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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)

one of the least-regarded art forms of our time imo

ledge, Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:18 (thirteen years ago)

webster word of day for yesterday was (REDACTED). but it was late...

Travelling Dr Who companion miserable without heroin (11, belated WOTD)

(just seeing what the Who/cryptic thread crossover is, like)

still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:27 (thirteen years ago)

nice!

ledge, Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:29 (thirteen years ago)

rockists.

koogs, Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:42 (thirteen years ago)

if yr gonna link with extraneous terms you gotta make them bland/innocuous imo, 'steal' would have my eyes tearing to do somethin with it

Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:47 (thirteen years ago)

First time I've ever attempted writing a clue, does this work for WOTD?

Excessive loss of energy after dark creates wave (8)

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:47 (thirteen years ago)

works for me.

ledge, Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:11 (thirteen years ago)

Yay me!

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:15 (thirteen years ago)

yeah that's a decent clue :)

syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:18 (thirteen years ago)

Thanks, I was proud that it it incorporates three elements that often trip me up as a novice solver: having to solve one word and then subtract from it, single letter abbreviation, and noun/verb mismatch for wave.

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:12 (thirteen years ago)

Polite hero turns purple (10 wotd)

koogs, Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:02 (thirteen years ago)

(tried working in the creator of brazilian jiu jitsu but just couldn't)

koogs, Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:05 (thirteen years ago)

Light brown tops of elegant chiffon, raw, unbleached (4,wotd)

ledge, Friday, 14 September 2012 14:35 (thirteen years ago)

Wow, I got that one quickly. I'm getting better at these.

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Friday, 14 September 2012 14:41 (thirteen years ago)

nobody tempted by 'diapason', 'coetaneous' or 'tartuffery'?

koogs, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:50 (thirteen years ago)

I'll give one a (maybe farfetched) shot:

Organists' group reject help, loudspeaker systems activated. (8)

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:18 (thirteen years ago)

not at all bad

ledge, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:28 (thirteen years ago)

Thanks, this is really fun, I've never attempted to think up my own. I'd never heard of diapason. Rules-wise, could 'with' be added before loudspeaker to improve the surface reading?

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:24 (thirteen years ago)

sure, with works in the 'put these together' sense.

ledge, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:51 (thirteen years ago)

I can't come up with anything for those other two, though.

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:01 (thirteen years ago)

Pious fakery! Roxy Music singer entangled in a clump of trees. (10)

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:20 (thirteen years ago)

You'll have to explain that one...

Ate one half portion of cous-cous, digested at the same time (10)

ledge, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:27 (thirteen years ago)

FERRY + A TUFT, entangled = TARTUFFERY

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:30 (thirteen years ago)

maybe it's nitpicking but that 'entangled' reads to me as only applying to ferry, then put it inside a tuft (unentangled). 'entangled with' would work, although not as well on the surface.

also never come across 'tuft' used for trees before!

ledge, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:34 (thirteen years ago)

Confused Roxy Music singer entangled with a clump of trees... enh, it's still not that good.

The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:45 (thirteen years ago)


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