i'm right about quantity, yeah?
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
just 15 and 25 to go
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
finished
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
xxp yep. finished too, lol at 21.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
good crossword tbf, some of the clues on the edge of unfair
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
13d especially, as you said, is not a good clue
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
enough good ones to make up for it though. 1 and 12 my faves, 21 lolworthy as noted, 26 comes together nicely.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
1 is really nicely done
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:17 (nine years ago) link
finished the everyman in the pub on sunday for the first time in months.
― koogs, Monday, 1 September 2014 09:38 (nine years ago) link
I came up with this one, and I think it works pretty well if I do say so myself:
American who composed "Green Onions" seen around city in France. (7, 4)
― Okay, there's lil' Zipper again (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
Aw man, did I break the cryptic thread? Charles Ives.
Stumped by corset? There's a surprise! (6,2)
I've been happily doing lots of Everyman puzzles lately, but this combination of cricket abbrev., unknown-to-me synonym and Britishism answer I had also never heard before proved that, yes, I am American.
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
and yet you still worked it out because you had more than half the letters.
finished this week's this morning.
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
last week's included the name of a scottish oil refinery, but one i'd seen before.
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Sullom Voe! I had actually heard of that somewhere, but couldn't remember it for the puzzle. I cheated on that, and the corset. Also needed to cheat on: Welsh lake = Bala, and Coastal Vessels = Grabs.
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
we've not done the word-of-the-day thing for a while (coming up with a clue for a word from one of the many word-of-the-day sites, like the homemade jokes thread but less funny and for crossword clues)
Rad peanut shaped like a leaf (9, wotd)
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
(actually, looking again, i'm not sure i read the definition correctly. but it'll do)
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:08 (nine years ago) link
this page is no help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_shape
nor this one: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/
got it tho.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:18 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's actually 'violin-shaped', especially when applied to descriptions of leaves, not 'shaped like a leaf'. 8(
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:58 (nine years ago) link
everyman 3550:
Joker, male, is seen on Baghdad river (9)
easy to work out from the bits (especially as i had 3 of the letters) but a word i'd never heard before.
my favourite this week:
Arms race participant? (9)
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
that's gotta be one of the easier everymen, finished in ten mins. btw everyman, is that the setter's name or a target audience description in need of degendering?
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
Always assumed the latter
― 龜✊ (wins), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
i have 1.3 left to get.
cashier? minister of *space*?
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
cashier, yep. other meaning is obscure but flickers dimly in my brain. not space. c'mon. you can do it.
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
i don't see why cashier is cashier.
Dismiss teller (7)
ok, teller = definition. where does 'dismiss' come in? oh, synonym - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cashier didn't know that...
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
to tell = state.
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0726/576x324_hifive.jpg
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
why does that bloke clapping have two right hands?
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
I had never seen the Baghdad river answer either. Was that the same puzzle that had a bizarre clue about Italian leader (DUCE) involved in something, that just didn't work?
I came up with this one at the train station this morning, I think it works.
Dad can attempt beginning film. (6)
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
(everyman 3550 was this week's)
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
It was: Gathered action involves Italy's leader (7) = DEDUCED. I see DEED and DUCE, but the 'involves' part just didn't work in this imo.
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
3548 was the italian leader one
Gathered action involves Italy's leader (7)
action = DEEDitaly's leader = DUCDE(DUC)ED = gathered
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Yes, but Italy's leader was DUCE not DUC. The setter actually admitted he got that one wrong.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
i think you are right, i'm trying it on there with DUC
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
(google turns up some hits but if you look at them they are nonsense)
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
I thought involves was somehow meaning 'includes a part of' or 'shares a vowel with' or something else I didn't understand, but I had no idea it was actually an error.
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
No one wants to try mine? Dad can attempt beginning film. (6)
P_T_ _ _
Here's a pretty easy one I did for the Merriam Wenster word of the day:
Cyril composed poem (5)
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Friday, 24 October 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Wasps sting bears, yo (4)
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Patina!
― individual meta dater (wins), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
I got your latest one too (it's good) but I'll leave for others for a bit
― individual meta dater (wins), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
The wasps one isn't mine, it's from The Nation, but I laughed.
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
is that wasps as in WASPs? Can think of an answer but can't really justify it.
― ledge, Thursday, 6 November 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
No
― individual meta dater (wins), Thursday, 6 November 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
There's a bit of misdirection in this one
Quite clever misdirection imo.
I just did an Everyman with what must be a record (for me) number of words I had never heard of, or usages I had never seen:
GuncottonAuster (for South wind)SnaffleE'er (for always)Lay (for a song)Rum (for unusual)
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 November 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Russian opera reportedly runs with blood online? (6,4)
Not sure I'm getting this. It's Prince Igor. Runs = prints, and gore = blood. Is the "online" making it "E"-gore?
Good grief...
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Friday, 7 November 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Yeah a bit of a stretch.
Had to cheat for psst *hangs head in shame* - it's a pretty straight clue, the lesson for me is to examine my preconceptions. I was so sure 'wasps sting' couldn't harbour any hidden words that I didn't even look. Gave it to some friends yesterday, they didn't get it either. Then we had a long discussion about the similarity or otherwise of psst and yo and the likelihood of us using either of them.
― ledge, Sunday, 9 November 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
That's what's good about it, it's deceptive (& the solution being vowelless helps w that)
yo & psst aren't exactly synonymous but they can both be used to mean "listen up" so it works imo
― individual meta dater (wins), Sunday, 9 November 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
also:
Rum (for unusual)
(Guardian prize spoiler warning) apparently a lustrum is a period of five years. Who knew.
― ledge, Sunday, 9 November 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
I made this one up today:
Found during warmup: pet sheep, pig and frog, for example. (7)
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Friday, 14 November 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
nice :)
― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 November 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link