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I want the hardcore xword dudes to tell me if my clue is flawed (i think it may be, in terms of where the words come)

Newspaperman is red faced, loud and drunk (5)

Mark C, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha I am teh idiot

Newspaperman is red faced, loud and drunk (7)

Mark C, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

man am I red faced myself now.

Mark C, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

The basic idea is tht clues come in two halves. One half is the "definition" part, and the other half is the "wordplay" part. And the wordplay part needs to literally describe the word. Notice how in "added ecstasy to mixed drink" is a recipe for putting "e" in "kindr" and getting "kinder", and notice how all of "kinder" is accounted for and how there are no extraneous words to the recipe.

Casuistry, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Bad girls got rough start (5)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Tarts.

Wayward girl got ahead? (5)

Casuistry, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

is it holed?

Will M., Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Pointlessly pine for this thread (4)

ledge, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Wake up to Romanesque foreign-sounding French dream? (6)

Casuistry, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

Hand toilet in intensive care covered in dung (8)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 17 November 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

I was thinking about reviving this!

Manicure.

Exalt when one hears an elderly relative passes away (10)

ledge, Saturday, 17 November 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

(pretty yuckily constructed, that one)

ledge, Saturday, 17 November 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh for shame, ledge. ;-)

Aggrandize.

Do another one.

Casuistry, Saturday, 17 November 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

More grammatical liberties taken:

Fewer than a thousand in turn become a child prodigy (10)

I've just signed up with the Times online xword, that might help me buck my ideas up.

ledge, Saturday, 17 November 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Newspaperman is red faced, loud and drunk (7)

-- Mark C, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:03 (7 months ago)

Um, chaps, can you have another go at this one because now *I* can't remember what it means (though I will if someone gets it)

Mark C, Saturday, 17 November 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm struggling. Murdoch, Maxwell... Loud = f? Drunk = anag?

ledge, Saturday, 17 November 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Should we even bother to try on this side of the pond?

James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 17 November 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Violently slain around point for free babysitting (6)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

inlaws

ledge, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

dress wounded organs (6)
needle point heart (7)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Sarong

onimo, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. What about the other one?

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Scotsman's game inside null and void (5)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

needle point heart (7)

Sticker?

ailsa, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

:)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get it.

onimo, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

you stick needles in things. S = south = a point. Ticker = heart.

ailsa, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

(i went with the point/heart thing first, then tried to convince myself that needle and sticker meant the same, hence question mark as I wasn't entirely convinced myself)

ailsa, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

I struggle to think of a needle being a sticker. I might have got it if it was 'pin point heart', but probably not.

onimo, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

OK, yours is probably a better version of the clue. That usage of sticker is not very common.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Towers are inside places to make money (8)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

letters for scottish one plz! this thread always become overwhelmed with unanswered clues and then dies.

ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

-n---

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 4 January 2008 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Angus. I had to look at a list of scottish names. "G" for game? I don't really hold with arbitrary initialisms. And I get the void, but what about null?

ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

minarets

darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

not convinced by angus, seems a bit of a reach.

darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

-n--o

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 4 January 2008 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha ONIMO?

darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

I take it all back! Funny that it nearly worked for my answer. Nearly.

ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Overturn due to limit on capacity (7)

ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

capsize

darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

um, new clue please?

I know, right?, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

who, me?

darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure that's how it's meant to work and if I'm wrong whateveriwantanewclueNOW!!!

I know, right?, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

It ain't my turn but here's one anyway

With gas in vehicle, stick around as the engine starts (10)

ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

become, but don't go straight there. (4,4)

sorry, am kinda flustered. this was jumped on me somewhat. i am copying from crosaire in the irish times, if that's cheating go suck eggs.

darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

crankshaft?

darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

turn into?

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, too late

I know, right?, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I hate you all.

I know, right?, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:40 (eighteen years ago)


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