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)
