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by petemster
May 3rd, 2011, 3:06 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

Nick wrote:Can-Ada + Canada :D

They don't succeed in getting to the other place. (4,5)
Life Peers
by petemster
May 3rd, 2011, 12:15 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

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O.K. How about this - Tin girl from the country (6)
by petemster
May 3rd, 2011, 11:04 am
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

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Could be : malachite - The book Malachi plus T E (Lawrence).
by petemster
May 3rd, 2011, 2:51 am
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

. Ok - here's one I think should be better. Small recess required before queen is game to be seen on television (7) Well, what I was thinking about is - ----- Small - recess - (before ) queen - is - "game to be seen on television" which gives us : ----- S - - - - NOOK - - - - - - ER - which is a "g...
by petemster
May 1st, 2011, 1:25 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

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Ok - here's one I think should be better.

Small recess required before queen is game to be seen on television (7)
by petemster
April 30th, 2011, 1:44 am
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

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Where people in saloon, for example, can watch the game. (6,4)

I wonder if that could be : SAFARI PARK
by petemster
April 28th, 2011, 7:12 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

petemster wrote:.

Well here's one to keep it going in the meantime :

Thanks to a backward bloke in the shit we're looking at prison (10)
Well I have to go out tonight but please carry on without me.

The answer to the last one is : GUANTANAMO
by petemster
April 28th, 2011, 5:12 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: just suppose you were wrong after all...
Replies: 43
Views: 5163

Re: just suppose you were wrong after all...

Here's my proof for the non-existence of "God". I worked it out about fifteen years ago. The christian God exists to "give us our daily bread" and to "deliver us from evil" - a Provider-Protector (P-P). "God" is NOT a construct of the human mind but an innate concept and survival instinct. At the po...
by petemster
April 26th, 2011, 11:46 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: just suppose you were wrong after all...
Replies: 43
Views: 5163

Re: just suppose you were wrong after all...

animist wrote:what would you say to God or his representative when you die and then discover there was an afterlife after all, more or less on Christian lines?
You have a lot of explaining to do, Big Man.
by petemster
April 25th, 2011, 12:32 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

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Well here's one to keep it going in the meantime :

Thanks to a backward bloke in the shit we're looking at prison (10)
by petemster
April 24th, 2011, 8:46 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

animist wrote:I dream in East Grinstead, which is on it, nominally the sixth city of Mississippi (8)
Looks like : MERIDIAN - anagram of I-D-R-E-A-M-I-N - and those other things too.

Can Thundril help us out with that previous clue ?
by petemster
March 30th, 2011, 8:16 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

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After a crash a car might go to a BREAKERS yard.

If that's right I suggest you go again, and see if anybody can solve it without
needing you to give us a supplementary version.
by petemster
March 29th, 2011, 8:54 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Flags
Replies: 3
Views: 848

Re: Flags

Just be careful! I seem to remember Top Gear (I think) leaving a car with flags of St. George parked in Glasgow. It was wrecked within hours. I think it says more about yobs than flags. And why can't soccer fans keep their violence on the pitch like us rugger buggers? :wink: Well I just want to say...
by petemster
March 25th, 2011, 1:23 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

Hello Animist, Thanks for your words of encouragement. :-) That last clue : Taxi takes Scots bit of fluff to see American railroad crew's mobile home (7) = CABOOSE Taxi = CAB - plus a Scots word for fluff : OOSE. And a caboose is a brake van on American railroads and because of the huge distances in...
by petemster
March 24th, 2011, 4:46 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

Let's try this one.

Taxi takes Scots bit of fluff to see American railroad crew's mobile home (7)
by petemster
March 24th, 2011, 4:43 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

Let's get rid of this clue. It may be too bright so get down: urge one to get down into the shade (4,3,4) The answer is : DUCK EGG BLUE - and is made up as follows - - It may be too bright (or not) so it's something like Sunshine, a light, a colour etc. - so . . . get down = Duck ! - urge one = Egg ...
by petemster
March 22nd, 2011, 2:34 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

It may be too bright so get down: urge one to get down into the shade (4,3,4)
by petemster
March 22nd, 2011, 1:40 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

My next try would be : Easter Island
by petemster
March 22nd, 2011, 10:27 am
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

animist wrote:pointless end of insular oriental (6,6)
Well, can I have a go ? I'll try : Komodo dragon
- To drag on is to have no ending point, and Komodo is an island in Indonesia.
Does that fit ?
by petemster
March 20th, 2011, 5:36 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Cryptic clues
Replies: 479
Views: 125198

Re: Cryptic clues

I think it would be best to finish off these clues now. 1. Digger finds article with unknown power (5) : ANZAC -- the Anzacs in WWI were known as The Diggers. - The confirmation comes from - AN (indefinite article) + Z (algebraic Unknowns X,Y or Z) + AC (not DC power) 2. Digger finds painting with e...