ninja. ja for jamaica? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― ledge, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
New idiot coal miner runs every which way (15)
― ledge, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
--n------------
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Want to say indiscriminately, undiscerningly, but they don't seem to fit. Also omnidirectional.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
third time's the charm
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, I've been thinking that since I first saw it, but was confused by the use of the "new".
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah it's not the best clue.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
No, it was a good clue. But by US rules, you wouldn't make "new" mean "N" and then throw it into the anagram, it would have to be the start of the word, whereas it seems like in the UK that kind of thing is accepted.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
imo it's the kind of clue that breaks a couple of the stricter rules (wordplay into anagram, "run" is a weakish anagram indicator), but passes because it's fun overall (good surface, "runs any which way" is a great anagram indicator, even though it doesn't turn the whole into a proper &lit).
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm just disappointed i couldn't work clint eastowood and/or an orangutang in there.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
The thread would have explode.
anatole otm.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Around around around (10)
Any complaints, well, I was half asleep when I came up with it.
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
and a kind of flipside to that:
Only barely fair (4)
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Just
Still thinking about the other one.
― krakow, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link
hardly something to do with fish eggs
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
that's certainly cryptic. but is it a clue?
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
it's my question about yours!
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
it's a question? fish eggs? what?
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
what?
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://scienceblogs.com/isisthescientist/upload/2009/02/whats_a_gal_gotta_do_to_get_a/confused.jpg
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://imgslide.health.com/images/slides/12444/full/web-confusion-sex-400.jpg
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
confused at that image name
web confusion sex is the best kind
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Around around around (10)Circumference, circulate, circuitous ..... dunno
Rough riding Swede (6)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
r---------
ingrid
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 08:27 (fifteen years ago) link
reclued:
Merry-go-round around around
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link
roundabout
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
yup!
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link
In vivid eons, I see (5)
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Video?
― Oz, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
yes - had to go against my better instincts with the (a)eons spelling to fit it in :(
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think anyone got this one from before... might be a bit OTT - 'Non-nude barnacle for sailor' (4)
― Oz, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
NaCl - I see what you did there. Highly unfair ;)
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Some fun clues in the Independent today
Such generosity found in Sweden or Switzerland, reportedly (8)
Complaining girl's first put on weird jewellery (9)
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
largesse, for no other reason than i'm too tired to think
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
must be right (Large S)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
primadonna doesn't fit, but agin my brain keeps claiming it as a phonetic pun
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
grumbling
― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
yes! and yes to largesse.
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
That's what I thought but how is rumbling weird jewelry? Oh, I get it "rum bling"
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Southern general has one drink (8)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
or:Rebel general having single refreshing drink(8)
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
knowledge of rebel generals letting me down here
― ledge, Friday, 21 August 2009 09:51 (fifteen years ago) link
-e------
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 August 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
-e-----e
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 August 2009 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
knowledge of rebel generals letting me down hereThen how about "antiseptic general"?
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 August 2009 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link
lemonade
― ailsa, Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:38 (fifteen years ago) link
As a philosphy grad I am ashamed not to have got that.
― ledge, Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
:-)
― ailsa, Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link