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05/02/06 10:31 PM GMT
Does anyone else like cryptic crosswords??

Let's find out...

1. Deb reverses into baby sheep with no tail, causing chaos (6)

2. Open curtains and finished sketch (5)

3. Cabinetry containing chalice and wooden plank (8)

Have fun...
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::LynEve
09/10/18 11:45 AM GMT
9) Partly
(as in political party crossing over the "l" which I see as a line, I think !)

8) Needless
(needles = pointers)
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::LynEve
09/10/18 11:48 AM GMT
5) Ruin (?)

(Run, around the 'i' for island and ruin is a wreck, so maybe add an s to make ruins)
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+purmusic
09/10/18 8:49 PM GMT
Well done, Lyn.

All correct.

And thanks for the correction on 5).. forgot to put the number of letters required for the solution (5). It is indeed; "ruins".


Ok, still left to go, with some new ones:

* 1) It's cheap sort of imitation. (8)
* 2) Small library's first new title (6)
* 3) Cautious deployment of fur and lace. (7)
* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)
* 5) Prize taken from astrophysicist. (6)

! 6) Team turning on renowned inventor. (6)
! 7) American editor may be employed. (4)
! 8) Fed up with idle artists regularly turning back. (5)
! 9) There's nothing about mother following a beast. (6)


* These are your standard, straight ahead.. cryptic clues. Figure out/isolate the indicator words.. well on your way to solving.

! Indicator words play an important part, as always.. however, need to put on your thinking toques for this group. These might prove to be more challenging, methinks.
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+mimi
09/11/18 2:16 AM GMT
3) careful? fu (fur +l from lace? Cautious-take 'care'?


7)American = US Editor +ED USED!


5) asTROPHYsicist = prize! Trophy.


gah...my brain is exhausted. Haven't done these in quite awhile!!!
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+purmusic
09/11/18 1:07 PM GMT
Good good job, Mimi.

All three are correct.

Re: 3) Cautious deployment of fur and lace. (7)

"Cautious" is the definition.. and "deployment" suggests a sorting/rearrangement/"deployment" of the letters of "fur" and "lace" to give us the solution of: "careful".


Left to go:

* 1) It's cheap sort of imitation. (8)
* 2) Small library's first new title (6)
* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)

! 6) Team turning on renowned inventor. (6)
! 8) Fed up with idle artists regularly turning back. (5)
! 9) There's nothing about mother following a beast. (6)
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.Tootles
09/11/18 11:47 PM GMT
(1) Pastiche (anagram of 'it's cheap')
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+purmusic
09/12/18 1:25 AM GMT
Correct.


Left to go:

* 2) Small library's first new title (6)
* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)

! 6) Team turning on renowned inventor. (6)
! 8) Fed up with idle artists regularly turning back. (5)
! 9) There's nothing about mother following a beast. (6)
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+mimi
09/12/18 4:59 AM GMT
6) turning on = dissing?
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+purmusic
09/12/18 4:10 PM GMT
Sorry, incorrect.. please try again.

Hint(s): Re: ! 6) Team turning on renowned inventor. (6)
Solution: Edison

^ Pretty good good hint, eh?

:oD

Truthfully, I am not sure how this solution is arrived at.. "turning" suggests flipping a word related to "team" and then adding "on".

So.. "side" flipped = "edis" + "on" = "Edison"

(*shrug*)

Where's Sam when you need him?


Left to go:

* 2) Small library's first new title (6)
* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)

! 8) Fed up with idle artists regularly turning back. (5)
! 9) There's nothing about mother following a beast. (6)


And recall..

* These are your standard, straight ahead.. cryptic clues. Figure out/isolate the indicator words.. well on your way to solving.

! Indicator words play an important part, as always.. however, need to put on your thinking toques for this group. These might prove to be more challenging, methinks.
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::LynEve
09/13/18 12:54 AM GMT
Oh yes - Edison turned the lights on !!

2) Small = little which is title mixed up but what about the extra l. Not sure. But "little" fits.
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+mimi
09/14/18 4:12 AM GMT
8)fed up + irate which could mean ire? *stuck :(
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::LynEve
09/14/18 12:35 AM GMT
Mimi - ire - tire - tired ?
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+mimi
09/15/18 3:16 AM GMT
Think that might be it GE....
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+purmusic
09/15/18 5:23 PM GMT
Correct on 2), Lyn.

