Verbal Warming (or Cooling)

1. TORPEDO DISCOVERY (7,7)

Difficult ace (4, 4) = HARD CARD

Managed anticipated (5, 5) = COPED HOPED

and the obvious

Passionate bed (3, 3) = HOT COT

Keep unwell (4, 4) = HOLD COLD

from which

Icy container (6, 6) = COLDER HOLDER

Forgot the numbers:

1. Difficult ace (4, 4) = HARD CARD

2. Managed anticipated (5, 5) = COPED HOPED

and the obvious

3. Passionate bed (3, 3) = HOT COT

4. Keep unwell (4, 4) = HOLD COLD

from which

5. Icy container (6, 6) = COLDER HOLDER

6. Displays barges (5, 5) = SHOWS SCOWS

Hey PRS - DA didn't mean give the answers, you need to leave something for us to do...

I'll renumber my original #1 as #7 so we keep the flow:

7. TORPEDO DISCOVERY (7,7)
8. CLASS PRECIPITATION (5,5)
9. BUNNY DARLING (5,5)
10. PLAIN BEAUTIFUL (6,6)
11. CONTAGIOUS ARTISTIC LINES (8,8)

Two early risers - or late retirers - I see. Welcome both, and the Bon is right, PRS. Let us savour the solving.

To crack 3 of the Boniface batch:

7 scuttle shuttle (clever use of Discovery)
8 caste haste
9 coney honey (it's how Coney Island got the name, I'm sure y'all knew...)

Will chew on 10/11 this morning. In the meantime:

12. Tampa-gate villain (6,6)
13. Short pain (4,4)
14. Drowner's rod (4,4)
15. Coquettish fifth of a straight? (7,4,2,3,7,4,2,3)

11 - catching hatching
12 - howard coward
13 - curt hurt

16: start helping (6,6)

12. H/coward
13. C/hurt
14. ...
15. Playing c/hard to get - excellent!

Now try:

16. How do you do string? (5,5)
17. Fictional pirate explorer(7,5,4; 7,5,4)

Sorry, renumbering to keep this in order:

17. How do you do string? (5,5)
18. Fictional pirate explorer(7,5,4; 7,5,4)

19. Convenient John? (5,5)

20. Terrific bonnet (7,7)

20. Radical female (3,3)

sorry, my #16 should have been
16: start helping (5,5)

21. Fast food (5, 5)
22. Distant picnic (6, 6)
23. Boat display (4, 4)

18. Captain James H/Cook

10 - homely comely

24. Instruction to prodigal son? (4,4)
25. Have sex with wild woman (5,5)

17 hello cello

24. Milk problem (6, 6)
25. Long sore (6, 6)
26. Gary Tobe (6, 6)

To keep with the numbering, since PRS and Boniface both have a #20, how about let's re-number PRS's (as the second submit) as #24?

25. Name community centre (4, 4)
26. Remove boat's skin (4, 4)
27. Lady Di nursing her second son (5, 5)

21 Answer: hurry curry (which is actually the name of an Indian restaurant at Henley Beach in Adelaide - no not affiliated!)

Renumbered

26. Milk problem (6, 6)
27. Long sore (6, 6)
28. Gary Tobe (6, 6)

Hmm, I see we're having the same problem as Bon/PRS!

Maybe we need to somehow do a page reload before we submit? Let me try it to see if my text gets lost in the process...

No it didn't, so maybe we should all think about doing that?

Mine re-numbered as:

29. Name community centre (4, 4)
30. Remove boat's skin (4, 4)
31. Lady Di nursing her second son (5, 5)

32. Laugh neck feather (6, 6)

24. Come home
29. Call hall
30. Cull hull
31. Carry Harry
32. Cackle hackle

33. Climb rock (5, 5)
34. Dog basket (6, 6)
35. Cooee! (5, 5)

My numbering is out again :-)

34. Dog basket (7, 7)

33. Scale shale
34. Camper hamper
35. Scout shout

36. Emma Thompson movie jacket (10,10)

36. Bush (5,5)
37. Save a little (6,6)

I have Bon-36, but I had to look it up.

Sorry for the confusion over 34 (but your answer is not wasted).

