― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link
(xpost, yes correct)
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post :)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't think of any more just now - will go trawling through my newspaper recycling box and come back later.
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tag (Tag), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link
(this thread has saved work)
x-post okay: 'I have recognized my son!' he said proudly (5,2,3)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link
For a cooking pot brandname, the French put America in a mixed up Greek island. (2, 7)
― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Warning: I read this the other day and thought it was a crap clue, but it lodged itself in my head which is why I'm reproducing it now.
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Okay supereasy one but I really like the clue: French boulevards of broken dreams (4)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
(too easy, I know)
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O (5)
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Rapper has blood transfusion for heart related thing (6)
― ledge, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:50 (eleven months ago) link
lol
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 13:21 (eleven months ago) link
American here. So the bits and pieces clue "Brussels" = EU?
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 21 July 2023 14:19 (nine months ago) link
Yep, it's where the EU headquarters is.
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Friday, 21 July 2023 14:32 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, but that's sorta like "Washington" = USA. Just hadn't seen it before, filing with my knowledge of RA, AB and TT.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 21 July 2023 14:36 (nine months ago) link
I guess it's referring to the governmental not geographical entity, which makes a bit more sense synecdoche-wise. Probably inspired by endless references to bonkers brussels bureaucrats in the tabloids.
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Friday, 21 July 2023 14:41 (nine months ago) link
I also had never seen "uppers" for broke either, but I think I learn a new British slang term every couple of days.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 21 July 2023 14:50 (nine months ago) link
i'm brassic mate, i'm skint, i'm on me uppers. i can't even qualify for my pension.
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Friday, 21 July 2023 14:54 (nine months ago) link
Okay, brassic just blew my mind.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 21 July 2023 15:00 (nine months ago) link
it threw me a bit the first few times i heard it irl. you're what?
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Friday, 21 July 2023 15:07 (nine months ago) link
Most posh wine shops getting into alcohol-free (8)
TOFFIEST. I actually got this one with a little guessing, but it cracked me up because both parts of the clue, plus the answer, are three things that an American who has never encountered a cryptic crossword would be flabbergasted by.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 31 July 2023 14:21 (eight months ago) link
(narrator) I was still flabbergasted.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 31 July 2023 14:22 (eight months ago) link
That is funny, but I although I could work out what “toffiest” means I’ve never heard it used. For that matter, I’ve never heard anyone say “toffy” meaning posh (or manifesting as posh). Toff, by all means.
― Tim, Monday, 31 July 2023 14:37 (eight months ago) link
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.3906317085.6465/st,small,507x507-pad,600x600,f8f8f8.jpg
― koogs, Monday, 31 July 2023 15:22 (eight months ago) link
Doing cryptics every few days I encounter a new slang term I’ve never heard before. Today it’s budgie smuggler.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 02:29 (three months ago) link
Pretty much universally understood here in Australia, expressions like this are what we have instead of culture (with apologies to our First Peoples)
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 05:53 (three months ago) link
Lots of them in this week’s Quiptic: clobber, beanfeast, browned off, as well as discovering that spaghetti on toast is a thing.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 03:34 (two months ago) link
I would imagine it's mostly done with tinned spaghetti, similar to beans on toast (obviously i am far too well bred to have ever had such a thing myself).
― ledge, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 09:37 (two months ago) link
That’s it exactly, looks particularly nauseating with SpaghettiOs.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 13:16 (two months ago) link