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Bingo!

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Maternity Ward?

(Xpost)

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Ooh I like it.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

One from Private Eye (the only one I can do this week):

Taken by piss-artist to be how to position two entries in a sudoku grid? (3,4,3,5)

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

One over the eight!

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Curses, I've been staring at that for half an hour!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Ok this one should be easy:
Dairy product made by EEC she-goat etc curdled (7,6)

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

cottage cheese

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

(But I still don't get the sudoku one)

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Recieved lush wisdom: Eight drinks is okay, any more makes you drunk.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

So if you've had "one over the eight" you're a piss-artist.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Pay no more attention = keep no more lists!

Is that some weird Canuck slang?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Awfully sad picture of slapstick (7, 3)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Custard pie.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

But, um, someone else can feel free to post a new clue, I got nothing right now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

(I made this up, it's shit, but...)

Fred's lead in race is an absurdity (5)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

FARCE

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

correct

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Cross hog ill, disturbed by these female students (11)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

You need something in the clue to indicate that "race" is an anagram, also the f's not "in", it's "at the start of".

(xpost) schoolgirls

― crossword pedant (ailsa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

easiest one from today's guardian: MP teased about mad rush (8)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

(my clues are all shitty anagrams--FEEL MY CRYPTIC SHAME!)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

stampede

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

You need something in the clue to indicate that "race" is an anagram, also the f's not "in", it's "at the start of".

Did you see where I said "it's shit"?

Oh and I'm assuming you don't have an 'a' in your name...

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

He'd be incredible if he weren't so fucked up. (3-1)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Huk-L (excellent clue, Casuistry)

Onimo, I was being helpful, or so I thought. I have never made a crossword clue up in my life, and wouldn't even attempt to due to my woeful lack of imagination - I'm just jealous of those who can do so and put me to shame, and doing my usual crappy thing of pointing out the speck of dust in another's eye before removing the plank in my own :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

A cryptic pedant is snaking through Alabama. (5)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

hahaha :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why I can only come up with clues for people (or the board at large).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

Shrink turns wife into mountain (8)

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Please explain the huk-l clue to my tired and rusty brain.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Anagram of 'hulk'. Who is incredible.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Sweet.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Jungfrau?

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh my god. Is it Jungfrau?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Pending that adjudication:
Blair goes around and about in church, that is, for festive treat (5,3)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Mince pie!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Yup!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Can this be a joint effort, because I haven't worked it out either yet:

Erif (8)

(From today's Araucaria)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Ok I know it now. Carry on!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Surely backfire or fireback or something - at least one of those may be a word. xpost obv.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I thought fireback. Though it could equally be backfire. Shit.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Reminds me of a variation on an old chestnut that was posted earlier:
ONMLKJIH (9)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

backwater

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I don't get that and I didn't get HIJKLMNO either :(

Oh wait yes I do. H to O. H2O. Right.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it was Jungfrau. That was a homebrew clue.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Why the "turns"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

So... who's up? Onimo?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Messed up time for the short generation to get together (7)

(man that's bad, sorry again ailsa)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

meeting?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

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