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That would be 'nerves'?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes it would be.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Tube station overhaul, get related transport (5,8,6)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Great Portland Street.

I didn't so much cheat as did research for that one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, I was inspired by this:
http://www.bikereader.com/forum/pics/undergroundanagram.gif

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

omg, fantastic.

Chris owes us two clues...

I was admiring Bunthorne in the Guardian yesterday - even though I can never finish his puzzles his clues are always witty and elegant. Unlike this one:

Party about mushroom, spinning on it (9)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 March 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Phlegm issues, I hear? (5)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 16 March 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

sputa?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Archel's one is "reception". I still don't have the confidence to make any up myself though, so fire in, anyone who wants to.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 March 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I was running on a clue defecit. But if my brain kicks in I'll post it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 March 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I quite liked this one from today's paper: Fish given low score? (4)

You could probably fill a whole book with fish-themed crosswords.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Inject heroin into depressed fish. (4)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Faux fish? (3)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Archel's is "bass", which is a nice clue.

Casuistry's first one is "shad". I didn't actually know that was a type of fish, I just guessed from the clue.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

cod

A Spanish hello upon rising is hello, goodbye (5)

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Fictional don's utterance of surprise before spaghetti chef (8)

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Aloha

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Book 'em, ailsa!

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Corleone. But who is Leone?

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Some spaghetti chef, perhaps?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Sergio

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah. Chef?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Spaghetti maker, perhaps.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

or like chef d’école.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I like spaghetti chef - a good cryptic definition.

Many headed monster you beat shortly is water-powered (9)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't understand Archel's :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

hyraulic

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

er, hyDraulic, even.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

(near impossible, I'll post an easier one in a sec)

Putting something on top of 0.01? Part of lung follows. (8)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh wait! Ignore that!

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

Field position for getting a percentage? (5)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Point

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link

No-Man's-Land taken over by Napoleon (6,4)

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha I meant cover! But point seems totally fine.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Was it 'reception' you didn't understand G?

'Party' is the definition. Then it's re ('about') + cep (type of mushroom) + tion (anag. of 'on it' indicated by 'spinning').

Ooh that napoleon one was in the paper and I couldn't get it then either :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link

It was the bass one, chel!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh right! 'Low score' is used in a musical sense ie the bass voice would sing the low notes.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

scotsvo's one reminded me - does anyone know if there's an online thing that lets you jumble up the letters from an anagram into a series of random orders - ie not a thing that finds actual words only (which doesn't help you cheat when proper nouns are involved)?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

scotstvo's one isn't an anagram though, is it? It's Animal Farm (I hope)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Ailsa is on fire

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

She must be extinguished!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

:-(

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Crab time in monastery (9)
Yell about everything softly in stadium (8)

― In The Court Of The Redd King Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Ballpark. Every time this thread dies I half-heartedly try and come up with a clue for Revive! but I never get much further than mumbling to myself about IV drips.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't decide what I think about this one, but I'm giving it to you anyway.

Soft drinks or beer? (4,3)

― In The Court Of The Redd King Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Hit the gas! I have to wake up! (6!)

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Soft drinks or beer? (4,3)

Pale ale!

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 17 April 2006 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Or, the thread where Greg repost clues from The Oxford Times that he has now seen seen the answers too but still doesn't get, wtf?

King leaves to shorten meeting(7) = CONTACT, apparently!?

Either way you can play it(5) = DARTS (okay I have just googled, are they abbreviating 'Stradivarius'? What a bunch of nobbers.)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

King = regis = R. Take R out of "contract" (as in opposite of expand, i.e. shorten) and you get "CONTACT" which is a meeting.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

(the R thing might not be Regis, but it's the R that you see on postboxes with a monarch's initials on it, whatever the male equivalent of Regina is anyway)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

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