Contact

2 yes

6: no. And it could be a lowercase "jester" if it wasn't starting the clue.

2': Chorale back-and-forth

4:12 PM

pass 2

sorry

I mean pass 2'

@Rubio turnabout is fair play

contact 2

go @GentlePurpleRain

ANTIPHON

4:13 PM

I bet Rubio actually wanted ANTIPHONY

i think it's ANTIPHONE but yes

and my word is in fact ANTIPHONAL

an antiphone is a smart telecoms device for the use of insects

well done @Rubio

danke

bitte

so what were 1,6,20?

ok will need a few

4:14 PM

6 was ANTICS (not the best clue)

20 was ANTIBODIES.

oh, should have got 6

antics?

should also have got 20 but was too lazy to look back and see whether there was a 15 and what it was

yeah

4:15 PM

@n_palum want to tell us what "Oddly" was clueing?

@Gareth No, wrong interpretation. 15=O. O has it= ANTIBODIES.

ANTICLY

@n_palum is that a word?

I've never heard it...

@Sid oh. that's probably one level of indirection too much to be solvable :-)

4:16 PM

Vaguely kind of not always? Ehh Antic would have worked too

But then, I've never heard of half the words Gareth uses in clues, so...

only one? :)

I think if "ANTICLY" were a word, it still wouldn't mean "oddly"...

I think "O has them" would have been solvable in principle

@GentlePurpleRain I am inclined to agree, but let's move on :-)

a certain number of not-exactly-correct definitions are inevitable in a game like this

So true.

I've had a few myself (ahem... ANTERIOR...)

(ahem... ANTEDILUVIAN...)

4:20 PM

Moses was totally before the flood ;)

Rubio defending: L

I wonder if anyone's started compiling a list of words to defend to have at the ready, much like many people have CCs waiting in the Sphinx's Lair...

1: this

I just think of them on the spot usually.. unless I think of a particularly fun one then I'll jot it down

@GentlePurpleRain I just open my word in another tab for my next defense

I did for A-Z, but now I'm just doing them off the cuff

4:21 PM

5: A specific letter in my name

but I'm not having any word atm

5: French pyramid

5: It's not the LOUVRE ?

5: ✔

other 5: It's not L

4:22 PM

contact 5

it's not ;)

contact 5

It's not LAMBDA

it is

4: Soap ingredient

contact 1?

4:23 PM

4: It's not LYE.

do they still use lye?

4: ✔

I don't know. I didn't say current soap ingredient... ;)

hehe

valid point

i'll PASS on 1, no idea what you're after

1: lowercase?

1 was LEAKY NUN

:(

4:24 PM

yeah that's not how that clue works ;)

lol

"1: Me" is the usual form of that

well, this [user]

7: Pizza or faux pas

1: Electrons, neutrinos, muons, ...

4:25 PM

7: It's not a LOAN WORD?

contact 1

1: It's not a LEPTON

7: ✔

it is

methinks Kritixi is a physicist...

4:26 PM

2: no puedo ver nada sin _

2: It's not LENTES ?

that was possible lol, but no

@GentlePurpleRain I wish :P

at least without LENTES you can still ver algo

well ok

4:26 PM

aunque el imagen no es claro

entonces no se.

3: Prize Winner

3 VTC too broad

3: It's not the LEADER ?

I thought you're good at physics @Rubio

4:27 PM

4: Little Irishman

contact 4

but contact 3 @Sconibulus

Not in spanish ;)

3: noipe

oh. duh. No es LUZ

4:27 PM

contact 4

contact 4 @BusinessCat

contact 4

@Rubio good

4: it's not a LEPRECHAUN

4: Yes

4:28 PM

1. Fiat ...

contact 1 (heh, Latin)

3: It's not a LAUREATE ?

5: George's puppy-loving pal

3: yes

7: Vocabulary

4:29 PM

2. Under Milk Wood

contact 7 @BusinessCat

7: It's not LINGO

7: no

contact 7

14. Hydrogen spectral series starts here.

7: It's not LANGUAGE or LEXICON either

4:30 PM

contact 14 @Sid

4: Convex (loose definition)

heh, Rubio completely gave up 1

lol. Um, 14 isn't LITHIUM?

very, very tentative contact on 4

7 it is LEXICON

4:30 PM

no, not lithium

@LeakyNun he just hasn't commented on 1 yet

contact 4?

