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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · Nov 9
Moving my extra difficult cryptic crossword thread to here. Twitter no longer deserves it
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 3h
We've started going to bed at nine thirty and ooh baby this is the good stuff. love hitting the hay
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 13h
No, there’s the reference to stubble and a “dose” so Alex is definitely a trans man. Does feel like a woker version of 2003; we were initially convinced there was gonna be a dual timeline twist and the blonde 2003 teenager was gonna grow up to be Mae’s present-day pregnant wife but alas no
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 13h
Reading the robocop Wikipedia
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 13h
Reading the robocop Wikipedia
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 13h
a close up of a man wearing a silver helmet
ALT: a close up of a man wearing a silver helmet
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 13h
Why would robocop feed a cat
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 13h
“Biden is not an LGBTQ Black woman” really got me
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 14h
Hahaha
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 14h
Love it when they do this
reëlected
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 15h
Ok yeah, good fun. we’re watching the second one now! We were a bit confused by the timelines (is it all in 2003? Was gay marriage even legal then?)
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 16h
Very nice. Ok we will give it a go. Congratulations on the baby!
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 16h
Any good?
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 16h
What actual good tv shows are there nowadays
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 19h
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
No we got that too lol
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
I really had to rely on online help tbh
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
“Old African appetiser has heart fluttering”. Meze with the middle letters flipped. It’s a Swahili word for old man apparently lol
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
In a hundred years time they’ll be just about ready to go into production on the Mahershala Ali one
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Fucking mzee 😂
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
This was a particularly bad example of the form
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Will also point out that answers in this one included: ISOCHASM! KARENNI! ENDSHIP! ETHS! BASHLIK! MZEE! APPARAT! STEAN! RYOTWARI! IDEOLOGIC! ACARIDA! INGENU! TERNIONS! SDEIGN! BAALIM! TIGROID! OUTWIN! PISCEAN!
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Have developed a new nemesis and it is this crossword puzzle
thwphipps.bsky.social Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Hated this one. HATED IT. Really hard clues and a conceit that basically forced cold solving into an endgame requiring a tonne of assume knowledge. Anyway I did it. Here’s the grid:
Crossword grid
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Not knowing anything about Johann Strauss II this meant I spent half an hour on Wikipedia with a growing headache. Anyway his nickname was apparently THE WALTZ KING which you see if you change two letters here the end let’s never speak of this one again
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
After a long time & a lot of googling we see that thematic clues (extra word from extra letters FLEDERMAUS) are linked to Johann Strauss II pieces: BLUE/DANUBE, EMPEROR/WALTZ, MORNING/PAPERS, NIGHT IN/VENICE, VOICES OF/SPRING, ARTISTS/LIFE, VIENNA/BLOOD, GYPSY/BARON, CHITCHAT/POLKA, ROMAN/CARNIVAL
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Hated this one. HATED IT. Really hard clues and a conceit that basically forced cold solving into an endgame requiring a tonne of assume knowledge. Anyway I did it. Here’s the grid:
Crossword grid
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