Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
lost at Old Trafford, to Cardiff? Strike a light (4,5)
lost at Old Trafford, to Cardiff? Strike a light (4,5)
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Aren't clues supposed to help? Guy's pictures just leave me scratching my head even more.
Anyway, struggling with mafu's now.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
On the other hand, the full beauty of Guy's clue has just struck me: the plural "grounds" and everything. Very nice.
But no, the hint is something I've only been able to decipher partially, in retrospect. Buzzby = Busby, I guess, and Kingmaker must have something to do with the Warwick Road End. I don't recognise the boxer.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
A damn, darn bold roundly praised winner of many a test match (6, 7)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
How does the first part of mafu's clue work?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Rogin, yours is puzzling me, because the first bit looks like an anagram, but there's nothing in the rest of the clue to suggest an anagram.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Old Trafford lost its test match status to Cardiff. It's more of a Times clue tha a Telegraph one, that.
Mine should point to anagram, yes, you're right, I'll try and amend it.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Donald Bradman to work in factory? (3,7)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
It may be nitpicking, but Old Trafford hasn't lost its test match status. It's still Category A, which means that test matches and other internationals can be played there. It's just that a test hasn't actually been scheduled there. Cardiff was elevated to Category A, but that action didn't entail any loss of status for OT.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
_ _ _ / M _ _ _ _ _ _Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Run machine played for Portugal (7)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Andy C wrote:
I think that strengthens mafu's clue, though; it wasn't test match status that was lost to Cardiff, it was a test match. Nice clue.It may be nitpicking, but Old Trafford hasn't lost its test match status. It's still Category A, which means that test matches and other internationals can be played there. It's just that a test hasn't actually been scheduled there. Cardiff was elevated to Category A, but that action didn't entail any loss of status for OT.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Maniche's former club were a generator of capital
(6, 6)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Days become weeks for developer of Dynamo Moscow and Kiev, for example, as Crosby sang (3,4,6)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Dymano Moscow upset, lose both man and beast and threaten Ulster.
(6)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Not surprised, this is a tricky one; it was a hellish answer to work in!
F _ _ / _ W _ _ / _ _ _ C _ _Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
I thought that's what it was, Wyatt, but I wasn't sure of all the details.
Seedy far away places carbon instead of fluorine.
(7)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
The Caraway Game? (5,5,4)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Grand Theft Auto messed up without insult to Don.
(9)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Wa ayat al Urbi wrote:
It's an actor, Jason Statham, as inOn the other hand, the full beauty of Guy's clue has just struck me: the plural "grounds" and everything. Very nice.
But no, the hint is something I've only been able to decipher partially, in retrospect. Buzzby = Busby, I guess, and Kingmaker must have something to do with the Warwick Road End. I don't recognise the boxer.
Brian Statham Way - Warwick Road (Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, aka "The Kingmaker") - and Sir Matt Busby Way
(all effectively the same road from the Metro station - Old Trafford to the football ground of the same name)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Andy C wrote:
Don't worry, Bill Morris and the ECB will soon see that it doesn't warrant Category "A" any more, by bringing in the "north of the Trent" rule.It may be nitpicking, but Old Trafford hasn't lost its test match status. It's still Category A, which means that test matches and other internationals can be played there. It's just that a test hasn't actually been scheduled there. Cardiff was elevated to Category A, but that action didn't entail any loss of status for OT.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Guy Potger wrote:
Stone the crows, guvnor, yew carn expect me'a know VATTTT!Wa ayat al Urbi wrote:
It's an actor, Jason Statham, as inOn the other hand, the full beauty of Guy's clue has just struck me: the plural "grounds" and everything. Very nice.
But no, the hint is something I've only been able to decipher partially, in retrospect. Buzzby = Busby, I guess, and Kingmaker must have something to do with the Warwick Road End. I don't recognise the boxer.
Brian Statham Way - Warwick Road (Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, aka "The Kingmaker") - and Sir Matt Busby Way
(all effectively the same road from the Metro station - Old Trafford to the football ground of the same name)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Godfather trains one party (6)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
not 100% sure but
Some pale person, a pariah (5)Comment
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