HAL9000

16. Wall flower

12. Broom

11. Forget-me-not

34. Dead Tree Carrier. SE22 - Ashbourne Grove?

31. Wet W. C. Stop. SE1 - Waterloo Station

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Right HAL9000 - this is WAR! I already had five of yours - you beat me to the post! *poises finger over buzzer*

27. Elizabeth the sheep strolling SE11 - Lambeth Walk

49. Chew timber Lane SE24 - Norwood Road

21. Leadshot. SE22 - Pellat Road 45. Winners Road SE5 - Champion Hill 51. No Gas light road. SW9 - Electric Avenue

An innovative adaptation of Spot the Ball *Bob*?

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah I see. > No. Cheers - that's what I thought but just wanted to check in case I'd missed something. I'm new to cryptic clues but can see the attraction.

Yes, it makes sense after the fact. But is there a logical pathway that leads to this particular answer starting from first principles?

desire

The ?E (13)? clue is discussed within various cryptic crossword tutorials on the web. I've yet to see a logical explanation for how it resolves to the answer. It seems to require some element of heuristic thinking on the part of the solver, which should suit me, but I still don't get it?

20. Face covers the Trees - Woodvale 35. King Arthur?s Castle - Tintagel Crescent

Once they invoke their arse, it's time to stop digging and run like hell!

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Spurious tosh. Fought and suffered to pass on > their genes my arse I was thinking of our ancient ancestors - those ape-like bipedal hunter-gatherers who roamed the savannahs of Africa when I wrote that. Mind you, we can all trace our ancestry back to one amoeba-like blob that lived around three and a half billion years ago - so my time line was a bit arbitrary. > - because ALL babies have been > strenuously planned? > And all those without kids > are making a contemporary life-style choice? I wasn't being judgemental - just generalising about our amazing evolutionary history - put it down to poetic licence after a long day and a couple of glasses of wine.

charliecharlie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ps if you knew my family you might doubt the > benefits of passing on anything! Having had the pleasure of you acquaintance, I beg to differ ? I imagine any child would be blessed to have a parent like you.

If you have an older petrol-driven motorcar, you could use them as a fuel additive - they're mostly ethanol based (100ml per full tank should be ok). Alternatively, they could be mixed with an equal volume of water and used as screen wash. Or, they can be used neat as windscreen de-icer.

An interesting observation from a Times article cited on another thread: Followers of Padre Pio believe he exuded "the odour of sanctity", had the gift of bilocation (being in two places at once), healed the sick and could prophesy the future. The divine gift of bilocation is yet another example of Quantum Mechanics appearing within Judaeo-religious ideas. 'Being in two places at once' describes what scientists today might call a Quantum Superposition!

Those who choose not to have children are abandoning any further participation in mankind's evolutionary future. Also, they are breaking a hitherto continuous link though tens of thousands of ancestors who fought and suffered to pass on their genes only for their lineage to be snuffed out as a result of a contemporary life-style choice.

I've completed a training course in Anglo-Indian-style curry and tandoor cooking at a leading Indian restaurant in London. Of course the dishes all taste the same - they are made to the same (secret) recipes passed down from Bangladeshi chefs to their apprentices throughout the country. Ever wondered how any dish from over 100 menu choices can be prepared within five to seven minutes? It's because they are all made from a handful of basic, pre-cooked ingredients that are assembled in an iron skillet and fried at high temperature until the oil separates from the sauce. A typical curry house uses only six spices: coriander, cumin, paprika, turmeric, cayenne (chilli) pepper and black pepper and three or four aromatics: malabathrum (Indian bay leaf), cinnamon, cardamom and star anise. The rest is mainly onions, bell peppers, garlic, ginger, desiccated coconut, almond powder and tomato paste. Korma and massala dishes are thickened with single cream (UHT LongLife). Balti dishes are the same as regular dishes with a tablespoonful of Patak?s Balti Curry paste. As for "fresh ingredients" ? virtually every Anglo-Indian restaurant in London gets its supplies from a handful of Bangladeshi-owned cash-and-carry warehouses in Bermondsey and East London. All meat, fish and seafood is frozen. Incidentally, the staff would rather die than eat the food they serve to customers - the chefs prepare genuine Bangladeshi curries for the staff's end-of-day meal!

matthew123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Until the Taleban are eliminated The Romans tried to stamp out Christianity. The Nazis tried to stamp out Judaism. The communists tried to stamp out religion. Why should we succeed where everyone else has failed? > I don't think we > can walk away from that part of the world Why not? We tolerate other fundamentalist religious states - some are our allies. > from the atrocities they have committed on their own > people, e.g. hanging women at packed football stadia, Our ally Saudi Arabia executes women in public, too ? they chop off their heads. > to the involvement in terrorism Most of the 911 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia > and the drug trade Most of which is shipped via our ally Pakistan > the world cannot afford them to prosper Saudi Arabia is one of the richest countries in the world > - they have to be stamped out. Sounds like a religious crusade against one particular flavour of fundamentalist Islam? Surely not. What is the real reason we are in Afghanistan - it can't be any of the above?

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This one feels easy but nowt springing to mind > > Goody-goody found in the city area? A big myth > (4) > > _ _ _ C alec, bloc, chic, croc, disc, emic, epic, etic, exec, fisc, flic, floc, huic, laic, marc, merc, narc, odic, otic, pyic, spec, sync, talc, torc, uric, zinc, zoic.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sh?t street trader (4,6) > > _ _ _ _/P _ _ _ _ _ Was it a "bone picker" who collected horse dung from the streets in Victorian times?