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easy when ya think about it :)

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 09:58 (fourteen years ago) link

well i didn't want to say but yeah kinda.

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Turn in around nine - fancy being bored! (5)

Individualism, alcoholism, collectivism, activism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link

ennui

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link

ennui xp if it's not cheeky

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah

Individualism, alcoholism, collectivism, activism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link

damn i was pleased with that too

Individualism, alcoholism, collectivism, activism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link

cos y'know with a resonable connection i'd have been first there.

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link

ok the timer's on...

Fancy queer is kinky with a going rate (9)

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Feeling I spread around (7)

Individualism, alcoholism, collectivism, activism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link

despair

everything ok hon?

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link

jeez seems like there's a lot going on in ledge's, and not enough to get hold of in noodle's.

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link

(i think noodle's probably using poetic licence, as 'happiness' is tough to parse)

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link

i was working on a "dour grey wednesday at work" theme

Individualism, alcoholism, collectivism, activism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link

Ledge's is Frequency.

Astronaut's head lost during blast-off - time to take a break (5)

Parenthetic hound (woofwoofwoof), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link

lunch?

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes, yes it is.

Parenthetic hound (woofwoofwoof), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link

bless this lateral attack, possibly during a breakdown? (8)

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link

(it's a little clumsy tbh)

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah it's clumsy, fine then.

r------e

tired of my old display name (darraghmac), Monday, 18 January 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Can't get it yet, sorry.

Warhol-damaged actress (6)

the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link

harlow

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Monday, 18 January 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link

it's a b-less broadside. i think i was tired, tbh.

david eli roth (darraghmac), Monday, 18 January 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link

that is so not a definition of crab dip

― ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 16:34 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This from someone who thinks "during a breakdown" is a good definition of "roadside"

OH SNAP

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link

anyway. this ones slightly unfair itself:

Two unknown terms translated in this problem (7)

CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link

jeez what a takedown.

ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link

i know, right

---t---

take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link

lol

take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Place I never go to eat has horrible grub with a pickled cucumber, not hot, inside (6, 4)

take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link

Burger King!

Big game for fabulous bird-of-prey (5,4)

nothing good came of it (woofwoofwoof), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Super Bowl

take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 8 February 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

it's been a while

Float has wildebeest turning around in a state of discomfort after consuming too much booze (8)

the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link

should bumped it with this:

To bring back to life, always put intravenous drip in and flip over (6)

the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link

... hungover, but i don't know about the second one

thomp, Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link

revive?

Jermaine Jenason (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link

ya revive

Jermaine Jenason (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link

a doy

thomp, Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link

rootbeer? (wilde guess)

CaptainLorax, Monday, 29 March 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link

nah thomp was correct. as was darra.

the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Monday, 29 March 2010 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link

ya i no i said that?

Jermaine Jenason (darraghmac), Monday, 29 March 2010 09:17 (fourteen years ago) link

ya sho nuff yo

the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Monday, 29 March 2010 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link

RIP a proper legend

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0407/breaking29.html

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link

"He never solved a crossword in his life" !!

the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link

guinness clerk sent to zimbabwe in the '40's, made up crosswords for a living, died at work aged 92.

i mean, this is how you do it.

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link

hang on it ain't cryptic!

the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link

wait there's no way that's a crosaire

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link

(xp)

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link


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