Ungooglable (well almost), in your own time, quiz cryptic clues at 7.15pm

Ah yes PM.Well done. I knew it was something to do with cards.

wow Paddy, i understand that now but i was 1000/1 to get that... you lot are a different gravy to me at these

is 14 Bupa?

btw if anyone wants to see some of the buildings and places in dubai i took pics of send me a mail and i`ll forward you 12-15 good pics.

Yes please BJK. Lizzie (My eldest daughter) loved Dubai.. says it's one of the few places she would like to live... but I've not seen any pics. :)

will do mate, will send in next 10 mins..

actually PM, if its easier I have 400 pics of loads of dubai on my face book thing... if that is easier than sending them and blocking up your emails?

No worries.. if I can remember how to get into it! :^0

:^0

That's fantastic BJK.. thanks very much. I wonder if I'll ever go there? How the hell do I send you a message on facebook... or 'Facelift' as my Mum insists on calling it?! :D

Erm theres an inbox at the top of the screen, compose new message is in there mate. Or there is the instant message in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.

Yeah the place is amazing, biggest swetshop, buildings, fountains etc... If anyone has the time goto youtube and type in DUBAI FOUNTAINS, watch the 4 min vid of "time to say goodbye", its brilliant to watch in person, amazing the amount of money they have spent on it - worth a read on wiki too

bjk, i downloaded that ages ago, fantastic.

it is v good liam.

Sorry i dont wanna hojack Pos thread...

3 Evens is club
9 Confound
14 I am in returning pub. Initially ale is missing
17 Tartar Tsar?
30 2:59 or 12:58

As munch said above 17 Blackjack king
Black = tar
Jack / Tar is some sailor reference I think and
Tsar is King, of sorts

blackjackking 17 Nov 17:17
it is v good liam.

Sorry i dont wanna hojack Pos thread...


Is that like hijacking except a bald bloke sucking a lollipop does it? :D

go and watch the telly paddy

14 is Liamcol

I AM in LOCAL backwards, but missing the A

Nice one DS :)

30 early morning riser!!!!!!!

Ted Rogers in his 3-2-1 days would have been proud of these :D

Brodie, you just read my mind, i am fairly good at cryptic clues but some of these take the biscuit.

3 Evens is club
9 Confound
30 2:59 or 12:58

1 = sparkmaster
2 = pokermonster
4 = nirvana
5 = tommy toes
6 = ken masters
7 = joe jordan
8 = slartybartfast
10 = babycakes
11 = GT
12 = canaryboy
13 = Paddy Mayne
14 = liamcol
15 = bodil
16 = max and paddy
17 = blackjackking
18 = tobermory
19 = mad simon
20 = jimmy69
21 = Erse
22 = poolfc
23 = orioles
24 = punterfleecer
25 = tom petty is god
26 = big charlie
27 = Betman Robbing
28 = andy murray
29 = screaming from beneath the waves


AM = 5
paddy mayne = 5
munchman = 4
sparky = 2
boggle = 2
redbag = 1
nestor = 1
klauk = 1
coachbuster = 1
clarkson= 1
theranking missp = 2
muntz street = 1
dublinslim = 1

Ken Masters was on the right track with q.30.

tar = black, tar = jack, king = tsar. (these rules are good enough
for telegraph so good enough for chit chat imo)
3 shouldn't be too hard bearing in mind it is v.similar to one of
the other clues that got solved relatively early. 3 to get, come on gents.

is my answer to 30 wrong :(

30 age21?

Clutching at straws here! :)


thought we ahd 3 with evski or BJK !! :(

3. knight of ni

afraid so redbag.

ditto ditto ?

30. each way?

no and no.

can't argue with boggle for the confound one, but it is not the answer I have.

9

COYI ?

no

9. collywobble?

no

30 tiptheodds?

3 SLB :D

..at feckin last :^0

wd paddy:


9 Confound
30 2:59 or 12:58

1 = sparkmaster
2 = pokermonster
3 = SLB
4 = nirvana
5 = tommy toes
6 = ken masters
7 = joe jordan
8 = slartybartfast
10 = babycakes
11 = GT
12 = canaryboy
13 = Paddy Mayne
14 = liamcol
15 = bodil
16 = max and paddy
17 = blackjackking
18 = tobermory
19 = mad simon
20 = jimmy69
21 = Erse
22 = poolfc
23 = orioles
24 = punterfleecer
25 = tom petty is god
26 = big charlie
27 = Betman Robbing
28 = andy murray
29 = screaming from beneath the waves



paddy mayne = 6
AndyM = 5
munchman = 4
sparky = 2
theranking missp = 2
boggle = 2
redbag = 1
nestor = 1
klauk = 1
coachbuster = 1
clarkson= 1
muntz street = 1
dublinslim = 1

Ken Masters was on the right track with q.30.

