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Old 09-24-2013, 09:27 PM   #1
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Green Dragon

Green is self-explanatory, then Don swallows a rag and as any fule kno, there's only one Dragon in Bywater and that's green.
Squatter! You're back! And with a dead-on answer!

Mith and Pervinca, that's how I feel lately about most of your Password cryptic clues. They just seem to be too far for me to reach, and then you just tick them off like boxes on a survey...
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Old 09-25-2013, 01:26 AM   #2
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Well I am stuck now on the password. Which has not been easy so far..with me I either see things or I don't. ?. Unlike Barliman I can't see thtrough a brick wall, given time.
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Old 09-25-2013, 06:20 AM   #3
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Squatter! You're back! And with a dead-on answer!
Well, you can thank Pervinca for collaring me at Oxonmoot and telling me you were short of players. I didn't expect this enthusiasm, though.

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And yet I am sure I would never have got
You don't share my unhealthy preoccupation with public houses.

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Absurdly simple, like most riddles when you know the answer
I expect it was probably too simple for a learned lore-master in these suspicious days. I didn't get it at first either.

Anyway, without further ado, here's another clue

Long tale about final destination.

Incidentally, I have a couple of ideas about the password too.
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Old 09-25-2013, 01:59 PM   #4
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Squatter! You're back! And with a dead-on answer!

Mith and Pervinca, that's how I feel lately about most of your Password cryptic clues. They just seem to be too far for me to reach, and then you just tick them off like boxes on a survey...
Galadriel, I usually feel the same with your clues - I remember something about a "lady in letters" which had me completely flummoxed. And "unique specimen" for only one dragon was really clever. :impressed:

Reminds me of an Oxonmoot in the early noughties when one group entry for the masquerade was people dressed as all the pub names in LOTR.

Like Mith, I am the Un-Barliman when it comes to cryptic clues (may CS Lewis forgive me for that dreadful pun).
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Old 12-09-2013, 06:33 AM   #5
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I'm sorry for letting this thread die, but I've just had absolutely no successful ideas. I've tried working forward, backward, taking different parts as the straight clue, but it just doesn't work.
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Old 12-09-2013, 01:15 PM   #6
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but hasnt Squatter solved it?
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Old 12-09-2013, 03:09 PM   #7
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but hasnt Squatter solved it?
I mean I can't solve his clue. He put a new one up a very long time ago.
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Old 12-10-2013, 02:09 AM   #8
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Which i never noticed..meep my bad.
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So now that you've seen it I expect you have a solution. It really isn't all that difficult.
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