eh. now i'm confused. move on, move on.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
a lead in = intro
to a = i.e. joined to the next part of the clue
confused dictator = duce (confusion as in it's a translation of 'dictator')
it's a pretty shit clue tbh. using 'confused' to designate a translation of a word is just fcking lazy. but the setter didn't put 'mussolini' in the clue because it would have made the answer too obvious and he/she couldn't be arsed to come up with something better.
― whatever, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i think you could just drop the 'confused', and trust people to figure duce = mussolini = dictator.
― ledge, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
yup, it's a shit clue.
― whatever, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
easy tiger
― ledge, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
here you go in chaos courted (9)
― whatever, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
meh. i've seen better, i've seen worse. it's certainly neither worth twenty posts of criticism/analysis nor the amount of ire it appears to have generated in your good self.
i've already pointed out that 'confused' was an error on my part, as there wasn't an anagram- it wasn't substituting for translation. the rest of it seems sound enough, tbh.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 20 July 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Spanish circle jump (6)Uptight around before trench (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Spanish circle jump (6)
spring
― whatever, Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Uptight around before trench (5)
canal
― whatever, Thursday, 23 July 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yes and yes.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't get 'canal'?
― ledge, Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
c (circa) before anal (uptight) = trench
― ailsa, Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
d'oh, I should've got anal
^ poor attempt for 'quoted out of context' thread
― ledge, Thursday, 23 July 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
dough around wood (4)open, strong and smelly (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
cash
― whatever, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes.
I think for the second one I should have worded it
open, loud and smelly (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Frank (got it before the rewording, but confirmed further)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Loud Smiths album to electrocute sound system and big mother (5,5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Frank Zappa! Nice.
I can't really do these, and I'm not happy with this (may be so poorly constructed as to be insoluble) but I am bored, so, feel free to point out flaws... gently.
Root of all conflict three points behind deceased prizewinners (8)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
does it end in 'dens'?
― whatever, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think I'll get that one, not after these two beers.
This isn't mine but it's a memorable one:
Enmark? (4,2,3,3)
― whatever, Friday, 24 July 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, that should be:
Enmark? (4,2,3)
Almost, but two of the "points" are the same, because I am not good at these. That is one of the flaws, but sadly not the only one.
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 24 July 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Letters for the above two?
Old man from 1000 A.D. (7)
― ledge, Monday, 27 July 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
grandad
― Hypnagogic Poop (onimo), Monday, 27 July 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Enamrk is Land of Nod I think... How about this one 'Non-nude barnacle for sailor' (4)
― Oz, Monday, 27 July 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Nod, No 'D', I get it. Had to google that. There's a fine line between cryptic clues and bad puns, that one crossed it.
― ledge, Monday, 27 July 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
nah, that's a good clue.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Monday, 27 July 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
sweet
http://cryptics.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_anagram_indicators
― ledge, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Cool, thanks.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh dear, boredly (drunkenly?) posting inept clues and then forgetting about them. Please note disclaimers/apologies in previous 2 posts. Anyway, letters.
Root of all conflict three points behind deceased prizewinners (8)-W----E-
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
awarded?
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
awardees, yes?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:12 (fourteen years ago) link
nice clue, would never have got it in a million years without pointers in the right direction.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, "awardees". Glad it was gettable eventually!
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:15 (fourteen years ago) link
way to count the letters, darragh. :P
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link
cheese danish carrying vehicle (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
glad that one's solved (awardees). i'm not sure about the root of all conflict = a war. could split it award-ees = 'prizewinners gift three points', although gift=award is questionable.
good stuff though. it annoyed the hell out of me for a long time. :)
― whatever, Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
sedan. like it.
― whatever, Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
This one was apparently never solved:Crab time in monastery (9)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
root of the word all = the letter a, then conflict = war, was how I read it.
― ailsa, Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Was that clue inspired by a viewing of In The Loop?
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Rocky state follows holy man with nothing (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
ailsa: yup
― whatever, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Omaha
― krakow, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
??
― whatever, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
---n-
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I always thought that Omaha was a state, but it looks not, so I have the answer wrong.
My thinking, other than that, was nothing=O, holy man=maha
― krakow, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
OK. That might be clued as
Indian great after nothing on beachhead (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link