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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)

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)


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