struggling with that one, have you got any letters?
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:43 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago)
what was the clue
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:18 (fifteen years ago)
Sulky quality encountered downtown? (9)
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:19 (fifteen years ago)
lazy tbh
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:21 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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)
SPOILERS!
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:13 (fourteen years ago)
Sorry koogs, I was unusually (by my standards) quick to answer your clue...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:29 (fourteen years ago)
(i meant 'perestroika'. i had the ....s.r.i.a but...)
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:42 (fourteen years ago)
aha sorry!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:44 (fourteen years ago)
so, how is your knowledge of oil terminals? i think i prefer the cricket clues...
Volume so staggering around large oil terminal (6,3)
obvious anagram, but the answer's a proper noun meaning that it could be anything.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:12 (fourteen years ago)
and as for 26 across...
O? (4,6)
(please, no spoilers)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:14 (fourteen years ago)
I had trouble with the oil terminal clue too, the answer is this though (link disguised to avoid spoilers!) http://bit.ly/opPoJ8
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:24 (fourteen years ago)
Annoyingly it's not a direct anagram either...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:26 (fourteen years ago)
ha, hadn't spotted that. i just wiki'd up a list of oil terminals and picked the obvious one.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:40 (fourteen years ago)
what letters do you have for the "O" clue? I've had an idea...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 10:20 (fourteen years ago)
two more than i had this morning, but it's still in the wilderness there in the bottom right.
. o . e / . e . . . .
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:10 (fourteen years ago)
Ah. I get it. http://bit.ly/3ufq3S
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:19 (fourteen years ago)
love letter
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:20 (fourteen years ago)