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yeah well get to it

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 September 2010 16:01 (fifteen years ago)

Public Relations acquire copy of The Times, say (5)

ledge, Thursday, 16 September 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

Paper?

pissky in the jar (onimo), Thursday, 16 September 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_222t5surOxk/R6olVKh6M3I/AAAAAAAAAoE/HM21K7BCHuw/s400/hooray.gif

ledge, Thursday, 16 September 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

Orthodox type to convert natives all over the place, despite loss of holy book (12)

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:30 (fifteen years ago)

aboriginals?

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

with a random letter at the end, like

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:33 (fifteen years ago)

most of all you're letting yourself down

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

conservatives

portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:39 (fifteen years ago)

without the s

portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:39 (fifteen years ago)

the second s

portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:39 (fifteen years ago)

ayup

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:40 (fifteen years ago)

dealing with hounding press reporter, feel it was allowable in circumstances tbh

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

what was the baker one?

Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:27 (fifteen years ago)

a bun dance

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

*groan, etc*

yeah i know but it's a crosaire standard and i thought it'd give ye a laugh

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

like it!

Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:37 (fifteen years ago)

maybe i'll do a bit of a trawl later and have a few like it to hand for again

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:47 (fifteen years ago)

yeah man we could always do with more activity here, don't mind if its cribbed from other sources.

ledge, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:50 (fifteen years ago)

grand i dont do them every day but next time a few clues catch my eye i'll post em.

that said would welcome another batch of the ones Gravel Puzzleworth (?) posted before they were kinda hardcore

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)

(bit iffy, this one)

Stolen small bed again (7)

meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:54 (fifteen years ago)

cribbed

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

y

meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

hmm could try to work in 'double bed' tbh

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:01 (fifteen years ago)

staying the french with cockney possession (7)

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

sorry,

not staying the french with cockney possession(7)

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

leaving

When Redd Turns To Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

pfft

took longer to come up with the fecking thing

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

Paul being annoying in today's guardian:

soldier, daft don (8)

portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:39 (fifteen years ago)

^ friend got that, I was all GRRRRR but :) but GRRRRR

ledge, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, swore/laughed when I got it. Paul can be a real dick. My favourite setter.

1ac/d also great, but needs checked letters, and too long to enter on phone.

portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:59 (fifteen years ago)

what's the solution to soldier, daft don?

No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

I think that's kind of evil and breaking the unwritten rules

rot13 - pbzznaqb

meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:23 (fifteen years ago)

ha

koogs, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:49 (fifteen years ago)

i groaned audibly

Not the real Village People, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:52 (fifteen years ago)

This was in the grauniad yesterday. Two possible solutions - the proper one is a bit meh but my colleague came up with a better alternative, perhaps more suitable for Private Eye.

Do bird (4)

ledge, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:38 (fifteen years ago)

Shag

My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:39 (fifteen years ago)

^ a bird with a bit of a hairdo

My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

the other one fwiw is (in rot13) ebbx.

ledge, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:15 (fifteen years ago)

l∞l (8,4)

Corny but it came to me and i liked it so there

l∞l (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:41 (fifteen years ago)

Absolute zero

my strange quest for maynesonge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:44 (fifteen years ago)

Infinite jest

my strange quest for maynesonge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:44 (fifteen years ago)

^

l∞l (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)

Araucaria worthy imo

ledge, Saturday, 16 October 2010 21:05 (fifteen years ago)

Duh I only just got that one. Brilliant. (I was thinking the l l bit was the modulus, ffs me)

Not the real Village People, Saturday, 16 October 2010 22:20 (fifteen years ago)

ha i'm glad it was at least better than james redd's unseemly speedy solving of it

cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 October 2010 11:38 (fifteen years ago)

Truth be told I still don't get what the l l bit means.

THE BOSS aka the steenspringer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 October 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

should have a !

my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Sunday, 17 October 2010 15:50 (fifteen years ago)

they stand for 'laugh' and 'loud' iirc, sorry it's no cleverer than that

cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 October 2010 17:53 (fifteen years ago)

Haha oh dear, I needed the explanation there as well. Good one. (Same grid should obv have both |∞| (8,4) and |0| (8,4), ie james redd's first suggestion, for extra confusion.)

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 10:46 (fifteen years ago)


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