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is that the cheese chronicle or the fat wind?

allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Friday, 17 October 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

Taleggio?

jaymc, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

Nope. The fat wind.

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 October 2008 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

Fat man getting one hot wind in Baja California (7)

-a---n-

(note again that this now seems to be considered a variant spelling)

Chronicles about saga of cheese (7)
c------

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 October 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)

Please to solve these clues before snarky remarks from Casuistry.

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 October 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

cheddar

allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

Please to explain reasoning?

ailsa, Monday, 20 October 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

edda is a norse mythology (saga), chr for chronicles (common abbrev. used for the book of the bible).

santana, santa + an ('santa ana' the more common rendering)

allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

Yes and yes, thanks.

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

Small houses for too much, in pounds (8)

allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

Ah, thanks. Had been trying to fit "IH" into santa (for one, and hot)unsuccessfully there. Did not know the edda thing, though had considered cheddar as a possible answer.

I do like this thread, and I'm glad it's back.

ailsa, Monday, 20 October 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

-----g--

allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 07:39 (seventeen years ago)

cottages?

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

Yes! OTT in cages. I hate when you stare at these for ages and can't get them, then someone else does and it's really really obvious.

ailsa, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:30 (seventeen years ago)

I thought about cottages yesterday, but I could see how it worked. I still didn't understand the OTT until you just capitalized it.

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

go teamwork! *high fives*

ailsa, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)

Stir tuna around, hesitate to season (6)

Don't juggle with the words, let's know about our sexuality flash boy (ledge), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 12:13 (seventeen years ago)

Nature.

Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 12:15 (seventeen years ago)

Sorry, I mean Autumn don't I?

Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 12:15 (seventeen years ago)

yup!

Mass protest raised about pork - could this bring the ire of Muslims? (8)

Don't juggle with the words, let's know about our sexuality flash boy (ledge), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 12:30 (seventeen years ago)

-O------

strictly speaking this should be a down clue.

ledge, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 12:58 (seventeen years ago)

-O---M--

ledge, Thursday, 6 November 2008 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

Mohammed.

Charlie Rose Nylund, Thursday, 6 November 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

This is how you see and hear deceptive art; this is how you feel when a feather attacks. (9)

Charlie Rose Nylund, Thursday, 6 November 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

Optically. Rad clue, very poetic.

ledge, Friday, 7 November 2008 10:01 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Turnaround at end of modern Odyssey? (3)
Pair of Five-0s impound fifty Scandinavian wheels (5)

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 December 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

Yes.
Volvo.

Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

missed this thread.

darraghmac, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

OK Chris, your turn.

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 December 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

Cryptic snaps:

Your mom is like some Oklahoma city after a tornado has hit! (1, 4)
Your mom is like taffy that's been pulled too much! (5)
Your mom tried to eat Switzerland! (5)

Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

Oh jeez, I screwed up the second one! Don't try to come up with these things before coffee.

Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

Your mom is like taffy that was pulled so much it broke! (3)

Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

Your mom tried to eat Switzerland! (5)
This is very sophisticated., Chris.

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 December 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

Your mom is all about a fish, I see? (8)

Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

I think there's a Jim Thompson novel about that one.

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 December 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

Your mom fills the world with these ladylike skills! (5)

Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

^ can only get two of those

Rash appearance leads some young medical practitioner to opine 'Measles!' (7)

ledge, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

Which ones can't you get? Some are tricky (and some could use more work (and there is some overlap)).

Casuistry, Thursday, 11 December 2008 03:02 (seventeen years ago)

Symptom. Cute!

Casuistry, Thursday, 11 December 2008 03:29 (seventeen years ago)

i've got 'a slut' and 'fat' (i think?)

aha, and 'bitch'!

ledge, Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:31 (seventeen years ago)

I got what ledge got

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

--c------

I'm not sure the other one is really that hard!

Casuistry, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, yeah I had got that one too.

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

Upchucking stale chew-it in burger joint (5,6)

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 December 2008 02:52 (seventeen years ago)

White Castle.

Casuistry, Sunday, 14 December 2008 03:06 (seventeen years ago)

Yes.

Come as you are essay by grad student (9)

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 December 2008 03:11 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, grad

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 December 2008 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

or maybe "returning student"

hot Spanish cold (5)

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

re: your mom - alcoholic. can only think of whore for t'other one bit can't figure it out.

sister s (ledge), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

Alsatian painter, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace and delineating FACE, for example (8)

Maybe that other one is "warts"?

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 December 2008 19:38 (seventeen years ago)


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