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100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes. I'm dying to know what Chris's is.

Mistakes take me right to animals that eat leaves (8)

Rotten guitar player rocks with first lady and Jughead (5,5)

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Keys Scotsman found in river (5)

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Mine is, I think, impossible to get, but I got really kinda pleased with the clue.

Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I kinda figured it was like that.

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I had higher hopes for this clue:

Peanut, almond, black and orange bird -- all heard of the head of the state. (12)

Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Letters, need letterrrzzzz...

ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Presidential? But I don't really get it

One poet is slowly played (7)

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Not "Presidential".

Andante.

Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Keys found by Scotsman in river in Italy (5)

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rivers_of_Italy proves surprisingly unhelpful.

ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Really?

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Piano :)

Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Party needs a hat from the start (2,4)

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Keys = piano? Bah! Totally forgot Ian for Scotsman though :-(

ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Fake one ending (4)

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Tool takes off head of snake in shack (5)
---e-

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Hovel. Although I think, tense-wise, that clue might be fishy. "Special head removed from tool in shack", maybe?

The third letter of my 12 letter clue is "b".

Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

change "takes" to "taking" then.

Gubernatorial!

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

but i still don't get it, apart from "goober"

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Goober. Nut. Oriole.

Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Very nice. Sorry my brane doesn't work properly.

Ace of Spades artist Agnes loses energy, buys time (9)

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 17 August 2006 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Motorhead

ledge (ledge), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Endless trouble about an endless mistake with iron (7)

ledge (ledge), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Ferrous.

Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Confused attire showed the way. (7)

Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link

dudsled?

Mother nurses eleven, tops (6)

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

American uncle has degree in dance (5)

Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Samba

ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

ya bamba

Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Dudsled is close-ish.

Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

No-one got mine and I'm VERY proud of it:

Phlegm issues, I hear (5)

Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Garbled!

Mucus?

ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

War chief of East tangled in mooring (8)

My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Onimo should get this one...

ledge (ledge), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I should have saved it for his birthday.

My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

ha! Geronimo! (sorry gerry)

ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 August 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

After I am in the middle of mantra, I am kind of red (7)

My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Friday, 18 August 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Belly taking away third from Sign Of The Four at the beginning (7)

My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Friday, 18 August 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

First one is Chianti.

Many unwell - in short, it is from throat infection (10)

ledge (ledge), Thursday, 24 August 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

tonsillitis

My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Leaf Runner? (4)
-a--

Mistakes take me right to animals that eat leaves (8)

---a----

Rotten guitar player rocks with first lady and Jughead (5,5)

--e-- -----

Party needs a hat from the start (2,4)

-a ----

Fake one ending (4)

---a

My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Saturday, 26 August 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Rotten guitar player rocks with first lady and Jughead (5,5)

Steve Jones


ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Leaf Runner? (4)

Page?

Mistakes take me right to animals that eat leaves (8)

Giraffes

Party needs a hat from the start (2,4)

Da capo (Do + a cap)

Fake one ending (4)

I want this to be "coda", but I can't make it work.

lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Saturday, 26 August 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Sexually satisfied women are said to be three things: unrefined, malodorous, and Irish (8)

lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Saturday, 26 August 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Coda = cod [as in "fake"] + a.

Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes to everything.

Mother nurses eleven, tops (6)
-a----
Belly taking away third from Sign Of The Four at the beginning (7)
a------

My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Maxima

Abdomen

ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah. Thanks, ailsa.

My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, she's good, ain't she?

scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link


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