missed this thread.
― darraghmac, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
OK Chris, your turn.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 December 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Cryptic snaps:
Your mom is like some Oklahoma city after a tornado has hit! (1, 4)Your mom is like taffy that's been pulled too much! (5)Your mom tried to eat Switzerland! (5)
― Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh jeez, I screwed up the second one! Don't try to come up with these things before coffee.
― Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Your mom is like taffy that was pulled so much it broke! (3)
― Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Your mom tried to eat Switzerland! (5)This is very sophisticated., Chris.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 December 2008 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Your mom is all about a fish, I see? (8)
― Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I think there's a Jim Thompson novel about that one.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 December 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Your mom fills the world with these ladylike skills! (5)
― Casuistry, Monday, 8 December 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
^ can only get two of those
Rash appearance leads some young medical practitioner to opine 'Measles!' (7)
― ledge, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Which ones can't you get? Some are tricky (and some could use more work (and there is some overlap)).
― Casuistry, Thursday, 11 December 2008 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Symptom. Cute!
― Casuistry, Thursday, 11 December 2008 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i've got 'a slut' and 'fat' (i think?)
aha, and 'bitch'!
― ledge, Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I got what ledge got
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
--c------
I'm not sure the other one is really that hard!
― Casuistry, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, yeah I had got that one too.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Upchucking stale chew-it in burger joint (5,6)
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 December 2008 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
White Castle.
― Casuistry, Sunday, 14 December 2008 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes.
Come as you are essay by grad student (9)
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 December 2008 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, grad
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 December 2008 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
or maybe "returning student"
hot Spanish cold (5)
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
re: your mom - alcoholic. can only think of whore for t'other one bit can't figure it out.
― sister s (ledge), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Alsatian painter, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace and delineating FACE, for example (8)
Maybe that other one is "warts"?
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 December 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
So close!
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
tell a student 'come as you are' (8)
sorry, couldn't help it. am i thinking along the right lines? can't come up with any synonyms that would fit...
― sister s (ledge), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
wiles?
Alsatian artist, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace delineated FACE, for example (8)---e----hot Spanish cold (5)This is pretty easy. No letters today.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, maybe I'll give some letters soon.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Alsatian artist, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace delineated FACE, for example (8)---e--i-
hot Spanish cold (5)--i--
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
What candy reveals if floating (4,5)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Smelly and amusing state (5)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
chili for hot/cold. clueless on rest.
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Friday, 2 January 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Not chili. Try again.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
ah whaddaya mean it's not chili!
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Friday, 2 January 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
chili is noun, hot is adjective
s-i--
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm up to my eyelids with flu, so tbh i'm cutting my losses. so gutted about chili.
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Friday, 2 January 2009 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Alsatian artist, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace delineated FACE, for example (8)-r-e--i-
---- ---e-
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hot Spanish cold" is "spicy" and I am too braindead to offer a new one, sorry. Happy new year to the cryptic thread massive, though.
― britisher ringpulls (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Something illogical after Norway and Sweden get point and give up original (3,8)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
non sequitur
― ledge, Saturday, 3 January 2009 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Odd steps around rapper's girl's footwear (5)
― ledge, Saturday, 3 January 2009 08:04 (fifteen years ago) link
__O__
― ledge, Sunday, 4 January 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
shoes? though I don't get the steps bit, rapper's girl = ho.
― ailsa, Sunday, 4 January 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
odd steps = the odd letters, s e s.
― ledge, Sunday, 4 January 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Healthy, sick or broke (6)Five-0 almost got rapper to talk (5)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
The second one's voice
― ailsa, Monday, 5 January 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
What's the first one, ailsa?
Also still have these two Alsatian artist, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace delineated FACE, for example (8)-r-e--i-
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
And thisSmelly and amusing state (5)(might be easier for someone in the US)
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
arpeggio (figured out '--eggi-' and then cheated)
― ledge, Monday, 5 January 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Great, thanks for getting that over with.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link