what was500 = 100 = 0 (4) ?
― kinder, Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
DISC
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yep
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
the sum of 50, 1, 100 and 1000 would be MCLI though. you mean the concatenation...
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
+ is a concatenation operator...
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
D IS C "is"
Oh but ledge set another, which onimo solved. Carry on, Cluru.
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
Irrationally revere courses containing seed of giant sequoias, e.g. (9,5)
I figured out the answer, but I'm still not sure how the clue works.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
anagram ('irrationally') of 'revere' with first letter (seed) of giant in it, followed by 'entrees' (= courses).
― woof, Monday, 16 July 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
ahhh, I was doubly screwed: never got entrees, so I was working on another way to get 'courses' via greens (like golf courses) and I have never seen 'seed' to mean first letter. Is that common?
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
Get greens via courses, but anyway...
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
never seen 'seed' iirc, pretty sure i would grumble if i came across it in the wild.
― ledge, Monday, 16 July 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i don't like it
― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
tho it's kinda obvious what it's doing and since you're likely to arrive at the answer before you break down the clue i guess it's okay
didn't know sequouias were evergreen i must admit
― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
don't think I've seen it before, it does a bit feel off.
― woof, Monday, 16 July 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
I think it *would* have been obvious if I had gotten 'entrees,' but my mind never went there.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
Depicts, ultimately, under false pretenses. (10)
The way 'ultimately' works in this doesn't work for me, but I defer to the experts.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty easy, but fun I thought, from today's Guardian:
Off limits, like an exhausted kangaroo? (3,2,6)
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
Ha
― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
Assassin of sci-fi mob of Iowa (6)
― Like Monk Never Happened (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 July 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
btw mine was 'represents.' But anagramming pretenses it requires an extra 'r' -- so they're getting that from "ultimately under?" (Last letter of under?)
The way the clue reads seems like it should be the last letter of depicts (s) under anagrammed 'pretenses', but that doesn't work. Completely wonky, or just me?
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
wonky, but fair I reckon. I think the confusion is by design, so that's irritating. Don't like it tbh - don't really like that kind of word (lots of super-common letters, boring sequence), clue feels abstract, weightless.
(obvs just bitter because I didn't get it)
― woof, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, the theme of this puzzle was E; every word used only that vowel. Once I caught on, it made the puzzle much easier, but LOTS of super common letters.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
letters?
― ledge, Sunday, 29 July 2012 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
-o----
― Like Monk Never Happened (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 July 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
trying to think of a sci-fi assassin ending in 'ia'...
― ledge, Monday, 30 July 2012 08:46 (twelve years ago) link
or not.
borgia.
ha! got hung up on the sci-fi mob being "nova" which was probably overthinking it
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
from today's Guardian:
Pubs' motto, possibly? (7,2)
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
nice
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
a good thing about cryptic crossword clues is that they don't have to be difficult to be satisfying to solve.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
no, that's just pleasurably concise
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Baffled here:
Philosopher's telephone assistant, keeping money, rejected no taxis? (3,7,5)
S_R_R_N_I_B_C_N
Got the answer easily enough, but I have no idea what's going on with the most of the cluing.
― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://aframegames.com/puzzles/Teleportland.pdf
― Safe European Momus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's this:
Philospher's (Sir Francis Bacon) telephone assistant keeping money SIR(FRANC)I rejected no taxis = NOCABS backwards
― just one little Tayto (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
if telephone assistant really refers to a fucking android app then fuck this clue imo
And if I can't even tell what it really refers to, then ditto.
― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
And what would indicate that iris is backwards in addition to nocabs?
― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, I see, there's SIRI as well as IRIS.
― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
ah, didn't know about SIRI. still ridiculous.
― just one little Tayto (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
50 into 500 sheets makes 18 (5)
Got the answer, REALM, but don't get 'makes 18.'
― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda hate 'rejecting' for backwards. Is that an okay thing?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
it's okay, it immediately makes me consider that backwardness will happen.
Dan, what's the answer to clue number 18 in that crossword?
― just one little Tayto (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
PURVIEW (Reach sexual deviant you reported)
― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
purview = realm, i suspect
― just one little Tayto (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
That works. Never dawned on me to look at clue 18. D'oh!
― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
One more since I'm on a roll. I guess I figured this all out properly, I just think it's lame that George Sand is female and the clue goes on to use 'his.'
George twice uncovered his lights in Hawaii, formerly (8,7)
SANDWICH ISLANDS (wasn't that hard.) But: George SAND, (t)WIC(e), his is just that, HIS, and lights = LANDS.
― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
"Veto the short genuflecting American football player, alright?" goes into journalist's pad (8)
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 08:18 (twelve years ago) link
Don't know where to start with that one. Clue please!
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
got it (thanks site new answers for keeping me up-to-date with foreign sport)
― woof, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
googling the key noun phrase is not unhelpful.
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:03 (twelve years ago) link