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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Norsemen can win bout with forum aesthete - instrumental? losing sun. (7-4)
  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    PBo wrote:
    Norsemen can win bout with forum aesthete - instrumental? losing sun. (7-4)

    Tinkoff Saxo
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,542
    PBo wrote:
    Norsemen can win bout with forum aesthete - instrumental? losing sun. (7-4)

    I'd like to take over PBo's pedant role, and complain about some of these clues... oh wait.
  • shazzz
    shazzz Posts: 1,077
    edited January 2014
    ...
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    andytee87 wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    Norsemen can win bout with forum aesthete - instrumental? losing sun. (7-4)

    Tinkoff Saxo
    very good
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    TheBigBean wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    Norsemen can win bout with forum aesthete - instrumental? losing sun. (7-4)

    I'd like to take over PBo's pedant role, and complain about some of these clues... oh wait.
    no, no, feel free to criticise.....

    ....before I ignore you and go back to picking on Macaloon.....
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    norseman - danes
    can - tin
    win bout - ko
    forum aesthete - ff
    instruemntal - sax solo - losing sun - sol = saxo

    and your complaint is???
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Belgian George's other half chased by Greek Prince on exercise (8,7)

    As for sax solo from instrumental :shock:
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Macaloon wrote:
    Belgian George's other half chased by Greek Prince on exercise (8,7)

    As for sax solo from instrumental :shock:

    I'm a child of the eighties. The instrumental part of any song was a sax solo!
  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    edited January 2014
    Delia ensconced, to live forever in Madrid. Maybe Nia finishes quickly? (4,7)
  • shazzz
    shazzz Posts: 1,077
    Macaloon wrote:
    Belgian George's other half chased by Greek Prince on exercise (8,7)

    As for sax solo from instrumental :shock:

    Phillipe Gilbert
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,542
    PBo wrote:
    norseman - danes
    can - tin
    win bout - ko
    forum aesthete - ff
    instruemntal - sax solo - losing sun - sol = saxo

    and your complaint is???

    I like the clue to make sense. So for example, "cartwheel messy band" may have an answer of orchestra (anagram of cartwheel), but part of the elegance of a clue is making it read as something else, and that's why it is quite hard.

    But like, whatever... ignore me!
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    edited January 2014
    Spotted Highland Ben (4,2,3,9)
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    TheBigBean wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    norseman - danes
    can - tin
    win bout - ko
    forum aesthete - ff
    instruemntal - sax solo - losing sun - sol = saxo

    and your complaint is???

    I like the clue to make sense. So for example, "cartwheel messy band" may have an answer of orchestra (anagram of cartwheel), but part of the elegance of a clue is making it read as something else, and that's why it is quite hard.

    But like, whatever... ignore me!

    maybe i concede that the "instrumental? losing sun" half was a bit forced.

    its good to have someone holding us to account!
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    shazzz wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    Belgian George's other half chased by Greek Prince on exercise (8,7)

    As for sax solo from instrumental :shock:

    Phillipe Gilbert

    Affirmative.
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  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    RichN95 wrote:
    Spotted Highland Ben (4,2,3,9)

    King of the mountains
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Macaloon wrote:
    shazzz wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    Belgian George's other half chased by Greek Prince on exercise (8,7)

    As for sax solo from instrumental :shock:

    Phillipe Gilbert

    Affirmative.

    trouble is, once i got "mildred" stuck in my head for "georges other half", there was no way back for me....
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    PBo wrote:
    trouble is, once i got "mildred" stuck in my head for "georges other half", there was no way back for me....
    It's like a test to see if you're high brow or low brow.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    RichN95 wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    trouble is, once i got "mildred" stuck in my head for "georges other half", there was no way back for me....
    It's like a test to see if you're high brow or low brow.
    U or non-U
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,544
    Having seen no critique of MY sandcastle, am I allowed to pick on Maccaloon?
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Having seen no critique of MY sandcastle, am I allowed to pick on Maccaloon?


    ALWAYS

    :)
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cryptic clues are such a black spot for me.

    Can't understand them at all. Not even a bit.
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Little Richard covers pursuit for clueless mod (4,6)
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Advice for Japanese game nudging French food decapitated into possessive pixies (2,4,10)
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  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    RichN95 wrote:
    Little Richard covers pursuit for clueless mod (4,6)

    Haha brilliant
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    RichN95 wrote:
    Little Richard covers pursuit for clueless mod (4,6)

    you could have weaved the red trousers in surely?
  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    A lavatory from Russia and I, holidaying on an Iberian littoral (3,5)

    Pretty easy this one
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    andytee87 wrote:
    A lavatory from Russia and I, holidaying on an Iberian littoral (3,5)

    Pretty easy this one

    I'll let someone else have a bash then, since it's an easy one :P
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  • chrisday
    chrisday Posts: 300
    andytee87 wrote:
    A lavatory from Russia and I, holidaying on an Iberian littoral (3,5)

    Pretty easy this one

    Rui Costa?
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  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    chrisday wrote:
    andytee87 wrote:
    A lavatory from Russia and I, holidaying on an Iberian littoral (3,5)

    Pretty easy this one

    Rui Costa?

    Correct

    Lavatory = wc : world champion
    Russia and I : Ru + i

    Littoral: coastal, Costa in Spanish

    Plus he is Iberian

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