Fiat Coupe Club UK
Cryptic Wednesday
Posted By: AndrewR
Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 09:55
Because I'm lost on the music lyrics (most of the time) I thought I'd set up a rival 'quiz' for the crossword buffs out there. Below are 5 cryptic clues, the first person to get all 5 is invited to post their own.
The last person to post to the thread before it runs out of interest (i.e. very soon) wins their own weight in self-esteem.
1. Everybody on the ship is confused (3,2,3)
2. Oh, godfather, I messed up. Will this make me feel better in the morning? (4,2,3,3)
3. Striker in game of football? (5)
4. We hear Edward is diminished and lacking direction (8)
5. Misers try charm; the wrong way to provide a seasonal greeting (5,9)
Best of luck, please feel free to Google if you think it will help.
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 09:59
2 - hair of the dog
5 - merry christmas
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 10:02
Are anagrams your forte, Barnacle?
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 10:28
1/ all at sea?
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 10:33
Yes, well done.
Posted By: ali_hire
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 10:36
3. Match?
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 10:38
Indeed.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 10:46
Headless?
('edless')
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 10:49
Someone else continue - I am teaching now.
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 12:39
I'm not usually too bad at anagrams, Andrew. I had 'all at sea', too, but I couldn't make it fit the clue in a way that felt complicated enough...
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 12:40
Nobody? Then I'll go again.
6. As Christmas Day begins one's weight in Church? (8,4)
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 14:08
Midnight Mass
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 14:08
midnight mass
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 14:08
Aw c'mon Mark, gimme time to *read* it!
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 14:14
Sorry, next time I'll have pudding!
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:16
Was that the clue?
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:20
Nope, but something that could have delayed me getting back in front of the computer by the seconds barnacle needed.
Going with your thought, though
Lawyer's pudding (4,8)
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:41
Just desserts
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:50
ding !
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:50
Headstone mix-up could be serious (5,5)
Posted By: stan
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:51
Grave error?
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:53
Nice one, Stan. It's all those years practising on The Sun cryptic in your squad car, with the radio turned off, isn't it?
Posted By: stan
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:55
Yup!
Television alpha numeric conundrums? (9)
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:57
Countdown
And the first time I typed that I missed the 'o' out ... which would have made it a very different programme indeed.
Posted By: stan
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 15:57
Ding dong! (For the correct spelling!)
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 16:04
Lend the norm, but not up to scratch (11)
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 18:07
substandard
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 18:13
Countdown
And the first time I typed that I missed the 'o' out ... which would have made it a very different programme indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq8ZHIHxF5A I said nothing.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 18:25
Initially, you ate my sweet potato.
Easy one.
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 18:46
Yam
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 18:50
yes. go on.
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 19:03
Before taking to the road prove one can tee-off (7,4)
While we're on a particularly good one came up in The Telegraph a few weeks ago...
Anti-mass movement (8)
Posted By: magooagain
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 19:10
driving test
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 19:16
Well done.
Posted By: magooagain
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 19:21
Satanism
Posted By: magooagain
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 19:32
Reduction in status of the French movement. 8
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 19:33
retreat (damn only 7)
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 19:58
Demotion
Posted By: magooagain
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 20:24
Yep,away you go then Andrew
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 20:41
Do these help us spot an argument? (9,5)
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 22:23
Is it quotation marks?
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 16/12/2009 22:34
No.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 17/12/2009 15:45
different/ing views?
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 17/12/2009 23:55
No.
Sheesh, I go a tiny bit self-referential and it throws everybody.
Posted By: Brewster
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 00:52
I go a tiny bit self-referential
Egotistic pr!ck?
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 07:13
<Roy Walker>
It's a good guess, but it's not what we're looking for.
</RW>
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 10:50
reference point
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:10
Double sheesh.
Somebody else have a go now.
Posted By: magooagain
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:15
Sarcastic posts
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:18
Double sheesh.
Somebody else have a go now.
I was thinking of the second word, so halfway there!
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:19
Costly covering, we hear, for an animal's family. (6,3)
Just made that up!
Posted By: magooagain
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:25
Wealth Tax ?
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:26
nope.
Posted By: ali_hire
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:37
Ignore me, too many letters.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:38
Negative
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:43
Sorry - mistake. Let me make it better.
Costly covering for an animal's family, we hear (4-4), or (8).
Posted By: ali_hire
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 11:49
I was thinking along the lines of something to with fur but now I'm completely thrown.
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 13:06
Sealskin
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 13:09
D'Oh, was I being thick or what? Deerskin.
Posted By: magooagain
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 13:14
How are we going to get it if the clues wrong
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 13:54
Do we get sore feet if the clues wrong? (3-5)
(gimme a break; that's my first cryptic clue!)
Posted By: magooagain
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 14:41
Not right
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 15:35
Nope!
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 19:27
Cut heels.
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 19:58
And the trifle with a cherry on top goes to the man in Northumberland!
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 20:39
"See you!", said a policeman (6)
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 21:31
copper
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 21:33
Ding!
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 18/12/2009 22:47
No seasonal bread? Virgin stirs heartsick scams (10,4)
Posted By: came2dance
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 19/12/2009 00:30
Christmas Cake
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 19/12/2009 08:52
Someone else's turn; I'm out for the next week or so.
A merry auxiliary gifting period one and all, said Tiny Tim!
