Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[ad hoc]

Not proud army

[ad hoc]

We all know DG's music tastes by now. Just follow that path and the answer is obvious

[Duncan Gardner]

Introduce 'Proud Mary' to a mate's B-movie (9)

ps Ad Hoc may forget that not all thread regulars are gnarled veterans with detailed knowledge of the 1969 hit parade

[ad hoc]

True, but I don't really have that knowledge either, just wikipedia

[Duncan Gardner]

. . . . M . . . .

[Duncan Gardner]

. T . . M . . . T

[Guy Profumo]

Ants widely distributed "Steamboat Willie" to cinemas (4,6)

[Duncan Gardner]

Walt Disney success: snappy 'Prom' I rehashed (4,7)

[ad hoc]

In very nice Colombian city, is sudden muscular movement captured by delicate unknown Pakistani carrier covering Orange County and debt acknowledgements in Mary Poppins (34)

[ad hoc]

(Ok, I may have lost the sense there , but meh)

[Duncan Gardner]

Bravo, Sir

Their Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious may tank Crisp & Glaister 70s BBC drama* (7,8)

* a favorite of my late grandmother as I recall

[Guy Profumo]

Do we have to be an expert on 60s and 70s police procudurals to get this one?

[Duncan Gardner]

Not necessarily

[Guy Profumo]

Not necessarily

How is that 7,8?


(or are you being wilfully gnomic again?)

[Duncan Gardner]

I prefer to think of it as encouraging you to think laterally

. H . . . A . / . R . . . . R .

As our literary adviser Prof Adhocz Karpaty will confirm, they have their own wikipedia page and a list of musical hits as long as Broadway and Shaftesbury Avenue combined

[Guy Profumo]

I prefer to think of it as encouraging you to think laterally

. H . . . A . / . R . . . . R .

As our literary adviser Prof Adhocz Karpaty will confirm, they have their own wikipedia page and a list of musical hits as long as Broadway and Shaftesbury Avenue combined

Howard's Way, The Musical?

[ad hoc]

The first word, of the answer, having a slightly military nature, ought to be up your street Guy

[Duncan Gardner]

No knowledge of the Russian language is needed for the picture clue- transliteration into the Western alphabet is guessable, I think

[ad hoc]

Couple of receipts (totally square) composed by the Sherman Brothers (6,6,4,4)

[seand]

In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the Little League backstop stole the show (5,7)

[irony towers]

Terribly leaden, foul Child Catcher brought to book? (6,9)

[Duncan Gardner]

Holden Caulfield and Jane Marple's favorite nursery rhyme? "Pay offer to UK Cell, that'll turn out just as well" (1,6,4,2,3)

Ps in the late 1980s, Frankie Caulfield and Albert Holden regularly starred together for Crusaders FC

[ad hoc]

ummm, isn't that, like, the answer (well, near enough)?

[Guy Profumo]

Err, haven't you just posted the solution?

[Duncan Gardner]

Apologies for that continuity error. My trusty assistants Prue and Frieda will be undergoing immediate refresher training