― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I like your clue but cannot get it, yet.
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link
A tribe's = a nation's
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― MrArchel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
(Don't worry, though, it wasn't too UK-centric -- I'd be a hypocrite if I were to complain about that.)
xpost: Ha, you got it! Not too US-centric, then!
― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Scantily-clad woman reportedly gave birth to baby horse in wake of recent accident (10)
― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Still Archel's turn to post a clue, I think
― frankiemachine, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link
To be going along with:
Batting record before tea, we're told, is useless (5)
― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Root beer, frozen (9)
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Female's punishing triathlon (7)
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― mrArchel, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― ArtVandelay (Archel), Thursday, 9 February 2006 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link
never odd or even? (10)
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 9 February 2006 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― ArtVandelay (Archel), Thursday, 9 February 2006 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 9 February 2006 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― art vandelay (what?), Saturday, 11 February 2006 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Dancer's brain scattered around cut-off backstreet (9)
― Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
I was missing this thread!
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Female's punishing triathlon (7) - or (4-3) if you prefer
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Monday, 13 March 2006 09:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Clue to mine:
--l--- ---e-
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Are you sure that 'l' shouldn't be in fourth position, Archel?
(xpost)
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Ah that extra 'l' hint gave it away... Yellow Pages!
― ledge (ledge), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I guess if I'd done a bit of elementary triathlon research I would have got yours...
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
I am not very good at cryptic crosswords. Though I did manage to half-complete two real crossword puzzles recently, which made me prouder than almost anything else.
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Do published cryptic crosswords do this? I have to admit it totally throws me off, I'd always assumed that every part of the clue had to be functional.
― lurker #2421, Monday, 13 March 2006 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
(I have to admit it totally throws me off, I'd always assumed that every part of the clue had to be incorporated in the answer, with nothing extra left over.)
― lurker #2421, Monday, 13 March 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― lurker #2421, Monday, 13 March 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link