(yeah I have no idea on 1, it's not connecting with anything yet)

4: It's not LENTICULAR maybe

4: ✔

tentative contact 1

4:31 PM

I'll PASS on 14, i fear I don't know this

I think 14 is the LYMAN series. I think its first line may be called "Lyman alpha" or something like that, if we need more than that one word.

Go @Gareth..

Yes, sir!! LYMAN, it is..

Rubio defending: L A

hazy memory says you get lines at energies proportional to 1/a-1/b or 1/a^2-1/b^2 or something where a,b are positive integers, and taking a=1 (?) gives you the Lyman series, and then there's another with a=2, and so forth. Something like that.

2 was LLAREGGUB and is dead

1 was LUX (FIAT LUX = let there be light)

4:33 PM

1 was LUX and is dead and btw Lea

5 is dead. LENNIE (from Of Mice and Men)

I don't feel bad, I've never heard of the Lyman series (by that name anyway)

I was WAY off on 1

oops btw @LeakyNun you shouldn't have added that remark about Latin because it might have given it away

(without it Rubio might have got stuck on cars or something)

I was stuck on cars :)

4:33 PM

@BusinessCat what did you guess?

hmm, it occurs to me that Lancia and Fiat had some sort of relation at some point

It didn't help, and even knowing it was Latin wouldn't have

so maybe that clue was too ambiguous

6: Add a protective coating

Same as RUbio I was stuck on cars

4:34 PM

though it should have

contact 6

@GarethMcCaughan I don't think Rubio is quite familiar with the Vulgate translation of Genesis 1

@LeakyNun apparently not

2: Sport

contact 2

4:34 PM

(et dixit deus, Fiat lux; et lux erat -- or something like that)

15. Outcast of the Periodic table

contact 15 @Sid

contact 15

contact 15

contact 15

4:35 PM

15: It's not a LANTHANIDE ?

1. keratotomy

Yes, Lanthanide it is.

contact 2

2: It's not LACROSSE

contact 2

4:35 PM

3. Requiem movement

4: not a sea

2 yes

Canada's official national sport, incidentally...

7: Aromatic Flower

@GarethMcCaughan you really like Latin

4:36 PM

6: It's not LACQUER ?

contact 4?

@LeakyNun I like all kinds of things

@GentlePurpleRain I always think it's strange to not be Hockey

6: no, but that's a good answer.

contact 3 (if my memory serves me right)

4:36 PM

uncontact 6

6: It's not LAMINATE

6: ✔

ahh, right

how is "laminate" a protective coating?

(pause)

4:36 PM

lamina = layer in Latin

to laminate is to add layers

in some cases you're adding layers to the top of something to protect it

If you laminate a paper, you're adding a plastic sheath around it.

LN's picture there would be an example of lamination that isn't particularly about adding a protective coating :-).

oh heh

4:37 PM

actually, maybe lamina = layers and the plural is lamen???

never knew about laminated paper

google.ca/search?q=laminator

(it looks like it should be the plural of a word lamen, but I have never seen such a word)

lāmina f (genitive lāminae); first declension

(and I am not going to go looking in dictionaries right now lest I see something too useful)

4:38 PM

@leaky That lamination is transformer-lamination.

@LeakyNun ah, thanks

glad to know my first thought was right after all

That is a lot different from protective covering lamination..

but e.g., it's not so well known that "stamina" really is the plural of "stamen"

5: 999ms

@GarethMcCaughan oh heh

4:39 PM

Contact 7, 4, and maybe 1

I always assumed lamination was a worldwide thing. I'm curious where you're from that you haven't heard of it. (Teachers use it extensively here in schools to protect documents that are to be re-used.)

I'm concerned 1 could be a couple answers...

5: It's not LAG?

ffao

Contact 5, but that number is irking me

er LATENCY?

4:40 PM

@n_palum maybe; in that case we'll have to take our chances

LATENCY

4: It's not a LAKE or LAGOON

1: It's not LASIK

4: nice

9: Plaster's complement in home construction

yup, 1 was LASIK

4:40 PM

Oh in that case

contact 9 @GentlePurpleRain

9: It's not LATH? LATHE? i think LATH

ffao

Stepping out for 15mins, please don't guess the word until then

1: Keratectomy

@ffao lmao

4:41 PM

9: correct

contact 1

1: um. it's not LASER SURGERY?

