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that's really nice actually.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

writer of novels, essay and verse (6)

(not mine for once)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

poetry

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

new blood!

new clue!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Meet the new blood, same as the old blood.

Here's a clue I just made up:

Jerry-built, backwards, note: in hell, almost. (8)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Here's another one I made up:

Call them for replacing a doorknob and piercing a veil! (8)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Please have a go at my crummily crafted clues when you wake up, cryptic AU/UK peeps.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

Of course, Chris can try too if he comes home late.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

I have stared at them with little to no comprehension.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 December 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Sorry. You know the "turns" I put in the other clue a while back? That was there as a false reversal indicator, to throw you off the trail and to make the surface reading seem more like a dream, which I hope I can get to sleep and get to have one of.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

A false reversal indicator? That's hardly fair!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

Homemade

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Bloody hell ledge! I don't think I could have got that in a month.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Argh, I even got as far as thinking h----ade, but nothing came to mind after. Doh.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

I thought it had to be h---made, then I just needed to get a four letter word for note beginning with m. Am stumped by the other one though.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

I sort of want it to be 'handlers' but why?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh well, here's an article to read while we try to figure it out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1672293,00.html

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Girrus letters Ken!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

H------n

A false reversal indicator?
This was perhaps an exaggeration. You want I should have said "shrink wife mountain"? What am I, Tarzan?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Here's another one

My bird for a kingdom! (3)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

handymen?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

DING DING DING!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

oh! BRILLIANT

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Shrink leads wife into mountain maybe?

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

This bird clue is hard!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Wait, no it isn't. Auk!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Is it my clue now or onimo's or ledge's or all three?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Auk! D'oh.

Well, whoever comes up with one first I guess.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

ok, my brain is dead so newspaper one:

pub arranged to have meals in every bar (6)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

upbeat

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

While I was away, I came up with this

Mad scientist's fearless leader worked to recognize his large mug (12)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

frankenstein, but still working on why...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

oh, recognise is ken? right, gotcha.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Cry of a cockney bird (3)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

(I kept thinking it was going to be H----eck, with possibly a -bn- in the middle, and was trying to see if there were any famous Jerry H--bnecks or something.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

owl.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

new blood!

new clue!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

While we're waiting for isadora, here's some more:

Push back pariah in disgust (5)

Savage morning in New York (6)

Ego-less holding back holding Aussie eatery (10)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 23 December 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Virgin to provide experience to freshmen (3,5)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Restaurant.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 December 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Repel.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 December 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

What's still unsolved? Savage morning?

(VL's is new blood right?)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 23 December 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Right.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

(I feel a bit daft calling everyone by screennames on a thread like this - should we do some introducing while we're waiting for Ndawny to mean savage? I'm Greg)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 23 December 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Hi dere I'm Ole!

Mocking God's mother and ourselves (5)

(if it proves too hard, substitute FPBGGVFUNEGVFG for ZBPXVATTBQ (encoded in ROT13)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Momus!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Indeed! Did you get it without applying the hint? (It does involve some semi-obscure mythology...)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

The original pass-it-on rules seem to be ignored; fine by me.

Request the first of the fold (5)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

(BTW that was *not* directed towards ailsa for not immediately coming up with another clue)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I am rubbish at making up clues, have none to hand and had buggered off to the shops to collect my turkey. No offence taken :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 23 December 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

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