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I'm thinking 'reinstate' but I can't see INS as 'this month'...

Oz, Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:28 (sixteen years ago)

i tell ya, if i've fuckt this one up i'm just giving up.

but i'm pretty sure about 'inst' as referring to 'this month' in written correspondence. if that doesn't sound too wanky.

Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:32 (sixteen years ago)

Ah... nice... but wouldn't that make it 'reinsttate'?

Oz, Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:34 (sixteen years ago)

reinstall?

what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:34 (sixteen years ago)

ah fuck fuck

Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:36 (sixteen years ago)

Soldier, worker, titan (5)

Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 August 2009 03:49 (sixteen years ago)

giant

mccannesque outrage (onimo), Monday, 31 August 2009 09:57 (sixteen years ago)

Correct.

Android base on beachhead (5)

Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 August 2009 13:08 (sixteen years ago)

robot?

mccannesque outrage (onimo), Monday, 31 August 2009 13:16 (sixteen years ago)

Corrupt brigadiers souls unto war film (11,8)

mccannesque outrage (onimo), Monday, 31 August 2009 13:28 (sixteen years ago)

inglourious basteds

ailsa, Monday, 31 August 2009 18:47 (sixteen years ago)

basterds

ailsa, Monday, 31 August 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

yes

mccannesque outrage (onimo), Monday, 31 August 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

Sorry, went off to get my dinner. here is my first attempt at making up a clue.

Shuffled naive harridans for an ILX photoshopping opportunity (7,4)

ailsa, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:42 (sixteen years ago)

Woops that should be (6,8)

ailsa, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:42 (sixteen years ago)

Andrei Arshavin

mccannesque outrage (onimo), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

Yep.

ailsa, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

Try original soundtrack with hesitation on drug, or a hormone. (12)

ledge, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 08:31 (sixteen years ago)

testosterone

krakow, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:01 (sixteen years ago)

yup

ledge, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:12 (sixteen years ago)

Hurrah! Will think on a clue.

krakow, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:15 (sixteen years ago)

sixteen hours later

Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 02:46 (sixteen years ago)

A man is allowed time to think is he not?

krakow, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 07:34 (sixteen years ago)

P.S. go buy a newspaper! ;-)

krakow, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 07:35 (sixteen years ago)

Dislike of delay to online chat with hospital users we heard (10)

krakow, Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:21 (sixteen years ago)

impatience

ledge, Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:30 (sixteen years ago)

Haha, bingo. Sorry Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), I have a big smile on my face, it's just a gentle thread-suitable ribbing, no hard feelings intended!

krakow, Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:54 (sixteen years ago)

I knew it was a relatively easy one, but I couldn't resist.

krakow, Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:55 (sixteen years ago)

Evil agents corrupt preacher (10)

mccannesque outrage (onimo), Friday, 4 September 2009 12:50 (sixteen years ago)

Evangelist

Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 September 2009 13:26 (sixteen years ago)

correct

mccannesque outrage (onimo), Friday, 4 September 2009 13:32 (sixteen years ago)

See flying saucer after beers, if drunk (7)

ledge, Friday, 4 September 2009 15:23 (sixteen years ago)

Frisbee

krakow, Friday, 4 September 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

Second note without lead for example makes an unholy racket (5,5)

Some may disagree with my definition! ;-)

krakow, Sunday, 6 September 2009 09:51 (sixteen years ago)

Dunno.

Hammer tong slave port in Texas (9)

Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 September 2009 20:25 (sixteen years ago)

_ L _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ L

krakow, Monday, 7 September 2009 20:27 (sixteen years ago)

Galveston

ailsa, Monday, 7 September 2009 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

Galveston.

Inclination towards prison spell (8)

Nostalgie de la Bwoyee (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 September 2009 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

d'oh. Okay, just the clue then.

Nostalgie de la Bwoyee (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 September 2009 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

How does Galveston work?

krakow, Monday, 7 September 2009 20:38 (sixteen years ago)

Anagram ("hammer") of "tong slave".

Nostalgie de la Bwoyee (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 September 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)

"tong slave" hammered into a different shape = Galveston, which is a port in Texas.

xpost!

ailsa, Monday, 7 September 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks. I was looking at/for Gavel=Hammer somehow.

krakow, Monday, 7 September 2009 21:12 (sixteen years ago)

Yours is "Black Metal" krakow, yes?

Nostalgie de la Bwoyee (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 September 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

Aye, that it is. I wasn't convinced on the clueing and it did seem to cause a pause. Criticisms welcome.

krakow, Monday, 7 September 2009 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

not sure about 'b' for second note, that suggests 'd' to me instead. other than that, works well enough.

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Monday, 7 September 2009 23:08 (sixteen years ago)

How come d? I'm not well-versed in music theory, so assumed that notes went in alphabetical order.

krakow, Monday, 7 September 2009 23:31 (sixteen years ago)

Sorry. I should google first, post second! I see that they go C D E F G A B

krakow, Monday, 7 September 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

I was looking at "re" or "ray" like Do Re (Ray) Mi :-(

ailsa, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 07:16 (sixteen years ago)

close relationship (7)

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 13:30 (sixteen years ago)


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