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12:42 AM
@GentlePurpleRain yeah that's a question I've been thinking about too... I'd consider it wordplay since the two things being clued are not the same
@msh210 your C4 is seeking (after) = See king ("Pope?", i.e. the head of state of the Holy See)
 
 
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3:00 AM
i'd think of it as worplay as well, which means only one part has to follow the normal definition rules
as in the current c4, you couldn't have the enum as 3,4 because a See king is not an actual thing that exists with that name... but as wordplay See+king is completely valid
nice construction, that, btw
but even if both sides would be valid definitions i'd just pick one enumeration that makes more sense
 
3:24 AM
@Stiv :D
 
@Jafe right I forgot to consider this. and yes nice short clue... loved the a-ha moment
 
 
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5:30 AM
@oAlt yep! and thanks
 
5:44 AM
CCCC: Is a commissioned officer in possession of a flavoring and a preservative? (4)
 
6:34 AM
@oAlt 's Lt. in possession of a = salt
 
@msh210 yes, that's the correct one
although a bit different parsing was intended
's + a + Lt where "in possession of" is a wp-def connector. But yeah, feel free to take the next one
 
6:59 AM
ah
 
7:16 AM
CCCC: Something in my kitchen's stimulated defter gaming. (6,6)
 
@msh210 FRIDGE MAGNET = DEFTERGAMING*
 
@Stiv precisely so
 
Just the one though?
 
Well found; that went quicker than I'd anticipated. I mean, it's just a simple anagram, but still the combination of letters (-ing not appearing, one g become soft with a d before, the f combining with the r,…), the slang "fridge", and the fact that a fridge magnet is not the first thing one usually thinks of when considering things in a kitchen — all made me think it was a pretty hard anagram to find. So, well done.
@Stiv As it happens, I currently have one. But even if I had more, one of them is still something in my kitchen.
 
i thought it referred to the most popular guy at the appliance store
 
7:30 AM
Lol
 
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7:48 AM
Ah, then I had an advantage as a Brit, where it's very rare to hear it called anything other than a 'fridge' - plus it's the biggest thing in the kitchen so readily came to mind!
 
to be fair we don't know what msh210 has in his kitchen so the answer could have been like HOMING PIGEON or whatever
 
8:08 AM
CCCC: Shelter from banter? No way - just look at it a different way! (6)
 
8:25 AM
Nov 16 at 15:13, by oAlt
Yeah this is a sign I should go back to my homework lol
 
@Jafe I do have one but, because I didn't expect you to know that, I wouldn't have clued it that way. Now that you know, though,…
 
 
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9:52 AM
@Stiv this could maybe be (HAN + GAR)<, a type of shelter
 
@Jafe This absolutely is that, well found :)
 
cool!
i said maybe because i don't think i've heard rag in that sense and there are so many words for "shelter"
 
Yeah, I figured I'd probably have to release hints for that one, so well done for finding it without
 
CCCC: The result of this wordplay is "Yo, go serious! Y'all are in deep trouble!" (4,5,2,6)
 
10:04 AM
@Jafe Your goose is* cooked
 
that's right
 
CCCC: Perhaps I put off reading a Kipling poem. (8)
 
"perhaps I" is clearly PIGEON-OWNER, since we know that now!
wait, that's not 8 letters
 
But PIGEONER is... (*Definitely a real word)
Or if one 'has been pigeoned': PIGEONEE
Finding it hard to see 'PIGEON' as a real word now...
 
perhaps I = MAN, put off = DELAY, somehow e->a and it's MANDALAY, a kipling poem
 
10:16 AM
Well, if you want to have a serious answer...
@Jafe I think you need "MAN DELAY" with 'reading' being a 'sounds like' indicator
 
ahh yeah that must be it
think i'd say one with an /ə/ and one with /ɪ/ but that might be a) accent-dependent or even b) just wrong
 
@Stiv there you go
@Jafe I think it's (a).
 
Jafe was pretty much there
But I'll take it if you don't want it?
 
yeah go ahead
 
Ok sure - one sec...
 
CCCC: Opposed fun cattle run (9)
 
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11:35 AM
@Jafe yeah same
 
12:19 PM
fun fact: when the owners of the gap travel to london, the announcements on the tube tell them to mind their own business
4
 
Ha!
 
12:35 PM
Hah, if only I got that faster
 
 
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4:43 PM
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5:05 PM
@Jafe I'm a little late to the party, but I pronounce MANDALAY and MAN DELAY identically in my Canadian English.
 
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5:22 PM
@Stiv RELUCTANT*
 
@GentlePurpleRain Exactly right
 
CCCC: Song acknowledges I made up layabout sovereign (4 4 9)
 
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5:45 PM
@GentlePurpleRain GOODKINGWENCESLAS*, an anagram of "song acknowledges I"
 
Agh, and I was so sure the definition was "song"... well I guess both ends of the clue are valid definitions lol
Nice spot also, I abandoned too quickly the idea of "acknowledges" being part of an anagram
 
yeah I originally thought "song" was the definition and we were going to get an anagram of "acknowledges I" laying about a sovereign (king)
obviously that didn't quite work but when I went to see what letters were missing it was pretty clear what was going on
 
6:02 PM
@juicifer Yeah same. I thought "layabout" would be a containment indicator and not actually "a lazy person". I also though the last word would be "Christmas" as it had Christ, a sovereign, in there, but it got me nowhere because the "mas" part wasn't promising
 
6:42 PM
@juicifer That's correct.
I purposely tried to make it look like "song" was the definition. I also made sure that "layabout sovereign" had the same number of letters as the answer.
(King Wenceslas was not a layabout, though. It was intended to be a little deceitful and mean "lay about sovereign" (song about king).)
Not sure if that's legit, but I guess it kind of worked either way anyway.
 
7:21 PM
CCCC: Wordplay for serifs on top of a number? (6 2 4 5 2 4)
 
 
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11:38 PM
@juicifer ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH (serifs = “seraphs”)
 
@DanielS spot on
 
CCCC: Carol feels steadied after being shaken. (6, 7)
 

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