just seems a handy 3 letter block
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 July 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
Hard to clue for in a non-obvious but non-offensive way prob
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Friday, 10 July 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
didn't stop them with "bi"
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 July 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
Ha true, it's just I can't even think of a way to clue that without adding like a sentence to the clue
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Friday, 10 July 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
It's not sufficiently clear or accurate ("having no preference in bedroom" is obv super-accurate) but the first thing that came to mind was e.g.
Pope's father gets first point as assigned (7)
(I'm not verr good at these; mostly do quicks/GKs these days tbh, over booze w/a cryptic-hating companion)
― Abraham raves doubtlessly (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 10 July 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
that's nice. the SJW crossword movement proceeds apace
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 July 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
Annoying one in front of king and son in capital city (7)
i had I _ K _ O _ _ and really wanted this to be INKTOMI but it wasn't to be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iktomi
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 09:38 (eight years ago) link
that must've been irritating ;)
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 10:05 (eight years ago) link
The answer looks really obvious but I can't parse the capital city part?
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 10:19 (eight years ago) link
somewhere in Italy
― Neil S, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 10:21 (eight years ago) link
yes indeed
― paolo, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 11:44 (eight years ago) link
did all but one of that one on the train on sunday with an eyebrow pencil. left with 'Overall employment system', N_T_O_K, I daresay it will come to me five seconds after typing this...
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:03 (eight years ago) link
nope.
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:06 (eight years ago) link
cheated. kicking myself. not sure about 'overall' though - seems like exactly the opposite?
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:12 (eight years ago) link
I think it works
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
overalladjectiveˈəʊvərɔːl/1.taking everything into account.
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link
I agree with ledge, it's hard to see the relationship between 'overall' and the answer
on the earlier one, d'oh. I was thinking of R as 'king' and trying to work around that.
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
Net = taking everything into account, it's like a straight definition
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's fine IMO
― Neil S, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:21 (eight years ago) link
I can see how that works but:
2: covering or including everything
my salary, including everything (ie tax) = gross
So it's ambiguous - imo - but legit.
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
Did that puzzle this morning on the train. I thought "overall" was fine, but elsewhere "ending in rubble" = E threw me. I kept trying to put "dreams ending" (S) into a word for rubble.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 August 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,644, 13 Down: Actors awarded stars? Done! (9)
Classic Paul but so does "done" mean this? Is it a farming thing?
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Friday, 7 August 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Haha I'm working through this grid atm, Paul is king of the xword dadjoke
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,644, 11 Across: Insect in diminutive temple, might you say? (8)
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,644, 21 Across: Behind — behind London it's sung out loud? (8)
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Friday, 7 August 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
more of a family pet thing. "we're going to have him 'done'"
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Friday, 7 August 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
I've never heard of that. Fixed, yes.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 8 August 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
there was a great clue in Saturday's Guardian crossword:
One attached to an arrangement of holes? (8)
― Neil S, Monday, 17 August 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
v good. christ i hardly ever get clues when they're posted out of context in this thread.
― ledge, Monday, 17 August 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
the previous week's prize crossword was also very good, once you get the theme http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/26645
― Neil S, Monday, 17 August 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
I completed the most recent prize crossword but couldn't get anywhere with that one
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Monday, 17 August 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
btw:
Activities of writer surrounded by cocks (6)
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Monday, 17 August 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
HA! That didn't actually get published, did it?
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
No that was me
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
On another note, a setter used UFFIZI as part of a clue last week. Seems a bit arcane, or maybe my world gallery knowledge is not all it could be.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
what was the clue? Uffizi is one of the world's greatest galleries...
― Neil S, Monday, 17 August 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
Went on securing gallery, ejecting one unknown thug (7)
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Save this nonsense for a bank holiday imo
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Saturday, 22 August 2015 10:48 (eight years ago) link
(Actually I'm enjoying this grid more since I figured out there were special instructions that don't show up in the app)
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Saturday, 22 August 2015 11:01 (eight years ago) link
Awful din that is not linked to major label (5)
Ha!
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 3 September 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
One of the few I got this week.
― koogs, Friday, 4 September 2015 04:18 (eight years ago) link
Pls can someone explain the uffizi one?
― kinder, Friday, 4 September 2015 09:10 (eight years ago) link
RAN containing UFFIZI
― oddesseslessness (wins), Friday, 4 September 2015 09:35 (eight years ago) link
yeah that seems fair enough tbh
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Friday, 4 September 2015 10:17 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah, totally fair. I'd just never heard of Uffizi.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 4 September 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
I think my other problem with this is Uffizi is *a* gallery, but it's not a synonym for gallery.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 4 September 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
Guardian Prize crossword No 26,669, 14 Across: Labouring obsession in creation of an icon, barmy? (11)
^liked this, finding the rest of this one hard to crack tho
― oddesseslessness (wins), Sunday, 6 September 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
yeah just came to post that one!
― Neil S, Monday, 7 September 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
Desert Youth's broadcast for intermediary of fly fisherman's cousin, perhaps (3,2-7)
Obvious, inelegant, and UK only reference. Thumbs up!
― steppenwolf in white van speaker scam (ledge), Sunday, 20 September 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
OK, helped by the fact that is on TV as we speak...
I thought broadcast was an anagram indicator, not a homophone indicator... Makes some sense though.
― koogs, Sunday, 20 September 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
that is ridiculous. yeah thumbs up.
― OshoKosho B'Gosho (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 September 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
idgi
― syphilis sive morbus cameronus (wins), Monday, 21 September 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link