xp you should post 'em here then!
clunky as usual:
pleasure reflected in gentleman's first special action taken for marriage proposal
― ledge, Thursday, 6 September 2012 10:37 (thirteen years ago)
letters?
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 September 2012 10:49 (thirteen years ago)
or is that genuflect? cos
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 September 2012 10:50 (thirteen years ago)
do keep up, dear
― ledge, Thursday, 6 September 2012 10:50 (thirteen years ago)
heh
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 September 2012 10:53 (thirteen years ago)
problem is genuflect is a verb so "action taken" doesn't really work cos it suggests a noun
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 6 September 2012 11:45 (thirteen years ago)
show reverence for old fashioned guy with poxy fule caught inside
― woof, Thursday, 6 September 2012 11:46 (thirteen years ago)
missing a "c"?
― Une ville musulmane dans la Chine du Nord sous les Mongols (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 September 2012 11:46 (thirteen years ago)
"c" for caught innit?
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Thursday, 6 September 2012 11:48 (thirteen years ago)
oh yeah missed it
― Une ville musulmane dans la Chine du Nord sous les Mongols (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 September 2012 11:52 (thirteen years ago)
bent leg etc. fun!
― koogs, Thursday, 6 September 2012 12:00 (thirteen years ago)
(hmm, not sure there isn't something missing there, or it's too twisted up in itself. bent and fun could be anagram indicators but fun is part of the anagram. bent leg being the definition but leg also part of the anagram... plus the english isn't great.)
― koogs, Thursday, 6 September 2012 12:02 (thirteen years ago)
it almost works as a semi &lit, araucaria e.g. is always pretty happy to play fast n loose with those.
painfully aware of this but gave up on trying to fix it.
― ledge, Thursday, 6 September 2012 12:47 (thirteen years ago)
i guess the real test is whether anyone could solve these clues.
― koogs, Thursday, 6 September 2012 13:04 (thirteen years ago)
Returned suitor's put-down: you spattered paint, one hears, to bow
(ho hum)
― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 6 September 2012 15:14 (thirteen years ago)
genuflect?
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 September 2012 15:18 (thirteen years ago)
(yes. don't mind me, rolling in several hours late with my terrible word-manglings)
― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 6 September 2012 15:31 (thirteen years ago)
idk is genuflect a great word for this experiment, which is otherwise a v interesting one imo
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 September 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago)
we didn't do too badly IMO, but yeah it's not the easiest. Throw one out there then!
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Thursday, 6 September 2012 15:46 (thirteen years ago)
yes, someone suggest another word
― koogs, Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:25 (thirteen years ago)
srsly whenever i'm put on the spot i can only think in obscenities
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:34 (thirteen years ago)
Dodgy PC flaunts lippiness? (4,5)
― Une ville musulmane dans la Chine du Nord sous les Mongols (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:41 (thirteen years ago)
filth
― koogs, Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:44 (thirteen years ago)
that's the only one I've gotten in ages
― kinder, Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:37 (thirteen years ago)
word of the day: primrose
― ledge, Monday, 10 September 2012 09:13 (thirteen years ago)
Blooming proper get-up!
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Monday, 10 September 2012 09:24 (thirteen years ago)
(wouldn't that need to be past tense?)
― koogs, Monday, 10 September 2012 09:26 (thirteen years ago)
yes, damn you, yes (weeps)
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Monday, 10 September 2012 09:30 (thirteen years ago)
Stand around border regarding first flower
― ledge, Monday, 10 September 2012 09:33 (thirteen years ago)
Proper pink flower (8)
― Une ville musulmane dans la Chine du Nord sous les Mongols (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 September 2012 09:34 (thirteen years ago)
was trying to get rim within ("outside inside") prose but couldn't think of a decent synonym for prose
also, april 19th = primrose day. more interesting that just 'flower'
― koogs, Monday, 10 September 2012 09:47 (thirteen years ago)
"prose" = "writing" was what i was working on, was considering using "yellow" for "primrose".
― Une ville musulmane dans la Chine du Nord sous les Mongols (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 September 2012 09:54 (thirteen years ago)
Disturbed improviser drops the sixth flower
― bham, Monday, 10 September 2012 15:09 (thirteen years ago)
Does "vi" mean "the sixth" there?
― Tim, Monday, 10 September 2012 15:22 (thirteen years ago)
Yes, that was the idea. As in Henry VI. Not sure it quite works.
― bham, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 09:17 (thirteen years ago)
If we wanna keep this going we could just use http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ or http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 09:23 (thirteen years ago)
happy enough with that one, tbh
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 09:25 (thirteen years ago)
might be an idea to tag these posts with WOTD if you're posting a clue to a known word (either from those websites or nominated). another thread altogether is another.
1 Ceres might be red (6, WOTD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_%28dwarf_planet%29
(would 'shift' work as an anagram specifier? 'red shift' would keep the astronomy thing going, if in a slightly nonsensical way)
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:17 (thirteen years ago)
Before ecstacy, cries popped French cherry. (6, WOTD)
― Tim, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:40 (thirteen years ago)
colour of cherries i rectally inserted backwards (6, wotd)
would 'shift' work as an anagram specifier?
last araucaria had 'demands' as anagrind iirc. i don't even.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 11:03 (thirteen years ago)
http://cryptics.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_anagram_indicators
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 11:05 (thirteen years ago)
Crazy con lead caper to steal chinese pottery (7 WOTD)
(could i use caper as an anagram indicator? could then drop the crazy...)
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:08 (thirteen years ago)
what does the 'to steal' indicate?
― ledge, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 22:04 (thirteen years ago)
nothing. it's just there to make the two parts of the clue into something resembling a sentence.
― koogs, Thursday, 13 September 2012 08:41 (thirteen years ago)
wotd seems to be themed throughout the week, but a lot of the colour names have other or more specific meanings.
webster word of day for yesterday was peripatetic. but it was late...
― koogs, Thursday, 13 September 2012 08:42 (thirteen years ago)
xp you can't do that!
― ledge, Thursday, 13 September 2012 08:46 (thirteen years ago)
Every. Word. Must. Count.
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:03 (thirteen years ago)
http://cryptics.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_linking_words_and_phrases
― v for viennetta (c sharp major), Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:06 (thirteen years ago)
obv there are good clues and bad clues, but i'm a purist about that shit
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:15 (thirteen years ago)
it's also why writing clues is damn hard, and anyone who can churn out well-formed clues with decent surface readings on a daily basis gets massive respect from me.
― ledge, Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:18 (thirteen years ago)