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#925 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 05, 2012, 07:20:58 pm
rotpunkt then? can't really make it work, but i suppose rt from rough trade, po from post office, punt for the coinage, kurt for the k? seems even less likely now I write it down

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#926 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 06, 2012, 10:52:47 am
Rough trade loses article with post office in Albert’s coinage   ( 8 )


A bit contrived but hey.

the answer has already been said (ok perhaps I could have said albert's coinage translated into english?) 

'Rough' is an anag signifier with 'trade' supplying the letters but we don't need the 'a' hence 'loses article'; 'post office' gives 'PO' and 'in' is just 'in' init?

Fairish?? I think I just liked the idea of previous answer supplying some of the cluing mechanism.




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#927 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 06, 2012, 03:01:22 pm
Rough trade loses article with post office in Albert’s coinage   ( 8 )


A bit contrived but hey.

the answer has already been said (ok perhaps I could have said albert's coinage translated into english?) 

'Rough' is an anag signifier with 'trade' supplying the letters but we don't need the 'a' hence 'loses article'; 'post office' gives 'PO' and 'in' is just 'in' init?

Fairish?? I think I just liked the idea of previous answer supplying some of the cluing mechanism.

Does this mean I've got to set a clue now ? ........

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#928 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 06, 2012, 03:46:25 pm
Rough trade loses article with post office in Albert’s coinage   ( 8 )


A bit contrived but hey.

the answer has already been said (ok perhaps I could have said albert's coinage translated into english?) 

'Rough' is an anag signifier with 'trade' supplying the letters but we don't need the 'a' hence 'loses article'; 'post office' gives 'PO' and 'in' is just 'in' init?

Fairish?? I think I just liked the idea of previous answer supplying some of the cluing mechanism.

Does this mean I've got to set a clue now ? ........

Yep.

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#929 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 09, 2012, 07:40:01 am


Seventies redpoint style could lead to sex in public places (7) .......



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#930 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 09, 2012, 01:51:31 pm
Where’s G-Land and Padang Padang? What’s Snoop Dogg in Gin and Juice smokin’? Starting indoors! (4)

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#931 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 09, 2012, 04:35:04 pm
Got up stylish herbal infusion? [4,3]

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#932 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 09, 2012, 08:32:37 pm
Eh? Not Bali...

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#933 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 09, 2012, 08:42:21 pm
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#934 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 09, 2012, 10:54:32 pm
Where’s G-Land and Padang Padang? What’s Snoop Dogg in Gin and Juice smokin’? Starting indoors! (4)

Make fat-ass Ted indomitable (9)

(Although i think Snoop was smoking endo)

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#935 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 16, 2012, 12:37:29 pm
Steadfast errand-boy hid Daisy? [5]

[Haven't I already done this one once before?]

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#936 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 17, 2012, 02:09:49 pm
probably



Sport cheats disaster! (11)

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#937 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 17, 2012, 04:35:19 pm
Sorry, sorry. I meant:


A sport cheat disaster! (11)


(This is now solvable. Been rubbish all day. Sleep deprivation.)

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#938 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 17, 2012, 10:10:06 pm
oh crap, from catastrophe comes sense (5)

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#939 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
July 23, 2012, 01:32:09 pm
A right humanist served  “A Taste of Honey”? [4, 10]

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#940 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 07, 2012, 01:48:05 pm
We all cool with this one?

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#941 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 07, 2012, 04:08:25 pm
We all cool with this one?

I dreampt about this clue last night. And I fell out of bed twice.

I've had a roomful of semi-trained chimps working through anagrams of "a right humanist" hoping to find something which chimes with Delaney and Richardson's 1961 classic, so far without success.

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#942 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 07, 2012, 04:33:48 pm
We all cool with this one?

I dreampt about this clue last night. And I fell out of bed twice.

I've had a roomful of semi-trained chimps working through anagrams of "a right humanist" hoping to find something which chimes with Delaney and Richardson's 1961 classic, so far without success.

I was trying for a Delaney-themed anagram, but couldn't quite hack one that scanned that well or made any sense.


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#943 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 09, 2012, 07:45:17 am
I cracked the anagram ...... But building a clue around it is too much for my limited mental resources ......

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#944 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 09, 2012, 11:44:42 am
ka bleedin' ching. I am even thicker than I thought.

But setting's the easy bit if you think shite enough. You could say there's a bit of a trick to it:

My Sharona and Rita Tushingham both got this! (3,5)

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#945 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 09, 2012, 11:55:29 am
(Although i think Snoop was smoking endo)

I concede that the internet is divided on this point:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22smokin%27+indo%22&word2=%22smokin%27+endo%22

But "smokin' indo" wins pretty comfortably.

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#946 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 14, 2012, 10:17:23 am
Bit of a clunkage alert:


Only partly see “The Knack” make one apoplectic? [6]

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#947 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 14, 2012, 11:43:45 am
Seethe at Stoney classic [5]

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#948 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 14, 2012, 11:47:03 am
Hang on, you want a clue or the answer?

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#949 Re: Anyone like cryptic crosswords?
August 14, 2012, 12:19:28 pm
To wrongly vilify rot is mere froth [9]

 

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