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Jafe

00:20

isn't the lowercase word usually spelt mic anyway

CCCC: Mile run in error (8)

juicifer

00:51

@Jafe in my experience yeah

@Jafe mi sprint

nice one; "mile run" is a good find

1 hour later…

Jafe

01:59

correct!

and thanks

juicifer

02:16

CCCC: Un-American performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show? (3 4 2)

Jafe

not like US ddef!

juicifer

@Jafe yep! :)

Jafe

now how do i work in janet jackson to continue the theme...

Jafe

02:51

CCCC: May twice penned document (after start of WWII, and present) with very old saying (5,6,1,4,6,1,3)

juicifer

gotta start with JANET JACKSO N

Jafe

jackso sounds like a valid aussie name

"oi, jackso! have you seen davo? he wasn't at johnno's"

6 hours later…

Stiv

09:06

@Jafe Oof, this is WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY (old saying) = W(-wII) + HERE (present) + THERESA (May) + WILL (document) + THERESA (May, twice) + WAY (very) = 'penned' implies containment between the two uses of Theresa May (ex UK PM)

Jafe

correct!

Stiv

Nice use of Theresa, and to conceal it by putting the capitalised 'May' at the very start of the clause...

CCCC: Doctor is straight-talking (and uncomfortably intense) (12)

1 hour later…

oAlt

10:28

@Jafe i mean as the NATO codeword

oAlt

10:47

@Stiv frank + enstein*

oAlt

11:13

I probably misunderstood the message... Yes mike in my experience is certainly less common than mic. I use mic always

Stiv

@oAlt Yep!

oAlt

CCCC: British hit with moving walls and UV trail as a clue (7 8)

Daniel S

@oAlt VIRTUAL INSANITY reverse cryptic for UV TRAIL

oAlt

11:39

@DanielS correct!

Daniel S

CCCC: 6 grand frames. (2, 7)

Stiv

12:28

@DanielS Hah, this is 12 MONKEYS (frames=movie) since 6000 (6 grand) = 12 x £500, where £500 is a 'monkey' in Cockney rhyming slang.

Daniel S

12:50

@Stiv It is indeed.

oAlt

13:23

Interesting units

Daniel S

@oAlt It gets more interesting, did you know that a Commodore and an Ayrton makes a Pony?

Stiv

CCCC: Lie about popsicle double entendre? (8)

oAlt

14:10

@DanielS oh wow, TIL all of them (relevant link for the others)

juicifer

14:51

@Stiv lolly gag

oAlt

Sep 19, 2024 at 8:53, by oAlt

That's a word??

Stiv

15:40

@juicifer That's correct

bobble

15:52

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Sphinx

16:05

Q: Can we always get to less than 5 black squares?

Consider a 4*4 grid whose squares are colored black or white in some arbitrary pattern. In a single operation, you are allowed to choose a row or a column and change the color of all the squares in that row or column (from white to black and from black to white). You may repeat this operation as ...