38. Doctor who will carry woman (8, 4, 4)

SK-36: Scrub shrub
37: Scrimp shrimp

SK's:

36. Scrub shrub - again!
37. Scrimp shrimp

38. Revere green

Oops, with numbering:

38. Revere green (6,6)

14. Holt colt (where colt = gun = rod - tricky!)

39. Use baton for a murder weapon? (6,5; 11)

I was getting a bit confused, so here is a slightly reordered list, hope I didn’t miss any!

1: Difficult ace (4,4) = HARD CARD
2: Managed anticipated (5,5) = COPED HOPED
3: Passionate bed (3,3) = HOT COT
4: Keep unwell (4,4) = HOLD COLD
5: Icy container (6,6) = COLDER HOLDER
6: Displays barges (5,5) = SHOWS SCOWS
7: Torpedo discovery (7,7) = SCUTTLE SHUTTLE
8: Class participation (5,5) = CASTE HASTE
9: Bunny darling (5,5) = CONEY HONEY
10: Plain beautiful (6,6) = HOMELY COMELY
11: Contagious artistic lines (8,8) = CATCHING HATCHING
12: Tampa-gate villain (6,6) = HOWARD COWARD
13: Short pain (4,4) = CURT HURT
14: Drowner's rod (4,4) = HOLT COLT
15: Coquettish fifth of a straight? (7,4,2,3,7,4,2,3) =PLAY HARD/CARD TO GET
16: Start helping (5,5)
17: How do you do string? (5,5) = HELLO CELLO
18: Fictional pirate explorer (7,5,4; 7,5,4) = CAPTAIN JAMES HOOK/COOK
19: Convenient John? (5,5)
20: Terrific bonnet (7,7)
21: Fast food (5,5) = HURRY CURRY
22: Distant picnic (6,6)
23: Boat display (4,4)
24: Radical female (3,3)
25: Have sex with wild woman (5,5) = SCREW SHREW
26: Instruction to prodigal son? (4,4) = COME HOME
27: Milk problem (6,6)
28: Long sore (6,6)
29: Gary Tobe (6,6)
30: Name community centre (4,4) = CALL HALL
31: Remove boat's skin (4,4) = CULL HULL
32: Lady Di nursing her second son (5,5) = CARRY HARRY
33: Laugh neck feather (6,6) = CACKLE HACKLE
34: Climb rock (5,5) = SCALE SHALE
35: Dog basket (7,7)
36: Cooee! (5,5) = SCOUT SHOUT
37: Emma Thompson movie jacket (10,10)
38: Bush (5,5) = SCRUB SHRUB
39: Save a little (6,6) = SCRIMP SHRIMP
40: Doctor who will carry woman (8, 4, 4)
41: Revere green (6, 6)
42: Use baton for a murder weapon? (6,5; 11)

40: HARTNELL, CART NELL

43. Excreted (4, 4)
44. Slow drive-by assassin ((7, 7)

Well listed. I see I have doubled up a clue my 23, so I'll list it here. 36 is sort of a double too, but I think the clue is nifty.

23. Scow show (mine)
37. Carrington Harrington
41. Hallow callow

Thanks Sam for doing that for us all.

43. Shat scat (charming!)
44. Scooter shooter

45. Targeted Highlander (4, 4)

46. Wide-ranging feline illness (9, 3,6)

47, So, some bovine (6, 3,3)

45 Shot Scot
46 Catholic cat colic

48. Laughing neck feather (6, 6)

49. Scored bounder (3, 3)

Thanks for the tidy-up, Sam.

19. HANDY CANDY
49. HAD CAD

50. Stinger, blow it! (6,6)
51. Record serve (4,4)
52. Races like this? (5; 1,4)
53. Jet and its base (7,7)

53: HARRIER CARRIER

54. Part veal (4, 4)

Boniface, was your terrific bonnet a
20: HOWLING COWLING?

52. ASCOT, A SHOT
54. HALF CALF

Sam - yep wd

55. Medical records on your Kindle? (3,5,8)

55. Manipulate wick (6, 6)

so make that

56. Manipulate wick (6, 6)

57. People eater (8, 8)

Head excelled (5,5)

Make that:

58. Head excelled (5,5)

56. Handle candle

59: Jellyfish? (4,4)

Have we had-

59. Drug money (4,4)?

While on the subject of sin, a couple of related offerings-

60. Convincing rent boy (6, 2-4)
61. Consilidate brothels into single premises (2-8, 10)

SK - I was thinking of that pair too, but trying to fit it into playdough without success!

