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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)

Headless gnat and midge, in essence (6)

Gumby vs. Bridezilla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 October 2010 12:34 (fifteen years ago)

... nature

thomp, Friday, 29 October 2010 12:38 (fifteen years ago)

Get better around midge (4)

Gumby vs. Bridezilla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 October 2010 13:20 (fifteen years ago)

cure

koogs, Friday, 29 October 2010 13:23 (fifteen years ago)

Male midge, smelly (6)

Neil S, Friday, 29 October 2010 13:38 (fifteen years ago)

manure

a fucking abortion (onimo), Friday, 29 October 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

yes!

Neil S, Friday, 29 October 2010 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

Certain southern midge (4)

a fucking abortion (onimo), Friday, 29 October 2010 14:18 (fifteen years ago)

sure.

100% soft midge (4)

Gumby vs. Bridezilla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 October 2010 14:19 (fifteen years ago)

pure

Wee Midge has one name (5)

portrait of velleity (woof), Friday, 29 October 2010 14:27 (fifteen years ago)

(l∞l brilliant btw dmac)

portrait of velleity (woof), Friday, 29 October 2010 14:29 (fifteen years ago)

for job security, midge sung last note of scale first - wrong note!

thomp, Friday, 29 October 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

oh wait that doesn't actually work, nevermind

thomp, Friday, 29 October 2010 14:33 (fifteen years ago)

been sitting here for a while wondering what this obscure entomological term for midges is.

(i get it now)

all the love sent up high to pledge won't reach the (ledge), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:13 (fifteen years ago)

FUN! begs midge (8)

portrait of velleity (woof), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:19 (fifteen years ago)

Pleasure.

Midge not all that around red canal (7)

Gumby vs. Bridezilla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

Urethra

Guiding lights caught nosy, muddled midges (9)

portrait of velleity (woof), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

Synosures.

Too busy at work, someone else do one.

Pork Pius V (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 29 October 2010 16:00 (fifteen years ago)

Oh balls - spelling. ignore me, I'm off to get drunk.

Pork Pius V (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 29 October 2010 16:16 (fifteen years ago)

A deep sky blue, pure, he who proclaims "if I was a painter" reflects within (8)

all the love sent up high to pledge won't reach the (ledge), Friday, 29 October 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)

(trying too hard, methinks)

all the love sent up high to pledge won't reach the (ledge), Friday, 29 October 2010 23:14 (fifteen years ago)


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