imo it's the kind of clue that breaks a couple of the stricter rules (wordplay into anagram, "run" is a weakish anagram indicator), but passes because it's fun overall (good surface, "runs any which way" is a great anagram indicator, even though it doesn't turn the whole into a proper &lit).
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just disappointed i couldn't work clint eastowood and/or an orangutang in there.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The thread would have explode.
anatole otm.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Around around around (10)
Any complaints, well, I was half asleep when I came up with it.
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
and a kind of flipside to that:
Only barely fair (4)
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Just
Still thinking about the other one.
― krakow, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 09:12 (fourteen years ago) link
hardly something to do with fish eggs
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
that's certainly cryptic. but is it a clue?
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
it's my question about yours!
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a question? fish eggs? what?
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
what?
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://scienceblogs.com/isisthescientist/upload/2009/02/whats_a_gal_gotta_do_to_get_a/confused.jpg
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgslide.health.com/images/slides/12444/full/web-confusion-sex-400.jpg
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
confused at that image name
web confusion sex is the best kind
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Around around around (10)Circumference, circulate, circuitous ..... dunno
Rough riding Swede (6)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
r---------
ingrid
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 08:27 (fourteen years ago) link
reclued:
Merry-go-round around around
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 09:19 (fourteen years ago) link
roundabout
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yup!
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
In vivid eons, I see (5)
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Video?
― Oz, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yes - had to go against my better instincts with the (a)eons spelling to fit it in :(
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think anyone got this one from before... might be a bit OTT - 'Non-nude barnacle for sailor' (4)
― Oz, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
NaCl - I see what you did there. Highly unfair ;)
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Some fun clues in the Independent today
Such generosity found in Sweden or Switzerland, reportedly (8)
Complaining girl's first put on weird jewellery (9)
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
largesse, for no other reason than i'm too tired to think
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
must be right (Large S)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
primadonna doesn't fit, but agin my brain keeps claiming it as a phonetic pun
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
grumbling
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! and yes to largesse.
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
That's what I thought but how is rumbling weird jewelry? Oh, I get it "rum bling"
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Southern general has one drink (8)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
or:Rebel general having single refreshing drink(8)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
knowledge of rebel generals letting me down here
― ledge, Friday, 21 August 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
-e------
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 August 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
-e-----e
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 August 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
knowledge of rebel generals letting me down hereThen how about "antiseptic general"?
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 August 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
lemonade
― ailsa, Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:38 (fourteen years ago) link
As a philosphy grad I am ashamed not to have got that.
― ledge, Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link
:-)
― ailsa, Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Loud drunk in fat city (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 August 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
-l---
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I want to say flush, but I don't know how that works with the clue other than f-lush.
― ailsa, Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
f for fortissimo, which is loud or strong?
lush being the drunk
fat city, i haven't a clue tbh
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Well yeah, I got the f and lush, hence answering flush, but I don't get the fat city which is why I think it's not the right answer. Though loud drunk is a good clue for flush.
― ailsa, Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fat_city
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
(Note: posted that two posts ago but it got clobbered. Seems to be happening a lot past few days)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
It was probably too American, too slangy, too much dated American slang for this thread, I just liked the surface reading.
There's also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_City_(film)
Or this: http://www.fatcitymedia.com/
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 August 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Nothing wrong with a bit of slang now and then. It does ring a faint bell.
― ledge, Sunday, 23 August 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link