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I think you are too good at this to remain on the thread, ken.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

OK. Sorry, Archel. Before I go, in answer to your last question I will say: no it is not from the Canadian puzzle book and was not intentionally Canadian, but thinking about the Mackenzie Brothers will not hurt you in solving it.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

No idea. Oh well. (Don't really go, by the way!)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Can I do one while I think over the beer ear one? (bruise? crease?)

Apologies in advance, as this is as bad as my other efforts.

Going past Oor Wullie's seat sounds unacceptable (6,3,4)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Beyond the pale?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes :-)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Hehe. No more from me today I don't think - I'm burned out!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, it was BRUISE (="brews"). Looks like you got the thread to yourself, Gerry.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

(not sure if this quite works)

Victoria leads you all around the ravine (6)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Valley

Writer monkeys with simian tram (6,4)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

martin amis!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I got that as I stepped off the train but I knew someone would answer it before I got online again.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think it's my turn but it's dead so

Gel the wrong way for Indian pattern (4)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's one more, then I'm out:
Quickly taking turn to get to German doctor (5)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, nobody tried this one
Needle singer around club (7)
S------

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm thinking syringe, but I don't get the "y" thing?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Y, like the YMCA. I've seen it in puzzles before.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Quickly taking turn to get to German doctor (5) = FAUST?

I cant think of a clue sorry. But there are some unsolved ones still above.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, I think "Y" as "YMCA" is an American thing, I've seen it used on ILX now you mention it, but it's never really registered with me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Gel the wrong way for Indian pattern (4)
---a

And try this one too:

Achy breaky hearth? (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 14 January 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

-a-a

-a----

It breathes, inhaling oxygen and energy to relax (6)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

lounge?
I did a crossowrd the other night and thought "I must remember that clue" now I can remember the damn answer but not the clue. Sorry. Back to the indian pattern. Which might be like agar backwards. Is Raga a word?

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

raja

― crossy, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

unwind?

― crossy, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

LOUNGE = l(o)ung+e
and
RAGA = agar backwards
are correct

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I should work on this one a bit more:

80s film's unstable drip. (5, 2)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link

No idea about achy breaky hearth - and 80s film? Talk about a vague definition!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link

haha

Rocky IV!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link

IV! Jesus, I'd even recently been thinking about using IV for drip in a clue of my own :-(

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha nice.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Noo cloo!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh alright then, even if I haven't answered any recently... here's a cumbersome monstrosity of my own.

"Clown to the left of me, joker to the right, here I am, stuck in the the middle", says Spooner, "being neither one nor the other" (7,7,3,6)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

-a---y

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

-a-e-y

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Bakery?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Yup.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Two in a day, I'm on a roll, and I only needed half of the letters :-)

I'll go make a clue up.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Chaotic sex recoils without end, you think that's funny? (9)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Excelsior.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I just wanted someone to say it to one of my posts.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

― RoxyMuzak½ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I am intrigued by ledge's but no joy yet...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Falling between two stools?

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Or stalling between two fools?

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

oh sorry, must be the first one.

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yep indeed. Maybe should have lost the quotes from the 2nd bit of the clue.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I have nothing to contribute. Sorry. That last one was excellent, by the way.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Just missed out on a Cuban (5,3,2,5)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Close but no cigar

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

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