Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Number 5 implies you've not actually noticed that the Eurostar moved to St Pancras bloody years ago

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

ad hoc wrote: Number 5 implies you've not actually noticed that the Eurostar moved to St Pancras bloody years ago

I thought he meant that by "then", and the "now" refers to the place in Belgium?

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I can't believe our intrepid Transylvanian traveller hasn't ever braved a motorway intersection traffic jam in the Brussels suburbs.

As it's clearly time to spell everything out, London rail termini don't need to be on the Circle Line to be linked.

Do better.

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Duncan Gardner wrote: I can't believe our intrepid Transylvanian traveller hasn't ever braved a motorway intersection traffic jam in the Brussels suburbs.

As it's clearly time to spell everything out, London rail termini don't need to be on the Circle Line to be linked.

Do better.

Waterloo isn't on the Circle anyway

It's on the Bakerloo.

As is Marylebone, which I mistakenly thought was on the Circle too

Mea culpa.

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

(and of course. It means I've got a persistent "Baker Street" earworm.

That. And the "inserts" theme to "Rocket Robin Hood")

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

From Oxford Circus to Marylebone? It's traditional (9)

_ _ _ _ _ M _ _ _

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

1 In Amsterdam, as customary as in the Levant (8)

And for your bonus,

2 Orange (yes, German) forces a...(5)

3 ...last charge (4)

4 So, nil thread? (5)

5 Initially, he enthusiastically ruminated on decimation (5)

Solutions may be found in England's green and pleasant land?

Spoiler bonus solutions:

2 JA/FF/A

3 Z/ION

4 LIONS (anagram)

5 HEROD (acronym)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

To Damascus! Desperate, without soda, ends up in another Arab capital (6)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Oh, man, do I really need to give a clue here?

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Yes. Usual practice is to sugggest some letters, including at least one consonant.

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

ad hoc wrote: Oh, man, do I really need to give a clue here?

Not for me.

Though the only response I've got so far has a fairly inelegant surface reading.

[Duncan Gardner]

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OK clever clogs. You post the answer and I'll write a (possibly elegant) clue for it?

[ad hoc]

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My question was by way of a fairly clunky and heavy hint, DG

[Duncan Gardner]

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Muscat PM era overthrown by cricket technology (5,6)

[Guy Profumo]

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Thank goodness for that!

[Guy Profumo]

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Stump cameraman losing mother-of-pearl? [5]

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

1 Defile nacre compound south of Picardy (3,2,6)

And for your bonus,

2 Did seasonal crap ruin north of Picardy? (4,3,2,6)

3 Sexy horn, please! (5,5)

4 ICA antique show (10)

5 Eire: "My penis'd explode!" (4,8)

Solutions will be grouped in June 2016, possibly

Spoiler bonus solutions:

2 NORD- PAS DE CALAIS (anagram)

3 RHONE ALPES (anagram)

4 ACQUITAINE (anagram)

5 MIDI PYRENEES (anagram)

All are French Departments du to stage Euro 2016 games

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I __ __ / __ __ / __ __ __ N __ __

__ __ __ D /__ A __ / D __ / __ __ __ A __ __

__ H __ __ E / __ L __ __ __

__ __ Q __ __ T __ __ __ __

M __ __ __ / __ Y __ __ __ __ __ S

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Liberty? Fraternity? Onto a document signed in Ile de France (6,2,7)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

ad hoc wrote: Liberty? Fraternity? Onto a document signed in Ile de France (6,2,7)

_ _ E _ _ _ / O _ / _ _ _ _ N _ _

[Duncan Gardner]

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First Treaty of Trianon heralded Budapest's anti-liberalism against zany Szeklers' international midfielder (4, 6)

Spelling duy corrected, thanks.

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

You've misspelled his name

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Duncan Gardner wrote: 1 Defile nacre compound south of Picardy (3,2,6)

And for your bonus,

2 Did seasonal crap ruin north of Picardy? (4,3,2,6)

3 Sexy horn, please! (5,5)

4 ICA antique show (10)

5 Eire: "My penis'd explode!" (4,8)

Solutions will be grouped in June 2016, possibly

Spoiler bonus solutions:

2 NORD- PAS DE CALAIS (anagram)

3 RHONE ALPES (anagram)

4 ACQUITAINE (anagram)

5 MIDI PYRENEES (anagram)

All are French Departments du to stage Euro 2016 games

Spoiler riposte

French regions, shurely, ed?

[ad hoc]

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Fanatical devotion to Toth Balazs's team (8)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Apologies to Mr Toth and the Fifth Republic for those errors above.

This is as good a point as ever to ask how well AH manages in conversational Magyar. Do you speak it or English mainly at home? I'm guessing the kids can slip easily into Romanian and German too?