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It would be nice ifthere were some rythm to keep us awake!
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Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Just wondering if anyone else has an all-time favourite clue ...
Mine is this (pretty sure it was by the late, great Mass and featured in an Independent daily a few years ago). It's not particularly hard but it's very neat:
Keats and Yeats did, but don't. (5)
Hint: it doesn't follow the usual wordplay+definition/definition+wordplay pattern.
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RHYME?
My favourite: "GEGS (9, 4)" (as seen on "Drop the dead donkey")
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It was, indeed, "rhyme" - it had me baffled for half of the day and kicking myself for the rest of it.
Thankfully, I didn't get quite as apoplectic as dear old Henry on being told the solution to "Gegs"!
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That was an excellent show - even today it still works, despite being topical to it's day.
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It's been a while since I saw it, but while it trumpeted topicality as its USP, it really worked on the basis of writing a show and then squeezing a handful of topical references in at the last minute which gave it the stability of a regularly produced show and should mean that it doesn't date too badly.
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There are quite a few clips on youtube: The Teddy[^]
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Yes, but what's the answer? I was certainly a fan of DTDD but totally bamboozled by that clue.
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SCRAMBLED EGGS
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Henry did not respond as peacefully!
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I went to the recording of the first episode. Told all I knew about the new show and that it could be a real hit.
veni bibi saltavi
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You lucky sunshine!
I'm really rather jealous, which isn't like me at all.
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Aha! Viands - as in VI "and"s.
That took me a while.
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From The Daily Telegraph, many years ago.
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Ah, the good old days! When it used to take longer than 5 minutes to do the Torygraph crossword.
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The Scottish gentleman texted his gratitude to the Parseltongue speaker and gave us a killer bunny! (5, 6)
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Why am I thinking White Rabbit ?
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Because you are on completely the wrong track?
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Ok
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner.
You are up Monday.
Care to explain?
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Monty = Scottish name
parseltongue = people that speak to snakes (harry potter)
monty python did the killer bunny sketch
That's how I got it. Not sure about the intricacies like 'texted'
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Close enough:
The Scottish gentleman MON
texted his gratitude TY
to the Parseltongue speaker PYTHON (Snakes and Harry speak Parseltongue)
and gave us a killer bunny!
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