HA! That didn't actually get published, did it?
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:49 (ten years ago)
No that was me
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:50 (ten years ago)
On another note, a setter used UFFIZI as part of a clue last week. Seems a bit arcane, or maybe my world gallery knowledge is not all it could be.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:56 (ten years ago)
what was the clue? Uffizi is one of the world's greatest galleries...
― Neil S, Monday, 17 August 2015 17:15 (ten years ago)
Went on securing gallery, ejecting one unknown thug (7)
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:57 (ten years ago)
Save this nonsense for a bank holiday imo
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Saturday, 22 August 2015 10:48 (ten years ago)
(Actually I'm enjoying this grid more since I figured out there were special instructions that don't show up in the app)
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Saturday, 22 August 2015 11:01 (ten years ago)
Awful din that is not linked to major label (5)
Ha!
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 3 September 2015 22:26 (ten years ago)
One of the few I got this week.
― koogs, Friday, 4 September 2015 04:18 (ten years ago)
Pls can someone explain the uffizi one?
― kinder, Friday, 4 September 2015 09:10 (ten years ago)
RAN containing UFFIZI
― oddesseslessness (wins), Friday, 4 September 2015 09:35 (ten years ago)
yeah that seems fair enough tbh
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Friday, 4 September 2015 10:17 (ten years ago)
Oh yeah, totally fair. I'd just never heard of Uffizi.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 4 September 2015 13:29 (ten years ago)
I think my other problem with this is Uffizi is *a* gallery, but it's not a synonym for gallery.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 4 September 2015 15:47 (ten years ago)
Guardian Prize crossword No 26,669, 14 Across: Labouring obsession in creation of an icon, barmy? (11)
^liked this, finding the rest of this one hard to crack tho
― oddesseslessness (wins), Sunday, 6 September 2015 12:20 (ten years ago)
yeah just came to post that one!
― Neil S, Monday, 7 September 2015 19:52 (ten years ago)
Desert Youth's broadcast for intermediary of fly fisherman's cousin, perhaps (3,2-7)
Obvious, inelegant, and UK only reference. Thumbs up!
― steppenwolf in white van speaker scam (ledge), Sunday, 20 September 2015 19:28 (ten years ago)
OK, helped by the fact that is on TV as we speak...
I thought broadcast was an anagram indicator, not a homophone indicator... Makes some sense though.
― koogs, Sunday, 20 September 2015 21:11 (ten years ago)
that is ridiculous. yeah thumbs up.
― OshoKosho B'Gosho (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 September 2015 21:16 (ten years ago)
idgi
― syphilis sive morbus cameronus (wins), Monday, 21 September 2015 18:01 (ten years ago)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fly-Fishing-Memories-Angling-Days/dp/009177909X
― koogs, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:36 (ten years ago)
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,691, 11 Across: Vicious, regressive Blairism, without originator strangely different (10)
― fappy board (wins), Thursday, 1 October 2015 12:30 (ten years ago)
Googling Blairism leads to Atlanticism. so that
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 1 October 2015 13:38 (ten years ago)
Paul being corny again, like it
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,692, 18 Across: Singer rated worst, two-starred, and rotter with wads to splash around (3,7)
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 10:23 (ten years ago)
fell asleep before I got to the end of the clue
― nameReinhard Gruhl/name (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:08 (ten years ago)
It's the exact opposite of elegant clueing but I appreciate this guys tendency to go for the groan
Btw isdg the fly fishing one
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:28 (ten years ago)
LP Hartley, author, could be cousin to JR Hartley, fly-fisherman. LP Hartley wrote...?
― Neil S, Friday, 2 October 2015 12:29 (ten years ago)
Aiaiai
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:38 (ten years ago)
I know right
― Neil S, Friday, 2 October 2015 12:54 (ten years ago)
don't get the "Desert Youth's broadcast" bit?
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:19 (ten years ago)
Gobi tween
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:21 (ten years ago)
sorry (not sorry)
― Do you feel guilty about your wight western priva (ledge), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:22 (ten years ago)
jeez, would never have gotten that. seems unnecessary? clue would have worked just as well with just "intermediary of fly fisherman's cousin, perhaps"
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:23 (ten years ago)
i aspire to greater things than rufusian minimalism
― Do you feel guilty about your wight western priva (ledge), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:29 (ten years ago)
The homophone is the best part of that one
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:29 (ten years ago)
I have to confess I used that exact homophone for a pictogram round when I ran a music quiz. (In the plural, for the Gobi Tweens.)
― emil.y, Friday, 2 October 2015 16:32 (ten years ago)
(I also used Wand Erection in the same round. I am a terrible human.)
I like doing Rufus puzzles because he's pretty easy, but too many purely cryptic clues.
Also, for as long as I've been doing these you'd think I'd have learned that monarch, or similar, can = ER. Catches me every time.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 2 October 2015 16:57 (ten years ago)
I enjoyed this clue in today's Graun:
Start of parenthood: man and woman having swell time? (9)
― Neil S, Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:26 (ten years ago)
lol
― Do you feel guilty about your wight western priva (ledge), Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:28 (ten years ago)
very elegant, no?
― Neil S, Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:29 (ten years ago)
yep, i like it when the clue ties in with the def without going the full &lit.
― Do you feel guilty about your wight western priva (ledge), Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:31 (ten years ago)
Just got, A+
― fappy board (wins), Thursday, 8 October 2015 17:24 (ten years ago)
another good Paul clue today:
On which a squatter may be counting back two from 6 June 1944, fancifully speaking? (5)
― Neil S, Thursday, 22 October 2015 12:40 (ten years ago)
as usual with paul i don't know where to begin.
― ledge, Thursday, 22 October 2015 14:29 (ten years ago)
OK I GET IT
― ledge, Thursday, 22 October 2015 14:30 (ten years ago)
bit perplexed by 'fancifully speaking'
― ledge, Thursday, 22 October 2015 14:31 (ten years ago)
fancifully speaking = sounds like. seems pretty necessary to me.
― koogs, Thursday, 22 October 2015 14:37 (ten years ago)
yeah I think so too
― Neil S, Thursday, 22 October 2015 15:02 (ten years ago)
fancifully, though? maybe he favours the la-di-da french pronunciation.
― ledge, Thursday, 22 October 2015 15:06 (ten years ago)