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 19/12/2009 09:00
Arrange to cry or sing, bob, and you could become famous. (4,6)
I'll make it easier then.
Arrange to cry or sing, bob, and you could become as famous as your co-star. (4,6)
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 20/12/2009 14:48
Come on - I've made it easy.
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 14:15
Bing Crosby?
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 14:26
Possibly the slowest answer to a clue ever...
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 14:27
I've been thinking about it.
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 14:38
I could tell!
Posted By: ali_hire
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 14:39
Must have been a long year.
Secrety glad the thread has been resurrected though. Your turn.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 14:43
Once the penny drops, place becomes unbalanced? (8)
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 14:56
See you in January 2012
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 15:10
Doppelganger is an ex campanologist? 4,6
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 15:10
Wait up there! I haven't verified the answer yet!
OK, proceed
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 15:12
Doppelganger is an ex campanologist? 4,6
Dead Ringer
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 15:16
A campanologist's job reminds me of something. (5,1,4)
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 15:23
Rings a bell
Posted By: JimO
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 15:24
A full stop to all these campanologist clues (4,3)
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 15:34
Dead end
or Bell end....
(sorry mods)
Posted By: JimO
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 15:35
Second one
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 16:01
Once the penny drops, place becomes unbalanced? (8)
Have we forgotten about this one? I'm still working my way through a list of all 8 letter words.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 06/01/2011 16:12
Once the penny drops, place becomes unbalanced? (8)
Have we forgotten about this one? I'm still working my way through a list of all 8 letter words.
i'll make it easier - replace 'place' with 'town'
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:13
Give in - what's the answer?
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:19
Unstable (Dunstable - with out 'D' for penny)
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:24
Very good.
Still your turn, then.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:28
ok - how about ( a bit contrived I'm afraid!)
Open University pact, combined with Electronic Fuel Injection, provides style and paranoia? 4,5
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:32
FIAT coupé
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:34
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:36
A *bit* contrived?
How about "I face up to problems, Italian style".
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:38
How many letters?
coupe fiat perhaps?
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:40
Which car brings us to...
Express success with a rusting coolant mess (15).
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:41
congratulations?
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 11:53
Indeed!
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 07/01/2011 12:36
These cars are excellent, but it's a job to double their value!
think of what people look for when wanting to buy!
C R
(7,11)
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 01:10
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 08:05
ah. Didn't realise it was linked to the previous Fiat Coupe answer!
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 09:09
A grave with initial interment ceremony is baffling (7)
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 11:12
cryptic one that..!
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 11:16
Indeed.
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 11:18
Do I detect a spelling mistake, Andrew, or is that part of the clue?
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 11:19
Speeling mistook?
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 11:28
makes no diferense...
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 11:48
Shallow?
I'm rubbish at these....
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 12:14
No spelling mistake I can see. Anyway, SimonCoupe your turn.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 12:48
Hat for the hood? (6)
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 12:53
Bonnet
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 12:58
A daily jumble of cardinals with writing material (9)
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 13:00
newspaper...
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 13:04
Too easy. You have another blast.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 21/01/2011 13:08
Underworld welshman is women's work? (7)
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 14:06
OK, I reckon 2 years is long enough to think about this ... I give in.
Posted By: Roadking
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 15:03
OK, I reckon 2 years is long enough to think about this ... I give in.
You give up easy, Andrew, I'm still thinking..
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 15:09
Shall we work together on it?
Posted By: Roadking
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 15:34
You may do better by yourself
Posted By: PeteP
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 15:42
(Rachel) Trezise.
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:01
It's still got me stumped. Can't make any sensible word out of Dai + hell.
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:03
Thanks, Pete, but other than her being a Welsh woman how does that fit with the clue?
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:04
It's still got me stumped. Can't make any sensible word out of Dai + hell.
Well I thought the "woman's" might be "hers", but then that didn't get me any further forward.
Posted By: PeteP
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:09
I cheated Andrew and looked up "underground welshmen" on google/'bing which came up with
this Granted, it does seem a bit tenuous.
Posted By: Emjay
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:14
It's "women's", rather than "woman's", so I am assuming some anagram of laundry, cooking, washing, etc.
Taff and 'ell, almost gives you fellate, if that helps.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:19
Ironing.
A friend of mine is called Ron...and he's welsh and a bit of a gangster.
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:42
Ha! Got it!
Underworld = Dis
Welshman = Taff
Dis+Taff = Distaff; of, or concerning, women!
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:44
Thanks for the "Taff", Emjay. I'd considered 'Dis' for the underworld, but had always paired it up with Dai. D'Oh!
Posted By: ali_hire
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:48
Is now a good time to point out it's Thursday?
Posted By: AndrewR
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 16:54
And also 3 years, 1 month and 8 days since this thread started.
Posted By: Roadking
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 18:11
almost gives you fellate, if that helps.
Are you being sexist, Mark? That's not necessarily women's work. Nowadays anyway
Post number 4999...
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 18:20
Underworld welshman = Michael Sheen?
Posted By: barnacle
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 19:02
Er, I think Andrew answered it a few posts ago!
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 19:38
Not in a way that I understood.
Posted By: PeteP
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 20:04
A Dis is a ghost or spirit, ie of the underworld, James.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Cryptic Wednesday - 24/01/2013 21:26
Thanks Pete, the dots are now connected.