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(Again probably harder then Ximenes if not Torquemada)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Correct, ledge.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

(I'm hoping Gerry Nemo will come through for me again)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm manipulating 'drones' here and the only thing I can come up with that fits with the letters you've given is 'modernise' but I'm not even sure I'm looking at the clue the right way round. So if I'm right you'll have to explain it to me :-P

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

It's not honey- something, is it?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

No and no. This one is really kind of hard. Maybe I should have put a question mark at the end.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

YES I got Canada!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

In in bed with the French sauce (8)

chipotle! What do I win? ("hip" in "cot" with "le" on the end)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

You win my undying admiration and, perhaps more importantly, the chance to give us a new clue.

More letters:

Almost a king among gods at home is manipulator of drones. (9)

-o-e-o--e

Maybe I should have said "Northern gods"

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't have any clues handy, and I certainly don't have the skills necessary to make one up. Sorry!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I should have said "manager of drones club"

Another hint:

Hillbilly leader and first knight (4)
-ed-

The missing letters are one apart alphabetically.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Answer to one in title of this thread

Answer to other in title of this one

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Finally, The Erl-King is a very scary poem by Goethe about a child riding with his father while being pursued by a bogeyman called the Erl-King, visible only to the child. It was turned into a Lied by Schubert. Earl King was a guitar player known for his song "Trick Bag" and another song "Come On" aka "Let The Good Times Roll," which was covered by Jimi Hendrix. Yeah, I know it was a stretch.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe I couldn't get Wodehouse :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Finally, The Erl-King is a very scary poem by Goethe

Well, Die Erlkönig [if I did that right] is, which can either be translated as Elf King or Alder King (although I was able to google up some Erl Kings, even though I'd never come across that half-translation before).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 5 January 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Also, those grapes were assuredly sour.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 5 January 2006 09:33 (twenty years ago)

I'd come across it as Erl-King but I'd never heard of Earl King, so I was still scuppered.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 09:37 (twenty years ago)

is there a current (possible) clue? 10.42 work despair :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Since no-one else is:

My real life leader is female (4)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:52 (twenty years ago)

There's still the French sauce one, or much easier:

Dead tired? (3,2,6)

xpost, sorry

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Ailsa got "chipotle" for the French sauce one.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

‘girl’? (your real life leader being g for gerry and irl = in real life?)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes, sorry ailsa.

Girl!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:59 (twenty years ago)

Yes :-)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:04 (twenty years ago)

I like making clues up but they're always easy ones.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

I like easy ones!

Still working on archel's...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm out of turn now, but it's actually one of my own this time:

Twisted tighter South-East, and untwisted (12)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Archel's isn't "out of breath", is it?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

nice mark!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Yep. (I think it was from the Times, that one.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

disentangled? but why?

(I can't make the anagram work grr)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Nope.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Straightened...

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Composed in a hurry:

Airborne vermin? This will never fly before a long time (6)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

pigeon :)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

fiddle with crop grower before gym class (5)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Grope. You perv.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Anyone feel free to jump in with another clue...

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

For every green there's a deviant (7)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Heh, pervert...

Morning measure in a small amount is encompassing (7)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Minimal?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

No. Some letters:

_ _ _ i _ n _

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

ambient?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

OK.

Cleaned up messed up dude on the street (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't really understand ambient as encompassing?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Really, Greg? It's the, um, dictionary definition.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

am·bi·ent
adj.

Surrounding; encircling: ambient sound; ambient air.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

For Ken's: dusted? If so, I think "on the" is a bit misleading.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I know what you mean though Greg, it's hardly the most common usage any more - ideal for clue composers then really bwahaha :)

Yeah it's not 'on the' it's 'around', surely? But I'm no expert.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

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