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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

Authority - xposted AGAIN!!! goddamnit!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Next!

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Flaky apple crisp holders (5,5)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

not tarte tatin is it?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah, it's paper clips. (anagram)

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Paper clips!
xpost!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

And I was gonna say
caper pails

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I was gazing at 'space plirp' thinking 'hmm, maybe not anagram after all...'

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

And yes, they have cryptics in the US, but they're rarer and you have to know where to look for them. And yes, it was probably 3 in the morning. I have been weirdly sick and my sleep schedule is totally kerscrewed.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Noodle! Entertain us!
(that's an exhortation not a clue)

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Bugger, I didn't realise it was my turn. Do I have to provide a clue now?

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Show us whatcha got, NV.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Noodle! Write one, skip none! (5)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Penne!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

(Very good)

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

NICE!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Stupid - having none of these? (8)

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

(Yeah NV it's basically pass-it-on but if there hasn't been an unsolved clue for a while anyone can post one. I don't think anyone is too fussy about any of it unless we have to do some work or something) (I have spent the last six hours entering printed-out spreadsheets back into excel in a different format, any requests for the actual original spreadsheets has been greeted with blank incomprehension)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

clueless!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

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