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culloty82
30/07/2012, 7:59 AM
Finnish mark jubilee, sanitise composer by removing bad link. (4,8)
culloty82
30/07/2012, 7:34 PM
J---/S-------
Eminence Grise
30/07/2012, 11:23 PM
Jean Sibelius will stick with cosmetics in lil ol' Louisiana - capital notion! (5,5)
(Nice clue - knew the answer but had to work out why it was so!)
BonnieShels
01/08/2012, 12:42 AM
You don't have to hit it with a Baton. Rouge is called if you kick a point in this beautiful "American" game. (8, 8)
BonnieShels
05/08/2012, 11:44 AM
-A----A-/---T----
culloty82
06/08/2012, 8:23 PM
Canadian football of a sort - does Michael J. Fox support these mountainy men? (9,9)
culloty82
07/08/2012, 1:29 PM
---C-----/-H-------
culloty82
07/08/2012, 8:28 PM
---c--v--/-h---c---
culloty82
08/08/2012, 10:33 AM
--nc--v--/-h---c-p-
culloty82
09/08/2012, 7:21 AM
V-nc--v--/Wh---c-p-
Vancouver Whitecaps might feel sartorially at home with this controversial group
-- ---- ----
nigel-harps1954
09/08/2012, 11:27 AM
Ku Klux Klan, lovely bunch of lads altogether, violent propaganda one could say. Comparisons to be made with this right hand man. (6, 8)
BonnieShels
21/08/2012, 7:19 PM
Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin's famous son would lose the popularity contest.
He would never Pack them in like this New Yorker. (5, 8)
nigel-harps1954
21/08/2012, 7:45 PM
Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin's famous son would lose the popularity contest.
He would never Pack them in like this New Yorker. (5, 8)
Woops ;) Not exactly the right answer there mate.
bluemovie
21/08/2012, 9:55 PM
Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin's famous son would lose the popularity contest.
He would never Pack them in like this New Yorker. (5, 8)
Vince Lombardi.......but back to Nigel's clue (for which he may like to give a few letters now :D )
nigel-harps1954
21/08/2012, 11:30 PM
Ku Klux Klan, lovely bunch of lads altogether, violent propaganda one could say. Comparisons to be made with this right hand man. (6, 8)
--e--h / -o-b----
Eminence Grise
21/08/2012, 11:33 PM
Joseph Goebbels alone could not bring the thread to a memetic conclusion, so called on a victorious deity to regulate? (7,3)
BonnieShels
22/08/2012, 1:17 AM
Worked for me. :-)
Eminence Grise
22/08/2012, 9:40 PM
Joseph Goebbels alone could not bring the thread to a memetic conclusion, so called on a victorious deity to regulate? (7,3)
- o - - - - s / ---
BonnieShels
22/08/2012, 11:11 PM
- o - - - - s / ---
Nope... Thought I had it.
Can't get Delusion and Dawkins out of my head.
Eminence Grise
22/08/2012, 11:37 PM
Well, Dawkin's bete noire might feature somewhere in the answer, Bonnie...
BonnieShels
22/08/2012, 11:43 PM
Well, Dawkin's bete noire might feature somewhere in the answer, Bonnie...
That's what I have. My head is Dawkinsed out though.
Eminence Grise
24/08/2012, 9:04 AM
Joseph Goebbels alone could not bring the thread to a memetic conclusion, so called on a victorious deity to regulate? (7,3)
- o - - - n s / -a-
bluemovie
24/08/2012, 11:59 AM
- o - - - n s / -a-
Ah now I get it! Brilliant clue, EG.
