xp wellll i cheated on a few and idk if charlie for **** is one level of indirection too many... but i liked the ones i got, especially 20 ac, and yeah good theme well done mustn't grumble.
― Scuse me while I kiss this guy correspondent (ledge), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 15:09 (twelve years ago)
How far behind time am I to be this lonely? Fifty!(8)
I think you mean five hundred but I'll let you off as I half cheated to figure that out.
― Scuse me while I kiss this guy correspondent (ledge), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:16 (twelve years ago)
Very likely crosaire was the only reason i even knew my romans
― Bigsam: flotsam and jetsam @ whetsam? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:22 (twelve years ago)
ledge is such a cheater
― deeja entendu (wins), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:33 (twelve years ago)
It's the only way to learn, better to cheat than to be forever in ignorance.
Also the guardian web app makes it too easy :/
― Scuse me while I kiss this guy correspondent (ledge), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:53 (twelve years ago)
Hmmm nope "forever ignorant" vs getting the solution next day, imma have to rule GUILTY as charged bailiffs if you would
― deeja entendu (wins), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:58 (twelve years ago)
Metal I dropped over the Atlantic (9)
Convert writing? Only text without margins (9)
if somebody could explain the answers to those that'd be great thanks
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:46 (twelve years ago)
never mind the first one, i've sussed it. stinker
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:47 (twelve years ago)
Do you have em (or is the attempt to avoid spoilers cos thats a tricky ask)
― Our Deems, of the supposed "rapier" "wit" (darraghmac), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:49 (twelve years ago)
Oh got it. Fair enough imo
i'm pretty sure i've got them both. first one definite, second one 99 percent.
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:51 (twelve years ago)
fifteensquared.net has all the explanations you need
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 20 December 2013 12:49 (twelve years ago)
I never get these yet I got the first one in 0.5 seconds.I am always moaning about that kind of thing though I suppose
― kinder, Friday, 20 December 2013 12:53 (twelve years ago)
got the second one, wasn't what i thought, answer is perfectly logical
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 13:07 (twelve years ago)
finished it
― the five people you meet in Hedon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 December 2013 13:12 (twelve years ago)
I came up with this so it might be a bit off:
Ex-prez in denial of guilt (3, 2)
― decomposable heroes of hipleprosy (wins), Friday, 20 December 2013 13:22 (twelve years ago)
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/12/the-fascinating-history-of-the-crossword-the-original-mobile-game/
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19a2zpwol4oampng/ku-medium.png
― koogs, Sunday, 22 December 2013 15:37 (twelve years ago)
singers of christmas song -- communist theorist and king of england after great vowel shift -- swap places (6,6)
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:30 (twelve years ago)
Ha nice
― sad banta (wins), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:52 (twelve years ago)
Probably not ~strictly rigorous~ tho? Idk I'm terrible with this stuff
― sad banta (wins), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:55 (twelve years ago)
yeah this is after several passes and i still can't get it to work right, quite
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 23 December 2013 22:52 (twelve years ago)
display of regret at death of child -- scottish communist theorist ostracised? (8, 5)
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 20:53 (twelve years ago)
Not sure if this quite works, on several levels, but I hadn't thought up one of my own in a long time:
Ill gain (taking $1000) mistakenly cast away. (8)
― Glenn Miller-core (Dan Peterson), Monday, 30 December 2013 20:51 (twelve years ago)
today's Guardian:
Primarily pointing out Tim Henman’s earlier answer: “Djokovich is grass lover” (7)
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:29 (twelve years ago)
grudging lol
― the undersea world of jacques kernow (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:30 (twelve years ago)
before I think about that, is the misspelling of Djokovic intentional
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:32 (twelve years ago)
oh wait, got the answer and the misspelling is irrelevant
yeah I c&p'ed it, it's just poor Grauniad copy editing I suppose. Though are cryptics copy edited I wonder?
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:49 (twelve years ago)
Also Britpop themed clue today!
Blur in Country House, initially Oasis top it for urbanity (14)
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:53 (twelve years ago)
Solved that one quickly; took me longer to figure out how they put it together. Nice.
Here's one that I racked my brain over before finally deciding that the first half of the clue is overly vague/inaccurate?
Put something together in time for Christmas and Halloween. (6)
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbbryan ferry (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 February 2014 16:30 (twelve years ago)
Ha I like that! What would you use for the def?
― Punch Drake, Love (wins), Thursday, 13 February 2014 16:37 (twelve years ago)
Something to do with boiling?
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbbryan ferry (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 February 2014 16:43 (twelve years ago)
this one was nice I thought, today's Guardian as per
Light grey French perfume ingredient (9)
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:25 (twelve years ago)
Sweet
― Internet Alas (wins), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:29 (twelve years ago)
u won't be getting the money back from him, presumably (10)
― politically autocorrect (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:01 (twelve years ago)
grauniad
That is to say, to woo follows naturally (2,3)
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Thursday, 13 March 2014 13:34 (twelve years ago)
One I get, at last!
― kinder, Thursday, 13 March 2014 13:36 (twelve years ago)
ah very soft tho!
― unw? j.......n (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:03 (twelve years ago)
easy once you get it, like all the best clues
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:10 (twelve years ago)
Paul today:
Stick-like and sticky? But the name hasn't stuck! (9)
― every moser (wins), Saturday, 29 March 2014 14:40 (twelve years ago)
today's Everyman:
Passing remark? (6,4,5)
wins, what's the answer to the one above?
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Sunday, 6 April 2014 21:22 (twelve years ago)
thingummy
― two bunny rabbits on mushrooms singing Proclaimers songs (onimo), Monday, 7 April 2014 15:39 (twelve years ago)
very good
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Monday, 7 April 2014 16:43 (twelve years ago)
I don't usually attempt the Guardian, but I finished about half of it Friday, excellent for me. My knowledge of British history, TV and motorways is not good.
Anyone want to tell me how Some can go crazy over a drink (6) makes cognac?
― A Perfect Ratio of Choogle to Jam (Dan Peterson), Monday, 21 April 2014 14:31 (twelve years ago)
It's mostly obvious, though with one bit I'm not certain about. "Can go" is a "crazy" version (anagram) of cognac, without one of the Cs, which I'm guessing you can get from "some" if you know your crossword clues well enough?
― emil.y, Monday, 21 April 2014 14:39 (twelve years ago)
No it's backwards ("over") within "can go crazy"
― just hit submit post basically (wins), Monday, 21 April 2014 14:46 (twelve years ago)
"some" indicates the word being hidden in a larger phrase
Oof, it's a backwards hidden word. I was trying to anagram it, in which case the extra C was throwing me.
― A Perfect Ratio of Choogle to Jam (Dan Peterson), Monday, 21 April 2014 14:50 (twelve years ago)
Was about to post: Could view "some" as the anagrammer and "crazy" as the 'c'
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 April 2014 14:52 (twelve years ago)
Ah, okay, didn't know that. Not sure why I was trying to help when I'm crap at cryptics. *sigh*
― emil.y, Monday, 21 April 2014 14:52 (twelve years ago)