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)
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.
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)
Yes.
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)
I don't think I'll get that one, not after these two beers.
This isn't mine but it's a memorable one:
Enmark? (4,2,3,3)
― whatever, Friday, 24 July 2009 20:08 (sixteen years ago)
Sorry, that should be:
Enmark? (4,2,3)
Almost, but two of the "points" are the same, because I am not good at these. That is one of the flaws, but sadly not the only one.
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 24 July 2009 20:18 (sixteen years ago)
Letters for the above two?
Old man from 1000 A.D. (7)
― ledge, Monday, 27 July 2009 14:54 (sixteen years ago)
grandad
― Hypnagogic Poop (onimo), Monday, 27 July 2009 15:39 (sixteen years ago)
Enamrk is Land of Nod I think... How about this one 'Non-nude barnacle for sailor' (4)
― Oz, Monday, 27 July 2009 15:51 (sixteen years ago)
Nod, No 'D', I get it. Had to google that. There's a fine line between cryptic clues and bad puns, that one crossed it.
― ledge, Monday, 27 July 2009 16:08 (sixteen years ago)
nah, that's a good clue.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 27 July 2009 16:08 (sixteen years ago)
sweet
http://cryptics.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_anagram_indicators
― ledge, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 10:34 (sixteen years ago)
Cool, thanks.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 17:49 (sixteen years ago)
Oh dear, boredly (drunkenly?) posting inept clues and then forgetting about them. Please note disclaimers/apologies in previous 2 posts. Anyway, letters.
Root of all conflict three points behind deceased prizewinners (8)-W----E-
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:06 (sixteen years ago)
awarded?
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:07 (sixteen years ago)
awardees, yes?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:12 (sixteen years ago)
nice clue, would never have got it in a million years without pointers in the right direction.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:13 (sixteen years ago)
Yep, "awardees". Glad it was gettable eventually!
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:15 (sixteen years ago)
way to count the letters, darragh. :P
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:20 (sixteen years ago)
cheese danish carrying vehicle (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 18:26 (sixteen years ago)
glad that one's solved (awardees). i'm not sure about the root of all conflict = a war. could split it award-ees = 'prizewinners gift three points', although gift=award is questionable.
good stuff though. it annoyed the hell out of me for a long time. :)
― whatever, Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)
sedan. like it.
― whatever, Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)
This one was apparently never solved:Crab time in monastery (9)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:44 (sixteen years ago)
root of the word all = the letter a, then conflict = war, was how I read it.
― ailsa, Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:50 (sixteen years ago)
Was that clue inspired by a viewing of In The Loop?
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:51 (sixteen years ago)
Rocky state follows holy man with nothing (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:58 (sixteen years ago)
ailsa: yup
― whatever, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)
Omaha
― krakow, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)
??
― whatever, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)
---n-
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:50 (sixteen years ago)
I always thought that Omaha was a state, but it looks not, so I have the answer wrong.
My thinking, other than that, was nothing=O, holy man=maha
― krakow, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)
OK. That might be clued as
Indian great after nothing on beachhead (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)
Stony!
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 31 July 2009 07:28 (sixteen years ago)
Omaha.
No time to post a clue at the mo, sorry.
― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 July 2009 07:30 (sixteen years ago)
Eliot's dessicated scholar plays on abacus (8)
― ledge, Friday, 31 July 2009 08:18 (sixteen years ago)