first letter just stands for earnings (this may be an economic/accounting common abbrev but tbh i'm not sure)
'to start' tells you just to use the first letter.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:53 (fifteen years ago)
xxp congrats to woof for writing that far more succinctly and coherently than i could ever have done.
― no, you're dead right, it's a macaroon (ledge), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:53 (fifteen years ago)
fairy nuff
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:55 (fifteen years ago)
Oh wow - forgot that 'yy' usage!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:55 (fifteen years ago)
So those are all done now!
More?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:57 (fifteen years ago)
no, i'm busy!
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:00 (fifteen years ago)
xxp - ty, cncsn is the aim.
I too am trying to be busy. But I guess some more could just sit there, and no-one would have to look at them if they were worried abt getting the sack say.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:38 (fifteen years ago)
oh bollocks that's not how it works and you know it
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:52 (fifteen years ago)
Junkie's dead: dictionary contains the answer? (6)
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 12:03 (fifteen years ago)
addict
― we won't make a darraghmac out of a crisis (onimo), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 12:06 (fifteen years ago)
Quite right. Must stop. Prob shouldn't be scribbling 'junkie' and 'addict' on the corner of proofs I'm meant to be correcting.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 12:11 (fifteen years ago)
wait why did it stop?
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 09:39 (fifteen years ago)
I lost the book.
I found the book.
Article in cornet shape pertaining to the clergy (9)Perturbed about tinned fish (6)Thoroughfare prepared for traffic (7)Kind of sale sought by potter (9) Part of Spain where some horseplay is in purpose (6)Give patient attention or shout (5)
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)
Oops, #5 is "Part of Spain where some horseplay is in progress" (6), not 'purpose'
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:21 (fifteen years ago)
pnabavpny (totally get this now :)funxraebnqjnlpyrnenaprnentbagerng
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:22 (fifteen years ago)
got the first one anywaygot the wrong kind of fish for the 2nd, tripped me up!third one very straightforward, kind of threw me tbhdon't get potter one at all! apart from the sale part.don't get the shout part of the last one
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)
i'd have got th spain one but don't understand it tbh
is #2 a type of tinned fish?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:26 (fifteen years ago)
Potter = snooker player
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:26 (fifteen years ago)
Wow!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:27 (fifteen years ago)
#2 fa= chemical symbol for tin (don't think I've seen that before. Nice.)
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:28 (fifteen years ago)
Never mind get these right, I don't think I could ever even independently deduce half of these from the solutions.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:31 (fifteen years ago)
Can someone explain #3?
but fa doesn't appear in answer? (am i being dumb here?)
i read the four central letters of the answer as the fish
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:31 (fifteen years ago)
i think no 3 is almost not cryptic, unless i'm missing another *level* mayne
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)
tinned fish = type of fish inside chemical symbol for tin (sn)
spain one quite funny.
shout in the sense of 'it's your shout.'
― koogs, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)
xposts
― koogs, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:33 (fifteen years ago)
oh FA why didn't you say!
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:33 (fifteen years ago)
i'm meh on the shout aspect tbh
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:34 (fifteen years ago)
"it's your treat"?
not cryptic clues always throw me, are they actually allowed?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:34 (fifteen years ago)
xps
Sorry, maybe sticking in rot13 is confusing things, fa=sn, so the fish is 'in' tin.
#5 horseplay = n ent + in progress = ba
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:34 (fifteen years ago)
xp it's a double definition, that's legit.
― ledge, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)
yes, when buying rounds in pubs. it's my shout - i'm buying these, these are my treat.
― koogs, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:36 (fifteen years ago)
Spain - think of a student ___ week, the main surviving example of this usage - like that one more than the rest but then it's the only one I got
(xposts, oh well)
― rah rah rah wd smash the oiks (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:37 (fifteen years ago)
Still hate #3.
#5 amazing work!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:39 (fifteen years ago)
dropping 6 at a time turns this thread into some kind of piranha word puzzle frenzy, i love it.
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:41 (fifteen years ago)
Ok new lot coming!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:42 (fifteen years ago)
Fashionable dress-silk (7)Old watchman to hang fire (4)Exceptionally bright light at the front (4)Indeed name a hundred, already named! (9)A drop of water that mars one's view (8)Obliged to worry constantly about a wild horse (7)
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:48 (fifteen years ago)
nynzbqrjnvgirelqrabhaprq (this is the now-obligatory one I get as soon as I type it)pngnenpgzhfgnat
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)
#1 is double definition
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:52 (fifteen years ago)
As is #2
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:53 (fifteen years ago)
pretty archaic first def tho.
― ledge, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:54 (fifteen years ago)
i know, it says "old"
these ones i'll admit to struggling with- i've tried looking up types of silk but only getting a similar spelling to the answer for the first one.
rest of em? baffled
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:54 (fifteen years ago)
don't get #3, #5 is nice - double def basically.
Yeah it's listener/azed level arcane vocab - last definition in Chambers.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
indeed = in 'deed'
― ledge, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
i get the last one alright, i would not have seen the last three letters standalone before though?
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 14:56 (fifteen years ago)
Is the idea that pngnenpg's are caused by drops of water?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)
nah, cataract = waterfall
― ledge, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:59 (fifteen years ago)