'?
― whatever, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think I'll get that one, not after these two beers.
This isn't mine but it's a memorable one:
Enmark? (4,2,3,3)
― whatever, Friday, 24 July 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, that should be:
Enmark? (4,2,3)
Almost, but two of the "points" are the same, because I am not good at these. That is one of the flaws, but sadly not the only one.
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 24 July 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link