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haha

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

Chris, is it not three in the morning over there?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

Madchen's "overworked postman" joke to thread!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

beanz new clue! (I thinka ailsa and Sam still have one saved up too)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

Put back strength about advance (8)

Warning: I read this the other day and thought it was a crap clue, but it lodged itself in my head which is why I'm reproducing it now.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Do they have cryptic crosswords (in this sense) in America?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Put back? Advance? Too generic! Millions of synonyms! Letters please...

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

R _ _ H _ _ _ E

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

recharge

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

bingo

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

sorry i've got to go for dinner now and don't have any new clues, someone will have to take my go

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Aw crap, I thought about = re, then discarded it.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I don't have any old guardians lying about any more = no decent crossword clues to dispense to you. I'll just keep reading and solving if that's alright with you lot.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I discarded re too :(

Okay supereasy one but I really like the clue: French boulevards of broken dreams (4)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Rues

(too easy, I know)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna jump in with an old fave:
Love will tear us apart, causing grief (3)

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

woe! NICE

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Gonna get lunch, I'll try and think of one while I'm out. Feel free to post any you think of...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

OK, another old classic:

H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O (5)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Water

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

A ship that nobody caes about (7)

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

cares about

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

(to be honest, I stole this one from I'm Sorry I Havn't a Clue, so it's less of a strong cryptic clue, more of a weak pun)

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was going to say that's "frigate" - I read it in one of those made-up-definitions-for-words things in the newspaper not that long ago.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Back from LUNCH mm sandwich. Quite proud of this one:

Point at vase, a codename for orgies (11)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure that's going to be "bacchanalia" due to alias and and the orgy thing, but I can't quite work out why.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

not quite!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Do people want some letters?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, yes please.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

S------L--S

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

saturnalias

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

doh

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

New clue!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Rat you hit corrupted power (9)

Too easy for letter hints

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Authority

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Authority - xposted AGAIN!!! goddamnit!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Next!

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Flaky apple crisp holders (5,5)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

not tarte tatin is it?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Nah, it's paper clips. (anagram)

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Paper clips!
xpost!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

And I was gonna say
caper pails

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I was gazing at 'space plirp' thinking 'hmm, maybe not anagram after all...'

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

And yes, they have cryptics in the US, but they're rarer and you have to know where to look for them. And yes, it was probably 3 in the morning. I have been weirdly sick and my sleep schedule is totally kerscrewed.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Noodle! Entertain us!
(that's an exhortation not a clue)

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Bugger, I didn't realise it was my turn. Do I have to provide a clue now?

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Show us whatcha got, NV.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Noodle! Write one, skip none! (5)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Penne!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

(Very good)

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

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