Anyone like cryptic crosswords? (Read 281764 times)

Duma · September 27, 2011, 11:15:28 am

jx2/gc, how did that clue work? I'd got lunge from the synonym, but couldn't justify it from the rest of the clue.

Duma · September 27, 2011, 11:16:51 am

Ah bollocks, see it the moment I post! p for piss removed from plunge.

grumpycrumpy · September 27, 2011, 11:39:48 am

Valkyries fans , we get excited with ring seat ( 10 ) ..........

grumpycrumpy · September 27, 2011, 12:13:49 pm

Quote from: grumpycrumpy on September 27, 2011, 11:39:48 am

~~Valkyries fans , we get excited with ring seat~~ ( 10 ) .......

Ride of The Valkyries fans , we get excited by ring seat ( 10) ........

Makes much more sense ..........

grumpycrumpy · September 28, 2011, 07:15:16 am

Dang and blast it

.... Still not right ....... I enjoy solving them , but setting them is a right sod .......

Ride of Valkyries fans , we get excited with ring seat ( 10 ) ........

Duma · September 28, 2011, 12:15:19 pm

While you're editing, any chance you could stop putting a space between the previous word and a comma? It hurts my eyes.

john horscroft · September 28, 2011, 12:48:16 pm

Quote from: grumpycrumpy on September 28, 2011, 07:15:16 am

Dang and blast it .... Still not right ....... I enjoy solving them , but setting them is a right sod .......

Ride of Valkyries fans , we get excited with ring seat ( 10 ) ........

Shaken Wagnerites lose Ring bearing perspiration (5)

grumpycrumpy · September 28, 2011, 01:08:56 pm

Quote from: Duma on September 28, 2011, 12:15:19 pm

While you're editing, any chance you could stop putting a space between the previous word and a comma? It hurts my eyes.

Hmmmmmm, yeah, okay ........

grumpycrumpy · September 28, 2011, 03:46:38 pm

Classic highball musical, mixed up sweat without a direction and got involved with a chain of broken B&Q's, Homebase's etc. ........... ( 4,4,5)

Better Duma ? .......

SA Chris · September 28, 2011, 03:57:59 pm

apart from the misplaced apostrophes.....

aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB · September 28, 2011, 04:15:38 pm

Except they’re not apostrophes - ’ - they’re foot glyphs - '.

Foot glyphs. Foot glyphs. I said foot glyphs.

grumpycrumpy · September 28, 2011, 04:17:29 pm

I've got a plan .........

Duma · September 29, 2011, 09:50:34 pm

Quote from: grumpycrumpy on September 28, 2011, 03:46:38 pm

Better Duma ? .......

Much, thank you. (and apologies if I came off as a tit, it wasn't meant as a dig)

grumpycrumpy · September 30, 2011, 12:15:18 pm

No worries Duma I didn't take it as such, merely as constructive criticism ........

I'm pretty sure this one has been solved and everyone's just thinking of how to put the answer into a clue .........

Duma · September 30, 2011, 12:28:25 pm

Quote from: grumpycrumpy on September 30, 2011, 12:15:18 pm

I'm pretty sure this one has been solved and everyone's just thinking of how to put the answer into a clue .........

Oh indeed, but since it takes me about three days to construct any sort of clue I'm almost invariably beaten to the punch. But please don't stop, this is one of my favourite threads even if I don't often think fast enough to contribute!

metal arms · September 30, 2011, 12:45:08 pm

Intellectual sparring, fight of west side story without deserts, yo (6,2,4)

it's crap

Duma · September 30, 2011, 01:14:20 pm

Battle of words results in grass welts, we hear. [8]

johnx2 · September 30, 2011, 01:20:16 pm

nearly but not quite right - so 'ave this!

Unarmed combatant in a battle of wits whose fedora would remain in place notwithstanding a mind blowing experience. (2, 6, 4, 8, 4, 7, 4, 3, 3, 3)

(and yes I do forsee complaints but honestly the answer's easy to work into the right type of clue)

Duma · September 30, 2011, 01:23:14 pm

dammit! was so excited to have thought of a clue I didn't even really check my answer!

johnx2 · September 30, 2011, 01:27:50 pm

yeah,

I spent bloody ages failing to find nicely anagraming synonyms for imbecile, (I do it) but couldn't find any, stuck that up in exhasperation. Only to find I'd been been beaten to the punch. So sorry.

grumpycrumpy · October 03, 2011, 03:56:03 pm

Quote from: johnx2 on September 30, 2011, 01:20:16 pm

nearly but not quite right - so 'ave this!

Unarmed combatant in a battle of wits whose fedora would remain in place notwithstanding a mind blowing experience. (2, 6, 4, 8, 4, 7, 4, 3, 3, 3)

(and yes I do forsee complaints but honestly the answer's easy to work into the right type of clue)

I don't mind admitting that I'm struggling with this one ........

johnx2 · October 04, 2011, 10:31:09 am

with answering or setting?

If the former it's just a pun. (An unarmed combatant in a battle of wits isn't going to be that bright; something about removal of headgear.)

If the latter, just use the solution as a deffinition...

Alternatively why not revert to Duma's clue? Which I can't solve. Grass welts?

johnx2 · October 04, 2011, 12:22:47 pm

y'know, like if grey matter were instead an explosive substance

Duma · October 06, 2011, 05:09:02 pm

I don't deserve my clue used, will teach me to check...

this is how it worked:
grass-hay, welts-stings, we hear-sounds like
altogether it's a battle, the rest was just padding.

Can't do yours though, despite the extra clues.

aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB · October 06, 2011, 06:54:11 pm

If brains were dynamite...own hat off? etc. etc. etc. ?