nuILX cryptic crossword thread

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Red and white teams need a new database for a place to play (7)

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

s- a n db -ox

a.b. (abanana), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, very good. Now would you like to give us a clue, banana?

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Cook and one lawyer staying inside today (6)

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 18 August 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

statscock?

M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

a: Friday.

Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Friday, 18 August 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

ailsa, did you finish those clues from the other board?

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't, no. But I'm about to go and get my hair cut and then maybe go to the pub. Put them here anyway for someone to have a go at anyway.

ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

A burning bed almost covered by disgusting fluid and kind of sheet (7)

Room with medal inside to burn (7)

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Second one is chamber.

Hello by the way!

Archel, Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes. Hi, archel!

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Father's weapon gains entry? (8)

Archel, Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Password

nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Soak up a smell in the south east (6)

nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

sponge

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Alien in bar for sale (6)

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

A burning bed almost covered by disgusting fluid and kind of sheet (7)

-a-----

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

papyrus

ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 31 August 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

:)

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know how to do these. No peeking on the Chicago thread:

Bag lady complains about her naughty bits (7)

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...
Alien in bar for sale (6)
-e----

Fruit with revolutionary cheese (8)

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 26 November 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Chant softly- way to snare a husband? (7)

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 26 November 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

got it

bad clue imo

Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link

misuse of tense

Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 13:18 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, tense is the big irritation. 'Tramp' says its his favourite from his clues, but he's overrating the worth of that kind of cleverness imo.

woof, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link

right, I looked it up. It makes no sense, in fact it's more a clue to another set of 5 words that does.

Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link

seems to be lacking in definition completely to me, agree that kind of clue is best in v small doses.

paul today had a few annoying but fair clues with tricksy definitions, "this is flat" for table mat being the worst.

ledge, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link

It'd be some strange species of meta-&lit if the tenses worked, like 'thought outside the box?' - (one) must've (to get this), but because it has to be 'think' it's incoherent.

Yes, that kind of clue needs restraint. Paul usually gets it about right, but too much waggishness is the worst.

woof, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link

thought = "Muse" box = "TV"

Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link

don't know if everybody had realised that, sorry if u had

Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link

It's the sort of answer that'd get a "It's good but it's not right" Roy Walker response.

Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link

thought = "Muse" box = "TV"

Think not thought! That's the/my problem!

woof, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link

never knowingly underparrots?

woof, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link

"On ST is the best "Poll" I see"

Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link

think as "muse" is okay tho, i am being a bit scatty, the tense issue is really between " 've " for past and "think" = present

Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link

i remember when crosaire was still alive and everything wasn't shit

Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link

yes, i think we agree? 'think' is fine for 'muse', but wrong tense for 'must've'; it should be 'thought', which isn't ok for 'muse' - it would be 'mused', giving 'must'ved', which is nothing.

confused myself a bit, poss time to stop thinking and work.

woof, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link

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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