Or Smee
― SB Sorrow (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 14:18 (fourteen years ago)
Bob Marley hits foot? (6)
― SB Sorrow (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 14:50 (fourteen years ago)
Or:Marley hits foot? (6)
so you might think it has something to do with Scrooge and clumsy chain-rattling specters.
― SB Sorrow (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 14:51 (fourteen years ago)
legend
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)
mythic tale of ilx poster dropping dime and losing all (6)
― SB Sorrow (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 14:55 (fourteen years ago)
speaking of, quite enjoyed this lightly themed guardian a few weeks ago.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 14:58 (fourteen years ago)
Think there was a recent one in which that ilx poster was the answer. Maybe was Independent.
― SB Sorrow (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)
Sulky quality encountered downtown? (9)
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:47 (fourteen years ago)
also:
Soft piece, tiny piece (8)
Cross-fills are: _A_T_C_E, which should make the solution pretty obvious, but I'm still not understanding the why.
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:01 (fourteen years ago)
P = Soft (music)Article = Piece (journalism)
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:04 (fourteen years ago)
Wow, my brain totally did not go in either of those directions!
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:08 (fourteen years ago)
"Soft" clueing P is a common-ish crossword practice so I was looking for it.
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:11 (fourteen years ago)
Not getting this one either:
Landlord is a drag after the first (5)
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:13 (fourteen years ago)
struggling with that one, have you got any letters?
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:43 (fourteen years ago)
O_N_R, which seems obvious too, but I'm not getting the cluing.
The other, sulky, one is P_T_L_N_E which again is very apparent, but the cluing is perplexing me.
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)
a drag = "downer", all letters after the first = "owner"
petulance dunno why yet
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:05 (fourteen years ago)
oh i see, it's to do with Petula Clark.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)
HAHA xpost:
If it somehow has something to do with Petula Clark my head will explode.
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)
feel like it should be annoying me that, but in fact it's just making me find 'Petula' a really weird name. petula petula petula.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:10 (fourteen years ago)
haha don't stare at it too long. i feel like that clue is slightly iffy, can only assume it's positing "Petula-nce" as a joke coinage
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:12 (fourteen years ago)
yeah, it's iffy whimsy, jocular adjective from 'petula' i think.
Sounds gynecological to me now. petula majora.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)
what was the clue
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:19 (fourteen years ago)
lazy tbh
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, Petula-nce is really horrible.
RE: "Is a drag" = downer, I've discovered I really suck at having to first think of a word and then drop letters off. I had one over the weekend:
Transported unwrapped sketch (5). The answer was ROUGH, and even after I got it through process of elimination, I didn't understand why. (BROUGHT minus B & T.) Maybe I'll get better in time, but those are my least favorite.
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)
they are often tough i think because the clue is less tight, i couldn't get near downer/owner until you'd given me the letters.
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:27 (fourteen years ago)
my light is green, perhaps, when my insect is perfect (5)
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 23:19 (fourteen years ago)
i clean cut in order to instruct (9)
― VIRGIN ROO (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 July 2011 01:47 (fourteen years ago)
inculcate
― Safe European HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 July 2011 01:49 (fourteen years ago)
ya i know
― VIRGIN ROO (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 July 2011 01:49 (fourteen years ago)
but we needed a kickstart dont u think
smart minge? i'm not being clear, it's a mixup (10)
― VIRGIN ROO (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 July 2011 01:50 (fourteen years ago)
lol i shouldn't set clues when i'm tired
― VIRGIN ROO (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 July 2011 09:12 (fourteen years ago)
Stammering?
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Sunday, 10 July 2011 09:24 (fourteen years ago)
what about that insect
― ledge, Monday, 11 July 2011 08:18 (fourteen years ago)
counting on you guys tbh it was a crosaire i couldnt finish
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Monday, 11 July 2011 08:29 (fourteen years ago)
I thought "amber"
― Neil S, Monday, 11 July 2011 08:29 (fourteen years ago)
Trying to think of insecty words featuring the letters "I go" but can only think of "imago", which might work with "perfect", but, err. Anyone got any straws to clutch at?
(like the thought of "I'm-a go" but assume it's a bit too modern and American - tiptoe around the racial elephant - for the Irish Times)
― sticky crisco (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:31 (fourteen years ago)
no that's it i think
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:35 (fourteen years ago)
not American: "my light is green" = "I'm a go"
so not "I'm-a" but "a go" = can go
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:36 (fourteen years ago)
i think that is it, though i don't think they're aiming for "i'm-a go", but "i'm a go"
oh, xpost
― thomp, Monday, 11 July 2011 09:37 (fourteen years ago)
i got 'i'm a go' but didn't bother looking up 'imago' lol lazy
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:42 (fourteen years ago)
ah, I suppose that works (file under things nobody I know says)
hooray etc
― the ascent of nyan (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 11 July 2011 10:27 (fourteen years ago)
Been burned by IMAGO before.
Did anyone do that Mersey Beat themed Guardian a few weeks ago?
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 14:11 (fourteen years ago)
do the grauniad most days but don't recall that one.
― ledge, Monday, 11 July 2011 14:30 (fourteen years ago)
i quite liked
"Seat of empire (7)"
― koogs, Monday, 18 July 2011 09:30 (fourteen years ago)
Ottoman!
― Neil S, Monday, 18 July 2011 09:32 (fourteen years ago)
From Sunday's Everyman:
Special peers, triumvirate reforming economic policy (11)
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:59 (fourteen years ago)
Perestroika, nice
― don't be so dayo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:07 (fourteen years ago)
Lots of possible avenues of enquiry with the way the clue is set, but the solution makes perfect sense. Very satisfying!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:10 (fourteen years ago)