[i]Broken bed, a sorry conclusion to a boozy night out?[/i] (10)
Doner Kebab 🙂
5 and 5 surely?
5 and 5 surely?
any complaints should be made to the grauniad.
How do you get on with Paul in the Sat cryptic Klunk? Find him difficult in the main, doesn't throw out many soft clues to get you started.
so so, I don't like it when they use obscure language (stuff you have to look up the meaning of because it was last used in conversation around 1687) I also don't like not being able to work it out even though I've got the answer. Other stuff i struggle with is really long clues for short answers oh and classical references bug me too.
an example from todays...
[i]Ancient linesman depards following 4-0 upset[/i] (4)
easy to work out... ivo backwards followed by d for depart = ovid Still had to look it up. I guess i needed a better classical education 🙄
wise place to go for a holiday : 8 letters
E ([s]13[/s] 6,6,1)
LETTER BEFORE F
[quote=Klunk ]I guess i needed a better classical education
Are you envious of JRM?
dunno do we know who he fagged for ?
Trying not to derail this too much, and keeping it vaguely on topic, my mum can do clues like that because she did get a better classical education than me. Contrary to suggestions on another thread I'm not all that bothered and tend to think it's just silly when clues require such knowledge - it does bother me that I'm not better at crosswords in general than I am though, given I'm good with words, can do anagrams and tend to win at scrabble (despite suffering with dementia, mum is still better than me, though she now tends to only do the quick rather than cryptic 🙁 )
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?
thegreatape nice but no (13) one word of 13 letters
I wasn't optimistic.....but surely it's ok to bend the rules to get a result? 😉
Many think the answer is the very state of nonsense!
My Dad loved cryptic crosswords, he told me a clue once which was 'the chicken stooped & smiled at the opera'
Lohengrin.
I'll never forget that one, good old Dad!
Many think the answer is the very state of nonsense!
from that clue i can only think of non-sense/no sense and so onto the word senselessness but i cant see how it can work out to be correct from the original clue. is it anywhere near?
The whole four got back to the house (5)
The whole four got back to the house (5)
villa
sadexpunk - I think you're right about senselessness
"Sense" less (meaning without) the letters in "ness".
Clear omce you have the answer, but not sure I'd have ever solved it myself. Spent ages trying to justify "extrapolation" as the answer
ahhhh..... sense, less 'ness', i get it. altho its not strictly less 'ness', id have thought thered have to be some part of the clue to infer the letters of 'ness' should be mixed up. still clever tho..... (if its right) 🙂
EDIT: if it IS right, surely nobody would ever get that right without an additional clue!!
That works, but that's a bastard of a clue.
thegreatape it takes the wisdom of crocodiles .
[i]They're presently taking up space [/i](8,7)
Very small thing in 13 letters (4)
Atom.
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