The SLB won was a lot like no11 Get Odds = GT. surprised it took so long tbh. The last two are quite tricky I think.

is Q30 not morpeth mackem ?

Hello coachy.. was just thinking of putting you up for Q9. Very tenuous but:

Confound... Catch Buster/ (Edwards) :_|

i think thats the winner, Paddy :0

fraid knot paddy.

The clue needs to be split into two bits

Got that bit pos.. thinking od tory, blue for et etc.. but still not making much progress! :(

tobemory!!!!!

no```

not tory paddy. "con" often means something else in DT crossword. Tell me to shut up if you don't want clues.

No we need all the clues you can give us!! :)

aspro

you're doing alright collectively - 28 out of 30. And these are the hardest two. One very well known forumite and one just well known.

In DT, they often give you what "con" means (in this clue) and then you enter "con". don't know if that makes sense. basically the clue and answer or normally the other way round to the way i have it this time.

Ken Masters was, as I said before, well on track with no. 30.

bottle 2/1?

Yes Jim.. and carpet On the other one. It's putting them together... :(

con=mp?

con=tory

no no

q30 - they don't so much need putting together, it was just two ways of looking at the same thing.

sixtwosix

9 - studyform?

wahey. wd boggle. And ironically everyone thought the answer was Boggle earlier.

one to get

30 2:59 or 12:58

1 = sparkmaster
2 = pokermonster
3 = SLB
4 = nirvana
5 = tommy toes
6 = ken masters
7 = joe jordan
8 = slartybartfast
9 = studyform
10 = babycakes
11 = GT
12 = canaryboy
13 = Paddy Mayne
14 = liamcol
15 = bodil
16 = max and paddy
17 = blackjackking
18 = tobermory
19 = mad simon
20 = jimmy69
21 = Erse
22 = poolfc
23 = orioles
24 = punterfleecer
25 = tom petty is god
26 = big charlie
27 = Betman Robbing
28 = andy murray
29 = screaming from beneath the waves



paddy mayne = 6
AndyM = 5
munchman = 4
boggle = 3
sparky = 2
theranking missp = 2
redbag = 1
nestor = 1
klauk = 1
coachbuster = 1
clarkson= 1
muntz street = 1
dublinslim = 1

Last Question 30:

2:59 or 12:58

[pre]
1 Odds on the arc heard by boss SPARKMASTER
2 Prod the right ogre POKERMONSTER
3 Evens is club SLB
4 "Polly" singers in ecstasy NIRVANA
5 Soldier pulls loudly TOMMY TOES
6 Does he get chiefs? KEN MASTERS
7 A Jackson for a Price? JOE JORDAN
8 Short, sneaky, bohemian pub for the first ramadan SLARTYBARTFAST
9 Confound STUDYFORM
10 Sugar coats BABYCAKES
11 Get Odds GT
12 Is able to start again on lines son CANARYBOY
13 A noisy state after field PADDY MAYNE
14 I am in returning pub. Initially ale is missing LIAMCOL
15 Game of crcket inside the outside of bail BODIL
16 Bygraves and Harrington MAX AND PADDY
17 Tartar Tsar? BLACKJACKKING
18 Politician accepts award for marine TOBERMORY
19 Crazy, short Nina. MADSIMON
20 Fiddleless Piddle for maximum. Thanks no german heard JIMMY69
21 Unstarted Poem ERSE
22 Join funds for starting clubs first POOLFC
23 Otherwise I love French ORIOLES
24 Cam driver? con man. PUNTERFLEECER
25 Cat kiss? "Thanks" I start before the canines return. TOM PETTY IS GOD
26 Fat maid story BIG CHARLIE
27 Lynch the thieving gent first BETMAN ROBBING
28 Useful with hotel mint. ANDY MURRAY
29 Southern class in gateshead. From Atlantis? SCREAMINGFORMBENEATHTHEWAVES
30 2.59 or 1.58
[/pre]

I've only done the above so I can see if I can understand where the clues are drawn from. I'm finding in most cases that I can't. :D

i'm happy to explain any if you wish dk. as i said before, it doesn't matter how smart (or stupid) you are, cryptic crosswords are nigh on impossible if you don't know the rules, and it is nigh on impossible to learn the rules without anyone telling you. I was lucky enough to have a mother who does cryptics and taught me many of these (admittedly v. daft on a number of occasions) rules. Could maybe get one or two right when i first started DT crossword about 13 years ago. Now I finish it about 50 percent of the time.

