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Yeah, but that's cheating - and it ignores the clue(s) and hint(s) give in the original. For example, the characters are usually carefully chosen to represent the word in some way.
For example, one I posted a while ago:
CLOUD (5)
The symbols spell "cloud", and the colour they are in is called "azure" - hence the answer was AZURE because Microsoft Azure is Cloud based.
And so, on with the motley! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: the colour they are in is called "azure"
You have been married for way too long. For me that is still blue.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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d@nish wrote: For me that is still blue
Ah...but it isn't! If you look at the CSS / HTML, you see it's color code is #007FFF and Wiki will tell you:
In a RGB color space, hex #007fff (also known as Azure) is composed of 0% red, 49.8% green and 100% blue.
So Blue cloud would be:
CLOUD
while mine was:
CLOUD
See what I mean? Sometimes it's worth looking a little deeper into my clues!
Is that a hint? I dunno...
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Not sure if you noticed joke icon. 
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Check the 'O's. 
I ain't got no signature.
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Care to elaborate? I see no problem, but I may have missed something.
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Time for next hint
cheers,
Super
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Second up.
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Score are Phone
cheers,
Super
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While they are indeed words, they aren't the droids we are looking for: 0B7W
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That second hint is a bit bold... 
TIMES NEW ROMAN
(and it works with a lot of other fonts too!)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You are genius. 
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Congratulations - you are up tomorrow!
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Let me first be down today...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Have you seen how well Trump is doing in the US?
If that doesn't get you down, not a lot will... 
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Who the f* Trump is?
I was talking about a nice napping...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If you don't know, then treasure your ignorance, and do not attempt to find out!
Sleep tight! 
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The reason I put it all in TNR, was to get the word counts in TNR without being too obvious. 
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Got it in a few seconds after reading hint 2.
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Quote: Starting without a bull, then reduced by 1000, is totally without direction (7)
Solution: AIMLESS
Staring without a bull = artificial insemination => AI
1000 =M
reduced by = less
totally :. all together AI M LESS
without direction: Aimless
modified 29-Feb-16 5:48am.
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Aimless ?
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I didn't get the ai part and I don't think it's strictly true as there's obviously a bull involved somewhere but well done
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: reduced by 1000
That was a rather sneaky clue! I discarded the idea of AIMLESS as I really took this as the removal of the K (or M) charachter...
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I agree "without bull" was very tenuous and not anything I've come across in a crossword before ( and I've been doing them a looooong time )
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