Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. The Lounge
  3. CCC 28/10/11

CCC 28/10/11

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Lounge
xml
23 Posts 7 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • B Brady Kelly

    I have started attempting the daily Star newspaper cryptic, but the setter seems a lot less technical than you. Often the clues are not 'enoded' as yours are, but simply obscure clues, like "Backing raised during game (7)" is "support"; or "Thrown from plane and tossed on tides (10)" is "jettisoned".

    H Offline
    H Offline
    hairy_hats
    wrote on last edited by
    #11

    Brady Kelly wrote:

    daily Star newspaper

    Oxymoron.

    B 1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • H hairy_hats

      Brady Kelly wrote:

      daily Star newspaper

      Oxymoron.

      B Offline
      B Offline
      Brady Kelly
      wrote on last edited by
      #12

      How so? OK, you don't see stars during the day, but that's only very tentatively relevant.

      H D L 3 Replies Last reply
      0
      • B Brady Kelly

        How so? OK, you don't see stars during the day, but that's only very tentatively relevant.

        H Offline
        H Offline
        hairy_hats
        wrote on last edited by
        #13

        I had the Daily Star down as more of a red-top rag full of gossip than a newspaper, but maybe I'm maligning a fine, upstanding member of the British press.

        OriginalGriffO B 2 Replies Last reply
        0
        • B Brady Kelly

          How so? OK, you don't see stars during the day, but that's only very tentatively relevant.

          D Offline
          D Offline
          Dalek Dave
          wrote on last edited by
          #14

          Brady Kelly wrote:

          you don't see stars during the day

          Wanna bet?

          ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

          A 1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • H hairy_hats

            I had the Daily Star down as more of a red-top rag full of gossip than a newspaper, but maybe I'm maligning a fine, upstanding member of the British press.

            OriginalGriffO Offline
            OriginalGriffO Offline
            OriginalGriff
            wrote on last edited by
            #15

            Nope. You are right with the gossip rag bit.

            Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
            "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • B Brady Kelly

              How so? OK, you don't see stars during the day, but that's only very tentatively relevant.

              L Offline
              L Offline
              Lost User
              wrote on last edited by
              #16

              The Daily Star in the UK is aimed at people whose reading skills are, shall we say, not too advanced.

              Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman

              H D 2 Replies Last reply
              0
              • H hairy_hats

                I had the Daily Star down as more of a red-top rag full of gossip than a newspaper, but maybe I'm maligning a fine, upstanding member of the British press.

                B Offline
                B Offline
                Brady Kelly
                wrote on last edited by
                #17

                I deliberately used all lower case for the word "daily", excluding it from the newspaper's name. The Star[^] is a high quality South African daily newspaper.

                H 1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • B Brady Kelly

                  I deliberately used all lower case for the word "daily", excluding it from the newspaper's name. The Star[^] is a high quality South African daily newspaper.

                  H Offline
                  H Offline
                  hairy_hats
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #18

                  Ah, OK. :)

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • L Lost User

                    The Daily Star in the UK is aimed at people whose reading skills are, shall we say, not too advanced.

                    Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman

                    H Offline
                    H Offline
                    hairy_hats
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #19

                    And for whom "Domestic pet that purrs (3)" would be a CCC.

                    L 1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • H hairy_hats

                      And for whom "Domestic pet that purrs (3)" would be a CCC.

                      L Offline
                      L Offline
                      Lost User
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #20

                      "Rottweiler" is only 3 letters?

                      Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • L Lost User

                        The Daily Star in the UK is aimed at people whose reading skills are, shall we say, not too advanced.

                        Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman

                        D Offline
                        D Offline
                        Dalek Dave
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #21

                        From 'Yes Prime Minister'... Hacker: "Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is." Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?" Bernard: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."

                        ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

                        L 1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • D Dalek Dave

                          From 'Yes Prime Minister'... Hacker: "Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is." Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?" Bernard: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."

                          ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

                          L Offline
                          L Offline
                          Lost User
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #22

                          Always entertaining, and reputedly, Margaret Thatcher's favourite program.

                          Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • D Dalek Dave

                            Brady Kelly wrote:

                            you don't see stars during the day

                            Wanna bet?

                            ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

                            A Offline
                            A Offline
                            AspDotNetDev
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #23

                            I definitely see star; not sure about stars. :)

                            Somebody in an online forum wrote:

                            INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            0
                            Reply
                            • Reply as topic
                            Log in to reply
                            • Oldest to Newest
                            • Newest to Oldest
                            • Most Votes


                            • Login

                            • Don't have an account? Register

                            • Login or register to search.
                            • First post
                              Last post
                            0
                            • Categories
                            • Recent
                            • Tags
                            • Popular
                            • World
                            • Users
                            • Groups