How?
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 June 2009 15:00 (seventeen years ago)
Sorry. I guess "How" was not Apache word, but just a Sioux word that caught on in the Hollywood Westerns.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 June 2009 16:51 (seventeen years ago)
Hau
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Friday, 19 June 2009 17:56 (seventeen years ago)
Hot butter instrumental in adult material being on no computer (7)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:37 (seventeen years ago)
Popcorn!
Now I have that stuck in my head.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:40 (seventeen years ago)
Way out alien abducting eleven (4)Great Scot, I'm moonstruck! (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)
Exit
― Emmet Otter's SugBan Christmas (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 01:06 (sixteen years ago)
Yes.
Rum Michael Jackson album with vehicle crashing into me (7)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:27 (sixteen years ago)
Bacardi
― last night i dreamt somebody shoved me (ledge), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 13:26 (sixteen years ago)
Yes.Frozen soiled buried around in a hard nut (6)
Still waiting on "moonstruck" one.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 14:16 (sixteen years ago)
Slight reclue:Frozen soil packed up in hard nut (6)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 14:43 (sixteen years ago)
tundra?
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:29 (sixteen years ago)
Yup.
[i]Great Scot, I'm moonstruck! (5)[\i]
-n---
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)
This top class thousand fewer wouldn't lead you anywhere. (7)
great scot - ben?
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:34 (sixteen years ago)
-n-m-
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:39 (sixteen years ago)
onimo?
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:45 (sixteen years ago)
:)
― there are other prophets you know? (onimo), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:47 (sixteen years ago)
How one would announce the lead in to a confused dictator?
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:50 (sixteen years ago)
(9)
aimless
― last night i dreamt somebody shoved me (ledge), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 13:09 (sixteen years ago)
^7
― there are other prophets you know? (onimo), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 13:13 (sixteen years ago)
too easy, i knew it.
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)
Heavy sound shatters river (6)
How one would announce the lead in to a confused dictator?No idea about this one.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 July 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)
introduce
― whatever, Friday, 17 July 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)
i don't get the 'confused' bit.
― ledge, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:18 (sixteen years ago)
duce is italian translation of dictator. that's all i can think it is.
― whatever, Saturday, 18 July 2009 07:58 (sixteen years ago)
So it looks like it should read: How one would announce the lead in to r confused dictator?
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:06 (sixteen years ago)
a lead in is an 'intro', was the thinking. 'duce' is the ictator, 'confused' a reference to the anagram.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:38 (sixteen years ago)
What anagram?
― ailsa, Monday, 20 July 2009 21:41 (sixteen years ago)
eh. now i'm confused. move on, move on.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)
a lead in = intro
to a = i.e. joined to the next part of the clue
confused dictator = duce (confusion as in it's a translation of 'dictator')
it's a pretty shit clue tbh. using 'confused' to designate a translation of a word is just fcking lazy. but the setter didn't put 'mussolini' in the clue because it would have made the answer too obvious and he/she couldn't be arsed to come up with something better.
― whatever, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:05 (sixteen years ago)
i think you could just drop the 'confused', and trust people to figure duce = mussolini = dictator.
― ledge, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)
yup, it's a shit clue.
― whatever, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)
easy tiger
― ledge, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:12 (sixteen years ago)
here you go in chaos courted (9)
― whatever, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:15 (sixteen years ago)
meh. i've seen better, i've seen worse. it's certainly neither worth twenty posts of criticism/analysis nor the amount of ire it appears to have generated in your good self.
i've already pointed out that 'confused' was an error on my part, as there wasn't an anagram- it wasn't substituting for translation. the rest of it seems sound enough, tbh.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 20 July 2009 22:23 (sixteen years ago)
Spanish circle jump (6)Uptight around before trench (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2009 15:50 (sixteen years ago)
Spanish circle jump (6)
spring
― whatever, Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:52 (sixteen years ago)
Uptight around before trench (5)
canal
― whatever, Thursday, 23 July 2009 17:04 (sixteen years ago)
yes and yes.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2009 18:23 (sixteen years ago)
i don't get 'canal'?
― ledge, Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:52 (sixteen years ago)
c (circa) before anal (uptight) = trench
― ailsa, Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:54 (sixteen years ago)
d'oh, I should've got anal
^ poor attempt for 'quoted out of context' thread
― ledge, Thursday, 23 July 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)
dough around wood (4)open, strong and smelly (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)
cash
― whatever, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)
I think for the second one I should have worded it
open, loud and smelly (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 19:13 (sixteen years ago)
Frank (got it before the rewording, but confirmed further)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:17 (sixteen years ago)
Loud Smiths album to electrocute sound system and big mother (5,5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 19:23 (sixteen years ago)
Frank Zappa! Nice.
I can't really do these, and I'm not happy with this (may be so poorly constructed as to be insoluble) but I am bored, so, feel free to point out flaws... gently.
Root of all conflict three points behind deceased prizewinners (8)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:27 (sixteen years ago)
does it end in 'dens'?
― whatever, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)