Jeez.
No.
Crossword clues
You know, I think I might have steered everyone wrong. This word is not a common word, but it is a real word in the English language. It seems to be about one thing when it's really about something else.
The word is "noisome", meaning smelly. Only people think it has something to do with sound.
Was my clue "smelly items?" I can't find my original post.
Noise + some.
Sorry.
I feel as though it's all my fault.
The word is "noisome", meaning smelly. Only people think it has something to do with sound.
Was my clue "smelly items?" I can't find my original post.
Noise + some.
Sorry.
I feel as though it's all my fault.
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No, it was "cacophonous items", and your second clue mentioned smelliness, so I translated "cacophonous" as "sounds like shit" (which is what it means), and thought that was the smelliness you meant.Was my clue "smelly items?" I can't find my original post
I still don't get where the "items" come in in "noisome" (which is an adjective) or in "noise" and "some" which aren't items, either.
Yes.I feel as though it's all my fault.
Glad we settled that.
ROFL, Parma!
but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
oh Vision... 
Noisome, yes I can see where it comes from and its not your fault at all
the question mark after items told me it was 'multiple'.
' item' was debatable,
and smelly, well thats what threw me because my tiggery brain isn't set up for puns and has never used 'the big people word' noisome before.
next clue...
Noisome, yes I can see where it comes from and its not your fault at all
the question mark after items told me it was 'multiple'.
' item' was debatable,
and smelly, well thats what threw me because my tiggery brain isn't set up for puns and has never used 'the big people word' noisome before.
next clue...
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Well, in my own defense, "items" are "things" or "some things", is where I was going.truehobbit wrote:No, it was "cacophonous items", and your second clue mentioned smelliness, so I translated "cacophonous" as "sounds like shit" (which is what it means), and thought that was the smelliness you meant.Was my clue "smelly items?" I can't find my original post
I still don't get where the "items" come in in "noisome" (which is an adjective) or in "noise" and "some" which aren't items, either.
Yes.I feel as though it's all my fault.
Glad we settled that.
ROFL, Parma!
Yes, cacaphony was in there on purpose: since noisome means smelly. And cacaphony means, among other things, noise. So there you are.
I will be good, I will be better next time.
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I like that!Yes, cacaphony was in there on purpose: since noisome means smelly. And cacaphony means, among other things, noise. So there you are.
I wouldn't have guessed it in a hundred years, but that's cryptic crossword for me.
Yes, that's what I meant - none of the words in the solution is a "thing" - but never mind.Well, in my own defense, "items" are "things" or "some things", is where I was going.
Maybe just "cacophonous" would have been even better?
Not that I'd have guessed it then.
But as has been amply shown, my idea of cryptic clues is a bit off the mark, I'd better let Aravar or Parma decide that.
Seeing how good you are already, that'll be frightfully good!I will be good, I will be better next time
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Mixmaster...
Dang! One letter too long!
Dang! One letter too long!
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Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
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And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
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"Kitchenaid" is worse by one letter.
And "Waring" and "Oster" are too short.
Zis man, he is . . . nefarious.
And "Waring" and "Oster" are too short.
Zis man, he is . . . nefarious.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
