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Harsh!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link

What's harsh is not having any other letters to at least get a starting point for these...

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I might need to check the 'quickie' clue for that last one :-(

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link

That's my boy!

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link

That's my boy.
xpost

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's one I made up.

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

La Creuset.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Le, rather.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Too easy!

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Too middle-class!

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Italy's the spot for a bunch of mentalists. (3)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Are cryptics more of a working class thing?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

haha

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

ILX

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

haha

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris, is it not three in the morning over there?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Madchen's "overworked postman" joke to thread!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link

beanz new clue! (I thinka ailsa and Sam still have one saved up too)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Put back strength about advance (8)

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

Do they have cryptic crosswords (in this sense) in America?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Put back? Advance? Too generic! Millions of synonyms! Letters please...

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link

R _ _ H _ _ _ E

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link

recharge

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

bingo

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry i've got to go for dinner now and don't have any new clues, someone will have to take my go

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Aw crap, I thought about = re, then discarded it.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, I don't have any old guardians lying about any more = no decent crossword clues to dispense to you. I'll just keep reading and solving if that's alright with you lot.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I discarded re too :(

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

Rues

(too easy, I know)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm gonna jump in with an old fave:
Love will tear us apart, causing grief (3)

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link

woe! NICE

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Gonna get lunch, I'll try and think of one while I'm out. Feel free to post any you think of...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, another old classic:

H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O (5)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Water

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

A ship that nobody caes about (7)

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

cares about

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

(to be honest, I stole this one from I'm Sorry I Havn't a Clue, so it's less of a strong cryptic clue, more of a weak pun)

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I was going to say that's "frigate" - I read it in one of those made-up-definitions-for-words things in the newspaper not that long ago.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Back from LUNCH mm sandwich. Quite proud of this one:

Point at vase, a codename for orgies (11)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure that's going to be "bacchanalia" due to alias and and the orgy thing, but I can't quite work out why.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link

not quite!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Do people want some letters?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh, yes please.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

S------L--S

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

saturnalias

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

doh

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

New clue!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Rat you hit corrupted power (9)

Too easy for letter hints

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Authority

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

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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 (two 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 (two months ago) link

four weeks pass...

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

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