59: HASH CASH

82. Metal bin (6,6)

Um,
62. Metal bin (6,6)

62 - copper hopper

60. Cogent - ho-gent
61. Ho-dwelling codwelling

Close- Ho-location colocation

Sam, I'm guessing your Jellyfish isn't a hake cake?

In response to jellyfish:

63. Clownfish?

SK - yes, cake as in coagulate, or jellify - too much of a stretch?

Nup, just couldn't imagine how revolting it would taste...

SK - pretty revolting, also reminds me of some jelly salad recipes I once found in an old US cookbook - one of which had fish in!

64. Low lodgings (4, 4)

65. Rough sore throat (6, 6)

66 A male pro's trade (4, 4)

67 Return (4, 4)

68. Short pain (4, 4)

A frustrating near-miss is SHREWD and SCREWED

And a poor taste one, noted but not proffered: Kerb crawl

...perhaps I should have numbered it, but instead

69. Coagulated, Jumped (8, 8)

Can't count
69. Coagulated, Jumped (7, 7)

@PRS re Kerb crawl - Yes there was an awful big elephant in the room on that one, expected it to out at some stage!

70: East End painter (7,7)

65. coarse hoarse
68. curt hurt
69. is the same? as 27. (curdle(d) hurdle(d))?

some from me:
71. Fake fraud (4,4)
72. Embrace crowd (6,6)
73. Floating canopy (5,5)
74. Drink concealer? (5,5)
75. Prostitute chef (6,6)

71 sham/scam
73 h/cover
74 c/hider
75 h/cooker

72. cuddle huddle

I had thought that another possibility for PRS's and Bon's woolly mammoth could be-

Search for Charlie Sheen

But agree that it is best left there. And I think everyone should be congratulated for playing nice...well, up until now....

76. Bird calls fishes (6,6)

ohhh SK, you dont know how much i wanted to do that one yet resisted...

70. Cockney Hockney

28 - hanker canker

55. CASEBOOK, HAS E-BOOK
58. SCONE SHONE

77. Disperse break (6,6)

This one is lukewarm.

77. Robotic pilgrimage

78. Robotic pilgrimage (5, 5)

Fixed numbering both ways.

ps I thought at th time that 'bluff' was a slightly dubious definition for HOAX...

...and I just noticed that my 51 is a variant on one of DA's starters.

29. COOPER HOOPER
67. COME HOME (again)

As far as I can tell, currently outstanding from Sam's list onwards are

16: Start helping (5,5)
22: Distant picnic (6,6)
24: Radical female (3,3)
27: Milk problem (6,6)
35: Dog basket (7,7)
42: Use baton for a murder weapon? (6,5; 11)
47, So, some bovine (6, 3,3)
48. Laughing neck feather (6, 6)
50. Stinger, blow it! (6,6)
57. People eater (8, 8)
63. Clownfish? (letters? - AG)
64. Low lodgings (4, 4)
66. A male pro's trade (4, 4)
76. Bird calls fishes (6,6)
77. Disperse break (6,6)
78. Robotic pilgrimage (5, 5)

27: CURDLE HURDLE
35: HARRIER CARRIER

79. Modest dwelling (6, 6)

80. Fighting dance (7, 7)

47. ANYHOW, ANY COW

81. Emergency stock

oops:

81. Emergency stock (5, 5)

I like that in devising the clue for 53 I still didn't think of 35 (and the fact that their respective digits are reversed)

42; HANDLE STICK, CANDLESTICK
47: ANYHOW, ANY COW

82. Buzzing trumpet (6, 6)

A short one I think we've omitted:

83 Shade rod (3, 3)

philth already worked out my 27, curdle hurdle. The answer for 22 has been seen as well (but I'm not sure the clue is so good).

82. hornet cornet
83. hue cue

Thanks for the unsolved update AG:

50: HORNET CORNET
77: SCATTER SHATTER

And a hint, my #16 is the same as PRS's #81 I think

84. Costume for kneeling (7, 7)
85. Lover of take-away (5, 5)

Holy coly. You turn your back for a day, and 100 comments later, not to mention some hurry-curry clues. Amazing.

