The lastone to go was a personal favourite of mine and made oh so sweet when the person involved even posted on the thread to complain that he had not been included.So piece by piece.
9) Two horses enter gambling city and lose their direction whilst finding steps. (8)
Horse= gg so 2 horses =gggg Gambling city is Reno. so 2 horses enter reno gives us gregnogg.
Lose direction normally refers to removing a letter representing a compass direction in this case N Whilst finding means a substitution so N comes out and is replaced by a member of steps H Giving us greghogg.
Ok not the easiest clue in the world but it did make me smile
Nice 1 Talon good work, I was way off with (9) tho. Probably the easiest clue of all if you just picked up ggs. Teddy was so close lol Posted by a00rock
It is the essence of the cryptic. If you think the right way in the clue then they become easy. But if you think in the wrong direction then the easiest clue can become impossible to you. Glad you enjoyed them. Was good to have some fun on the forum for a change
Bit of a struggle doing more due to running out of forum regs. Need the relevance to make it interesting. Will see what i can come up with Posted by Talon
The lastone to go was a personal favourite of mine and made oh so sweet when the person involved even posted on the thread to complain that he had not been included.So piece by piece. 9) Two horses enter gambling city and lose their direction whilst finding steps. (8) Horse= gg so 2 horses =gggg Gambling city is Reno. so 2 horses enter reno gives us gregnogg. Lose direction normally refers to removing a letter representing a compass direction in this case N Whilst finding means a substitution so N comes out and is replaced by a member of steps H Giving us greghogg. Ok not the easiest clue in the world but it did make me smile Posted by Talon
Nice one. I actually got the gg gg bit plus loss of direction stuff but was working around 'vegas' which obv was wrong and stumped me.
Great work Colin and also a00rock for getting Jeff Stelling. That one was really bothering me.
As for GregHogg, I'm annoyed I didn't get that one as I had the 'two horses' down as gg and gg and understood the direction clue, so really should have got it from there. I got hung up on the gambling city being Vegas. That was the problem.
Just spotted Maxally's post who got to the exactly the same spot.
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The lastone to go was a personal favourite of mine and made oh so sweet when the person involved even posted on the thread to complain that he had not been included.So piece by piece.
9) Two horses enter gambling city and lose their direction whilst finding steps. (8)
Horse= gg so 2 horses =gggg
Gambling city is Reno. so 2 horses enter reno gives us gregnogg.
Lose direction normally refers to removing a letter representing a compass direction in this case N
Whilst finding means a substitution so N comes out and is replaced by a member of steps H
Giving us greghogg.
Ok not the easiest clue in the world but it did make me smile
I did dream about Gregghogg last night !
(that doesn't sound right does it) :-))