tit would work, but it's not the answer.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 10:48 (thirteen years ago) link
bring it to the relationship probs thread son
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 10:59 (thirteen years ago) link
was a blatant attempt for quoted-out-of-context glory tbh
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link
could have made it a little more graceful in deference to thread imo
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link
stick a bit of that lubricant up your bum backwards, you fruit (7)
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
didnt solve it, lol'd anyway
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
--L-A--
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
sultana
― koogs, Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
^
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
utter rubbish tbh, booo etc
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't quite get all of that.
I thought of this on the train this morning and liked it.Scope of anger management (5)
― every day I'm (onimo), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
ha i rly want to set that as a clue now.
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
xp range
― Neil S, Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp that lubricant in anus, reversed. you may quibble with the extraneous 'your'.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ok with slight amendments tbf
future rubbish, boo etc tbh - 5,2,2
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, I was looking for anal rather than anus.
(out of context bait right there)
(calling your own out of context postings stops it happening, right?)
range is correct.
― every day I'm (onimo), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
That sultana v nice, I got stuck repeatedly trying to get KY or a bit of oil in ass. 'botch to be'?
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
ya, throwaway effort, and prob ought to have been hyphenated now i look again
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
3 away from finishing the big easter saturday guardian crossword.
Galloway's people profess no other partiality (7,2,7)
R E S P E C T | O . | P . . . O . S
(is that last bit an anagram of 'professno'?)
Organs for the crowd (5)
P . E . .
(plebs?)
Flowers in the shade (4-4)
. . . . | P . N .
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
respect of persons
which makes that R . . . | P . N .
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
RIVE PINS?
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
(Groping guess based on the painting Pins sur la rive by Georges Lacombe.)
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
rose pink, something like that?
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 25 April 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
and press
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 25 April 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Tried to download Easter Guardian, forgetting that it would break my iPhone
― ELO ENO ONO (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 April 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
thankyou. not sure i understand either entirely but...
(and if anyone else needs a solution just let me know)
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I think: roses & pinks both kinds of flower, 'rose pink' a shade. Nice, I think. organs = 'organs of the press', press = crowd. Not as sold on that one.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 25 April 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
is 'pink' a kind of flower? that's the bit i'm iffy with.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it is
― A Zed and Two Nults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:49 (thirteen years ago) link
[citation needed]
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:52 (thirteen years ago) link
pink1 noun 1 a light or pale-red colour, between red and white. 2 an annual or perennial plant, eg a carnation or sweet william, which has stems with swollen nodes, grass-like bluish-green leaves and flowers with a tubular calyx and five spreading toothed or slightly frilled pink, red, white, purple, yellow, orange or variegated petals
― A Zed and Two Nults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks
was looking for yesterday's on the guardian site and a search for april 2011 gave me this, from 1932!http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/597
(did they reprint it?)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
actually,
25 Website for domestic servant? (4,4)
did they have websites in 1932?
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
there are also clues referring to the "Fab Four" and "Nixon" so i suspect the date's wrong
― A Zed and Two Nults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
still stuck on four in the lower regions of saturday's araucaria.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
PIG EON
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
pod, train, town, and bird, are the problems here.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the pod is odd - 2nd half of it's easy
town i still can't figure out, but wikipedia gives you the answer. i wonder whether you can spell it a different way that matches the clue better.
american bird. you will kick yourself.
is the train the writer one? think that's another kicker.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
-NE- BEAN, i figure. not up on my opera centres though.
American bird - as in a broad? A dame?
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
OH IT'S A FUCKING HIDDEN WORD
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
PULLMAN
snap bean? idgi
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
These (including koogs' post yesterday) are not really convincing me of Araucaria's genius, which iirc everyone else itt was quite determined of
just sayin etc
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Intermittent genius, I would say. It can be hard to see the genius in a well-written and totally legit clue when you've been banging your head against it for hours. Otoh I'm not so impressed with convoluted 20+ letter anagrams, especially when there's no definition part in the clue. That "six clues are of a kind and not further defined" thing can fuck off imo.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
snap bean is a thing, and american thing. SNAPE being a place they do opera, B from born, AN from AN.
yes, tinamou? who knew!
i got the theme by pure luck, just thought of something that fit, the (1, 9, 5, 6) one.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
> These (including koogs' post yesterday) are not really convincing me of Araucaria's genius
yeah, these are the dregs though. that said, PLACIDNESS?
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
xp we got "the glass" (already had 'the', + good girl), and bingo.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
today's guardian:
Be cool and calm when hot in lilac, unfortunately getting cross (7)
(clue straightforward, but am a bit o_O about the answer)
― koogs, Friday, 29 April 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I got the answer but don't get the "unfortunately" bit
― Not the real Village People, Friday, 29 April 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I quite liked "Fancy lad and me tied knot! (4,9)"
― Not the real Village People, Friday, 29 April 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i am failing badly at the bottom half of yesterday's crossword, including the fancy lad, despite it being an obvious anagram. (that said, 50% is 45% more than i usually manage on weekdays)
and the 'unfortunately' bit is just another anagram indicator - anagram(lilac+h)+x
― koogs, Saturday, 30 April 2011 09:36 (thirteen years ago) link