Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Nefertiti2]

Choke chicken first at the tombola?

(6, 5)

[Nefertiti2]

Choke chicken out first at the tombola?

(6, 5)

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[Duncan Gardner]

To prevent possibility of bottle stall opening (4)

[Del Usory]

Stop Des! Is this the instruction that's been revealed? (6)

[Nefertiti2]

Cease and desist order noted. Coming more than once!

(9)

[Duncan Gardner]

Sorry Del's solution is wrong

. . S. .

[Del Usory]

My solution isn't wrong.

It's using most of the right letters, but not necessarily in the right order


<Topical humour for the teenagers there>

[Duncan Gardner]

If 50% = most you have a point. Albeit similar to 'Darlo have won most of English football's best leagues'...

[Del Usory]

Since when was 50% "most"?

50% is half.

No more

And no less.

[Duncan Gardner]

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Darlington FC Roll of Honor

Football League Division 3 North 1925

Division 4 1991

[Del Usory]

Football Conference 1990

FA Trophy 2011

Northern League 2013


Northern Premier League 2016

NPL Div 1 (N) po winners 2015

and six times winners of the Durham Challenge Cup, thank you very much

[Duncan Gardner]

Does anyone have a solution/ clue while we enjoy Bonny Bobby Shafto's lifetime story of lower-league mediocrity?

[Del Usory]

Finish the Everyman for me please people -

Something to plan for for in any diary, a break (1,5,3)

A / _ A _ N _ / DAY

[Duncan Gardner]

A rainy day- should start preparing for relegation (4)

[Del Usory]

[irony towers]

May I interject to ask whether we're any nearer getting this thread back on track?

By my reckoning we're seeking a correct solution for DG's clue:

To prevent possibility of bottle stall opening (4)

I'm not there yet, unless 'pobs' can mean 'to prevent.'

[Duncan Gardner]

. E S T

[Del Usory]

Mark Lester - evil or just disturbed? (6)

[ad hoc]

This thread is falling to pieces

[Kevin S]

Begone, lest a gambit's unearthed growing underground (11)

[ad hoc]

Book, traditionally used to look up locations of stalagmites (weirdly defying gravity) (5,5)

[irony towers]

An earlier inclusion of Italy in Times Atlas (5)

[irony towers]

An earlier inclusion of Italy in Times Atlas, as an example (5)

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[Duncan Gardner]

Ices, Titan? I'm knackered criticising Bibi's racist government (4-7)

[ad hoc]

Anti-semitic? No, pa, rethink that! He just wants to free the Palestinians (15)