HAHA xpost:
If it somehow has something to do with Petula Clark my head will explode.
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
feel like it should be annoying me that, but in fact it's just making me find 'Petula' a really weird name. petula petula petula.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
haha don't stare at it too long. i feel like that clue is slightly iffy, can only assume it's positing "Petula-nce" as a joke coinage
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it's iffy whimsy, jocular adjective from 'petula' i think.
Sounds gynecological to me now. petula majora.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
what was the clue
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
Sulky quality encountered downtown? (9)
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
lazy tbh
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Petula-nce is really horrible.
RE: "Is a drag" = downer, I've discovered I really suck at having to first think of a word and then drop letters off. I had one over the weekend:
Transported unwrapped sketch (5). The answer was ROUGH, and even after I got it through process of elimination, I didn't understand why. (BROUGHT minus B & T.) Maybe I'll get better in time, but those are my least favorite.
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
they are often tough i think because the clue is less tight, i couldn't get near downer/owner until you'd given me the letters.
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
my light is green, perhaps, when my insect is perfect (5)
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
i clean cut in order to instruct (9)
― VIRGIN ROO (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 July 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
inculcate
― Safe European HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 July 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
ya i know
― VIRGIN ROO (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 July 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
but we needed a kickstart dont u think
smart minge? i'm not being clear, it's a mixup (10)
― VIRGIN ROO (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 July 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
lol i shouldn't set clues when i'm tired
― VIRGIN ROO (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 July 2011 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
Stammering?
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Sunday, 10 July 2011 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
what about that insect
― ledge, Monday, 11 July 2011 08:18 (twelve years ago) link
counting on you guys tbh it was a crosaire i couldnt finish
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Monday, 11 July 2011 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
I thought "amber"
― Neil S, Monday, 11 July 2011 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
Trying to think of insecty words featuring the letters "I go" but can only think of "imago", which might work with "perfect", but, err. Anyone got any straws to clutch at?
(like the thought of "I'm-a go" but assume it's a bit too modern and American - tiptoe around the racial elephant - for the Irish Times)
― sticky crisco (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
no that's it i think
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
not American: "my light is green" = "I'm a go"
so not "I'm-a" but "a go" = can go
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:36 (twelve years ago) link
i think that is it, though i don't think they're aiming for "i'm-a go", but "i'm a go"
oh, xpost
― thomp, Monday, 11 July 2011 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
i got 'i'm a go' but didn't bother looking up 'imago' lol lazy
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Monday, 11 July 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
ah, I suppose that works (file under things nobody I know says)
hooray etc
― the ascent of nyan (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 11 July 2011 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
Been burned by IMAGO before.
Did anyone do that Mersey Beat themed Guardian a few weeks ago?
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
do the grauniad most days but don't recall that one.
― ledge, Monday, 11 July 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
i quite liked
"Seat of empire (7)"
― koogs, Monday, 18 July 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ottoman!
― Neil S, Monday, 18 July 2011 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
From Sunday's Everyman:
Special peers, triumvirate reforming economic policy (11)
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
Perestroika, nice
― don't be so dayo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of possible avenues of enquiry with the way the clue is set, but the solution makes perfect sense. Very satisfying!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
SPOILERS!
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry koogs, I was unusually (by my standards) quick to answer your clue...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
(i meant 'perestroika'. i had the ....s.r.i.a but...)
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
aha sorry!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
so, how is your knowledge of oil terminals? i think i prefer the cricket clues...
Volume so staggering around large oil terminal (6,3)
obvious anagram, but the answer's a proper noun meaning that it could be anything.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
and as for 26 across...
O? (4,6)
(please, no spoilers)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:14 (twelve years ago) link
I had trouble with the oil terminal clue too, the answer is this though (link disguised to avoid spoilers!) http://bit.ly/opPoJ8
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
Annoyingly it's not a direct anagram either...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
ha, hadn't spotted that. i just wiki'd up a list of oil terminals and picked the obvious one.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
what letters do you have for the "O" clue? I've had an idea...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
two more than i had this morning, but it's still in the wilderness there in the bottom right.
. o . e / . e . . . .
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
Ah. I get it. http://bit.ly/3ufq3S
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
love letter
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
beaten to the punch
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
spoiler alert!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
Uh isn't this the thread for answering crossword clues? Seems a bit pointless to not answer them.
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
koogs specifically said no spoilers above...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link