Reply With QuoteHe has reached the age of majority.
Nope.
Commoner is impatient, note.
He has reached the age of majority.
Aw c'mon blokes
After his broken-winged, homonymous partner left in the eighties, he took to ready reckoning.
Mr Curta?
No other! Over to you.
Complete clue about cleverest point
Originally Posted by SimonK
Im feeling stupid...can you explain the Mr Curta clues please.
I've looked at those clues several times and given up! Doh!
I get the second (Mr./Curt/a)
And the fourth (Mr. Mister reference, although a Curta isn't really a ready reckoner)
But the first and third have me stumped.
Last edited by Mr Curta; 6th December 2016 at 21:06. Reason: Can't count, and you would think if anyone could...
solwisesteve
Yup, all yours!
Brave finish before Scot.
Your wish is my command
Dog in a strange streetcar: dog = cur, strange streetcar = anagram of tram
Commoner is impatient, note: Commoner = Mr., impatient = curt, note = a
He has reached the age of majority: an auxilliary clue to lead you to Mister
After his broken-winged, homonymous partner left in the eighties, he took to ready reckoning: Mister Mister were eighties popsters with the hit 'Broken Wings', a Curta is a device for performing rapid arithmetic calculations, seems like a mechanical ready reckoner to me.
Confuse nude regarding weather.
These are both standard cryptic clues, containing part definition and part wordplay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypti...tic_clues_work
The only bit missing is the number of letters, so:
Brave finish before Scot (6)
Confuse nude regarding weather (6)
Endure?
You are quite correct! Your turn.
Ta! Hopefully quite easy:
Learner perhaps nearing lofty ambition
Learning to fly?
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Yup, all yours!
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Yup, all yours!
At last. One that isn't beyond my intellectual capacity!
Clue no 1: telepathic renunciate
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
SimonK?
Well played Sir !
Clue numero deux was going to be :
Simple -
Special -
over to you .....
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Cheers! So:
Turn regarding wind master
Gag morse perhaps?
Goregasm?
That's the one. Over to you...
Sorry all.
Where were we...
Small settlement - for example, a Roman residence.
Village?
Well played!
All yours.
Sunk by a blue sub
Tms?.
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Yep, not one for the crossword solvers...
The first, closely followed by the twenty fourth
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
AlphaOmega?
Sharp shooting gunner
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Taking candy from a kitten
See...I knew that one. Damn the rules!
Nope, baffled, another clue perhaps?
robcat
^Sounds like it could be the right answer... not sure though.
Correct. Apologies for the delay.
Sorry for the delay, let's try to get this up again. Clue:
Half a tick
Splitsecond
Bingo
Sweden's favourite Spaniard?
Sancho Panza?
Nope
Didn't think so, but I did discover that "Sancho Panza" was a song by by the Swedish pop group Hello Saferide.
Kiki Picasso?
?
M
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