And then, the cryptic sleuthing duo of Mimi and Lyn.. knock down yet another one.
Good good work, you two.

8) Fed up with idle artists regularly turning back. (5)
Solution: Tired


Still left to go .. and .. some new ones:

1) What chickens are said to do at junction? (10)
2) Ignore troubled area. (6)
3) A ghoul's cooked stew. (7)
* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)
5) Annoyed fly may be heard. (4)

6) Hide cereal grabbed by crazy king. (8)
7) Obscure valley, by the sound of it. (4)
8) Right sort of stores for holiday locations. (6)
! 9) There's nothing about mother following a beast. (6)
10) Set off with small deposit. (5)

... ...

Here's some hint(s):

For one of the above.. I am 50% Hungarian (mom's side).

5), 6) and 10) <-- these are pur evil head scratchers.. but, entirely solvable. (<-- not a hint.. just the facts, ma'am)
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::LynEve
09/16/18 12:48 AM GMT
1) Crossroads (why did they I wonder)
2) Region (Ignore higgledy-piggledied)
3) Goulash (Hungarian of course, bring on the paprika ! :) )
8) Resorts
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+purmusic
09/16/18 7:52 PM GMT
All correct, Lyn. Nicely done.

Did the hints help at all?


Left to go:

* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)
5) Annoyed fly may be heard. (4)

6) Hide cereal grabbed by crazy king. (8)
7) Obscure valley, by the sound of it. (4)
! 9) There's nothing about mother following a beast. (6)
10) Set off with small deposit. (5)
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.Tootles
09/17/18 10:35 PM GMT
(9) ANIMAL

Nothing: NIL
Mother: MA
NIMAL 'follows' A
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::LynEve
09/18/18 12:52 AM GMT
@purmusic - did the hints help ? Hungarian certainly did. :)


5) Maybe Sore (or soar)(?)

Sore = annoyed, fly=soar. Don't know what is heard though.
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.Tootles
09/24/18 9:40 PM GMT
TBPM is wondering if the Puzzlemeister has been blown away by the winds in Canada.
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::LynEve
09/25/18 12:45 AM GMT
Or maybe someone gave a batch of cookies to munch through
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.Tootles
09/25/18 8:01 PM GMT
There was a knock at the door, and when Snowmusic went to answer, a little old crone stood outside holding out a tray heaped with big Imperial Cookies. Warm, tempting and gorgeous -- golden pastries topped with sparkling white icing, a red cherry on each and every one. Snowmusic wasn't to know this, but they were not baked in any mortal kitchen! Instead they had been brought into the world by the old crone's dark arts. One had evil black poison lurking at its heart, but you'd never tell if you studied it for a hundred years.

"A cookie for the amazing Puzzlemeister?" wheedled the old crone.

"My favourite!" exclaimed Snowmusic. Forgetting the dire warning from his seven brothers not to open the door to strangers, he chose the biggest and best cookie from the centre of the tray, one that glistened like a slice of sweet winter, and bit into it.

In an instant he fell to the floor in a swoon, and, cackling madly, the old witch disappeared.

Fortunately a good fairy, who just happened to be floating past on a pink cloud, saw what happened and was horrified. She had one spell left -- luckily -- so twirled her wand, which had a twinkling star on top, and turned Snowmusic's fatal swoon into the deepest of sleeps.

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I reckon that's what happened. :-/
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::LynEve
09/29/18 12:36 AM GMT
Think you may be correct :) Must be still sleeping
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+purmusic
01/23/19 6:39 AM GMT
Correct on 5) and 9).


Left to go.. and some new ones:

1) Sea sweeping back over cold Greek hero. (8)
2) Head start I'd concealed. (3)
3) Roam with a stove. (5)
* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)
5) Warned of related changes. (7)

6) Hide cereal grabbed by crazy king. (8)
7) Obscure valley, by the sound of it. (4)
8) ! Material that did not stand out? (5)
9) Explosive sausage. (6)
10) Set off with small deposit. (5)

... ...

Bonus clue time!!

11) Greet wild bird. (5)

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You guys are sllllooowwwwwww ... my cat could have solved all of these by now, not me.. my cat ... and I don't even have a cat.
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+purmusic
01/23/19 10:51 AM GMT
Re: Lyn: "5) Maybe Sore (or soar)(?)

