Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Virginia Bottomley has bath backwards (4)
Virginia Bottomley has bath backwards (4)
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Actually,
Virginia Bottomley has backwards bath (4)
might be a fairer and more conventional formulation, though not quite as good a surface reading.Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Ruthless Bain Capital fucked up ultra (6)Comment
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Wild, brutal set of counterattacks (9)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Desperate rebuttals can be relied upon(9)Comment
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A mode of discourse you find in a trustable therapist.
(7)Comment
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Animal blether (3)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
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Fruitful tool, mixing rest of yak butter without tea.
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Fruitful kitchen tool, mixing rest of yak butter without tea, we hear.
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Fruitful kitchen tool, mixing rest of yak butter without tea, we hear.
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(6, 6)Comment
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Haha.
Urban alternative to turkey baster (10).Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
OED has it (4-6) but most colloquial usage is (10).Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Do you have a letter, MSD? Delighted to have lured you into the crossword section-and to have made you laugh, btwComment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
I was kind of expecting ten pages of moaning about the word "urban" but I guess it's safe in here. ;-)
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Pretty sure I know what the 4 bit is, but have no idea on the 6Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
In Assam, babyfather may dance (5)
PS good clues by both Nef and MsD there.Comment
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Dancing around Rio, samba is of the Gods (8)Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
Imprisonment is like Ambrosia, I hear (7)Comment
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Oh, and sorry to break the causal chain of cluing, but can anyone explain this clue from last week's i?
Who's anti-work? A difficult question (7)
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I was pretty sure the first letter was 'O', so went for OPPOSER, with 'poser' being the 'difficult question' - but I'm not sure how the rest of the clue gives 'OP', or the definition?Comment
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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
OP is quite standard crossword-ese for 'work'. So OPPOSER is correct, with the definition being 'Who's anti-'.Mumpo wrote: Oh, and sorry to break the causal chain of cluing, but can anyone explain this clue from last week's i?
Who's anti-work? A difficult question (7)
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I was pretty sure the first letter was 'O', so went for OPPOSER, with 'poser' being the 'difficult question' - but I'm not sure how the rest of the clue gives 'OP', or the definition?Comment
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Ah, thanks. And while I'm here, a slight amendment to the above clue:
Imprisonment, I hear, is like Ambrosia (7)Comment
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Capitalisation (in clue) pertinent.
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Custody keeps Dutch boy safe (4)Comment
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