Contact

9: prefix used to mean 'again' + a friend (6)

9: VTC "too broad"

might be time to pause on posting new clues and let Rubio solve some or fail to do so...

@GentlePurpleRain only too broad if there are multiple words that can be formed that way

is it alright after mentioning the number of letters?

contact 9

3:23 PM

In any case, that does not seem to be a valid cc.

(pause, sorry)

it doesn't claim to be a valid cryptic clue. All's fair in love, war, and Contact.

@Sid No one said it was a CC

invalid ccs are all the rage :)

2: It's not REVERSE

1: It's not REND

3:25 PM

tentative contact 4

pass on 4, not even a glimmer of a clue

2: no

4: reassurance?

4: nope, song is RE: YOUR BRAINS

:( no new letter...

3:29 PM

:( Never heard this song

9: It's not RE+ALLY ?

it is

2: It's not REAR or REARWARD ?

2: ✔

GameN

3:33 PM

yup, 1 was REND (thee in the gobberwarts)

ok I'll pass on 5, i really don't have an idea what this is looking for

RELEGATE(D)

(I am in love with the word GAMEN)

That's my guess too (relegation actually)

5: yep, RELEGATION was the form I had in mind

3:34 PM

I don't get it.

The last 3 clubs in PL are relegated to lower divisions.

If you go to a lower division, you were relegated

Rubio defending: R E L

hello

@BeastlyGerbil welcome!

3:35 PM

20 dies. It was REMIT(timer backwards)

Well yeah that would tend to require some knowledge of PL and its workings, which I have none of. Whatever :)

1. Nineteenth-century German poet

9: with respect to the other thing

Well I wouldn't discuss it before you knew what the answer was, for obvious reasons :P

9: It's not RELATED

3:36 PM

(I don't swear he isn't late 18-th century)

it is (I had 'relative' in mind)

2. Container for toenails, blood or foreskins, perhaps

PASS 2

seriously?

seriously

does that rapid pass mean I found your word?

I'm assuming

3:38 PM

Well. You can't really beat Gareth. :p

But no one else has any clue...

then perhaps I should rephrase it thus:

2: reliquary?

yup

yup. ✔

3:38 PM

woooo

shall I defend?

Please. :)

You shall.

We won! :o

no. gareth won ;)

ok, hang on a minute while I pick a word

3:39 PM

That was rather quick by Rubio's standards.

Someone always wins eventually.

not quite always

I think Gareth got lucky.

well, someone does

Gareth defending: A

I was shocked Gareth fished that word up at just REL ;)

3:40 PM

Hello Gareth and GPR

it always surprises me that more games don't end early

51: This

I mean, the level of obscurity you want is arguably similar for attackers and defenders

Sorry I was talking to someone about stuff

9: Newton's favorite fruit :p

3:40 PM

51 @Rubio attack?

contact 51

9 @manshu apple?

contact 9

Oh and Hi Gerbil

51 - no

3:40 PM

yes, apple

@rubio like that clue ;)

hi @npalum

I've lost too many letters to clues like this :)

Business Cat

contact 51

21. A certain type of placentation in plants

That's not my name :P

3:41 PM

ok, this is one of those things where all the attackers see something and the defender doesn't

Like "this"

21 @Sid not ANTHERIDIUM perhaps? (I know very little botany)

4: Muscle by itself is shellfish (7)

4 @GentlePurpleRain abalone?

No, not anthredium.(Anthredium is a lot different)

3:42 PM

That was too fast.

4: ✔

Selfish abs

1: Python castle

Oh that again >.<

I wish I remembered what the answer to that was from yesterday

hehe

3:43 PM

@Sid shame. Incidentally I know the word antheridium only because of a "printers' devilry" crossword clue I saw once. Something like: "Because he split tracts, Mrs Amin (10)". Inserting "antheridia" yields "Because he's pliant, her Idi attracts Mrs Amin". Anyway, on with the game.

Gareth will appreciate it

1 @Rubio anthrax

Contact 1

1: ✔

Oh well

3:43 PM

Ohhhh haha

2: Lava

2 @GentlePurpleRain aa

I might not know English but I do like my memory :P

Business Cat

contact 2

2: ✔

3:44 PM

I think contact 51 as well

(still thinking about 5!)

51 I mean

why is lava "aa" ?

It's a certain type of lava, and that's what it's called.

4: Muscle dissolved

4 @BeastlyGerbil asterisk

3:45 PM

weird. new one to me :)

what does Gareth not know?

3: > >

My enter is too close to my shift >.<

er, BG, you just completely changed your clue while keeping the number and now I look like an idiot

1: Increase

3:45 PM

4 @BeastlyGerbil absolution

near enough yes

1 @GentlePurpleRain augment?

1: no

I assume also not augmentation etc.

