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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

Rex, isn't it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

That's the chap! Or is it, I don't know. It's what's on the postboxes anyway. (sorry, I'm useless)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh right! That's quite clever, actually. Nice one ailsa.

How do people feel about that 'to' there? Is that kind of fluff a necessary evil for readable clues?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe it's to drop a hint that it's a verb you're looking for (specifying that the "contract" is the verb meaning to shorten, and not the noun version of the same word)? Or maybe I am just waffling, as without knowing the answer, you wouldn't actually have that distinction to make. (I don't think that makes as much sense written down as it does in my head)

To be fair, I don't think I'd have got that from the clue, but it made sense and was relatively easy to work back when I have the answer in front of me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Bonanza note about opened pack (7)

Art deco rules! (4)

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

This one is even worse:

Young girls spill guinness and rotate a point (8)

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Code.

I'm not sure about the others though.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup. and ledge was right upthread.

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Crocodile mad at gorilla (9)

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Young girls spill guinness and rotate a point (8)

Ingenues

(I didn't see this thread when it was revived)

Crocodile mad at gorilla (9)

Alligator

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Crocodiles and alligators are completely different animals!

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, how did she ever work it out?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe they never worked it out, maybe she'll stay mad forever!

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for solving the guiness one, ailsa!

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Bonanza note about opened pack (7)
-a----t

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

islanders who end in rebellion...?

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

(8)

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

More pedantic version of disputed clue:
Crocodilian mad at gorilla (9)

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Bonanza note about opened pack (7)
-ac---t

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Bonanza note about opened pack (7)

Jackpot

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Saturday, 27 May 2006 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Bingo!

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 27 May 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

I don't know if this really works but

Blade Runner? (4)

Still don't know who the islanders are.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's a related clue:

Sounds like a Scandinavian blade? (4)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

(I'm hoping OleM will straighten this out)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

islanders who end in rebellion...?

Cypriots? Can't see where the CYP would come from, though...

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I change that old clue to

Leaf Runner? (4)

and add

Place for poor people to sleep relocates from Florida to Switzerland, where one can eat steak (9) (Or 4-5)

White in Nubian company (6)

Chant "Moorehead," bug sun-god (6)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

White in Nubian company (6)

Bianco

I'll get back to you on the rest of them :-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Flophouse?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Place for poor people to sleep relocates from Florida to Switzerland, where one can eat steak (9) (Or 4-5)

Flophouse, innit?

dammit x-post!

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Chant "Moorehead," bug sun-god (6)

Mantra

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Seduce a group of finches (5)

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

(pls to explain flophouse)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

flophouse is not quite right, actually.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

swophouse?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Closer

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

SLophouse!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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