Question mark is fair-ish i thought, i wrestled with the clue for ages but cdn't get a fully satisfactory one.
not havin that, no 'sounds like', where's the 'e' in lassie (stuff your 'bit')
"Lassie chewed"
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
i stand by the criticism, i got the soundalike but imo the clue needs to reference this and i don't forgive the missing 'e', this i never forgive you hear?
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like highland girl ate mechanically
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
mechanically?
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
crossword beef, jesus d'you remember when ilx brough more to the table than this?
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link
surface doesn't really make sense imo
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link
spent five secs on it, tbf
surface on mine i thought, which doesn't, whole clue sucks tbf.
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
sorry i meant the surface in nv's one
yep xp
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
i remember we used to go all capslock about the origin stories of gypsies, now it's fuckin inkblots from ten paces man what happened
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:12 (eleven years ago) link
'whole clue' doesn't suck but you're better than this imo, high standards etc
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
nah i agree i am pretty nitpicky about clues, allowed myself to be distracted by cute euphony
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
This dismissal of NV's clue is making me solving it, something that I took pleasure and pride in, look worthless. Fuckers.
― I am the one and (onimo), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
i was gonna argue that you solving it proved it worked, i think we're arguing about aesthetics really
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
hirtellous? devoir? what century are we living in?
― I got the Boyzone, I got the remedy (ledge), Friday, 5 October 2012 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
hard version:
Outstanding artwork at no charge taken with promises-to-pay (wotd, 11)
― ledge, Monday, 8 October 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
.......ious
(you're welcome)
― koogs, Monday, 8 October 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
easier version because life is hard enough already, slightly improved surface also:
Outstanding illustration at no charge taken, given promises-to-pay (wotd, 11)
― ledge, Monday, 8 October 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
Or maybe...
Almost sick with desire, comes up to Mexican river and United States (wotd, 11)
― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 October 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
missing a definition!
― koogs, Monday, 8 October 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
GAH! That's what happens when you let amateurs write these things.
― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 October 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
Almost sick with desire, comes up to Mexican river and United States to be famous
― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 October 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
outstanding aircraft carrier (wotd 11)
― koogs, Monday, 8 October 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ never knew this before, that's good!
― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
good clues, high fives all round.
― ledge, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
Spoiled food in divan (5, wotd)
― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
that's like some kind of ... backwards inside-out indirect anagram? i don't even. you crazy yanks!
― ledge, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
no, not really. anagram identifier is just on the wrong word (imo). anag(divan) = viand = food. i got it easily enough, but then i've been reading tess of the d'urbervilles... (which is the thing that one of the online dictionaries quotes as an example)
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
fave clue from sunday's everyman:
Marksman notes owl (12)
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
got it. nice one.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:27 (eleven years ago) link
yes that's v elegant.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
(xposts) ah, I get what you're saying. (Sorry, learner's permit here.) So:
Messy divan holds food
would work better?
― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
I just gut the marksman one too; that's great!
― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah that's cool
i can't get the owl one ;_;
― Always try to avoid setting up future opportunities for kicking yourself (ledge), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
sharpshooteri laughed
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
D'oh
― Always try to avoid setting up future opportunities for kicking yourself (ledge), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Embraced by ned, snog ardently, head over heels, in show of cupidity (7,3; down clue)
― ledge, Monday, 15 October 2012 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
Embraced by Ned, snog ardently, head over heels, in show of cupidity
― ledge, Monday, 15 October 2012 09:31 (eleven years ago) link
c'mon guys this is gold
― ledge, Monday, 15 October 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
in your opinion 8)
dragons den
― koogs, Monday, 15 October 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
gold i tell ya
― ledge, Monday, 15 October 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
one from yesterday's observer:
Youth speaks about contemporary of J. Wayne? (5, 4)
― koogs, Monday, 15 October 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
Salad days but I don't get the j wayne ref...
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:21 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's an Alan Ladd reference. Says about A Ladd.
― Tim, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
Never heard of him! Wonder why the clue didn't just say 'John Wayne', maybe we were meant to think John is too obvious, must be Jeff.
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:30 (eleven years ago) link
tim otm. and clue said 'j wayne' to match 'a ladd'.
i spent minutes trying to think of answers with 't mix' in them...
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
d'oh.
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
mingled with contemporary of wayne, j (4)
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
Are you going for mixt?
I've certainly heard of Alan Ladd, though I couldn't name a single film of his off the top of my head, and I never would have been able to solve this without a lot of help.
This could go in the strange Wikipedia entries, just for the odd wording:
As with many Hollywood stars, Ladd is sometimes described as either a social adherent to, or member of, the gay subculture.[15]
― Sex Kitten mind control slave (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
mixt, yes. it's a word! who knew?
(contemporary might be pushing it though, earlier generation)
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link