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
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
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
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
Art deco rules! (4)
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
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
I'm not sure about the others though.
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― autovac (autovac), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― autovac (autovac), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Jackpot
― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Saturday, 27 May 2006 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 27 May 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
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
Sounds like a Scandinavian blade? (4)
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
Bianco
I'll get back to you on the rest of them :-)
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Flophouse, innit?
dammit x-post!
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Mantra
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Charm.
Useless pub quiz trivia comes in useful at last!
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
You're not there yet, Huk.
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Switzerland = Confoederatio Helvetica. See also internet addresses, nationality stickers for cars etc.
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
(xpost)
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link