argyle ?

Blimey!!!! It's a run on letters. I would never have got that. I thank you!!

Argyle?

Doh, too slow  

Nevertheless! Thanks also!

 i'm chuffed i got it x

Argyle 

I am crap at these sorts of wordplay puzzles. .I still don't get why Argyle is the answer..

 

Not even sure I get the question either

oh and nor do I understand what GJ means buy a 'run on letters' either ..  can't say I blame my school English teacher throwing me out of lessons. .none of it makes sense to me 

 

Give me good ol maths anyday

If it helps Olly, the answer expressed numerically is 8....don't ask me how, it just is 

you know you've just confused me even more don't you Suzy?

 

Seriously getting deeper frown lines trying to work this out.. gonna bill GJ for Botox soon at this rate

 

 

Welcome back. .sounds like the Hols were great

Knitting pattern barely grasped, a stretch when spinning

 

If you take the 6 letters I've put in bold, then spin them around in reverse order, you get ARGYLE., but I don't think the clue is very good as why the reference to stretch. I would have thought this was a bit better:

 

Knitting pattern barely grasped when part has to be unravelled.

Olly, I'm rubbish at cryptic clues for crosswords.

It all seems so simple - now El has explained it.

Yeah, what El Loro said 

Welcome back Suzy, I hope you had a fabulous holiday.

It was brilliant thanks Yogi

ah right cheers El Loro..

 

So basically the answer has absolutely nowt to do with the question, not even cryptically, except it's in the line up of letters, well backwardly in the line up of letters..  and the two words it encompasses have nowt to do with the 'clue' either..  what a daft crossword..  

 

Ok I know Argyle is a style of jumper pattern so is remotely attached to knitting. .ah maybe that's where the stretching it thing comes in as in am stretching the credibility of this clue a bit to fit the word I want.. and spinning refers to it being reversed .

 

yay I am turning into a  clever clogs.. well maybe a little

 

The jury is still out on this particular compiler. I prefer Aracaria meself.  Nevertheless we rattled through it apart from that one clue. Sometimes it takes a few days.

Here's another then........ **O***A*E Drink most commonly served in bars

CHOCOLATE

:clap:

Ok ...... *C*R*C Detectives in US agency retired, remaining sharp E*T*C*S Impressions left by the dead L*T*L* This by itself is only a gradual process

The dead one might be LATELY (being dead = being the late) but I can't figure out how the LY factor in.

because ARGYLE is a stretch(or run) of letters within 'barely grasped'

Hmmmm....I'd have expressed it as 5.

can you separate them please, getting confused as to which clue is which

LITTLE (little by little is a gradual process)

They are separate on m'phone! I'll have to wait until I access a PC!

I can see an answer if the R is replaced with a D as then the answer would be ACIDIC.

The US agency would be CIA. Retired would mean reverse CIA to get AIC. Detectives would be CID. Put CID in A***IC to get ACIDIC.

 

Clues split for Machel

Flipping cryptic clues 

There`s a T there but without that could it be EFFECTS? 

A good point El Loro. Mrs Jer had 2d ending in R. T*R*I**. Delayed sailor with dire consequences. TARDIER TAR is obvious with an anagram of DIRE But it must be TAR DIED !! Thus acidic is correct!! Thankyou!

See ! This is what happens when mrs jer starts the puzzle For reasons too complex to explain effects is correct too!

Try TARRIED rather than TARDIED, as that then fits the clue.

T*R*I** looks like one word. TAR DIED is two. Is the clue asking for two words or one 7 letter word?

 

If it`s one word, could it be TARRIED?

Oops...just saw your reply El Loro.

I've just been given an interview without coffee by a rather imperious Mrs Jer. There is no word such as  Tardied apparently. It's tarried.

What would I know? (Grade 6 Eng Lan)