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Pirate company take electronic tape from records, to broadcast (7)

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Thursday, 24 September 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Corsair. Nice again.

First try:

Nauseatingly cute model to 'make pee-pee' (4)

woofwoofwoof, Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link

twee

thomp, Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link

i spent eight of those nine minutes trying to work out if i could make 'piss' fit btw

thomp, Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Cats lost her knickers (5)
I see antelope in volcanic country (7)
Woodentop soul singer's drugstore (9)

Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 September 2009 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link

pants

ailsa, Friday, 25 September 2009 06:56 (fourteen years ago) link

(panthers minus her)

ailsa, Friday, 25 September 2009 06:56 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes. What about the second one? (Third one probably doesn't work outside US)

Boy getting fifty-fifty split to seek favor of five hundred in movie production capital (9)

Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 September 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link

hollywood, but what is the boy?

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Friday, 25 September 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link

oh wait it's bollywood.

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Friday, 25 September 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link

Second one is Iceland. Got from 'volcanic country'. My brain shuts down when it sees 'antelope' in a clue.

woofwoofwoof, Friday, 25 September 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link

Geographical handicap beaten! Google confirms Walgreens. (eliminated 'warethras' first).

woofwoofwoof, Friday, 25 September 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Where we used to hang out, Will shall go (7, 4)

thomp, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Gallows Hill

Bacon is the new Pirates (onimo), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Can and Neu! play together – dead subtle (6)

woofwoofwoof, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link

nuance

Bacon is the new Pirates (onimo), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Arranging mating fort (10)

Bacon is the new Pirates (onimo), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link

Fuck. Mine should be (7)

woofwoofwoof, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link

That wasn't a clue, btw

woofwoofwoof, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link

nuanced?

Bacon is the new Pirates (onimo), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes. Exactly.
Formatting?

woofwoofwoof, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes. Exactly.

Bacon is the new Pirates (onimo), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Backwards glance, cross to return on paths - obvious transport instruction to the general public
4,8,5

menelaus, Sunday, 27 September 2009 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Keep buslanes clear? tramways? railways? er...

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Sunday, 27 September 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link

'Doorways', I reckon (rood/cross).

With gleeful expression, setter thanks infamous tween (6)

woofwoofwoof, Monday, 28 September 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link

Dunno.

Norwegian in woolens (3)
Queen of geraniums (4)
Cares about block of ice (5)

Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Ole
Rani
dunno the third one

ailsa, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes
Yes
It's not a common word.

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Maybe should have written:
Cares about block of glacial ice (5)

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Sérac

krakow, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link

was just gonna hopefully google that.

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link

I found this site extremely helpful: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1216/text.html though it is a word I kind of half know.

krakow, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link

woofwoofwoof's still up there. letters?

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link

...smiley? (for woofwoofwoof's, not really sure about it but thought I'd throw it out there)

ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Not 'smiley'. - - L - - -

woofwoofwoof, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:54 (fourteen years ago) link

'setter' would often mean 'i' or 'me', right?

krakow, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes, and it does here.

woofwoofwoof, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Ah... Lolita?

Oz, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link

JESUS

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link

i had ---ita. Couldn't do anything with it. What a spaz.

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Feel like my display name is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes, 'Lolita' it is.

(btw, that glacial ice clue taught me that while crase and ceras were words, creas, screa and recas weren't. I then gave up. I suck at anagrams)

woofwoofwoof, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Look good in clubs perhaps? (4)

Oz, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link

And a harder one... Thanks to constituent parts being repeated I get good man's permanent markers (10)

Oz, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Umm I'm out of turn I know, but I feel I owe a couple. In the spirit of um Ramadan...

Every heron to fast, moderately (10)

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Tattooists (for Oz's one) - ta + ttoo (the letters of to being repeated) + I + st (saint)'s.

ailsa, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Allegretto.
If I am correct please bear with me, making a new clue will take some time.

menelaus, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes to tattooists. No answer for Look good in clubs perhaps? (4) I thought that might be the simple one.

Oz, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:05 (fourteen years ago) link

peer?
Fielding character's behaviour changes into ploy, reveals something to write home to mamma about (10,5)

menelaus, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link

Not peer, sorry.

Oz, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link


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