― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― a.b. (abanana), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 18 August 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Friday, 18 August 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Room with medal inside to burn (7)
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Hello by the way!
― Archel, Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel, Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
-a-----
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 31 August 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Bag lady complains about her naughty bits (7)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Fruit with revolutionary cheese (8)
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 26 November 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 26 November 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
retail
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 27 November 2006 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sam, Monday, 27 November 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
pearmarx
figlenin
Maybe one of those is a cheese...
― ledge, Monday, 27 November 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Fruit getting revolutionary Spanish cheese (8)
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Aura around spilled petrol in Celtic city (7)
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
What the hell was this, I wonder.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Other two were-a-------o-----
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Sunday, 3 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Monday, 18 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 18 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Eye serving drinks (5)
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Motorcycle was blue (5)
― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't get the "optic" one.
― Casuistry (casuistry), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
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
like, this old classic:
http://www.puzzlearchive.com/puzzlewiki/images/thumb/7/7f/029-002.jpg/300px-029-002.jpg
― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
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
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