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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)

no to crankshaft

ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

ah well, i gave it a shot and that's important, hey?

darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Sure, have a cookie.

ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

"carbonated", I reckon.

Oh, but I can't make them, sorry. I'll have a think but I can only come up with one a year and I don't think 2008's is due yet.

a passing spacecadet, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:00 (eighteen years ago)


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