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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)

correct - have a gateau.

ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

damn no-one mentioned gateaux for winners

darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

This thread rolls like a dead moose.

Gent will wear this in city, take it off in wood (8)

ledge, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

Still don't know what that is.

Salamander rose on circle in front of patch of land (7)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

Axolotl! axoLOLing at "rose" etc

As I said I can't do these, but I ought to try to earn my gateaux somehow, so...

One can stray endlessly next to insect wanderer (9)

There, that's pretty shoddily constructed. Just so you're warned.

a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

mine: P--------

d'oh! it's (9) not (8) ;_;

ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

Itinerant

ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Correct! Have a blancmange while I consider this new information.

a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

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

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, March 26, 2007 9:21 PM (9 months ago)
The answer to this was

My White Bicycle

if anyone was wondering.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I know I was.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

You need to work on your surface readings

ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for the advice.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Here to help!

ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

How about helping with another letter for yours?

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

P-N------ !

ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

pinstripe

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

yay

ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

To summarize one point before crazy aunt's torment (2,1,8)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 28 January 2008 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

In a nutshell. You might be able to make that clue less awkward, though.

Casuistry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

My flow is not glowing like phosphorus these days. But you gets wanna criticize, you provide an improved version of the clue.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

Well, the best I've gotten with it so far is:

To make a long story short, crazy aunt's between Gary's home and the underworld.

Which is maybe better, but not there yet.

Casuistry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

Short story beginning in crazy aunt's place in New York with kitchen

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

To cut a long story short, at home, crazy aunt's torment

doesn't work cause it needs to be crazy aunt is torment, not torment of crazy aunt.

To cut a long story short, it's awful inside a cashew :)

ledge, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Wilson accepts genuine German theatre style. (9)

Casuistry, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

Brechtian

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

Nodding Colonel, we hear, leads soldier (6)

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

Dunno.

Fat man getting one hot wind (7)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 23 May 2008 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

Chronicles about saga of cheese (7)

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

i miss this thread. but unsolved clues should get an extra letter a day, or it just dies.

i remember looking at a list of named winds for that one four months ago. just tried again, still no joy.

allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Friday, 17 October 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

-a-----

(Although, now that I look, apparently this spelling is not considered correct by many)

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 October 2008 18:11 (seventeen years ago)

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)


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