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anax
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 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:04 am Post subject: Contest #003 - ONCE UPON A TIME |
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An interesting challenge? Let's see what horrors can be elicited from this one:
ONCE UPON A TIME
Best of luck!
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penfold_61
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Where are the results for Elephant and Afraid? |
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AngryVocab
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Come: on Petunia! Another way to start a fairytale? (4,4,1,4) |
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anax
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| penfold_61 wrote: | | Where are the results for Elephant and Afraid? |
Only had chance to add the new challenge this morning. This evening - hopefully - I'll get chance to go through the Elephant / Afraid clues. Apologies for the delay with these, which are down to two factors; being away for the Easter break, and an odd phenomenon on my home PC - following the clue-writing contest links actually takes me to entirely the wrong forum! Crazy but true. A long time ago I began to set up a forum for the raceway photography, and abandoned it. Somehow, the server host (BestFreeForums, which is frankly rubbish) has managed to re-write the Times COD clue-writing thread links so I get sent to the non-active raceway forum. Yet this problem doesn't exist on my work PC. Baffling!
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glheard
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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OK, so I'm in a particularly sick mood today... here goes less than nothing...
Fairytales often start with ejaculate from the rear after an awkward pounce. (4,4,1,4)
Wordplay: (POUNCE)* ON,A (EMIT)<=
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7dNigePun
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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This one, though not risque, comes with an unconditional apology...
Basket of fruit for a quid. I'm hearing that's a fabulous starter (4,4,1,4)
"Oncer punnet I'm" |
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anax
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| 7dNigePun wrote: | | "Oncer punnet I'm" |
Any more puns like that, I'm calling the police ;o)
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7dNigePun
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Begin a story with how often and where a dirty magazine reader masturbates (4,4,1,4) |
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penfold_61
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe Sleeping Beauty's opening for horrible nonce to aim up with huge end (4,4,1,4) |
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boxwood
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: ONCE UPON A TIME |
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Not touching the cheeks, came in open mouth, making a fairy tale start (4,4,1,4)
(came in open mouth)*, omitting sides of (m)out(h), i.e. the cheeks |
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CycleClips
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Turning queer I mount a ponce and come finally - that might start a fairy story
[Anagram + (com)e] |
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anax
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Results will be here later tonight.
This was an unexpectedly difficult one - big and hard, you might say. After a long struggle (admittedly, with no reference works to hand) best I could find was:
Seaman in pants came out nine years ago? (4,4,1,4)
P.O. (Petty Officer) in CAME OUT NINE* ("pants" is anagrind).
Sounds ruder than it is!
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anax
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: THE WINNER |
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This was a real horror - unexpectedly so. Not surprising there weren't too many entries.
I'd originally placed glheard's clue at the top of the list but, on closer reading, found myself unable to parse the "ON A" segment of the answer. Maybe I'm just being a bit thick?
For now - fingers crossed the above will be better explained - I've gone for penfold_61's:
Maybe Sleeping Beauty's opening for horrible nonce to aim up with huge end (4,4,1,4)
OK, not the smoothest surface in the world but it conjures up all manner of distastefulness. This clue just edged it, I think, over the offering from CycleClips which I particularly liked because it held the "batting for the other side" imagery in both wordplay and def.
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glheard
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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no, it was awkwardly clued, I had originally meant it to be implicit that on was a part of the answer, on reflection I could have made it into an anagram. There are many reasons I'm not a setter, this is three of them.
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