Omaha.
No time to post a clue at the mo, sorry.
― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 July 2009 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Eliot's dessicated scholar plays on abacus (8)
― ledge, Friday, 31 July 2009 08:18 (fourteen years ago) link
should've been playing for extra minor ambiguity.
― ledge, Friday, 31 July 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess actually being in the midst of reading Middlemarch might have given me some funny ideas about how obvious a reference point it would make.
C-------
― ledge, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, thanks for dredging up long-forgotten memories of English lit classes...
(had to google the name though)
― ailsa, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
which is...
― ledge, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry - Casaubon
― ailsa, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:54 (fourteen years ago) link
hooray
― ledge, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
One out - out for a ride (4)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
...auto?
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes.
Gold princess ring sound (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
audio
― ledge, Friday, 7 August 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Beef up agents following gold pursued by teahead (7)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
augment
― ledge, Friday, 7 August 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Nonchalant worker backs new coin in chemical company (10)
― ledge, Friday, 7 August 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I want to say Monsanto, but of course that doesn't work.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
insouciant. nice work.
― whatever, Friday, 7 August 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Rebel disturbance envelops country for more than one time (8)Girl that's into tailoring (4)Warrior's natty head in Jamaica (5)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
girl = toni? 'lori' works too. if that's a real name.
― ledge, Saturday, 8 August 2009 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
It is for the purposes of this thread.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Rebel disturbance envelops country for more than one time (8)-e-----e
Warrior's natty head in Jamaica (5)-i---
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
reusable
― ledge, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes. What about the other one?
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ninja. ja for jamaica? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― ledge, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
New idiot coal miner runs every which way (15)
― ledge, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
--n------------
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Want to say indiscriminately, undiscerningly, but they don't seem to fit. Also omnidirectional.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
third time's the charm
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, I've been thinking that since I first saw it, but was confused by the use of the "new".
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's not the best clue.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
No, it was a good clue. But by US rules, you wouldn't make "new" mean "N" and then throw it into the anagram, it would have to be the start of the word, whereas it seems like in the UK that kind of thing is accepted.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
imo it's the kind of clue that breaks a couple of the stricter rules (wordplay into anagram, "run" is a weakish anagram indicator), but passes because it's fun overall (good surface, "runs any which way" is a great anagram indicator, even though it doesn't turn the whole into a proper &lit).
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just disappointed i couldn't work clint eastowood and/or an orangutang in there.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The thread would have explode.
anatole otm.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Around around around (10)
Any complaints, well, I was half asleep when I came up with it.
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
and a kind of flipside to that:
Only barely fair (4)
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Just
Still thinking about the other one.
― krakow, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 09:12 (fourteen years ago) link
hardly something to do with fish eggs
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
that's certainly cryptic. but is it a clue?
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
it's my question about yours!
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a question? fish eggs? what?
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
what?
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://scienceblogs.com/isisthescientist/upload/2009/02/whats_a_gal_gotta_do_to_get_a/confused.jpg
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgslide.health.com/images/slides/12444/full/web-confusion-sex-400.jpg
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
confused at that image name
web confusion sex is the best kind
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Around around around (10)Circumference, circulate, circuitous ..... dunno
Rough riding Swede (6)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
r---------
ingrid
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 08:27 (fourteen years ago) link
reclued:
Merry-go-round around around
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 09:19 (fourteen years ago) link