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#825 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 11, 2012, 10:11:34 am
Swap parent with flexible moist swallowing graduate and enjoy the crack (13)

Damned fine clue that....... :clap2:

How you getting on with PE 462?

About halfway ....... You ? ......

Got 15a and 16d last night!

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#826 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 13, 2012, 10:22:14 am
Swap parent with flexible moist swallowing graduate and enjoy the crack (13)

Damned fine clue that....... :clap2:

How you getting on with PE 462?

About halfway ....... You ? ......

Got 15a and 16d last night!

I didn't ......

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#827 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 13, 2012, 04:04:13 pm
Swap parent with flexible moist swallowing graduate and enjoy the crack (13)

Damned fine clue that....... :clap2:

How you getting on with PE 462?

About halfway ....... You ? ......

Got 15a and 16d last night!

I didn't ......

Wordplay still beyond me on 15a tho'.

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#828 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 14, 2012, 05:06:37 pm
I've not got a clue as to how to set cryptic crossword clues so someone else can pose the next conundrum.

ah come on, I have a go and I can't even count. Yer basic pun is probably the simplest type of cryptic, something like: 

Dr Moreau can build own grade increasing board (10, honest I've counted)

would just about do it


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#829 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 17, 2012, 08:52:34 am
Dr Moreau can build own grade increasing board (10, honest I've counted)

Nice clue.

Could trained beast make rough feeling go in French prison? ( 8 )

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#830 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 17, 2012, 12:21:59 pm
Put your electricity charge in front of a yorkshire dale and you'll become a prisoner in the Bastille  (8).........


   

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#831 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 17, 2012, 12:30:49 pm
Put your electricity charge in front of a yorkshire dale and you'll become a prisoner in the Bastille  (8).........


 

Bizarre ........ That's meant to be 8, eight, huit etc etc ........   

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#832 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 17, 2012, 01:25:32 pm
Voltaire became adulterer without one (7)

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#833 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 17, 2012, 02:46:38 pm
loverat, loverat ( 8 )

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#834 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 17, 2012, 10:17:28 pm
Nice. Is it not (3,5) though?

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#835 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 18, 2012, 06:54:56 pm
Nice. Is it not (3,5) though?

Yes, I guess so  :-[ ....... How about (3-5) as a compromise .......

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#836 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 24, 2012, 11:53:31 am
Let's get topical, topical...
Let's get topical oooh let's get in to topical:



Dubliners writer but Pudsey’s Andrew? Twot ‘im Eric!  (5)

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#837 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 28, 2012, 09:51:27 am
...and getting less topical by the day. Anyone want a clue?

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#838 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 28, 2012, 04:20:43 pm
Still working on a response youth .......

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#839 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 29, 2012, 05:01:14 pm
Joyce's part, sounds like a morbid fear of the dark and satanic (7) ......


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#840 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
February 29, 2012, 06:48:55 pm
It's vomit! Start of chavdazzle broadcast -  George and Mildred, for example? [3,6]

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#841 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 01, 2012, 11:56:04 am
 when stans teem at Ilkley, shite ITV sitcom (3,3,9) 

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#842 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 01, 2012, 04:04:36 pm
A worthy and honourable edited the New Statesman? [7,6]

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#843 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 01, 2012, 06:09:11 pm
A worthy and honourable edited the New Statesman? [7,6]

This one's gonna be a reet bugger to follow ......

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#844 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 01, 2012, 07:57:39 pm
Anthony Howard's organ's article has a leaning bearing on king. (3,8)

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#845 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 06, 2012, 12:46:52 pm
Anthony Howard's organ's article has a leaning bearing on king. (3,8)

I've got an answer, but not the wordplay that supports it.

Any chance of a further clue to narrow it down?

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#846 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 06, 2012, 02:24:47 pm
how much do you want? Wikkipedia gives the game away pretty quickly I've thought. The wordplay's pretty conventional. 'Article' and 'king' are std crossword, there's a synonym in there, and for bearing think kind of direction this guy's pointing...




blimey he's bigger than I was expecting. And I mean his big wing of course. 

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#847 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 06, 2012, 02:34:15 pm
Anthony Howard's organ's article has a leaning bearing on king. (3,8)

I've got an answer, but not the wordplay that supports it.

Any chance of a further clue to narrow it down?

'bearing on Brenda/ Queen' ? ........
 

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#848 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 06, 2012, 02:55:53 pm
'Anthony Howard's organ' is as in 'Lord Gnome's organ'; wordplay in the clue is in the same sequence as the answer.

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#849 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
March 06, 2012, 05:04:13 pm
'bearing on Brenda/ Queen' ? ........

instead of 'king' I could have said Ron initially* or summat. But that would've been contrived.





*ie a shite way of cluing the letter 'R'. To be fair to me this was a quick phone post. I've not fucked up again have I?

 

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