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Mark.
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Post by Jnyusa »

No, it's not 'mark.'

Wow, I didn't think this would be so hard. It has a little twist of meaning, a double meaning in it, like yours did. Think laterally as well as literally. :D

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:scratch: hmmm... puts tiggerty thinking cap back on.
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FIRM ?
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Teh TIGG got it!

:hooray:

'Firm' is correctomundo.

(The second clue was to be read "tough; with customers")

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Post by vison »

Argh. Tough with customers? I suspect "firm" is right.

I do crosswords every day, but right now my mind isn't working since I got so bent out of shape over this clue:

"Start of knitting."

That was the clue.

Drove me absolutely bats.

I will very likely never forgive the author of the puzzle in which that clue was contained.
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Post by Jnyusa »

Is the answer "the letter k?" =:)

Actually, there is some name for that first row of slipknots on the needle ... casting? or something like that.

So TIGG has to come up with another one, or I believe that both Lidless and myself have another one on tap. (Mine is really hard :P ) Or maybe vison can ask us to solve the one that stumped her ... but we have to know how many letters and whether there are other letter-clues already available.

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You 'cast on' the stitches to start knitting. :)
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Jyn,

I know you have one on tap and my mind is befuddled. so test away.
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Post by Jnyusa »

OK :D

Maybe this will be easy and obvious, but I think it's proably hard.

SPURIOUS NUMBER PUZZLE ( 8 )

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This reminds me of a joke we used to tell in school:

"I'm trying to solve a crossword puzzle. The clue is 'The Postman lost his bag'"

Then you wait for someone to say "How many letters?"

And you yell out "Loads of them!!!!"

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In other words I haven't a clue about Jnyusas one (but I got "scrambled eggs" on the first try)
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My Mum does crosswords all the time and there's a family joke about a puzzle she did many Christmases ago where she filled in the squares to make "stnicholas".

She sat there fuming and fuming, wondering what the hell "stenicholas" was, pronouncing the "ch" in Nicholas not as "k" but "ch" as in church. I looked over her shoulder and pointed it out to her and she had a good laugh, seeing only the letters and not really reading the word. Hard to explain, I guess ya hadda be there. :rofl:

As for "start of knitting" I shall let it be for now. Oh, it was 7 letters.

And I'm still steaming about it.
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Tupping?
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Needles?
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Casting?

Not a clue on Jny's.
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Knitting begins with a "Silent K" ?

Jny's doesn't jump out at me though.
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Post by vison »

Alys got it: the answer was "silentk".

Now if that's not wimping out and being cheesy on the part of the author, I don't know what is. Nothing in the clue to indicate that it was two words or anything of that nature.

Jeez. :rage:
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Post by Jnyusa »

They should tell you if it is more than one word. Though I've done puzzles that gave not a single courtesy and all kinds of foreign languages were game. Those puzzles are no fun. :(

Clue to mine above: the answer is a play on words. ;)

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Post by Jnyusa »

Gaaa, Slackers!

OK - you need a better clue (or a new puzzle)

If this were a real puzzle, we would have some intersections from the one's we already solved, so ....


Liddy's solution: his first letter = my second letter
My first solution: does not intersect at all.
vison's solution: her seventh letter = my seventh letter


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