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21 Jul 05 - 08:01 AM (#1525033) Subject: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,Partridge |
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21 Jul 05 - 08:03 AM (#1525034) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Shakey Yes, I see the problem. |
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21 Jul 05 - 08:03 AM (#1525035) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,Partridge pick at food, which doesnt appear completely thrilling 8 letters Any thoughts? Pat x |
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21 Jul 05 - 08:04 AM (#1525036) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,Partridge sorry about the blank posting |
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21 Jul 05 - 10:40 AM (#1525074) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: mack/misophist Singular or plural? |
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21 Jul 05 - 11:10 AM (#1525119) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: rumanci COMPLAIN ;-) |
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21 Jul 05 - 11:22 AM (#1525128) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: gnu Nibbling... you're welcome. |
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21 Jul 05 - 11:38 AM (#1525156) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,Partridge fifth letter is T Pat x |
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21 Jul 05 - 01:59 PM (#1525184) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,gnu 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. |
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22 Jul 05 - 11:36 AM (#1525382) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST Plectrum (well, the fifth letter is T) and I've seen plenty of hungry pickers chewing the plectrum |
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22 Jul 05 - 12:22 PM (#1525405) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: open mike cogitate? |
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22 Jul 05 - 12:59 PM (#1525433) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,La Inglese Electric :) |
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22 Jul 05 - 01:43 PM (#1525461) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: fat B****rd Yeah, where IS Brucie when you need him ?? |
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22 Jul 05 - 04:26 PM (#1525629) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: gnu Working like a dog, poor bugger. |
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22 Jul 05 - 04:30 PM (#1525636) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: open mike are yo usure it is not cogitate? i think it has a mix of thinking and chewing in the meaning...like ruminate... |
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22 Jul 05 - 04:30 PM (#1525638) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: MMario edentate |
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22 Jul 05 - 04:34 PM (#1525644) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: gnu A sloth? |
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23 Jul 05 - 02:30 AM (#1526007) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST scavenge |
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23 Jul 05 - 07:36 AM (#1526136) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: gnu WELL??? Is it cogitate? What are the other clues? C'mon... I need to know! |
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23 Jul 05 - 07:51 PM (#1526620) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST Meditate |
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23 Jul 05 - 08:08 PM (#1526639) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: gnu Arrrrggggghhhhh! More clues!!!! Scan it and get Jeff to post it in the photos... or something... it's driving me nuts... driving? |
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23 Jul 05 - 08:17 PM (#1526646) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST 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. |
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23 Jul 05 - 08:19 PM (#1526647) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST ---stick? Or an anagram of thrilling minus one letter? |
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23 Jul 05 - 08:21 PM (#1526648) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST Light---? |
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23 Jul 05 - 08:28 PM (#1526653) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST --ration |
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23 Jul 05 - 08:58 PM (#1526674) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Bee-dubya-ell It's probably a two or three-word phrase like "to eat not" or something. |
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23 Jul 05 - 10:57 PM (#1526723) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: gnu Noooooo.... if it's inane I shall go insane. Please... just a taste... I need it man. |
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24 Jul 05 - 12:41 AM (#1526770) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Peace What paper is the puzzle from? |
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24 Jul 05 - 06:30 AM (#1526843) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,L |
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24 Jul 05 - 06:43 AM (#1526852) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,La Inglese 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!!! |
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24 Jul 05 - 07:25 AM (#1526872) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: rumanci 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 |
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24 Jul 05 - 07:30 AM (#1526878) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST Here's one that bothered me for a long time- "A number of fingers" five letters |
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24 Jul 05 - 07:38 AM (#1526884) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST I'll second electric. |
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24 Jul 05 - 08:10 AM (#1526911) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,La Inglese Digit (tho' singular) Bunch/fives Any letters? |
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24 Jul 05 - 08:22 AM (#1526918) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: mack/misophist This must be one of your English crosswords. Retro Me Satanas! |
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24 Jul 05 - 01:34 PM (#1527097) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Don Firth 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 |
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24 Jul 05 - 11:12 PM (#1527497) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: BK Lick La Inglese has nailed these two, it seems to me -- electric and digit. pick = elect, food which doesn't appear completely = ric(e), thrilling = ... electricand 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. |
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24 Jul 05 - 11:15 PM (#1527500) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,Tír Chonaill Cheap Mabel for afters? |
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24 Jul 05 - 11:23 PM (#1527503) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Dave (the ancient mariner) masticate? |
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24 Jul 05 - 11:29 PM (#1527505) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Peace Fifth letter is a 't'. |
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24 Jul 05 - 11:30 PM (#1527506) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Peace 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. |
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24 Jul 05 - 11:44 PM (#1527511) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,Tír Chonaill 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 |
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25 Jul 05 - 04:14 AM (#1527603) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,La Inglese Cheap Mabel...a tasty clue!! |
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25 Jul 05 - 05:16 AM (#1527637) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Nigel Parsons Peach Melba |
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25 Jul 05 - 05:21 AM (#1527640) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,Tír Chonaill ;-) |
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25 Jul 05 - 05:43 AM (#1527650) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,Partridge 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 |
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25 Jul 05 - 06:29 AM (#1527670) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: gnu So, it was not a crosswood. Oh well, I've wasted time in worse ways. |
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25 Jul 05 - 06:55 PM (#1528226) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST Number of fingers : FROST |
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25 Jul 05 - 07:47 PM (#1528255) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
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25 Jul 05 - 10:13 PM (#1528339) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: RobbieWilson OK I've got one left from Saturday's Grauniad: 18d Who disheartens stonemason, you might say.(3,5) |
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26 Jul 05 - 07:30 AM (#1528579) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: RobbieWilson got it almost as soon as i posted this. I had some letters by the way: T _ M / _ A _ E _ I'll post the answer in a day or two for anyone who is puzzling over this. |
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26 Jul 05 - 10:14 AM (#1528694) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Paul Burke Tom Baker (tomb maker without the middle m) Try this one: Cool OK? (8,4) |
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26 Jul 05 - 08:44 PM (#1528850) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: RobbieWilson no letters? |
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27 Jul 05 - 04:11 AM (#1529012) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,Partridge Me again with another clue from the guardian taxidermists "wisdom" formed of dust few left off 7,3 Pat x |
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27 Jul 05 - 05:27 AM (#1529037) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Paul Burke Stuffed owl. This was in the Gurniada some years ago (Araucaria of course): Damn'd siesta! My God, I'm not Gunga Din! Heel, hounds! (3,4,3,10,2,3,2,3,3-3,3) |
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27 Jul 05 - 06:43 AM (#1529062) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: GUEST,La Inglese Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day son! Stuck on the previous 8,4 tho'.. |
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27 Jul 05 - 10:45 AM (#1529246) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: Paul Burke AxSxxxTx xExO |
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27 Jul 05 - 10:49 AM (#1529248) Subject: RE: BS: crossword help From: rumanci ABSOLUTE ZERO be tolerant with me *bg* |