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-a---y

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

-a-e-y

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Bakery?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Yup.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Two in a day, I'm on a roll, and I only needed half of the letters :-)

I'll go make a clue up.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Chaotic sex recoils without end, you think that's funny? (9)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Excelsior.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I just wanted someone to say it to one of my posts.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

― RoxyMuzak½ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I am intrigued by ledge's but no joy yet...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Falling between two stools?

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Or stalling between two fools?

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

oh sorry, must be the first one.

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Yep indeed. Maybe should have lost the quotes from the 2nd bit of the clue.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I have nothing to contribute. Sorry. That last one was excellent, by the way.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Just missed out on a Cuban (5,3,2,5)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Close but no cigar

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I need to make these harder don't I?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

No. That one was nice.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

More loopy than variable bit rate (7)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Battier.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

This may be my worst yet. I think they may be more fun to put together than to solve.

Sung? Lean lady remixed the song of the year (4,4,4)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Auld Lang Syne

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Auld lang syne.

Did we have another clue for that upthread, or was that in an actual crossword I did recently?

Dent setter's iron (7)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

This may be my worst yet. I think they may be more fun to put together than to solve.
This is certainly my approach to clue construction

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Want to say "impress," but don't know how the IM works.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Setter's = setter is = I am = im

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

IM = I'm = the setter (of the clue)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Fix broken plates (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Here's another:

Closet saint or leave in a vat (7)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

First one is staple

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Yup. Other is
--o----

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Storage?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Yup.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 20 January 2006 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Elvis didn't want to go to this church beside the Spanish Main (7)

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 20 January 2006 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Aaargh - you know when you get an answer in yourhead which you don't think is right but every time you look at the clue it's there in your head?

Seville, for no other reason than it has Elvis in it and is Spanish.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm a frayed knot.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:03 (twenty years ago)

how many letters?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

I kill myself,, I really do.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I got storage, so here's one I just amde up!

Something mystifying's going down at church, I see. (7)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

You've heard the overworked postman gag I trust...

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Yes, yes I have :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

Cryptic...

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

That wasn't too hard I guess.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I see = IC though? Bit cheeky!

The Elvis one: c------

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

costello?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

no too many letters

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Cheeky? I thought it was quite clever, a nod to the "I hear" convention but actually forming part of the word!

TELL ME IT WAS A GOOD CLUE DAMMIT I NEED REASSURANCE

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

IT WAS A GOOD CLUE DAMMIT

(but then I'm no judge, look at the crap I've posted)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

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