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HTFB · « **Reply #300 on:** December 27, 2013, 02:59:38 pm »

Quote from: HTFB on December 20, 2013, 07:56:08 am

Scrooge's attitude, say, during the Christmas story. (10)

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Two days into Christmas, fighting robin. (6,3)

Danish great-grandmother imprisoned by an evil wizard. (7) (NB: Google Translate may help non-Danes here.)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #301 on:** December 27, 2013, 08:31:57 pm »

Boxing Day

I'll keep thinking about the other.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #302 on:** December 27, 2013, 08:36:54 pm »

Oldemor

Wowbagger · « **Reply #303 on:** December 27, 2013, 08:43:17 pm »

Felines elevated? You've got a sauce! (7)

HTFB · « **Reply #304 on:** December 27, 2013, 09:36:54 pm »

Catsup is, etymologically, an early form of KETCHUP; but it's hardly Ximenean.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #305 on:** February 10, 2014, 12:12:57 am »

Preserve area, we hear, in the West Indies (7).

jsabine · « **Reply #306 on:** February 10, 2014, 12:57:32 am »

I got that very quickly (rare for me - I don't normally grok cryptic clues at all), but it took me ten times as long to work out how 'area, we hear' worked.

Groan ...

HTFB · « **Reply #307 on:** February 11, 2014, 09:23:09 pm »

Reserve after Junior admits alias, in the East Indies (7).

T42 · « **Reply #308 on:** February 12, 2014, 02:31:09 pm »

My wife's gone to the East Indies.
-----?
No, she went by paddle steamer.

Peter · « **Reply #309 on:** February 12, 2014, 02:32:48 pm »

Jakarta

HTFB · « **Reply #310 on:** March 13, 2014, 08:13:37 pm »

About turn! Left! About turn! Right! About turn! Rock! (5)

Peter · « **Reply #311 on:** March 13, 2014, 08:53:50 pm »

Uluru (aka Ayer's Rock)

I'll try and come up with one soon!

Peter · « **Reply #312 on:** March 14, 2014, 12:24:45 am »

Typical British weather (eastern) - topical (7)

Pingu · « **Reply #313 on:** March 25, 2014, 02:38:00 pm »

Nice theme in today's Grauniad cryptic

Peter · « **Reply #314 on:** March 25, 2014, 02:45:59 pm »

Answer the question!

citoyen · « **Reply #315 on:** March 25, 2014, 03:54:43 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on March 25, 2014, 02:38:00 pm

Nice theme in today's Grauniad cryptic

(Sorry, Peter, haven't worked yours out yet. But Pingu is right. Lovely.)

Peter · « **Reply #316 on:** March 25, 2014, 03:58:18 pm »

Ah, I only see The Guardian at the weekend. I'll have a look on line.

HTFB · « **Reply #317 on:** March 25, 2014, 06:29:32 pm »

Quote from: Peter on March 25, 2014, 02:45:59 pm

Answer the question!

UK-rain-E. But "topical" is a bit unximenean for my taste.

Pingu · « **Reply #318 on:** March 25, 2014, 07:04:50 pm »

A French poor girl covers up jumble. That's against our principles (10)

Peter · « **Reply #319 on:** March 25, 2014, 07:34:56 pm »

Quote from: HTFB on March 25, 2014, 06:29:32 pm

Quote from: Peter on March 25, 2014, 02:45:59 pm
Answer the question!
UK-rain-E. But "topical" is a bit unximenean for my taste.

How do you mean? In the sense that it is a clue that won't last? If so, fair enough - only I wasn't expecting it to take this long!

HTFB · « **Reply #320 on:** March 25, 2014, 10:54:35 pm »

More because "topical", though it's a word applicable to Ukraine at the moment, doesn't in any way define it.

Peter · « **Reply #321 on:** March 26, 2014, 12:10:52 am »

You're right, H, bit sloppy, that!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #322 on:** June 01, 2014, 01:00:34 pm »

Professorship after a Masters? Lewis's grass. (7)

Pingu · « **Reply #323 on:** June 01, 2014, 06:46:12 pm »

Machair

Wowbagger · « **Reply #324 on:** June 01, 2014, 07:21:52 pm »

Indeed. How's the conk?