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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 (nineteen years ago)

Maxima

Abdomen

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. Thanks, ailsa.

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

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

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm great :-)

Unfortunately I couldn't make up a clue to save my life, and I haven't actually bought a paper with a proper crossword in it for ages to steal clues from.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Off the top of my head then: Red Rum down without Her Majesty- beat that!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Drum. And you didn't even tell us how many letters.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

God you're good. My head's full of gin though, I can't count letters. Off-topic, but how was KenFAP?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

It was quiet. I was very drunk. We went to NPL and there was no bar queue, it was most odd. You weren't there, I notice. Other people were (me, the mister, stet, madchen, grimly fiendish, ward fowler at Mono, then dahlin, ally c, stew, probably some other people but I was pished and can't remember really). Part two in Edinburgh tomorrow, hurrah.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

A burning bed almost covered in disgusting fluid and kind of sheet (7)

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Promise witches worker (8)

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Room with medal inside to burn (7)

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Want letters?

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Promise witches worker (8)

Covenant. I'll get back to you on the others.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I think those were solved over on nu-ILX.

Biology question: horse flies or man? (4,2,4)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

---- o- ----

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

DNA search for the Guv (4,4)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

French father gets two notes for a starter (8)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Premiere.

Maybe you should make a grid.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe, but I've only got time right now for one clue at a time.

I'm into Yoko, Dad! (5)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Cute.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, nice! I really wish I could make clues up. I've tried, I'm rotten at it. My brain just works the other way round.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Biology question: horse flies or man? (4,2,4)

---- o- -a--

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Life on Mars

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. What about the other one?

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

DNA search for the Guv (4,4)
-e-- ----

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

-e-- --n-

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, you've been watching Life on Mars, haven't you, silly me, not linking the clues together with other threads! All is clear!!!

(er, that'd be Gene Hunt then)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I should have just put that on teh Life On Mars thread.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Sam, wake up! You're on the other thread!"

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Big Apple with rotten maggot goes to hell! (6)

Fuzzy five chill (5)

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Vague?

Not sure on the first one yet though.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yup.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

-o----

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

New Atlantic puzzle is pretty good, I gotta say. Which would be of interest to who, Chris and Huk, maybe?

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's not in the magazine anymore!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

Note at the bottom of Times xword yesterday: "This puzzle, used in the Preliminary A round of the 2006 Times Crossword Championship, was solved within the time limit (THREE PUZZLES IN ONE HOUR) by 38% of the competitors."

Emphasis added. Between three of us we couldn't manage to finish this one puzzle in one hour.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 12 October 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

Big Apple with rotten maggot goes to hell! (6)

did anyone know this?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

-o--a-

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Gotham... can't quite work it out though.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

goes to hhell

Guess about where to sleep and eat and drink (8)

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Buck naked thanks to Germans (5)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Danke

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

elegant!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Did you come up with that one? If so, it's your best yet!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

It is, lovely surface reading.

Eli provides the answer to Nine Inch Nails song (8,3)

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that was mine. thanks.

Guess about where to sleep and eat and drink (8)
G-------

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should have left out the "and eat"

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Guinness.

Hooray! (I hope nobody expects me to come up with one of my own now.)

― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Also while I'm here I will add to the chorus admiring the "buck naked" clue. Nice one.

― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

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