Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Kevin S]

Ballsy, clueless, desperate Cullercoats (7)

[irony towers]

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[Duncan Gardner]

Scrotal sac elongated around Wenger's manor (6)

[ad hoc]

Bootleg Alsace gin used to treat pain (9)

[Nefertiti2]

Horribly annoyed by analgesic

(7)

[ad hoc]

pS I don;t get the Cullercoats clue in total. I get Cull ER, and have now discovered that Winslow Homer lived there, but coats? Portmanteaus are big leather bags

[Nefertiti2]

Manteaus are coats (translated) Cullercoats is a Port.

[Duncan Gardner]

Anodyne cocktail replacing shotgun climax with rhubarb starter? It's Gardner and Kate Hoey's old BT14 manor (7)

Latest: Vauxhall CLP has voted unanimously to deselect KH

[ad hoc]

In Ardoyne, slug fired in a risky manner (11)

[Stobart]

Disregarding the odds dangerously disrupted the Ayrshire village.

(5)

[Duncan Gardner]

Transformation of Lugar, as per Rio de Janeiro landmark (5,4)

Much as I enjoyed a very restful holiday locally- it was like living inertia- aren't villages a bit too obscure as clues? I suppose you could say the same of dreary hillside suburbs, of course

[seand]

The towering clouds arise with energy at Sugar Loaf, for example. A place worthy of protection. (6, 5, 8, 4)

[Guy Profumo]

Transformation of Lugar, as per Rio de Janeiro landmark (5,4)

Much as I enjoyed a very restful holiday locally- it was like living inertia- aren't villages a bit too obscure as clues? I suppose you could say the same of dreary hillside suburbs, of course

Cullercoats is fairly well known isn't it?


Owners’ beach rectories broken into nr. Sugarloaf Hill? [13,6]

[Duncan Gardner]

Isn't Cullercoats a town? Lugar is a small village

[Guy Profumo]

Nah.

Whitley Bay probably qualifies as a town, maybe Tynemouth or North Shields too, but Cullercoats?

[Duncan Gardner]

I defer to yer Northumberland/ Tyneside knowledge, Sir

[seand]

The towering clouds arise with energy at Sugar Loaf, for example. A place worthy of protection. (6, 5, 8, 4)

I think I got there first with a Sugar Loaf clue, so this is where we're at


The towering clouds arise with energy at Sugar Loaf, for example. A place worthy of protection. (6, 5, 8, 4)

- - - - - - / - - - L - / - - - - T - - - / - - - E

[Guy Profumo]

Bah.

Perils of not refreshing often enough, init.

In other news - PEXWord - that's numberwang!

[Duncan Gardner]

Clues please Sean? Have a feeling the solution may be found near Dublin but struggling to break it down

[Guy Profumo]

Help?

Anyone?

[seand]

Oops, offline for a couple of days.......

Confusingly the towering clouds arise with energy at Sugar Loaf, for example. A place worthy of protection. (6, 5, 8, 4)

U - - - - - / - O - L - / - - R - T - - - / S - - E

[Duncan Gardner]

So not Dublin Hills ? Site then.

I'm stumped

[Duncan Gardner]

North Channel route to Unesco World Heritage Site (6,8)

[Nefertiti2]

In the Giants Causeway a boatman sculls adrift.

(6, 7)

[seand]

Curse silver on aluminium basalt columns (9)