In one.
Wise place to go for a holiday - sagacity?
Senselessness is brilliant/totally evil.
Starts to cope with manic depression (3)
[quote=aracer ]anyway, I don't think we've ever managed to answer JY's capitalised clue and it's frustrating me - could he just give us a couple of letters to help out?
Which ones do you want ? start and end will give it away IMHO
Just give us the other ones then 😉
a clue from todays Paul in the graundian
[i]
Possible breakfast gems, cold bangers damaged your health, perhaps? [/i](9,4,2,5)
the answer to the previous clue was Stocking Fillers, and doing a countdown, Stocking Fillers.
cym
scrambled eggs on toast
cym
Close enough.
[quote=gecko76 ]Just give us the other ones then
- - d - - - s -
Not Godzilla then 🙁
not madhouse ?
no its not
whats the clue?
god running amok
8 letters
the clue was it is capitalised in normal usage.
cym
Close enough.
Spelling fail! 😳
im gonna stick 3 words in and hope for the best 🙂
started looking at the capital aspect and thinking that God was the proper clue as that would more than likely be capitalised, or a place.
so gods with d as a 3rd letter led me to buddha, so came up with budapest, buddhism or buddhist.
cant see how the clue works, but are any of those 3 correct? :-/
we have a winner....finally
Budapest
Mashed up a dub step place.
I don't see how Budapest works for 'god running amok'?
nope, me neither and it was me that got it, dont know whether my thinking process was along the right lines or not.
Certainly not a proper crossword clue. 'City where we hear god runs amok' maybe
City where we hear god runs amok' maybe
i still wouldnt have got it from that...... how does pest sound like running amok?
EDIT: and FWIW i still dont agree with the senselessness clue i got right earlier 😀
maybe pedantically im thinking 'sense less ness' should have some part of the clue alluding to 'ness' being mixed up. because 'ness' isnt in there as is. like i say, maybe looking at it expecting it to be exact, but arent they supposed to be?
Bud[dha] a pest
Not sure why its so unclear
that's an awful clue hows does Budapest relate in anyway to god, running or amok ?
that's an awful clue hows does Budapest relate in anyway to god, running or amok ?
s'wat i was thinking, surely there ought to be part of the clue relating to budapest itself?
Should have some reference to city in the original clue, but apart from that it works. Without it though it's what me and my dad would have called a Bad Clue, and annotated accordingly.
Yeah, that's what's thrown me off - I'd been running through capital cities in my head (since before JY explicitly suggested it was that), but was still expecting some part of the clue to refer to the whole word. Budapest clearly works with the clue, but the clue is incomplete.
so moving on - if you don't have to solve before you set - here's a well known one. Not classically ximinean but fair:
Of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of (10)
(oh aye, and for Budapest easy clue how about "Mate copies start of trouble in combined city"?)
Oftentimes!
Easy one for you
Dry sandwiches a cold delicacy (4)
tact
😀 😀 😀Oftentimes
[i]What you're after then, I found in airport[/i] (8)
solution
I visited my parents today and rather liked this from the Radio Times:
The last meal of a drowning mouse (6,3,6)
(My mum, bless her, had tentatively filled in "?????? and cheese")
roffle
bubble and squeak
[i]An Insect from near Wigan [/i](6)
earwig
There was a clue in last week's paper that had a code I'd not seen before:
[i]Tea is served in this posh service [/i](3)
Probably common knowledge to the crossword cognoscenti, but I'd not seen that usage of posh before.
Urn. U and non-U, though I can't remember what the U stands for. Plus RN = Royal Navy.
Ah.
U and non-U English usage, with "U" standing for "upper class", and "non-U" representing the aspiring middle classes, was part of the terminology of popular discourse of social dialects in Britain in the 1950s. [url= http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English?wprov=sfla1 ]Wikipedia [/url]
Character in the Iliad with light sort of weapons (7)
[url= http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2010/06/posh-u.html ]here[/url]
makes the answer urn
sorry for repeating your answer gecko 🙂
Crafty edit on my part, not sure if the link worked though, and yours is more helpful.
Curious to know the answer to Lester's Wise Place To Go For A Holiday (8).
nuclear ?
Yup.
[i]Sicilian Hothead[/i] (4)
Etna?
Reverse-engineered cheese (4)
Disturbed at leader, soldier thanks well-dressed baker (8)
Edam - an oldie I think
agitated
the baker bit is tenuous!
Ted Baker is well dressed Baker, no?
Indeed so. I'm just saying its a bit tenous.
[i]Result of one who was fired up for a sporting contest?[/i] (5)
an easier one perhaps
[i]Canadian resort artist[/i] (8)
Are we just doing standard crossword clues now? I'm not sure any of these are particularly silly (and I'm not getting any better at cryptic crossword clues).
Second one is Whistler
match?
nope 🙂
Ashes sounds right then, along the lines of what mrmonkfinger said.
[i]Cross, if Yorkshire holds become fixed[/i] (6)
ossify
1 across from todays Paul
[i]Female faking sex now, organ not to be trusted?[/i] (3,4)
Fox News
[i]One that always pockets litter[/i] (9)
Marsupial.
[i]Concoction of chilli and black plum proves hard going[/i] (6,5)
[i]Hang on! That is pants [/i](8)
Uphill Climb and Lingerie I'm guessing.
Will try to think of more.
Scottish prick in a fast car (3)
[i]Silly me, sure a fiddle featured in opera [/i](3,10)
Scottish prick in a fast car (3)
his?
Die Fledermaus
Scottish prick in a fast car (3)
his?
Nope.
Scottish prick?
Jag
Yep.
[i]One's thick slice of ham or onion[/i] (5)
moron