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Alien in bar for sale (6)

retail

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 27 November 2006 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link

mantrap

― Sam, Monday, 27 November 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

melonche

pearmarx

figlenin

Maybe one of those is a cheese...

― ledge, Monday, 27 November 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Slight reclue

Fruit getting revolutionary Spanish cheese (8)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Manchego!

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup.

Aura around spilled petrol in Celtic city (7)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Glasgow :-)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Old dance club in which an ice had slipped? (8)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Broomed away Edwyn Collins' favorite song? (7)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Bag lady complains about her naughty bits (7)

What the hell was this, I wonder.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, haha, I figured it out! Good one, self.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Can you give us a letter or two?

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Note about one Northern bass player (4)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

-a--

Other two were
-a------
-o-----

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Edwyn Collins' favourite song: Boredom. Dunno why I didn't get that right away.

― ledge (ledge), Sunday, 3 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Hacienda.

I don't know any bass players. Except Mark King, Jah Wobble, umm... looks like it should be dano, rane, mane, fana, sano, lana, or tane.
Oh wait it could be mani from teh stone roses, was mani the bass player? Yes he was.

And that concludes today's edition of "thinking aloud with ledge".

― ledge (ledge), Sunday, 3 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Very loud one inside very small jeweler (7)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Monday, 18 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Tiffany

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 18 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

I am a contributor to this thread, although I don't belong here (8)

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

imposter

― onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Cheer for endless ring and beam of light (6)

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Hurray

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Hooray, rather

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

No idea why I typed it that way first time round.

Eye serving drinks (5)

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

optic

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Been quiet for 23 hours, so...

Motorcycle was blue (5)

― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Moped.

I don't get the "optic" one.

― Casuistry (casuistry), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Moped correct.

Me neither.

― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

optics are those little drink measuring glass blobs attached to upside down spirit bottles in pubs.

― onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, cheers.

Request the first of the fold (5)

― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

pleat

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

zactly.

― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

almost glow like hippy-style party (7)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

--i----

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

shindig

― onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yes.

crummy kids are Superman's cousins? (6,3,6)

contest failure results in argument (4)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

-a---- --- ----e-
-e--

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 23 February 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

reading guardian xword blog, saw this:

Must've? (5,7,2,3,3)

― woof, Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link

"Kanye Singing Of Hen Fap"

― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link

that clue is going to be ridiculous in the absence of any letters

― Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:39 (twelve years ago) link

No, MarkG got it, idk how.

― woof, Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link

- - - - K | - - T - - - - | - - | - H - | - - -

― woof, Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link

stuck letters in the bin?

that's not right but

― Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:47 (twelve years ago) link

stuck letters at the end?

― Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link

I'm guessing it's a reference to making one word by taking letters out of the middle. "Must have" would not be the clue.

― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:50 (twelve years ago) link

Shark attacks in the sea

― ledge, Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link

Break ... ?

Worrying feeling I read the blog entry and still have no idea.

― ledge, Thursday, 1 December 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link

Not break

- - - - K | O - T - - - - | - - | - H - | - - -

"Must have" would not be the clue.

That's right.

(fwiw I'm not keen on how the def of this seems to work, or sort-of works)

― woof, Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:01 (twelve years ago) link

i got it.

― ledge, Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link

go on then.

― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:41 (twelve years ago) link

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Not overly happy with this, all the elements are there but I can't quite wrestle them into perfection:

Implores "I'm orphaned", adopting and raising is an undertaking (7)

― ledge, Thursday, 1 December 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link

guess i succeeded in making it difficult

-R-----

― ledge, Friday, 2 December 2011 10:11 (twelve years ago) link

promise

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 10:15 (twelve years ago) link

yup. it's not a great clue, it just doesn't read very well. maybe someone can improve it?

― ledge, Friday, 2 December 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link

it's okay i think! i know why you wanna tweak it but it reads fair, those hidden word ones are hard to clue without completely giving the game away

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link

i think "is" is the one word there i don't like but leaving it out wouldn't work

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 10:21 (twelve years ago) link

aye, it really wants to be "adopting and raising an undertaking" - actually that doesn't read any worse imo. anyway.

Hair like gold flame (6)

― ledge, Friday, 2 December 2011 10:37 (twelve years ago) link

auburn :)

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 10:38 (twelve years ago) link

Quiet an' piece? (8)

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 10:41 (twelve years ago) link

clue is a bit pish but whimsical

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link

antique

Auburn - vg

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link

antique is wrong sorry

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link

there is a typological cheat in the clue i must say

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link

tbh i'm pretty sure it's antique can u check again?

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link

didn't notice the anag for antique but i'm afraid there's no clue for anag and "piece" as definition of "antique" is iff-ay

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link

i didn't, and i don't mean to offend dear chap, necessarily rule one of yr clues out because it was 'iff-ay'

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link

how dare u sir i am generally meticulous way past the point of pedantry

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:18 (twelve years ago) link

ps requiring a cue for anags is lame-o pickiness imo

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:18 (twelve years ago) link

every word of the clue shd be functional or its a dodgy clue imo

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link

yep, that's not to say you need to include all indicators

Did you check was it antique btw

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link

fuck's sake antique has only 7 letters lol

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link

Antiques

― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link

it better not be

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link

i wrote the clue, i assure you it's not antiques

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link

the pope wrote quo vadimus, don't mean he new the answer tho

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link

_ _ _ t _ _ _ _

― Julie Lagger, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:34 (twelve years ago) link

s'antique

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link

we'll wooden floor for later

Most dreamy could just be mixed feelings (8)

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 12:22 (twelve years ago) link

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