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Danny B Posted Jan 22, 2004
To dock is to remove the tail of an animal (i.e. de-tail). And a detail is a (vague!) synonym for an item. It's another verb/adjective double-meaning thing.
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Danny B Posted Jan 22, 2004
Verb/noun, not verb/adjective, but still a double meaning...
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 22, 2004
**subscribes**
I've just finished today's Times crossword so I feel adequately equipped to take part in this conversation. 
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Jan 22, 2004
*resists temptation to say something rude and insulting to Master B-ighead 
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Glad to have you aboard!
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You can call me TC Posted Jan 22, 2004
Let's hear some of today's Times clues then - see who can work them out quickest.
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 22, 2004
Too late - it's gone for recycling.
Unless there's an online version... 
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Jan 23, 2004
And onto todays ones!
Clue: A classic dream once shattered
Answer: Decameron
I can see this is an anagram of 'dream once', but I assume my knowledge is lacking here as I haven;t a clue what a 'decameron' is!
Clue: They may be black or white pelts
Answer: Peppers
I can see the black or white bit, but what is the pelts bit about?
Or is it that peppered describes a black/white mottled fur? Not an animal person it must be said!
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Danny B Posted Jan 23, 2004
Peppers/Pelts meaning to throw or shoot lots of small things at a target.
The decameron (apparently) is a collection of 14th century short stories - a 'classic' in the literature sense, I suppose.
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Jan 23, 2004
Hmm, a tad highbrow i'd have thought for the freebie morning newspaper!
I'll let myself off not getting that one!
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You can call me TC Posted Jan 23, 2004
Boccacio's Decameron is more than that. It is a collection of bawdy stories similar to Chaucer's Tales of Canterbury and many of them are the same basic story. I can't remember if it's based on dreams, though.
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Florida Sailor All is well with the world Posted Jan 24, 2004
Someone who's black hair is starting to turn grey can be refereed to as 'salt and pepper. Pelt can refer to fur, and extended to hair. possibly 
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Bagpuss Posted Jan 25, 2004
Nah, it's simpler than that. You get black peppers and you get white peppers. "Pelts" is already covered as a synonym for "peppers" as in "throws things at someone".
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You can call me TC Posted Jan 27, 2004
To keep your minds mulling over, here are a few links I've found for online crossword geeks:
http://thinks.com/crosswords/cryptic/cryptic.htm
http://www.globeandmail.com/crosswords/
Any ideas for
They make trouble in rows or tiers perhaps (7)?
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You can call me TC Posted Jan 27, 2004
In that case, forget the second link. I don't think that was a very good one. Or are there subtleties I missed?
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Bagpuss Posted Jan 28, 2004
Don't think so - just your common or garden anagram.
Who can get this one from yesterday's Grauniad:
Gilded cube is so long. (5)
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Researcher 556780 Posted Jan 28, 2004
I can't work it out...
I tried shuffling letters around to make a word that would be similar to the clue...like errr 
gloss my reasoning for that was taking a long time to 'gloss' over something and well, its also a term for shinies... *embaressed cough* .... then I had a brief look around the net for gilded cubes, and thought maybe its something to so wif a gilded cage saying - but for the life of me...ahh dunno..*shrug*
Not good at cryptic stuff, but I'd like to learn... 
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