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Oh man I wrote the letters for the anagram down this morning and I've just looked at it on my desk and the answer clicked, only to discover I'm 12 hours late.

The dead-eyed harpy from the hilarious "Tory Party Conference" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

Desire redhead in secret. (6)

Oz, Thursday, 8 October 2009 11:32 (sixteen years ago)

Could that also be clued as
Desire redhead that's into spelunking (6)?

Insider at Pepsi longing for small number of Greeks (6)

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:23 (sixteen years ago)

Desire redhead that's into spelunking (6)?

I can get a (7) for that...

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:34 (sixteen years ago)

Insider at Pepsi longing for small number of Greeks (6)

and for that!

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:34 (sixteen years ago)

Oh yeah, 7, that's what I meant. I am really tired today. Shouldn't operate heavy machinery.

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:49 (sixteen years ago)

Had to google spelunking, convinced it'd be NSFW. Nope, mine's a different answer...

Oz, Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

Epsilon

krakow, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:28 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know Oz's yet.

krakow, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:28 (sixteen years ago)

covert

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Friday, 9 October 2009 08:41 (sixteen years ago)

"I wouldn't knife a cockfarmer", says Spooner, "I couldn't care less!" (1, 4, 4, 1, 4)

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Friday, 9 October 2009 08:44 (sixteen years ago)

i don't give a ----?

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Friday, 9 October 2009 08:54 (sixteen years ago)

I believe the last word is something G.G. Allin would provide for his audience.

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:18 (sixteen years ago)

Wildly amused and spectacularly coiffed female (6)

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2009 13:48 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.lataco.com/taco/wp-content/uploads/medusa.jpg

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 9 October 2009 13:53 (sixteen years ago)

well done all round

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Friday, 9 October 2009 13:54 (sixteen years ago)

Stay away from an empty space (5)

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Monday, 12 October 2009 11:26 (sixteen years ago)

avoid

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Monday, 12 October 2009 11:27 (sixteen years ago)

thumbsup.gif

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Monday, 12 October 2009 11:29 (sixteen years ago)

thumbs up in the correct phrase (2, 3, 5)

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Monday, 12 October 2009 11:30 (sixteen years ago)

on the money?

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Monday, 12 October 2009 13:24 (sixteen years ago)

nope.

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Monday, 12 October 2009 15:04 (sixteen years ago)

rubbish guess, actually. shame on you.

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Monday, 12 October 2009 15:10 (sixteen years ago)

eh meant to follow that up with :) or somesuch but got sidetracked. bit harsh.

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Monday, 12 October 2009 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

i can take it

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Monday, 12 October 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

then quit with the pussy ass guesses then

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Monday, 12 October 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

;)

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Monday, 12 October 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

at the ready, darraghmac?

do you want to be happier? (whatever), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)

nope.

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 11:00 (sixteen years ago)

Looking for a synonym for "vein" for the times xword at lunchtime. "We came up with seam and lode". Or "semen load", as my colleague heard it. How we laughed.

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:01 (sixteen years ago)

btw letters plz

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:02 (sixteen years ago)

-- -o- -u---

it's probably a rubbish clue, but it was spur of the moment reaction to thumbs up anyway so.....

Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:03 (sixteen years ago)

Still dunno.

Song from Cockney musical (3)

so hongro so aggro (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2009 03:10 (sixteen years ago)

no i give in

do you want to be happier? (whatever), Saturday, 17 October 2009 07:50 (sixteen years ago)

air ('air)

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Saturday, 17 October 2009 08:33 (sixteen years ago)

long flowing 'air!

so hongro so aggro (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2009 13:38 (sixteen years ago)

it was 'le mot juste' :( sorry for rubbish

Des Leppilen (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 October 2009 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

ah that's not bad. 'thumbs up' bit is good!

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:05 (sixteen years ago)

Don't get it

so hongro so aggro (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:43 (sixteen years ago)

mot = tom (thumb) up the other way. I think. Rest of it, not so much.

ailsa, Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:45 (sixteen years ago)

eh there's nothing in the rest of it, tbh. maybe it's a crosaire thing (my usual cryptic fix), but pretty often the 'whole' answer isn't spelled out. again, as always, any fault is in the abilities of the setter and not those poor souls struggling to decipher.

Des Leppilen (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 October 2009 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

Herb for grass skirts girl (8)

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

Marjoram

lol I just opened the Wikipedia details thread too

Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:26 (sixteen years ago)

Nice clue tho

Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:26 (sixteen years ago)

Little Alan's bottom collection (5)

Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:40 (sixteen years ago)

album

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:45 (sixteen years ago)

yes

Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

Bondage wrapping hillock causing outburst (5)
Holy men without ham inside (7)

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:25 (sixteen years ago)

First one is storm.

Second looks a really good clue as it can be parsed in several ways (except none of them are leading me to an answer)

ailsa, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 08:12 (sixteen years ago)


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