BS: Cryptic crossword clue

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 03:22 AM

From Dec 04

What a seaside donkey has for lunch? (4-2-4)


Half-an-hour?

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 12:51 AM

Gathering a man may go to, but never does. 4,5.

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST,Troubadour
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 08:30 PM

The meat laughs gently for fortunes finding. (3, 5, 4)

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 06:12 PM

To second a motion is to support it, same as a second in a duel to support the protagonists. Like you however I can make no sense in trying to fit it to the rest of the clue.
However I have the same problem with all the other words that fit the letters you supplied

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Dead Horse
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 05:52 PM

Make that Sun Prize Crossword :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Dead Horse
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 05:51 PM

Sun Crossword (9 squares, all but middle one blacked out)
1 Across
First letter of alphabet. (Cryptic clue) What?
1 Down
Anagram of 'a'. (Cryptic clue) What 'orses eat.

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST,mikelikebikesox
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 01:40 PM

ive thought of second and beyond but none of them seem to make exact sense? what's your reasoning behind second?
thanks

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 01:18 PM

second?

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST,mikelikebikesox
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 01:12 PM

lower back's additional support (6)
have _e_o_d

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Juan P-B
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 03:37 PM

What a seaside donkey has for lunch? (4-2-4)

Juan P-B

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 10:13 AM

I'd though that, then DtGs next post looked like the answers to the clues. I can do cryptic clues, but understanding the workings of a mudcatters mind, impossible!

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 08:08 AM

tom tom.... erh... I'll get my coat....

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Leadfingers
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 08:04 AM

I do the Torygraph crossword every day too ! Any time you are stuck , just ask me ( I fancy myself as a Smart Arse)

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 10:18 AM

Of course... Thanks Leadfingers

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 09:51 AM

GUEST,Jon - The Support bit is BRA !!! Hence Bravo !

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 06:41 AM

What was wrong with my earlier answer GS? Salvo does mean an outburst of cheers.

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 06:12 AM

Too egg on is indeed toast!

Well done HuwG!

African Drum = Mud Hut

Aquatic Mammal = Ships cat

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 04:39 AM

Well done Dead Horse.......Took me a while.
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Dead Horse
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 08:38 PM

Bra -vo!

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 08:17 PM

toast_____middle one.

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: HuwG
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 08:15 PM

To egg on = "toast" ?

£30 (9,7,3,8) = "Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras". (In UK money, £30 is also 3 x £10 notes, "three tenners".)

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 08:05 PM

African Drum. (3,3)

Too egg on (5)

Aquatic Mammal (5,3)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 07:59 PM

Salvo

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 04:45 PM

I think one of the best cryptic clues I came across was in The Guardian newspaper.........FIVE LETTERS....and the clue was.....

"Cries of support for a girl winning five nil".

Can you do it???
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Helen
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 04:41 PM

I read a page of some of the best & cleverest crytpic crossword clues and answers in a trivia book about 20 years ago. I wrote them down on the back of two scrap library catalogue cards and kept them, but could only ever find the answers and not the clues after that.

I remember a couple of them:

Clue 1:   Orphan has neither view

Clue 2: What the Greek tailor said

(and I just found a reply from the Greek customer)

Clue 3: She, too great for words, can never have children

There were more but I can't remember them at the moment.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 04:03 PM

scrambled eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST,the hiker
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 04:01 PM

clue gegs
9,4

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: HuwG
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 03:37 PM

Look back in anger ...

OK.

£30 (9,7,3,8) [This may work for UK 'Catters only]

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 02:15 PM

Thanks Deadhorse...you are a pal! Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 02:11 PM

A sackfull of course!!!! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Dead Horse
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 01:35 PM

OK Georgiansilver, I'll be Mo.
How many letters?

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 12:42 PM

Best one I ever saw:

Angkooler

4,4,2,5

Took us about 3 hours...

Pete

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: sue exhull
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 12:28 PM

yes its shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh    dont tell everyone    its grit :)

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 12:24 PM

Try another crossword clue...
Found on the bottom of a budgerigars cage....four letters ending in IT
any ideas???

Oh and anyone any ideas for another name for a postmans round please?

Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: alanabit
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 12:20 PM

Shouldn't that be "below par"?

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Partridge
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 11:58 AM

Thanks, I've nearly finished now just a couple more to go. I'm off to the pub to cogitate over a beer,
cheers

pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 11:12 AM

breakere

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Partridge
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 10:50 AM

Strike to switch off the printer
8
last letter e

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Partridge
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 09:50 AM

thanks...........I'll get the hang of it eventually.

I'll spend the next twenty minutes on this crossword.....I'll probably be back.

thanks

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 09:47 AM

Above Par

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Partridge
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 09:40 AM

thanks, but that means that the one I thought I got right is wrong - shucks

The clue for that one was "what a good golfer is, on average"

5,3

I put under par, but I think it could be about par now?

any thoughts?

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Snuffy
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 09:25 AM

Middle-age spread

Subject: BS: Cryptic crossword clue
From: Partridge
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 09:22 AM

Result of too many a mediaeval banquet?

6-3,6

the middle word starts with u I think

Help!

thanks

Pat x