non sequitur
― ledge, Saturday, 3 January 2009 07:56 (seventeen years ago)
Odd steps around rapper's girl's footwear (5)
― ledge, Saturday, 3 January 2009 08:04 (seventeen years ago)
__O__
― ledge, Sunday, 4 January 2009 15:46 (seventeen years ago)
shoes? though I don't get the steps bit, rapper's girl = ho.
― ailsa, Sunday, 4 January 2009 16:27 (seventeen years ago)
odd steps = the odd letters, s e s.
― ledge, Sunday, 4 January 2009 16:32 (seventeen years ago)
Healthy, sick or broke (6)Five-0 almost got rapper to talk (5)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:14 (seventeen years ago)
The second one's voice
― ailsa, Monday, 5 January 2009 20:21 (seventeen years ago)
Yes.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:22 (seventeen years ago)
What's the first one, ailsa?
Also still have these two Alsatian artist, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace delineated FACE, for example (8)-r-e--i-
What candy reveals if floating (4,5)
---- ---e-
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:23 (seventeen years ago)
And thisSmelly and amusing state (5)(might be easier for someone in the US)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:24 (seventeen years ago)
arpeggio (figured out '--eggi-' and then cheated)
― ledge, Monday, 5 January 2009 20:39 (seventeen years ago)
Great, thanks for getting that over with.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:52 (seventeen years ago)
Healthy, sick or broke (6)-----t
What candy reveals if floating (4,5)---e ---e-
Smelly and amusing state (5)---n-
Dies outside icu, sadly (6)Top monkey times (4)Mobile man around tree (6)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:07 (seventeen years ago)
tell a student 'come as you are' (8)no idea
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:30 (seventeen years ago)
informal.
What candy reveals if floating (4,5)life saver?
― ledge, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:24 (seventeen years ago)
Who is Al?
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:37 (seventeen years ago)
A L, a learner. (Common over here, 'L' plates on cars indicate learner driver.)
― ledge, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:38 (seventeen years ago)
Healthy, sick or broke (6)-o---t
Smelly and amusing state (5)--n-- (Previous hint was messed up)
Dies outside icu, sadly (7) (previous numbering was messed up)--i----
Top monkey times (4)--e-
Mobile man around tree (6)----e-
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:12 (seventeen years ago)
Apex. A pedant writes: ape is not monkey!
― ledge, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:28 (seventeen years ago)
I know, but I wanted to use "Monkey Time(s)"
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:31 (seventeen years ago)
Oh, I wondered if the N was in the wrong place. "Funky"
― britisher ringpulls (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:31 (seventeen years ago)
Suicide
― ledge, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:32 (seventeen years ago)
Yes and yes.
Did I ever ask you this one?
Ape aches inside for beauty (5)
No I don't think so.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:33 (seventeen years ago)
A propos of nothing at all, my work did a Christmas prize crossword, with some winter festival themed clues, and I can see that one of them must be Diwali but I can't figure the clue out at all, which means I don't know whether they want the W spelling or the V spelling (non-intersecting square). Bah!
Anyway, it'd be unsporting to ask you guys, but still, I thought I'd complain here where people might understand my annoyance.
― britisher ringpulls (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:36 (seventeen years ago)
Why don't you post clue?
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:12 (seventeen years ago)
Healthy, sick or broke (6)ro---t
Mobile man around tree (6)-a--e-
Ape aches inside for beauty (5)--a--
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 19:37 (seventeen years ago)
robust!
― ledge, Friday, 9 January 2009 19:39 (seventeen years ago)
Yes!
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 19:49 (seventeen years ago)
peach
― ailsa, Friday, 9 January 2009 20:08 (seventeen years ago)
Yup.
Mobile man around tree (6)-a--er
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 20:33 (seventeen years ago)
Hanger?
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 9 January 2009 20:37 (seventeen years ago)
Esoteric electronic duo confuse posh teacher (8)
― ledge, Friday, 9 January 2009 20:49 (seventeen years ago)
Nope.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:02 (seventeen years ago)
-al-er
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:17 (seventeen years ago)
A kiss, hugs, a wave lead to something to get down to (8)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 15:26 (seventeen years ago)
^Greeting?
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Monday, 12 January 2009 16:55 (seventeen years ago)
---i----
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:00 (seventeen years ago)
Business? sine= wave but don't get buss = kiss.
--t-----
― ledge, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:04 (seventeen years ago)
Yes. "Buss" is old word, used to be slang over here, you guys probably lost it earlier. Here's what OED says
buss /bVs/ n.2 & v.t. & i. Now arch., dial., & N. Amer. colloq.L16. [Prob. alt. of BASS n.3, v.1] (A) kiss.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:09 (seventeen years ago)
Still can't get yours, sorry.
Kind of engine school gets an earful (6)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:15 (seventeen years ago)
Autechre!
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 12 January 2009 21:43 (seventeen years ago)
yup!
― ledge, Monday, 12 January 2009 21:54 (seventeen years ago)
Damn. For some reason I kept trying to work "Pole" in their. I still don't see how it works.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:57 (seventeen years ago)
Mobile man around tree (6)-alder
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:58 (seventeen years ago)
anag, teacher + u (posh)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English
calder! d'oh, i even thought of his sculptures, but his name didn't spring to mind.
― ledge, Monday, 12 January 2009 22:00 (seventeen years ago)
Kind of engine school gets an earful (6)--a---
Races around a dictator (6)
Something following a queen and a metal-plated sun-god (5)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:50 (seventeen years ago)
Races around a dictator (6)Ceasar
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:00 (seventeen years ago)
yes
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:11 (seventeen years ago)
Okay, I'm sure this is wrong, but I've been trying to get into cryptic crosswords for a while with limited success. Any tips on why I'm an idiot and going about it all the wrong way would be gratefully received. The only answer that I got for this that seemed vaguely plausible was 'carat'. First off, I started with the thing that seems obvious, that sun-god refers to 'ra'. I wasn't sure about the metal-plated, I thought maybe it should be a single letter, but we can relate 'carat' to gold, and gold to metal-plating, so that's where the final answer came in. The queen could be Catherine, hence 'cat' surrounding 'ra'... but the 'something following' is a mystery to me.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:25 (seventeen years ago)
That's a good try emil.y, but not quite there yet. Don't feel bad about "going about it all the wrong way" - a lot of times the wrong way is the right way. I mean to say that's the kind of thinking that eventually gives you the right answer.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:29 (seventeen years ago)