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
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)