(this could arguably be "too broad")

Not any form of the word.

3:46 PM

ok

@n_palum I don't suppose your 3 is "arrows"? (I wouldn't call > an arrow so probably not)

nor "arithmetic shift", thinking about programming languages?

Nope not ARROW

2: Subject of Vitalstatistix

ah, screw it, I'll pass on 51 and discover how stupid I am

but 2 @GentlePurpleRain Asterix (le Gaulois)

area

51 ATTACK?

3:47 PM

actually Asterix the Gaul -- the chief has a different name in French -- sorry

2: ✔

51 - not area. attack was already tried.

nope gareth said that

any other contacts?

Oh he did? Missed that

3:48 PM

Area 51. More stack exchange inside-baseball. Oh well.

Can I make another ATTEMPT :P

Gareth defending: A N

oh I was so sure it would have been area 51

whoa

Silly Gareth

3:48 PM

Yeah, when I saw "area", I assumed that was correct.

that wasn't it :)

oh wait

@Gareth umm... It was NOT area..

bollocks

never mind

Gareth likes area more than your answer, Rubio

3:48 PM

so what was it?

it was, in fact, ANTIMONY

you can have your extra letter anyway because I'm an idiot

@Rubio oh, fair enough

1 dies. Was AMP UP

.... How?

(I really must learn the periodic table properly)

3:49 PM

Antimony is element #51

Oh, man.

Area was a better answer ;)

21 dies. It was AXILE.

3 dies

@BeastlyGerbil It was, but oh well :)

3:49 PM

no, "area" was a terrible answer and "antimony" is much better

what was 3?

ASYMMETRY

ew.

4: Paul Rudd character

:P

Contact 4

I also say ewww to 3

pass 4; I have no idea who Paul Rudd is

3:50 PM

(and @Gareth for future reference, Anthredium is male sex organ in plants. Placentation is the arrangement of ovules inside the ovary)

ANTMAN

4: ✔

@Sid if I had actually thought about it I would have realised that it couldn't possibly be antheridium

but as I had no other ideas and no one was contacting I was lazy :-)

(@GarethMcCaughan, Paul Rudd is a fairly well-known Hollywood actor)

anyway, you got me on ANTMAN (I still have no idea what any of this is about, but guess some superhero thing)

Gareth defending: A N T

3:51 PM

marvel

1: ana

9: Continent

9 @manshu antarctica

yup

@Rubio ANTIHEROINE perhaps?

3:52 PM

5: Residence of soldiers and queens

5 @GentlePurpleRain ANTHILL

5: ✔

1 - no (edited)

I'm really really reeeeally sorry for the clue I am about to make

6: Gareth and GPR

no you're not hehe

3:53 PM

I kind of am

:o

6 @n_palum antagonists (in this game)?

:o

Nope

Gareth, that was my first guess for 6.

3:53 PM

well, if we both agree on it then clearly n_palum's intended answer, whatever it may be, is Wrong.

:O

3: Staple of Italian picnics

6 @n_palum ANTHROPOMORPHIC (well, we are, just as all humans are) :-)

contact 3

3 @GentlePurpleRain antipasti?

3:54 PM

Still no

But if we agree, then it's definitely wrong... ;)

But I cannot prove you're a dog or not

We know Rubio is

3: ✔ (I was thinking antipasto, but I think they're the same thing.)

7: Proceeder

antipasti is the plural

3:54 PM

21. Deusovi needs to take this.

21 @Sid antibiotics

8: Preceder

Yes.

contact 8, same as mine I think

8 @GentlePurpleRain antecedent?

3:55 PM

8: ✔

7 @BeastlyGerbil antecedent though it doesn't mean "proceeder"

antecessor but yes

proceed != precede

He may not need antibiotics if it's a stomach thing because that could make it worse depending on what's wrong

Just saying :P

ah that as typo

3:56 PM

@n_palum sure. Contact clues don't need to be correct :-).

autocorrect :/

Was just throwin it out there

2: People say this long word to show off

thats not very helpful...

2 @n_palum antidisestablishmentarianism?

3: Moses's time

3:57 PM

Yessir

2: New Zealand, to you

Contact 2 lol

3 @GentlePurpleRain you surely don't mean antediluvian, I hope

2 @Rubio still ANTIPODES or ANTIPODE or ANTIPODAL

7: Use of name to express an idea

3: ✔ You can get them right even when the clues are wrong (what was I thinking?)

3:58 PM

2: ✔ did we do that already?

well, it's old and biblical so what else was it going to be? :-)

5: Love vs Selfishness

contact 5

5 @n_palum antonyms?

Gareth did this exact clue yesterday @Rubio

3:58 PM

@Rubio Gareth himself used that clue yesterday

No on 5

uncontact 5

Lol

@n_palum Well yes, that's why it was funny :)