Numbers 1,3,4,5,8,9,11,12,14,18,19,23,25,26 and 29 are ones I can't decipher, even knowing who the forumite is. Poor I know. I dare say if I got
into cryptic clues I'd slowly become better. Could you explain just three of those numbers? Would be grateful. Thanks rob :)

123 or 222? hmmm

Understand 29 now.

gateshead is nice (the clue that is), not seen that before.

221 sparkmaster

Ah.

Some great clues there. I'd disagree though, that there are rules...I think there's really just one...it has to make sense.

Evens is club SLB
(Even numbered letters of "is club". A bit sh.it this one as the sentence
didn't really make any sense aside from the cryptic bit)

"Polly" singers in ecstasy NIRVANA
(Another pretty cr.ap one. Polly was a song by NIrvana, and Nirvana means
ecstasy)

Soldier pulls loudly TOMMY TOES
(Soldier = Tommy, pulls = tows, loudly indicates that it sounds like "tows", though
not necessarily spelt that way)

Aaah, they sound so simple when they're explained. I can see them easily now. :^0

Thanks again rob.

Was once a time when there were a few cryptic quizzes about, and one person got them with absolute ease it seemed. Either Andy Murray, liamcol or gleeman, or a quizzer rarely seen. Very impressive whoever it was.

As I said, I think Ken is v.good at them. As is sparky. And according to this thread, though I hadnt noticed before, so are Andy Murray and Paddy Mayne

Ken Masters is very sharp. Not an eager quizzer though it would seem. In the first Pass It On quiz he picked up points quite well for not being online a lot (assume he comes on at work, while the PIO thread saw more action during the evenings).

And that's just reminded me of Parallel Flange Channels. :^0

that was my question dk!!! That really made me, and everyone else i think, laugh. He was in there like a flash, was a v.quick answerer, shame he doesn't bother with quizzes anymore. That first one to 100 quiz was great fun, I think people really enjoyed it thoughit took over some peoples lives for 10 days or so. The second one just didn't take off for some reason, I resurrected it at the weekend and still no interest.

I love that he almost definitely knew it because of its rude connotation, rather than because he knows construction terms. I half-expected him to get it IIRC!! Excellent.

have we got the last one then?

Can someone explain 9 please?
And any clues on the missing one, quizmaster?

I am struggling with 9 as well DS. Understand the 'found' for 'form' but cant make 'Study' fit for 'Con' :(

I can't get any of them. I didn't even get PoolFC :(

Pool, you're not alone.

There was one in my name, I didn't get it either.

Join funds (POOL) for starting clubs first (FC)

PaddyMayne - con = study (a meaning of the word con = to get to know, to study, especially by repetition), and Found = Form = (as in the verbs to found = to form)

for 30, I am trying to think if there is a forumite called BackOrLay or something similar.
can't think of any tictac for the odds equivalent of 2.59 or 1.58. is it around 13/8?

13-8 is 2.625

1.61 is 8-13

No, I meant I understood it once I saw the answer, but I'd never have got it myself

billy hill 18 Nov 12:19
PaddyMayne - con = study (a meaning of the word con = to get to know, to study, especially by repetition), and Found = Form = (as in the verbs to found = to form)


Thanks billy.. I have never heard that definition before! Just looked it up, and to be fair it does say 'archaic' ! :D

Big Char Lie
Fat Maid Story

Not the best of a generally impressive bunch,

30 = 2:59 or 12:58

I will post the answer before 10pm tonight. No doubt to a chorus of boos, though I thought it was a good one. Not Guardian/Independent/Times class imo, but there you go.

30. is timeform

no it isn't

sevenone

Is 30 maybe DStyle?

as in 'Digital style'?

no no

30 2.59 or 1.58

off out now, so here is the answer:

2.59 equals one to three. how do you get from one to three? treble
12.58 equals two to one, which of course is treble your money.

So the answer is..... TREBLE

ffs

:)

positively4thsteet 18 Nov 19:15


30 2.59 or 1.58

off out now, so here is the answer:

2.59 equals one to three. how do you get from one to three? treble
12.58 equals two to one, which of course is treble your money.

So the answer is..... TREBLE

THATS THREE DAYS OF MY LIFE I,LL NEVER GET BACK :(

16 NOV 23:30 post by the way I did correct the clue - it is 12:58 not 1:58 as I just posted, I copied from too early in the thread :(
.

would have been a struggle even with the odds as the clue

there were decimal points the first clue, and colons the final time