Sore = annoyed, fly=soar. Don't know what is heard though."

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"heard" refers to, or, is one way to refer to ... a homonym for the solution.

As you.. ahem.. outlined above.

;o)
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::LynEve
01/24/19 12:45 AM GMT
(2) Hid
(6) Goatskin (oats is hidden within King)
(11) Egret (Egret = wild bird which is greet jumbled)
(9) Banger (slang term for sausage)
(3) Range (?)
(5) Alerted (related jumbled up)
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+purmusic
01/24/19 9:09 PM GMT
All correct, Lyn. Good good job.

:o)


Left to go:

1) Sea sweeping back over cold Greek hero. (8)
* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)

7) Obscure valley, by the sound of it. (4)
8) ! Material that did not stand out? (5)
10) Set off with small deposit. (5)

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Hint(s): 4) is still hanging around with a couple of others from before ... this is a straightforward cryptic clue.

There.. are a couple of indicator words that are important, and then that of sleuthing out the synonyms.
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::LynEve
01/25/19 12:38 AM GMT
(7) another word fir valley is vale which sounds like veil which means to hide or obscure so my guess is
VEIL

(Or am I just being a heel . Lol )
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::LynEve
01/25/19 12:53 AM GMT
(1) sweep back = arch.
Cold = chilly

Maybe ACHILLES ?
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+purmusic
01/25/19 5:32 AM GMT
Re: 1) Sea sweeping back over cold Greek hero. (8)

"Sea sweeping back over cold".. A .. chill(cold) .. es

"Sweeping back".. or, "sea" spelled backwards and just so that it envelopes "chill" to produce the solution of: Achilles.

Correct.


Re: 7) Obscure valley, by the sound of it. (4)
Solution: Veil

There's that "by the sound of it" stuff again.. indicating a homophone for the solution/answer.

Correct.


Left to go:

* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)

8) ! Material that did not stand out? (5)
10) Set off with small deposit. (5)

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Hint(s): 8) is really clever, in my opinion.
And.. evil.

And.. that question mark is there for a reason.
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::LynEve
01/25/19 6:29 AM GMT
(8) haha I have it.. I know about fabrics lol. I sew.
It was not standing so maybe sitting. Was not out so maybe in. Was evil so may be Satan which sounds a little like satin. Sat In . But......what is the significance of the exclamation mark ?
Satin.
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+purmusic
01/26/19 8:00 PM GMT
Correct on 8), Lyn.

:o)


Left to go, and some new ones:

1) Saint has to go on horseback or walk with big steps. (6)
2) Looked deeper, perhaps. (6)
3) Flooded by a laundry. (5)
* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)
5) It's the most expensive, darling. (7)

6) Tool seen in small insanitary dwelling. (6)
7) Beg for change in net rate. (7)
8) * Run away from pudding, *say. (6)
9) Let heat sort out a sportsman. (7)
10) Set off with small deposit. (5)

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Hint(s): * "say" can indicate a homophone for the solution.
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::LynEve
01/26/19 9:48 PM GMT
8) Desert

5) Dearest

1) saint = St. Ride on a horse
Put St on ride to get stride = long steps.
Stride

6) small insanitary dwelling could be a hovel. Add the S seen in small=
Shovel
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+purmusic
01/27/19 11:20 PM GMT
Correctomundo, Lyn.. on all.

Good good job, and..


Left to go:

2) Looked deeper, perhaps. (6)
3) Flooded by a laundry. (5)
* 4) Is getting in support to put up a fight. (6)

7) Beg for change in net rate. (7)
9) Let heat sort out a sportsman. (7)
10) Set off with small deposit. (5)
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::LynEve
01/28/19 5:29 AM GMT
9) let heat. Sort it out or jumble it up and can get.......
Athlete.
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::LynEve
01/29/19 11:25 AM GMT
Haha, I just noticed- corectomundo - Happy Days !
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::LynEve
01/31/19 11:40 AM GMT
Well, it a bit cold and lonely in here and not a cookie in sight so I think I'll pop out and close the door behind me.
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04/12/19 3:59 AM GMT
If there are going to be people here posting on these things I will check in more often (than once a year :-P)
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04/12/19 4:01 AM GMT
4 - Resist
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7 - Entreat
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::LynEve
04/12/19 1:49 PM GMT
6. Peered

