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TOPIC: Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 26-03-2008 16:29

 
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

 
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

 
Fate takes a hand before his case is resolved (8)
 
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posted 27-03-2008 11:02

 
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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#960
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 27-03-2008 11:06

 
Lachesis, for example, with her Cockney offspring, sang Scottish folk songs (5,8)
 
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posted 27-03-2008 11:08

 
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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#963
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posted 27-03-2008 11:12

 
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

 
Or a really tidy one (in both the Welsh and English senses).
 
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posted 27-03-2008 11:39

 
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

 
Distressed Moira Anderson, rains abated, is abandoned (8)
 
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posted 27-03-2008 12:29

 
Marooned with decapitated sweethearts so scraps eaten later (9)
 
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posted 27-03-2008 13:08

 
Purveyor of leftovers from town in Indiana becomes clear-headed (4,6)
 
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posted 27-03-2008 14:42

 
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

 
Although you got the last answer *slightly* wrong...
 
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posted 27-03-2008 14:59

 
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

 
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

 
Players like Gary Sobers bring everything to the game (3-8)
 
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posted 27-03-2008 21:30

 
It's not all rounders first in team for this county (8)
 
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posted 27-03-2008 21:37

 
My mind's my own in Somerset (8)
 
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posted 27-03-2008 23:05

 
Minehead? It gets love! Plymouth? The best! Barnet? A bit old fashioned (6)
 
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