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Ever since I thought up some clues to try out I havent gotten a single one. What's a letter in the headless pterodactyl?

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, that'd give it away, I think...

Let's say it starts with a vowel. And that the word has no letters from the second half of the alphabet.

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

Tell me it's not iamb.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

That's like, triple riddle, no clue!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 07:49 (twenty years ago)

I like it.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Ajax isn't cross with infernal writer. Here be penguins! (3,5)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Aja/Dante.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Not that that means much to me...

Two blokes and a dead python (7)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

... (8)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Ellipsis?

Incidentally, I couldn't get ONE SINGLE CLUE in the Graun today :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

That'd be straight! Nah, it's clueless - with ref. to yours...

Was it Araucaria?

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

chapman!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Haha, that's great.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Thanks :)

Um, the Gaurdian one was Auster today I think.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

From abroad I'm the opposite of too much (8)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Imported! ("I'm" + "de trop") Wow, that's a nasty one.

How about:

Missing digits? Some folks can't tolerate it. (7)

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

lactose

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

haha.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

nice!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I really like this one from the times:

"What a young man wears in clubs, perhaps" (5,4)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand ledge's :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Black suit? Something suit.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Which one of ledge's?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

The "..." one!

(nearly there chel)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Short suit?

... (8)
That one? I thought it might be Anaconda, but I can't put it all together.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Sin safari group? (5)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I thought he said it was 'clueless'?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah? When he said in reference to yours, I thought he meant a different answer for your clue, with one more letter. Never mind.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Pride, that one is.

(I've got another one, but should I post it with two open clues?)

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Which clues are open right now?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

(though I think it is "black suit", so I guess just one)

xpost: isn't "..." open? Because if not:

Look at the meter, glance it over, then avoid it, I'd say. (8)

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

scansion!

U a poet,#2421?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear, I hope not!

Here's one more, then I should adjourn for a while:

"Flipped over!", the boy cries, but it's a false alarm: some would say it's a nice delivery! (4)

― lurker #2421, Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Blood type I gave halfway to the end (5)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Flow

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Excellent.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear, I hope not!
Good, there's already too many on this thread ;)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Someone should research the phenomenon.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Er that's not a clue by the way, just a remark.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

A poet, a rainbow- almost hell! (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

me :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

(short suit and black suit are both nearly but not quite right)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:12 (twenty years ago)

minor suit?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

That's gotta be it. Thanks, ailsa.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Nicked from yesterday's Guardian:

What's offered with litre in hacienda, possibly? (9)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

OK I know what that is, but I cheated a little bit

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Yup ailsa!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I have been trying to make anagrams out of Hacienda+l for the last hour with no success.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 January 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Haha I used the anagram server in desperation when doing that crossword. And as is always the way when you cheat, the anagram immediately looked like the most obvious one ever...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Ok I cheated too... I dunno, I don't feel so bad for not getting it, it's not a word which is at the forefront of my vocabulary (oh if only there were more good Mexican restaurants in London).

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

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