3. Awash

Once a year is never enough !
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04/17/19 5:57 AM GMT
(Peered would be for no. 2 I think)
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04/17/19 5:58 AM GMT
Left:

9) Let heat sort out a sportsman. (7)
10) Set off with small deposit. (5)
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04/17/19 5:59 AM GMT
9 - Athlete
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::LynEve
05/11/19 2:04 PM GMT
Yes Peered was meant to to be number 2
9 was solved back in January :)
10 I have no idea whatseover - set off suggests a trap or a shot or going for a walk to the bank with a deposit.
Shoot ?
Nah

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06/20/19 4:48 AM GMT
Stake has all the letters from set but don't see how ak relates to small.

Anyway, probably time we come up with some new ones I think.
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+purmusic
01/05/20 2:12 PM GMT
Left to go and some new ones:

1) Legal centre for solicitor. (5)
2) Company car is ordered for island. (7)
3) God with new thing that's sharp. (5)
4) Reluctant savers expect inclusion. (6)
5) Cushion concerning chaplain. (5)

Hint(s): ^ For these.. gonna need a spark or two of creative thinking to solve. Totally doable, though.. I have faith.


10) Set off with small deposit. (5)

Hint: ^ Yous are all wrong with your guesses so far.
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.LynEve
01/12/20 11:26 AM GMT
1. Licit
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05/15/20 1:29 AM GMT
2 - Corsica (Co + caris reordered)
4 - Averse (sAVERS Expect)
5 - Padre (Cushion = pad, concerning = Re)

Still to go - 3) God with new thing that's sharp. (5)

All I can come up with is "Razor". God = Ra but I don't think Zor = New thing!

All good clues, requiring a bit of thinking but not impossible.
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.LynEve
05/16/20 12:18 AM GMT
3) Thorn (?)
Thor + N for new, maybe too obscure.
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05/19/20 12:51 AM GMT
No I think you've got it.
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05/22/20 5:45 AM GMT
OK Let's have some new ones:

Direction fundamental for result (5)
Caress followed by brief acknowledgement of little importance (5)
Bird strikes give me the heebie-jeebies (10)
Unify and emerge after short show of hands (8)
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.LynEve
05/22/20 11:46 AM GMT
2. Petty
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05/31/20 5:22 AM GMT
Yes
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05/31/20 6:39 AM GMT
3. Goosebumps
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06/02/20 1:46 AM GMT
Correct!
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.LynEve
06/02/20 2:00 PM GMT
1. Movie ??
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06/04/20 2:55 AM GMT
Not movie.
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.LynEve
06/04/20 2:41 PM GMT
This is a very difficult bunch you have provided !! :)
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06/09/20 1:59 AM GMT
I think we're just out of practice :-)
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+animaniactoo
07/25/20 2:00 PM GMT
Brain thinking and thinking....
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=Samatar
07/27/20 3:24 AM GMT
(I can safely give hints for these as I don't remember the answers anyway)

Direction usually refers to N,E,S or W. And I'm guessing that + synonym for fundamental will give the definition "result".
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07/27/20 3:25 AM GMT
I think "show of hands" refers to vote or similar. And short would imply the last letter/s might be removed (from that word).
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::LynEve
07/27/20 12:27 AM GMT
Ive gone all round the houses for weeks with show of hands - applause, clapping voting.. Now I'm thinking along the lines of puppetry.
But . . . I'm getting nowhere :)
Or...maybe the show of hands is something relating to a card game ?
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::LynEve
07/27/20 12:35 AM GMT
Could the "Direction fundamental for result" be Point ?
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07/27/20 6:31 PM GMT
Lyn, if it isn't, it should be!
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07/27/20 6:32 PM GMT
8 - Election?
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07/31/20 11:39 PM GMT
I don't think either of those are right. Let me see if I can figure out what they were :-P
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07/31/20 11:42 PM GMT
OK I figured out number one. Follow directions I gave above. Shouldn't take more than 20 years to figure out!
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08/01/20 12:00 AM GMT
Stumped myself on number 4.Election kinda makes sense (show of hands = selection, shortened by removing one letter) but then the "and emerge after" is superfluous. But I've checked through all the synonyms for all 3 key words and nothing is setting off any light bulbs.
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08/01/20 2:43 PM GMT
Ok, I don't think I have 20 years to work out #1 though !.
Short show of hands connected to fortune telling (palm reading)perhaps ? mind is wandering off again
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08/02/20 1:53 AM GMT
That was a hint.
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::LynEve
08/02/20 1:14 PM GMT
Direction fundamental for result (5)

