Glam
Here's my horribly formed clue for the day:
Submit before backwards hood and spread end out and in (10,6)
― stuck on the darraghmac (qiqing), Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
how about a hint?
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 25 March 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
DN
― stuck on the darraghmac (qiqing), Sunday, 25 March 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
Laughed out loud at this one in the Guardian:
Home with red exterior? Blow me! (8)
― hair-grabbing ear-grabbing fetishist squaredance caller (Dan Peterson), Monday, 23 April 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
Novel end for festival with electronic beams wrapping displays up (3,10)
please to explain. 'end of festival' is l, 'electronic' is e, 'beams' is in there as well, but the rest of it?
― koogs, Monday, 14 May 2018 08:21 (five years ago) link
"displays up" = serab = "bares" up, beams = smiles. It's pretty tortuous but I think it works?
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, 14 May 2018 08:26 (five years ago) link
i hope it was a down not an across clue...
― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 14 May 2018 08:28 (five years ago) link
This was a good one from Saturday's Guardian:
Children's book in minor novel (3, 5)
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, 14 May 2018 08:28 (five years ago) link
Bewildered risible shits (7, 5)
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Thursday, 16 August 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
lol
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 16 August 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
invisiturds
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 August 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
*applause*Guardian Cryptic crossword No 27,595, 17 Down: Jimmy Carr, with offshore banking, primarily fiddled (7)
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
I think I get it but I don't know how. Is it a word that could be split in two to form a verb?
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
Not sure I know what you mean. It’s a verb, one word, you could split it into two words but then it wouldn’t be a verb
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
like 'X is going to .... ...'
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
No sorry idgi
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
I think I done it wrong, will think on
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
i done got it, it's good. don't think it's strictly ximenean though, apologies for nit-picking. it's good, it's fun, that's all that matters \o/
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Thursday, 23 August 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
presumably summat to do with first violin
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 August 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
there was another great clue in today's Graun:
Let's take most of Harrison Ford's fantastic film (7, 2, 3, 4, 3)
― Neil S, Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
I don’t think I’ll ever understand what ximenean means because I don’t see anything remotely cheaty about the jimmy carr clue
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
I looked up the Jimmy Carr one. I'll forever be a newb at these but what part hints at the meaning of the answer? I was doing what i always do which is madly guessing the word then trying to retcon the clue.
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
oh nm I see it now
― kinder, Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
one day i will understand a single cryptic crossword clue
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
> I looked up the Jimmy Carr one. I'll forever be a newb at these but what part hints at the meaning of the answer?
SPOILERS
With the Jimmy Carr one, "Carr with offshore banking" contribute letters to the answer and "primarily fiddled" tells you how to get and what to do with those letters which leaves "Jimmy" as the definition. Then you just have to rely on your knowledge of Victorian criminal slang 8)
― koogs, Friday, 24 August 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
Well it's the worst kind of old-fashioned prescriptivist pedanticism which even i rmde at; but although the words are in the right order, Carr, with offshore banking, primarily can't really mean carr & wob. The second comma is the problem - Carr, with offshore banking primarily, would be ok, and more or less leave the surface reading intact.
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 24 August 2018 07:13 (five years ago) link
some kind of anag, 'something of the something something', need letters!
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 24 August 2018 07:14 (five years ago) link
ok duh
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 24 August 2018 07:15 (five years ago) link
p great I think
― Neil S, Friday, 24 August 2018 07:50 (five years ago) link
agreed!
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 24 August 2018 08:23 (five years ago) link
is it not just the name of a very famous movie he was in
i mean
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Friday, 24 August 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
It's an anagram tho
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 24 August 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
is it?
of what
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Friday, 24 August 2018 09:17 (five years ago) link
and i mean i can see it kinda is if you dont mind it kinda being one
but i mean rly
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Friday, 24 August 2018 09:18 (five years ago) link
sorry for disappointing clue
― Neil S, Friday, 24 August 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
SPOILER
let's take harriso ford
It's a cryptic clue. If the clue was just "Harrison Ford film" then it would be a quick clue. The clever thing is that the definition is just "film"
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 24 August 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
its imo a copout clue
(i know what a cryptic clue is btw)
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Friday, 24 August 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
It’s perfectly cromulent and very good
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Friday, 24 August 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
in what way is it a copout?
xp
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 24 August 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
some of, part of, most of are lazy anagrams
nb yes i recognise the irony here
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Friday, 24 August 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
koogs yeah I got everything on that one except Jimmy being the definition. It did dawn on me eventually.
― kinder, Friday, 24 August 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
“Most of” to mean “all but the last letter” is standard wordplay that nobody would balk at if it were just part of the construction of the word, using it to get anagram fodder is acceptable because you can have more than one kind of wordplay in a cryptic clue. Also if you see that you can get “raiders of the lost ark” from “let’s take Harrison Ford” with the simple addition of the word “most”, you take the damn shot; that’s not lazy, that’s elegant
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Friday, 24 August 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
one of my objections is that the clue is a simplex one, the anagram (or if i prefer, pseudoanagram) is mere reverse-engineering merely to suit requirements
lookit thats long enough on the subject im glad everyone else enjoyed it
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Friday, 24 August 2018 13:34 (five years ago) link
Fuck usefulness - what’s the use in it? (8)
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
i have no idea where to begin, but, letters?
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Friday, 21 September 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
futility
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Friday, 21 September 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
all the letters, sure, that'll do.
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Friday, 21 September 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
inspired by real life events:
Place where they stockpile organs (9)
― koogs, Friday, 5 October 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
(spoilers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal although it's in the news again today)
― koogs, Friday, 5 October 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
cold
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Friday, 5 October 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link