Godwin's Law invoked to curb surreptitious antagonist (8,7)
BonnieShels
24/08/2012, 1:28 PM
Excellent clue EG
bluemovie
28/08/2012, 10:18 AM
Godwin's Law invoked to curb surreptitious antagonist (8,7)
--y-----/---r---
bluemovie
29/08/2012, 4:19 PM
--y--a--/---r-o-
BonnieShels
29/08/2012, 9:56 PM
--y--a--/---r-o-
Have the answer. Thinking of a clue though.
bluemovie
05/09/2012, 2:48 PM
Godwin's Law invoked to curb surreptitious antagonist (8,7)
--y-oa--/-a-r-or
Schumi
07/09/2012, 11:55 AM
--y-oa--/-a-r-or
This keyboard warrior makes a zany remark. (3,8)
Schumi
11/09/2012, 2:17 PM
this keyboard warrior makes a zany remark. (3,8)
r-- --n----k
Schumi
13/09/2012, 2:24 PM
This keyboard warrior makes a zany remark. (3,8)
R-- M-N--R-K
It's an anagram.
pineapple stu
13/09/2012, 2:31 PM
Have the answer; just need a new clue...
Edit - this is basic, but it might get us on to a more reasonable clue for the next poster!
Why did Ray Manzarek have to break on through when he could have used these instead? (3, 5)
the 12 th man
13/09/2012, 3:14 PM
Have the answer; just need a new clue...
Edit - this is basic, but it might get us on to a more reasonable clue for the next poster!
Why did Ray Manzarek have to break on through when he could have used these instead? (3, 5)
The Doors and another part of a house might have given this man an idea for turning the computer industry on its head (4,5) :p
nigel-harps1954
13/09/2012, 10:44 PM
Your clues are as useless as 1 cent coins to Bill Gates. However Steve Jobs has done well out of these yokes. (5,9)
culloty82
31/12/2012, 8:14 PM
Apple Computers has vague ties to McIlroy's squeeze, we hear! (5,7)
nigel-harps1954
31/12/2012, 8:38 PM
Now there's a bump! Do I win a prize or something for one of the longest running clues? You didn't get exactly the right wording there, but I'll give you it!
Although, in saying that however, Steve Wozniak may not be far away from Miss Wozniaki in name, but certainly hasn't age on his side to compete in the same sport. (5)
(Disclaimer: Yes, I'm lazy)
BonnieShels
10/01/2013, 3:47 PM
Now there's a bump! Do I win a prize or something for one of the longest running clues? You didn't get exactly the right wording there, but I'll give you it!
Although, in saying that however, Steve Wozniak may not be far away from Miss Wozniaki in name, but certainly hasn't age on his side to compete in the same sport. (5)
(Disclaimer: Yes, I'm lazy)
Defo 5 letters?
nigel-harps1954
10/01/2013, 4:07 PM
Whoops, good spot. You know what it is.
BonnieShels
10/01/2013, 4:29 PM
Whoops, good spot. You know what it is.
Then change it there. You really are lazy.
BonnieShels
10/01/2013, 4:32 PM
Now there's a bump! Do I win a prize or something for one of the longest running clues? You didn't get exactly the right wording there, but I'll give you it!
Although, in saying that however, Steve Wozniak may not be far away from Miss Wozniaki in name, but certainly hasn't age on his side to compete in the same sport. (6)
(Disclaimer: Yes, I'm lazy)
Table tennis has it's adherrents but would Barry Hearn approve of this smelly test? (4)
BonnieShels
15/01/2013, 3:24 PM
Hmmmmm... I think I have to re-word it. Doesn't make much sense now that I read it.
bluemovie
24/02/2013, 10:53 AM
still re-wording it???
BonnieShels
24/02/2013, 3:50 PM
Reading it again... it makes sense. ish.
I'll reveal the answer if no one gets it by the presentation of the English League Cup.
The pong off this American party game makes me tipsy! (4)
Charlie Darwin
24/02/2013, 6:54 PM
Holds the beer while they pay it to the taxman (3)
Eminence Grise
24/02/2013, 8:09 PM
Vat 69 will put paid to gossip. (6,3,6)
Eminence Grise
25/02/2013, 1:26 PM
S - - - - - / - h - / - u - - - r /
BonnieShels
25/02/2013, 2:27 PM
You're an impatient man!
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