As Gandalf once hinted.

Cryptic clues usually have a "straight" portion at the beginnig or the end - is there a bone-house around here who's a movie editor - or a tarantula? :eek:

Getting warm ...

Indeed, but looking at the clue has a particular significance here ...

You mean the name is concealed in the clue? If so I can't see for looking..

It's to do with the dash in the clue, I think. Tar-ancalime?

Very easy cryptic clue? Oxymoron, anyone? :rolleyes: ;)

I know the way - just can't drive the car :(
 

I think Turambar has it.... how silly of me... especially since it is a downer I know.... surely I am the world's least observant person...

Edit NB Alatar organises the sequence by sequence discussion of the movies

Turambar has it.

Alatar is the editor of the sequence-by-sequence discussion in the Movie forum, and his name is concealed in (partially consumed by) animal - a tarantula.

So you see. The answer was indeed staring you in the face ...

:D

Take it away, Turambar. :)

*applause*

I just love finding out what they mean. :D

I don't know very many citizens - would someone else like to go?

I would....


But anything I could devise would be painfully simple. More of a race than a puzzle.

Ok...just because this seems to need a push.



Looks a little devilish upon first meeting.

Ummm...Gil or myself? (That was a complete wild guess) Or is it perhaps a little more cryptic then that??

It is an attempt at a cryptic clue. I'm not sure if it's very good.

spawn perhaps? Please don't ask for reasoning, I have none.

nope.

Either I actually managed to come up with a fairly difficult clue or I'm moshing cryptic clue rules together hopelessly. I'm going to hope it's A.

Oooo!! B-W? Or perhaps phantom?

nope. nope.

Keep trying.

Littlemanpoet, whose nickname when shortened to lmp looks a little devilish?

Yay! Since littlemanpoet does not capitalize his own name, when you take the initials ("first" was supposed to indicate this) it is lmp, which looks like imp, a "little devil".

Your thread, Sauce. But first, a request for advice: how could this clue have been improved? I'm really trying to learn how to solve and write cryptic clues...and I thought this one was very straightforward, which makes me wonder if I didn't write it properly.

It seemed a pretty good clue to me. :)

There's no rule that the questions here have to be cryptic. It's just the medium that I work best with in these types of games. For an explanation of how cryptic clues generally work, have a look at the guidance which I gave early on in the Cryptic Clues thread.

And now for the next question:

A recent incumbent is spinning one in a room at university.

hmm... only person that comes to mind is AbercrombieofRohan...

Well recent incumbent made me think of Gilthalion "hobbitus emeritus" but that doesn't help with the rest of the clue, and SpM's clues tend to work properly so unless (once again) I am failing to make an the necessary connections - I am on the wrong track.

Time to herenistarion this

OK, OK - you want a hint. :rolleyes:

"Recent incumbent" is the straight clue - the answer should not be difficult to find...

The rest is cryptic, but fairly straightforward as cryptic clues go.

Squatter?

Oh I think that he means it is a new downer who has "eno" one spun around in theirname... maybe ....

No. On both counts.

Although this Downer is relatively new ...

Oh.. well ....realtive to what though.....

Spinner could be a spider ..

Room at university is dorm, and it has 'one' in it. Like, doneorm, or something. Is that near the track?

You're both on the wrong track.

Spiders are not involved. And "room" and "university" are two separate clues.

I'm going to try my hand at this, though I doubt I understand the clues...

Is it Caranlondien?

1) Joined in March.
2) She is a freshman in college (university).
2) Perhaps 'spinning' refers to her head after smashing into a "were-door" in the TiG XX? :rolleyes:

Its a stretch, but its something...

Well room could be space rather than a more tangible room... spin I don't know if it doesn't meen either spider or rotating letters...

Hookbill the Goomba

Because spinning = wheel = wheels are mentioned in Hookbil's sig.

And room rhymes with goom. :rolleyes:

Though I'm not sure what recent incumbent even means. And is a join date of 2003 really relatively new?

Alas, I can't think of anything else.

No correct answer so far.

No. I'm looking for a word meaning a room.

Not a wheel of the vehicular variety, but ...

It refers specifically to this thread.

Should be as clear as the nose on your face now. :D

JennyHallu

Hall = Room

...and a cunning reference to a certain 18th century invention....very good indeed, sir.

Bingo! Correct, Diamond. :)

Recent incumbent (of this thread) = she asked the question before mine.

Spinning one = a Spinning Jenny.

Room = Hall.

University = U.

See - I told you it was easy ... ;)

Okay, I've got one for you:

Heigh ho, Sandman, away!

Sleepy Ranger?