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)
should've been playing for extra minor ambiguity.
― ledge, Friday, 31 July 2009 09:27 (sixteen years ago)
I guess actually being in the midst of reading Middlemarch might have given me some funny ideas about how obvious a reference point it would make.
C-------
― ledge, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:30 (sixteen years ago)
Ah, thanks for dredging up long-forgotten memories of English lit classes...
(had to google the name though)
― ailsa, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:34 (sixteen years ago)
which is...
― ledge, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:46 (sixteen years ago)
sorry - Casaubon
― ailsa, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:54 (sixteen years ago)
hooray
― ledge, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:56 (sixteen years ago)
One out - out for a ride (4)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 01:52 (sixteen years ago)
...auto?
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:04 (sixteen years ago)
Yes.
Gold princess ring sound (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 16:04 (sixteen years ago)
audio
― ledge, Friday, 7 August 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)
Beef up agents following gold pursued by teahead (7)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 16:55 (sixteen years ago)
augment
― ledge, Friday, 7 August 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)
Nonchalant worker backs new coin in chemical company (10)
― ledge, Friday, 7 August 2009 17:46 (sixteen years ago)
I want to say Monsanto, but of course that doesn't work.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)
insouciant. nice work.
― whatever, Friday, 7 August 2009 22:16 (sixteen years ago)
Rebel disturbance envelops country for more than one time (8)Girl that's into tailoring (4)Warrior's natty head in Jamaica (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 22:22 (sixteen years ago)
girl = toni? 'lori' works too. if that's a real name.
― ledge, Saturday, 8 August 2009 12:03 (sixteen years ago)
It is for the purposes of this thread.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:01 (sixteen years ago)
Rebel disturbance envelops country for more than one time (8)-e-----e
Warrior's natty head in Jamaica (5)-i---
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:12 (sixteen years ago)
reusable
― ledge, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:16 (sixteen years ago)
Yes. What about the other one?
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:17 (sixteen years ago)
ninja. ja for jamaica? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― ledge, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:21 (sixteen years ago)
Sorry.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:31 (sixteen years ago)
New idiot coal miner runs every which way (15)
― ledge, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)
--n------------
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:23 (sixteen years ago)
Want to say indiscriminately, undiscerningly, but they don't seem to fit. Also omnidirectional.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:40 (sixteen years ago)
third time's the charm
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)
Ah, I've been thinking that since I first saw it, but was confused by the use of the "new".
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)
yeah it's not the best clue.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:54 (sixteen years ago)
No, it was a good clue. But by US rules, you wouldn't make "new" mean "N" and then throw it into the anagram, it would have to be the start of the word, whereas it seems like in the UK that kind of thing is accepted.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 16:00 (sixteen years ago)
imo it's the kind of clue that breaks a couple of the stricter rules (wordplay into anagram, "run" is a weakish anagram indicator), but passes because it's fun overall (good surface, "runs any which way" is a great anagram indicator, even though it doesn't turn the whole into a proper &lit).
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)
i'm just disappointed i couldn't work clint eastowood and/or an orangutang in there.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:11 (sixteen years ago)
The thread would have explode.
anatole otm.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 13:43 (sixteen years ago)
Around around around (10)
Any complaints, well, I was half asleep when I came up with it.
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:30 (sixteen years ago)
and a kind of flipside to that:
Only barely fair (4)
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:46 (sixteen years ago)
Just
Still thinking about the other one.
― krakow, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 09:12 (sixteen years ago)
hardly something to do with fish eggs
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:58 (sixteen years ago)
that's certainly cryptic. but is it a clue?
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:07 (sixteen years ago)
it's my question about yours!
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:24 (sixteen years ago)
it's a question? fish eggs? what?
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:50 (sixteen years ago)