:) could be Dates - depending which direction is swiped ! Not that I'm in to Tinder you understand :)

But I think it may be "SHOUT"
South being the direction, and mix up the letters to get Shout, which can also be a direction , maybe. Oh I don't know, that has nothing to do with a result has it unless the result referred to means the answer. Furthermore I am confused by the 20 years

Oh.......... wait a minute - fundamental = core, add S gives Score, a score is 20 ! And a score is a result !

Tada !!!

Thanks for the 20 clue :)

Now tell me SCORE is not correct and I shall probably give up !

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08/02/20 11:38 PM GMT
SCORE is correct :-) And in exactly the way you described.
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08/02/20 11:41 PM GMT
Let's skip the last one since I can't remember the answer and make some new ones.
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::LynEve
08/06/20 1:29 PM GMT
Well without the 20 clue I certainly would NEVER have got that one.
Like most cryptic puzzles once the solution is there it makes perfect senses and is screamingly obvious.
As for the other it is driving me nuts. I wonder if the hands are clock hands.
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08/07/20 12:03 AM GMT
I posted it on a Facebook page with very clever expert solvers, let's see if they can figure it out!
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08/07/20 3:41 AM GMT
I think they solved it. I must have made the definition a antonym rather than a synonym!!! Looked at the wrong part of the page I guess!!!

So the definition Should have been "seperate". Not unite.

See if you can get it now.
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08/07/20 3:43 AM GMT
So to reiterate:

Separate and emerge after short show of hands (8)
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::LynEve
08/07/20 11:48 AM GMT
Manicure ?
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08/07/20 11:42 PM GMT
No. Definition is "separate".
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08/08/20 2:35 AM GMT

Actually I give up. On the grounds my sanity is diminishing :)
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08/08/20 2:15 PM GMT
Short is suggesting remove something - but i dont know what or from where.
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08/08/20 10:51 PM GMT
Fair enough I think :-)

"Pol - arise" was the answer.
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08/08/20 11:10 PM GMT
Of course it was !
So annoying when it's so obvious.
Good clue and answer.
Annoyed with myself as polling was played with but I was too thick to associate any of it with the definition which was given on a plate by you.
:)
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08/09/20 11:46 PM GMT
Wanna write some new ones so I can feel like the dummy now? :-)
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::LynEve
08/10/20 9:01 AM GMT
I would not have a "clue' where to begin.
Lol I'm clueless.
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08/11/20 2:14 AM GMT
OK I'll do some.

1. Artists tool made by headless groomer (8)
2. To her, it's an about turn (6, 2, 5)
3. Costly way to make tea (5)
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08/11/20 1:01 PM GMT
3. Steep ?
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08/11/20 11:32 PM GMT
Yes
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08/12/20 1:57 AM GMT
1.airbrush ?
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08/12/20 11:23 PM GMT
Two for two!
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08/12/20 11:25 PM GMT
3 is a twist on a common clue structure. Requires a bit of outside the box thinking.
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::LynEve
08/13/20 11:54 AM GMT
3. I think is beyond me. I'm thinking the 6 letters could be reverse or change..maybe there's an anagram hidden somewhere.
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08/14/20 1:41 AM GMT
I made a mistake in it. Forget that one. I'' post some new ones soon.
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08/14/20 2:35 AM GMT
Try this instead:

An about turn at her (6, 2, 5)
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08/14/20 12:25 AM GMT
At her = heart ?

Change of heart (?)
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08/14/20 11:56 PM GMT
Yes :-) Called a reverse anagram clue.
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08/16/20 1:09 PM GMT
I am not good at spotting clues. I love it when the light goes on though - like in that one as soon as heart showed itself the answer was there. I do find them very challenging and likely to send me round the bend (further than where I am now lol)
My mother loved cryptic crosswords. I hate crosswords full stop. And jigsaws :)
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08/16/20 11:17 PM GMT
I must have been listening to this at the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-apOt_UmHtk
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08/17/20 12:00 AM GMT
:) That is a bit of a blast from the past !
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