BS: crossword help

Subject: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 08:01 AM

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: Shakey
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 08:03 AM

Yes, I see the problem.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 08:03 AM

pick at food, which doesnt appear completely thrilling
8 letters

Any thoughts?

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 08:04 AM

sorry about the blank posting

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: mack/misophist
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 10:40 AM

Singular or plural?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: rumanci
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 11:10 AM

COMPLAIN

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 11:22 AM

Nibbling... you're welcome.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 11:38 AM

fifth letter is T

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 01:59 PM

Piss me off!!! All I can think of is hebitate... but that's a strecth... a loooong stretch. I'll bet Rapaire or Brucie could come up with it in a jiffy.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 11:36 AM

Plectrum (well, the fifth letter is T) and I've seen plenty of hungry pickers chewing the plectrum

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: open mike
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 12:22 PM

cogitate?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,La Inglese
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 12:59 PM

Electric :)

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: fat B****rd
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 01:43 PM

Yeah, where IS Brucie when you need him ??

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 04:26 PM

Working like a dog, poor bugger.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: open mike
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 04:30 PM

are yo usure it is not cogitate?
i think it has a mix of thinking and chewing
in the meaning...like ruminate...

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: MMario
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 04:30 PM

edentate

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 04:34 PM

A sloth?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 02:30 AM

scavenge

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 07:36 AM

WELL??? Is it cogitate? What are the other clues? C'mon... I need to know!

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 07:51 PM

Meditate

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 08:08 PM

Arrrrggggghhhhh! More clues!!!! Scan it and get Jeff to post it in the photos... or something... it's driving me nuts... driving?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 08:17 PM

Or just what's the clue that would give us the first letter? I need to be able to throw away the brown envelope sitting next to my monitor with the dashes and one T on it.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 08:19 PM

---stick?

Or an anagram of thrilling minus one letter?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 08:21 PM

Light---?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 08:28 PM

--ration

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 08:58 PM

It's probably a two or three-word phrase like "to eat not" or something.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jul 05 - 10:57 PM

Noooooo.... if it's inane I shall go insane. Please... just a taste... I need it man.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 12:41 AM

What paper is the puzzle from?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,L
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 06:30 AM

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,La Inglese
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 06:43 AM

sorry, above was me - too many buttons on this thing..
I stick with ... pick = elect, food which doesn't appear completely = ric(e), thrilling = ... electric, BUT we need to be put out of our misery Pat!!!

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: rumanci
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 07:25 AM

and I'll stick with

COM = not completely
PLAIN = not thrilling food
to pick at = COMPLAIN

Yes Pat - PLEASE come back and tell us we're all wrong !
lol

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 07:30 AM

Here's one that bothered me for a long time-
"A number of fingers" five letters

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 07:38 AM

I'll second electric.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,La Inglese
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 08:10 AM

Digit (tho' singular)
Bunch/fives

Any letters?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 08:22 AM

This must be one of your English crosswords. Retro Me Satanas!

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 01:34 PM

Sorry I can't be much help, but I woke up this morning feeling pretty cheerful, and I don't have a cross word for anyone.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: BK Lick
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 11:12 PM

La Inglese has nailed these two, it seems to me -- electric and digit.

pick = elect, food which doesn't appear completely = ric(e), thrilling = ... electric

and digit = "a number"also used when speaking "of fingers."

Both would be considered high quality clues by solvers of Frank Lewis's puzzles in The Nation.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,Tír Chonaill
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 11:15 PM

Cheap Mabel for afters?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 11:23 PM

masticate?

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 11:29 PM

Fifth letter is a 't'.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 11:30 PM

It would be a help to know which paper the crossword puzzle appeared in. Some use puns or plays on words as clue, answer or both.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,Tír Chonaill
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 11:44 PM

Cheap Mabel for afters? is an old Times crossword one. Two words 5 letters each

I know the answer... I just think it's a clever one

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,La Inglese
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 04:14 AM

Cheap Mabel...a tasty clue!!

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 05:16 AM

Peach Melba

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,Tír Chonaill
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 05:21 AM

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 05:43 AM

pick at food, which doesnt appear completely thrilling
8 letters

It was from the guardian, and most of the other clues were linked to it. The answer was electric
pick - "elect"

at food which doesn't appear completely "ric" (rice without the e)

thrilling - "electric"

cheers

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 06:29 AM

So, it was not a crosswood. Oh well, I've wasted time in worse ways.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 06:55 PM

Number of fingers : FROST

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 07:47 PM

I can't do cryptic crosswords on my own, but I'm quite good in combination with my wife. I can often guess the answer, but she's the one who can unravel the clue so as to justify it. Maybe it's some right brain/ left brain thing.

Basic rule of cryptics is, if you can't understand how the clue works, you haven't solved it, even if you have the word right.

Subject: RE: BS: crossword help
From: RobbieWilson
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 10:13 PM

OK I've got one left from Saturday's Grauniad:

18d   Who disheartens stonemason, you might say.(3,5)