ok with slight amendments tbf
future rubbish, boo etc tbh - 5,2,2
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, I was looking for anal rather than anus.
(out of context bait right there)
(calling your own out of context postings stops it happening, right?)
range is correct.
― every day I'm (onimo), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
That sultana v nice, I got stuck repeatedly trying to get KY or a bit of oil in ass. 'botch to be'?
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
ya, throwaway effort, and prob ought to have been hyphenated now i look again
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
3 away from finishing the big easter saturday guardian crossword.
Galloway's people profess no other partiality (7,2,7)
R E S P E C T | O . | P . . . O . S
(is that last bit an anagram of 'professno'?)
Organs for the crowd (5)
P . E . .
(plebs?)
Flowers in the shade (4-4)
. . . . | P . N .
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
respect of persons
which makes that R . . . | P . N .
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
RIVE PINS?
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
(Groping guess based on the painting Pins sur la rive by Georges Lacombe.)
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
rose pink, something like that?
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 25 April 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
and press
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 25 April 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Tried to download Easter Guardian, forgetting that it would break my iPhone
― ELO ENO ONO (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 April 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
thankyou. not sure i understand either entirely but...
(and if anyone else needs a solution just let me know)
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I think: roses & pinks both kinds of flower, 'rose pink' a shade. Nice, I think. organs = 'organs of the press', press = crowd. Not as sold on that one.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 25 April 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
is 'pink' a kind of flower? that's the bit i'm iffy with.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it is
― A Zed and Two Nults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:49 (thirteen years ago) link
[citation needed]
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:52 (thirteen years ago) link
pink1 noun 1 a light or pale-red colour, between red and white. 2 an annual or perennial plant, eg a carnation or sweet william, which has stems with swollen nodes, grass-like bluish-green leaves and flowers with a tubular calyx and five spreading toothed or slightly frilled pink, red, white, purple, yellow, orange or variegated petals
― A Zed and Two Nults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks
was looking for yesterday's on the guardian site and a search for april 2011 gave me this, from 1932!http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/597
(did they reprint it?)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
actually,
25 Website for domestic servant? (4,4)
did they have websites in 1932?
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
there are also clues referring to the "Fab Four" and "Nixon" so i suspect the date's wrong
― A Zed and Two Nults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
still stuck on four in the lower regions of saturday's araucaria.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
PIG EON
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
pod, train, town, and bird, are the problems here.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the pod is odd - 2nd half of it's easy
town i still can't figure out, but wikipedia gives you the answer. i wonder whether you can spell it a different way that matches the clue better.
american bird. you will kick yourself.
is the train the writer one? think that's another kicker.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
-NE- BEAN, i figure. not up on my opera centres though.
American bird - as in a broad? A dame?
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
OH IT'S A FUCKING HIDDEN WORD
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
PULLMAN
snap bean? idgi
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
These (including koogs' post yesterday) are not really convincing me of Araucaria's genius, which iirc everyone else itt was quite determined of
just sayin etc
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Intermittent genius, I would say. It can be hard to see the genius in a well-written and totally legit clue when you've been banging your head against it for hours. Otoh I'm not so impressed with convoluted 20+ letter anagrams, especially when there's no definition part in the clue. That "six clues are of a kind and not further defined" thing can fuck off imo.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
snap bean is a thing, and american thing. SNAPE being a place they do opera, B from born, AN from AN.
yes, tinamou? who knew!
i got the theme by pure luck, just thought of something that fit, the (1, 9, 5, 6) one.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
> These (including koogs' post yesterday) are not really convincing me of Araucaria's genius
yeah, these are the dregs though. that said, PLACIDNESS?
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
xp we got "the glass" (already had 'the', + good girl), and bingo.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
today's guardian:
Be cool and calm when hot in lilac, unfortunately getting cross (7)
(clue straightforward, but am a bit o_O about the answer)
― koogs, Friday, 29 April 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I got the answer but don't get the "unfortunately" bit
― Not the real Village People, Friday, 29 April 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I quite liked "Fancy lad and me tied knot! (4,9)"
― Not the real Village People, Friday, 29 April 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i am failing badly at the bottom half of yesterday's crossword, including the fancy lad, despite it being an obvious anagram. (that said, 50% is 45% more than i usually manage on weekdays)
and the 'unfortunately' bit is just another anagram indicator - anagram(lilac+h)+x
― koogs, Saturday, 30 April 2011 09:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Hint for that one: it is topical, innit.
I breezed through the top half, very unusual for me especially on a Friday, and then my delusion of genius was destroyed by the bottom half. Have since finished it by cheating on several of the bottom half clues and mostly gone "ohh, of course", with a couple of "blimey, I'd never have got that but it works", so nothing desperately unfair or annoying.
Liked the puzzle on the whole, but maybe that was just because of the ego boost of the top half!
― russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 30 April 2011 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
that 'be cool and calm' answer fun. Got it & figured it would be Paul, the scamp. Didn't see the paper but will have a shot at it online now.
Oh man it's saturday I could buy the times and spend the entire bank holiday trying to do the listener.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Saturday, 30 April 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Hot to catch a girl with nothing on? (5)
I got the answer, LASSO, but do you think 'hot' was a typo for 'how' or am I missing something? (Trying to work 'hot' in hung me up for way longer than it should have!)
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Must be a typo.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Also:
What one is supposed to view isn't stated, but agitation is obvious when something does. (6)
SEETHE.
'When something does' led me to believe the word would would end in S (it was unchecked.) Again, I'm probably just quibbling because I spent too long on it, but "when something... SEETHE?" Something SEETHES. "When something does seethe" I guess, but I thought that was pretty clunky. Liked the SEE THE part, though.
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a clunky clue. every word should count precisely imo
― bell hops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
That's been part of my problem, as a novice, is figuring out "is that standard, or fair?" Thanks for letting me ask questions, this forum has been helpful.
Here's one I actually quite liked, and solved rather easily:
Everything I put a label on the wrong way, otherwise it might end up as baggage, or a purse. (9)
ALLIGATOR
I understood "All I tag, else." But it's okay to have the letter "I" in the clue just be included in the answer like that?
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
it's int he cluse- all I TAG
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
wow look at that
"Everything I put a label on" is ALL I TAG so the I isn't random
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
No not random, but I just = I. I suppose you would need to do that sometimes, now that I think of it.
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
it's kosher alright
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, better that than trying to cram iodine into the clue.
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
trying to cram iodine into anything is just a bad option #rules4lyfe
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link