ice cube

Whoops wrong thread!

You’re killing me racer!

Is “portion” really the answer to “Large fish” – I’m still failing to get that even with all the clues. Maybe I’m missing the cultural bit.

No, it isn’t!

Large fish. Take away from a chippy.

Special 🙂

Might be a regional thing (Yorkshire)!!!

Very good fish (5)

that’s brill

Honestly, I spent weeks on that clue about 10 years ago. Bastard.

Yes, but I don’t like to shout about it.

edit
They lead the way in the present transport system (8)

edit edit, how could I have forgotten this:
Amundsen’s forwarding address (4)

brill could also be betta

Sockpuppet – I can’t quite get the numbers to match: This has not a clue?

What dogs do round trees (4)

piss? 😆 (I got the actual answer as I posted, but I’ll leave it to somebody else)

woof?

Bark!

woof is close but only half way. It’s a proper crossword clue with two ways to get the answer, not a quiz type clue.

Edit: Glenn’s got it

Another one:

What Barrie imagined the Flying Dutchman was doomed to do (5,5,4)

Never never land?

Gegs and HIJKLMNO are pretty well known clues for their simple brilliance. As soon as I saw the thread title I was expecting it to contain those clues, and if not then I was going to post them.

they are and both simple and clever at the same time

God running amok [8]
your clue is its a proper noun so capitalised

WorldClassAccident – Member
Not crossword but some Christmas word game. Guess the well known expression

Xmascara
Kiss and make up.

Aye; have not got a clue!

S (8)

Capitals

Xmascara

Kiss and make up.[/quote]

Blast, I was going with “cross-eyed.”

Inferior cow [5]

Hm, terribull is too many letters…

Dionysus?

I woudl argue that your answer works very well but it is not correct

To help you the

God running amok [8]
your clue is its a proper noun so capitalised

Capitalised has a meaning that will make you go DOH when you get it It is a capital [letter] to start to be clear but it has more than one meaning here.

I only got it because i had some letters in it I dont think i would have got it from the clue alone

It’s a bit too straight an answer TBH

Capitalised has a meaning that will make you go DOH when you get it It is a capital [letter] to start to be clear but it has more than one meaning here.

Is the “capitalised” bit part of the original clue then?

no but i dont think it can be got without it[ as i said i had letters] – it [capital] has a double meaning in the sentence work out the other and you will have it… hopefully

Olympian is all I can think of but it doesn’t really work

Couldn’t remember the good one I had last weekend so while trying remind myself I stumbled across these:

Number of fingers (9)
Bar of soap (6,6)
Flightless bird, found in Iceland (6, 7)

And a couple of minimalist ones:
O (8, 6)
(1, 6, 3, 1, 4)

Edit, just seen the last one has been done but I’ll leave it in as I missed it earlier

Flightless bird, found in Iceland (6, 7)

Frozen chicken!

That’s the easy one 😉

Bar of soap is quite a good one IMO, its a different meaning for both words and readily accessible to non crossworders. Number of fingers is a bit more lateral, different meaning (sort of) of one word

Bar of soap (6,6)

I’m thinking that Bar is a bar you’d find in the pub…but I can’t quite make anything fit at the moment!

Number of fingers (9)

Digitally?

(As in digit tally)

Bar of soap (6,6)

Rovers Return

Rovers Return

Oh, very good.

A lot of cryptic questions have common tricks (like mentioning the Queen for the letters ER) – does anyone know any good web resources for learning how to solve them?

Digitally

No. Not even close, sorry

Rovers Return

🙂

Reindeer?
RM.

Chilblain?

Close enough. Frostbite 8)

Ah! That makes more sense, doh.