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something with 'flex' in it? Or even reflex? I can't get anything to fit.

― onimo, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Gizza clue (and then I still won't answer it)...

― Sarah, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Mark - I am stuck with yours. Got as far as thinking 'ex' something and then...

― Archel, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Cord used to be taut (9)

--t------

― Mark C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

extension!

― onimo, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Elevated reed around greeting (2,4)

― onimo, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Go onimo! Now I'd like feedback on my clue plz :)

― Mark C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Here is a clue! It is pretty bad!

Sounds like tanning method insults men only sauna! (1,1,3)

― Sarah, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I liked your clue Mark, it had the ambiguity of either cord or taut being the clue to the word and the other being the clue to building the word (i.e. it was hard).

HI DERE is right :) I can only make easy ones up.

― onimo, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah's should be UV something. Bed? Ray? I can't make a plausible insult - let alone anything to do with a men only sauna!

― ledge, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe - think SOUNDS LIKE, and then think in ILx speak!

― Sarah, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

UR GAY :-)

― Richard Jones, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Well done! I didn't kill the thread! Yay! Your turn :)

― Sarah, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Another meaning in diet info (10)

― Richard Jones, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

definition

― onimo, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Informed about tide info (8)

― onimo, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

notified

― ledge, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Crazy! A hydrogen powered vehicle! For an African island! (10)

― ledge, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Madagascar!

― Matt, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

\(^o^)/

― ledge, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'll give a hint on mine:

Disgusting cheese pies (hold the mayo) set back clever schemes (10)

-t-----e-s

― lurker #2421, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Stratagems?

― Richard Jones, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yes it's SMEGMA TARTS backwards, sans one M. Charming!

― ledge, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Wow.

― Casuistry, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I could've gone with

"A million prostitutes on their backs is a clever scheme indeed (9)"

But it wouldn't have enriched the world quite as much, I don't think.

― lurker #2421, Sunday, 11 March 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Cowardly policeman starts greeting in middle of paddywagon (6)

― ledge, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yellow?

― lurker #2421, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

Messed-up, vile, super-revolting (9)

― lurker #2421, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

yup. xp.

repulsive.

― ledge, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yup!

Skinny girl's imaginary friend adds to my body image? (7)

― lurker #2421, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Sophisticated poster gets fork, followed by pen, another fork and shortened key for Song of Tomorrow (2,5,7)

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

-- --i-- -i-----

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

-- --i-- -i----e

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Skinny girl's imaginary friend adds to my body image? (7)

Are you sure this is 7?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

(I was thinking "gamine.")

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

I always enjoy the solutions to lurker #2421's clues, but I don't even try to solve them.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I'll take that as a compliment! :)

jaymc, it's definitely 7. "Gamine" is a nice thought, though.

The dashes thing would give it away, I think, so here's a hint: the solution doesn't involve any anagramming.

― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

waifish?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Nope....you're, er, coming at it from the wrong angle.

Aw, hell:

--a----

― lurker #2421, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

sparish?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Nope!

--a-o--

― lurker #2421, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

How about, as a means of achieving both closure and continuity on this thread, setters post one extra letter a day until the clue is answered?

― ledge, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

ok, here's mine:
-- --i-e -i----e

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it might be "anatomy" but wasn't happy enough with why to post. Now there's another letter I'll throw that out there and hope someone can explain how it fits together. (Probably being stupid here, sorry)

― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

you're probably right:
ana+to+my

but i dunno why skinny girl's imaginary friend = ana

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ana = shortened "anorexia" (there are "pro-ana" internet communities which are all "thinspiration" pictures of corpses etc).

― Sarah, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I am stuck on my stupid 'how to do cryptic crosswords' book by the way. It has suddenly got harder or I have got stupiderder.

― Sarah, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

ana = from anorexia
mia = bulima

It's a way that girls with EDs refer to their diseases.

― ENBB, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

so wherefore the "imaginary friend"?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

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