Thread: my cryptic crossword number 2

i hope this taxes you slightly more



Clues across

1. Heathen's pot contained silver (5)
4. White lie about Hoover's mob (3)
6. Newsmen rose about note free diet (7)
9. Drunk man in Siam has no memory of being drugged (7)
10. Urge to straighten endless coca sheets (9)
13. Another claim about value (3)
14. Any Scottish lake is barmy or is that balmy? (7)
15. Dopes and dazes Arctic son (9)
17. Capital 'O' reveals lover boy (5)
19. Useless writer moved back in it (5)
20. Spring tide in the bayou theatre (5)
21. Admirer of wrinkled gonad does dance (8)
22. A riot about a flyer to the slaughter (8)
26. The Dinar is...Saddam was (5)
28. In the flowing moats are some tiny bits (5)
29. Monthly article on ancient empire (5)
30. Dark horse had a bad nap. (9)
31. Headless goat took dinner feed (7)
34. Green but battle back (3)
35. Dogged bastard ate cousin (9)
37. State of the angry old sod (7)
38. Two pets I recycle and use in the lab (7)
39. A boat for a Yank (3)
40. Kicked out of necessity we are told. (5)



i'll do the across ones at half time

1ac Pagan

4ac FBI

6ac Editors

9ac Amnesia

10a inept

Clues Down

1. Tacky mixed fruit (5)
2. Don is a mellow fellow (9)
3. Horrid stinking nitrogen....does a pig live in it? (5)
4. Throw about relative and show off right now (9)
5. Irate since little Dennis ballsed up (8)
6. Old lover crept aimlessly into passage (7)
7. Add up count down (3)
8. Call for help to briefly protect our spirits (3)
11. Meets about warm environment (9)
12. Poem sounds like a good way to greet a pigeon. (5)
16. Footballer louis moved swiftly...like the Tuareg (7)
17. Collar Ian, the brute (7)
18. Wanker abused action sin. (9)
23. Granting number one is in my debt. (9)
24. 'O' devoured....give me breath (9)
25. In the county, few relax any other way. (8)
27. Gas about orange missing its vitamin (5)
28. Sea dweller initially a bit of a hermit. (7)
32. Take dubya and tease him. (5)
33. The boy Ed filled the vessel (5)
35. Cock forward, knock back (3)
36. Beat a King with it? (3)

39a tug

Originally Posted by NickA

9ac Amnesia

10a inept

cock off....i'm busy


1/2 west brom
how long does alardyce have?

34a raw

31a oatmeal

Fib rather than fbi.

can you do me a favour and quote all your correct answers when answering another one

easier for me to upgrade the grid that way

you can write the next one too

Originally Posted by somtamslap

Fib rather than fbi.

it's FBI

2d godfather

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

can you do me a favour and quote all your correct answers when answering another one

how do I know they're correct until you say so?

fukk it

this is like cooking

takes hours to prepare and minutes to consume

Originally Posted by NickA

2d godfather

no....



that sort of works though

3d nasty

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

that sort of works though

it fits the g and is the right number of letters and fits don, but nowt to do with mellow fellow

5d incensed

you can do the next one

it's trial software so you can't publish or copy and paste or even print the fukker unless you pay
really good software but i can't find a torrent with a crack

you can populate the grid yourself with dictionary options and then set about writing the clues

if i had real friends i'd give it to them to do

2d Gentleman?

can we have an updated grid please? I'm getting lost trying to remember all the letters

gentleman is correct

Originally Posted by NickA

can we have an updated grid please? I'm getting lost trying to remember all the letters

stop answering til the end of the west ham game and i'll sort it

really need an updated grid now cos I'm on page 2

35a tenacious

27d groan

8d SOS?