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confused at that image name

ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link

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 here
Then 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

(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

Ugly mutt has liberal endorsement (4)

ledge, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Plug?

Oz, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link

aye

ledge, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link

State, say and send a bill. (7)

Oz, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link

invoice?

Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link

ha. that's the word i've been trying to think of for the last three hours.

ledge, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link

about this month the gallery might return to its previous position (9)

Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm thinking 'reinstate' but I can't see INS as 'this month'...

Oz, Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link

i tell ya, if i've fuckt this one up i'm just giving up.

but i'm pretty sure about 'inst' as referring to 'this month' in written correspondence. if that doesn't sound too wanky.

Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Ah... nice... but wouldn't that make it 'reinsttate'?

Oz, Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link

reinstall?

what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link

ah fuck fuck

Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Soldier, worker, titan (5)

Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 August 2009 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link


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