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posted 26-03-2008 16:29
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Following on from Hofzinser's thread on the last OTF, which was meant to last one Friday but which has now been going for weeks.
It's all about creating a chain of cryptic crossword clues. Playing the game consists of setting a cryptic crossword clue, which must contain the answer to the last clue. (You can't carry on from your own clue, of course: only from someone else's.)
So, the last answer was THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK, and I think we were at:
Stout fighters for autonomy get backing of author of The Good Soldier Svejk, and destiny intervenes (4,5,1,4)
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posted 26-03-2008 18:56
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Ah, excellent. I going to get this started up again but I missed the last clue before the old board was vanished away.
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posted 26-03-2008 18:56
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Fate takes a hand before his case is resolved (8)
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posted 27-03-2008 11:02
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Struggling a bit with this one.
By contrast, today's Guardian crossword is the easiest I can remember in quite some time.
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posted 27-03-2008 11:06
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Lachesis, for example, with her Cockney offspring, sang Scottish folk songs (5,8)
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posted 27-03-2008 11:08
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You see, I was looking for anagrams of r+his case and l+his case, but was hampered somewhat by never having heard of lachesis.
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posted 27-03-2008 11:12
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No, me neither, but I looked up the Fates on Wikipedia. I thought that was a really neat (in both the UK and US senses) clue.
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posted 27-03-2008 11:13
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Or a really tidy one (in both the Welsh and English senses).
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posted 27-03-2008 11:39
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I must somewhat shamefacedly admit that I first became aware of Lachesis because it's the name of a track (one part of an, if you will, trilogy) on the first Emerson Lake and Palmer album.
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posted 27-03-2008 11:58
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Distressed Moira Anderson, rains abated, is abandoned (8)
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posted 27-03-2008 12:29
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Marooned with decapitated sweethearts so scraps eaten later (9)
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posted 27-03-2008 13:08
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Purveyor of leftovers from town in Indiana becomes clear-headed (4,6)
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posted 27-03-2008 14:42
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I failed with classical mythology, but my campaign to get Tubby onto this thread continues apace.
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posted 27-03-2008 14:52
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Although you got the last answer *slightly* wrong...
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posted 27-03-2008 14:59
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Oh, that's true. I'll edit - it makes my clue read a bit better anyway.
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posted 27-03-2008 18:23
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My last-post-but-one was intended as quite a big hint, by the way.
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posted 27-03-2008 20:22
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Players like Gary Sobers bring everything to the game (3-8)
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posted 27-03-2008 21:30
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It's not all rounders first in team for this county (8)
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posted 27-03-2008 21:37
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My mind's my own in Somerset (8)
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posted 27-03-2008 23:05
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Minehead? It gets love! Plymouth? The best! Barnet? A bit old fashioned (6)
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