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eh there's nothing in the rest of it, tbh. maybe it's a crosaire thing (my usual cryptic fix), but pretty often the 'whole' answer isn't spelled out. again, as always, any fault is in the abilities of the setter and not those poor souls struggling to decipher.

Des Leppilen (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 October 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link

Herb for grass skirts girl (8)

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Marjoram

lol I just opened the Wikipedia details thread too

Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Nice clue tho

Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Little Alan's bottom collection (5)

Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link

album

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link

yes

Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link

Bondage wrapping hillock causing outburst (5)
Holy men without ham inside (7)

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link

First one is storm.

Second looks a really good clue as it can be parsed in several ways (except none of them are leading me to an answer)

ailsa, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 08:12 (fourteen years ago) link

Ailsa OTM. That was tricky to parse. Plus totally cunning + fair double-bluff of 'ham' being 'ham', as its 'shamans'.

woofwoofwoof, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh, very nice indeed When Baron, that second one is grand.

krakow, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link

o ffs how did i not get shamans after looking at 'sans ham' for ten minutes.

you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks everybody. This morning I started worrying that maybe the plural of 'shaman' was actually 'shamen.'

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link

+es are good

Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link

T/S: http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9959/88tp7l.jpg vs http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4900/tco2165.jpg

(wd start this on ILM for real if I thought more than 3 people would've heard the latter)

ein fisch schwimmt im wasser ยท fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah there's a reeeeaaal lack of niche muso weirdos on ilm alright. 10/1 odds that not only would you get 30 votes, but the band nobody's ever heard of gets 27 of them.

you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link

Caution about bladder problem (3)

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link

UTI

Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link

You got it.

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Now trying to come up with an & lit clue, but can't quite do it:

You got it around blah blah blah (3)

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link

ITU? telecommunications, = blah blah blah?

should be 1,1,1 if it is an initialism shirley.

George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link

OK. (1,1,1)

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Wild pool rove around pole cheese (9)

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link

provolone

George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link

he's eager, the boy.

you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link

eager to cry (4)

George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link

keen

you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link

eager for the hunt (4)

you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link

idk but can i add this before i forget

keen on a horse that loses a predator, it's clear (7)

George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link

crystal

you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link

She gets to hit everywhere (6)
French revolutionary sweetheart for short and long run (8)

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 October 2009 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link

French revolutionary sweetheart for short and long run (8)

marathon

Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Thursday, 29 October 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link

crystal

yup

just for the sake of the surface i don't think it would have been too unfair to change it to keen on a horse that escapes a predator, it's clear.

George Mucus (ledge), Thursday, 29 October 2009 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link

it would have been a little laboured, but hey i set the stinkers that make the whole thread moan so...

you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 October 2009 10:15 (fourteen years ago) link

marathon
Yes.

I'm gonna reclue the other one as

Woman's got to hit everywhere (6)

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link

-l----

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 October 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh, here's a cheap one, should be no problem if you've just read the same thread as me:

Prince drops $1000 for toilet paper (7)

(No idea, sorry Baron. Had to check that that was an L and not an i in your clue - it is the former, if anyone else wasn't sure)

subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link

charmin. i want to say slapper for the other one, except it's a) sexist and ii) wrong.

George Mucus (ledge), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link

Yessir (barely worth confirming but still)

subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link

slapper works though!

Yo, Lout! (darraghmac), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link

really? how does per=everywhere?

George Mucus (ledge), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link

hitting everywhere as in smashing everything, was a possible reading

Yo, Lout! (darraghmac), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh! It's "global", no?

subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Can't really do these but here is a shitty thing that wandered through my mind as I was pondering the above, hence being a less convincing take on the same construction:

Russian province to hit next to nothing (6)

Here's another, unrelated one that doesn't really work:
Loving? It's a business proposal (6)

subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 30 October 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh! It's "global", no?
Yes!

When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 October 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Shoot relatives with fruit (7)

Alan Lo (max) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 November 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Spooner's crooked Keane sells his assets regularly (4,3)

tal farlow's pather panchali (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 November 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link

Rent Boy.

Drag Me to Hull (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 November 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes. What about the other one?

tal farlow's pather panchali (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 November 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Reclue:

Fruit heart relatives (7)

tal farlow's pather panchali (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 November 2009 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link


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