2. household gods

That's probably fairer

And no

Contact 2 I think

4: Bonnie bairn

4: It's not a LASS

3: It's not a LAMENT

4:42 PM

3 is not LAMENT

4: no

er. 4: LAD

or LADDIE ?

or LASSIE ??

4: ✔ LAD

hehe

what's contacted now?

3 is contacted by me

4:44 PM

1 is contacted by GPR

I have 7

2 is tentatively contacted by n_palum

Sorry, I withdraw my contact on 1.

@GarethMcCaughan studias linguam latinam?

I thought it was LASER SURGERY as well.

4:44 PM

@LeakyNun that looks so much like English

5: Didn't even try

@LeakyNun I studied some at school. Other than that most of what I know is from music and random cultural baggage.

@KritixiLithos indeed it does

I'll pass on 3

@LeakyNun "Do you study the Latin language?"?

4:45 PM

3: LACRIMA (or any spelling variant of it, inc. but not limited to LACHRYMA, LACHRIMA, LACRYMA)

What did you have for 3, @Leaky?

@KritixiLithos yes, that is a correct translation

3 is actually LACRYMOSA. (Lacrymosa dies illa, / Qua resurget ex favilla / Judicandus homo reus: / Huic ergo parce Deus.) I don't think any of LN's is quite close enough, so Rubio dodged a bullet there.

I need to listen to requiem again

you need to listen to many requiems. There are so many good ones.

4:46 PM

indeed

6: Final around degree of criticism (7)

16: Not an ale

7: It's not LAVENDER

16: It's not LAGER

7: yes

16: ✔

4:47 PM

6: it's not LAMBAST

6: yes

cute clue ;)

(should have been "... around a degree ...")

^

3: Agnus Dei

4:47 PM

(also LAMBAST is the verb; not sure how you'd fix that)

nice anyway

contact 3 @LeakyNun

3: It's not LATIN

AFK for 10 minutes or so.

9: Pre Light bulb

@Rubio 3: it is latin, but it isn't LATIN

(why did I use all-caps)

i hope the latin stops soon, I really don't know it ;)

4:48 PM

@Rubio you need to listen to more ~~non-trash~~ classical music

4: Beneath a Wide Window

4 contact

6: Bowie vehicle

I think contact 6 too

I'll pass on 2

4:50 PM

LANDLORDS?

6: It's not LABYRINTH

6: yes

Oh? Hm

contact 9

no, 2 was not LANDLORDS. I'm afraid it was more Latin. LARES (et PENATES). The phrase is used in English by some pompous writers.

4:51 PM

Ah thought that would've been a clever one

I agree LANDLORDS would have been a clever answer.

6: Reconnaissance Vehicle

10. Country dance

contact 6 @n_palum (not certain I have the intended answer)

5: It's not LAZY

5 no

4:52 PM

6: It's not LANDER ?

tentative contact 9

6 no

I'll remove 1 because I have a bunch of clues I just realized and it's obscure

what was that?

what was it?

LAMELLAR

4:53 PM

uh. ok. ;)

uncontact 6 if it isn't LANDER :-)

Part of the Laser Surgery ;)

PASS on 4

4 LANDING?

4: nope, it was Lachrymose Lake

4:54 PM

Oh.. Well my landing at home is beneath a big window :P

lacrhymosa again?

"The Wide Window" is one in a series of unfortunate events

^ yeah i knew that

I haven't read past 2 :)

1. Not turbulent

I think that was 3 :)

contact 1

4:55 PM

1: It's not LAMINAR

yup, LAMINAR was it

7: Power washing, but gentler

7: It's not LAVAGE

7: yes

1. Crayfish

4:57 PM

that's been done before I think

back

You haven't got any more letters while I've been gone? :(

no

of course not

that would have been rude

I've been going slowly, sorry :)

2. Preposterous

contact 2

4:58 PM

7: Easy-going

(and pausing again sorry)

Contact 7...

contact 7 @GentlePurpleRain

tentative contact 7

Maybe contact 2

4:59 PM

contact 7