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01:47
that's a blowout
02:24
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Q: ive thought of this a few months ago

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05:23
How is this only 4 letters but I'm still not breaking into it
i was thinking toledo area could be ES (spain) and the answer something like ELMS (since buckeye is a type of tree) but i don't see it working
05:39
buckeyes game could also be an animal that's hunted in ohio (although i guess it should be buckeyes' game with an apostrophe)
i was also sure there's a city called toledo in mexico but i guess i have it confused with something else... surely it would be on the wikipedia disambig page
05:56
@Jafe yeah that's the problem
06:43
I'll just invent a game called "oled" that's extremely hazardous
07:01
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Q: phonetic encryption

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08:10
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Q: curious inflection of English words

msh210 The agent-noun form of lingerie is frank. The present-participle form of military actions is lying. The past-tense form of sheep is permanent. The past-participle form of six-pack is urn. Unfortunately, someone has mix-and-matched these four statements. Some or all of them should combine a for...

 
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09:43
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Q: Sum of quadrisection points

simonalexander2005If you take x squares, and arrange them in a grid such that they form a larger rectangular shape (with no remainder), you get a number of points where four squares touch (this number may be 0). For example, 6 can be split up as follows, for 0, 2 and 2 quadrisection points respectively: □□□□□□ □□...

 
1 hour later…
10:58
Apparently rugby and water polo are also sports of the Ohio State Buckeyes, just not sponsored (and hence not listed in the list I linked earlier)...
@oAlt huh… you, of all people…
:O
Ah, I think I got it
Ohio's state mammal is the white-tailed deer, so if the people of Toledo, Ohio are into hunting, that might be Buckeyes game, too. (Strangely, that deer is also known as Virginia deer, but it isn't among the various state animals of either Virginia or West Virginia.)
(But let's hear oAlt's answer ....)
((Just have to figure out this remaining loose end))
Ok here we go
11:15
(drum roll)
@msh210 Might this be Cebu (Toledo area), with a "Buckeyes" game implying an anagram of "Buckeyes" since a game implies activity, without KEY (crucial) S (safety, in American football) = BUC(-key)E(-s)*?
@oAlt precisely so (except that I meant the adjective meaning of "game")
@oAlt Well played
@msh210 ah, as in "willing and able to participate"?
In any case, thanks for the nudge :)
@DanielS thanks
CCCC: Football club operating from Zion, IL, near a net (14)
INTERNAZIONALE*
11:25
@DanielS ye
CCCC: Play UK isle together with Kent. (3, 3, 8)
@DanielS Man and Superman (play) = MAN (UK isle) + AND (together with) + SUPERMAN (Clark Kent)
@oAlt Yes indeed!
CCCC: Italian region leaves declaration of love behind as it was written (6)
if the enumeration was (3) this would be SIC(-ily)
11:38
ILY = I LOVE YOU
yeah
but i don't think the converse (sic + ily) works
what would the leaves... behind be doing?
hm maybe behind as in following?
leave ily behind sic = sicily?
@Jafe yup! your turn
@Jafe yeah that one
CCCC: Harry Potter wants the D (5)
12:15
@oAlt oh, no, not that one, I meant like in "a game ankle" — injured/lame
ohhh
heheh
@msh210 TIL
13:01
@Jafe Hen(d)ry
@msh210 Nice!
yeah, a well-done clue
Aha
argh should have waited a bit more hehe
that's right
CCCC: Harry, the title character of the first Harry Potter film (5)
(and no, the answer is not HARRY ddef)
surely there's a person named Harry Stone
@oAlt apparently so, but not my intention :-)
13:27
i was thinking GHOST ddef (the film ghost with a famous pottery scene) but don't seem to find a ghost title character named harry
chances are it's actually a film by someone named potter, possibly sally
"harry, the title" could be DUKE or PRINCE which are both enumerationally challenged
@Jafe I believe Prince Harry signs or used to sign his name Harry Wales. Fwiw.
oh yeah i read about that
i think he had to pick a surname for the army
Dennis Potter comes to mind
@DanielS Frequently?
14:10
the only other person you might be able to consider a title character would be the philosopher (or sorcerer if you're a filthy american like me) but NICOLAS and FLAMEL are both similarly enumerationally challenged
but I do think it's more likely to be "potter film" as surely a title character of the film would be the same for the book
14:21
@msh210 TROLL?
@DanielS yes indeed. (Ddef, for those following along at home.)
Nice find.
ahh
CCCC: Winter play. (5, 3, 4)
A MIDSUMMER NI— wait, no, never mind
@DanielS After the Fall ddef. Cute.
@msh210 Correct! And fast too.
14:27
CCCC: Play head to head (4,4)
KING JOHN
Cute right back at you
with what wordplay, for the record?
JOHN = TOILET = HEAD
yeah
well i had almost finished reading the clue
3
14:29
CCCC: Play created America back-to-front. (7)
MADE USA back to front -> AMADEUS
@Jafe Correct!
CCCC: Play, delay, avoid. (7,3,5)
@Jafe waiting forgo dot :-P
that's right!
14:36
ooh
Nice!
ah, the ol' dot trick
CCCC: Maybe Sam is the lead (written-for-teens play) (5,5)
uncle + van + YA :)
15:14
@juicifer I'm all for that. I just didn't realize that was acceptable.
 
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16:59
@Jafe coitainly
or do I mean soitainly? whatever
çoitainly
17:15
CCCC: NYC punks hang out – year wasted (6,5)
 
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20:01
yep
20:51
CCCC: Play's principal? (6, 5)

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