84. Hassock Cassock
85. Cater Hater?

86: Offset carbon? (6,6)

85: indeed.

57. Hannibal the Cannibal

48 is the same as 32.

87: Used by an angelfish (4, 4)

i think sams idea of keeping track of the ones yet to be solved is the only way through this

16: Start helping (5,5)
22: Distant picnic (6,6)
24: Radical female (3,3)
48. Laughing neck feather (6, 6) - cackle hackle?
57. People eater (8, 8) hannibal cannibal?
63. Clownfish? (letters? - AG)
64. Low lodgings (4, 4) - a (6,6) could be scanty shanty
66. A male pro's trade (4, 4)
76. Bird calls fishes (6,6)
78. Robotic pilgrimage (5, 5)
81. Emergency stock (5, 5)
86: Offset carbon? (6,6)
87: Used by an angelfish (4, 4) - carp harp

with the addition:
88. The one that got away? (8,8)

@philth

48. yes
57. yes
64. no, but scanty shanty is 79

Late on the scene...

24: Che she? (shome mishtake shurely?)
78: mecha Mecca?
81: scare share?

@GymBunnies

24 must have had my iis croshed, needs delisting
81 yes

89. Bashful Shout (3, 3)

16 is also 81
86. hinder cinder
89. coy hoy

leaves 22,63,66,76 and
90. Tablet collector (9,9)
91. Beam/star gazer (5,5)

Reparations:

63: Clownfish? (4,4)

You'll need to think outside the Chan(n)el

Btw can't wait till someone gets:

Bird calls fishes (6,6)

It's a proper internal swap....

Also still need 64 (4, 4), I think.

Clue for 66: Think inside the box

also 80 is waiting (I hesitate to say outstanding...)

mmm...
bird calls fishes = pishes pisces? is pishes a word?

WD philth

Yep google pish.

22 [Distant picnic] = camper hamper
80 [Fighting dance] = shuffle scuffle

990 [Tablet collector] = hatchment catchment

As for bird calls, beam gazers, male pros and clownfish in the Chanel, I shall mull with intent.

63: Coco Coho?

Yep, Sam, that's it - coho being a kind of salmon.

64 could be cuts huts. Or not.

Not sure how widely known this would be.

Not her gender (3, 3)

That is of course

92. Not her gender (3, 3)

I'll get it right eventually.

Wonder if we'll make the ton...

93. Here's Italian resonance (4,4)

94. limp over stones (6, 6)

93. ecco echo bon - you're opening a whole new can o' worms when you go foreign
94. hobble cobble

95. Eccentric outburst (4,4)
96. Runs circles (5,5)

95. Hate Cate! No?
96. Coops hoops

97. Bad Seeds collector (4, 4)

96. Runs circles (5,5) = Coops hoops

97. Bad Seeds collector (4, 4) = Have Cave?

98. Shaved disregard (5,5)

99. Scotch stick makes ammonia (5,5)

99. Caber Haber

Re: 99, using one from DA today was probably too easy ;)

Let's go for the ton:

100. Edged slope.

92: Not her gender (3, 3) = His cis

As in cisgender, the opposite of transgender.

Apologies:

100. Edged slope (5,5)

Haven't actually done today's yet. I've been distracted by something...

Work, that must be it.

100. honed coned (maybe)

@DC, 100: Not what I was thinking of.

Edged is doing double duty in this one.

101: Run away quicker. (7, 7)

has the same roots as 100.

Sorry if someone has already said this but I think there was a shift from 'c/k' to 'h' some time into English. So 'corn' as in 'cornet' became 'horn', and 'coeur'(Fr.=heart)/'courage'/'core' evolved into 'heart'. Maybe the Angles needed more heat.

My list of the currently unsolved ones:

64. Low lodgings (4, 4)
66. A male pro's trade (4, 4)
88. The one that got away? (8,8)
91. Beam/star gazer (5,5)
95. Eccentric outburst (4,4)
98. Shaved disregard (5,5)
100. Edged slope (5,5)
101: Run away quicker. (7, 7)

102: Centre of small bear. (3, 3)

95 COOT HOOT?

102 CUB HUB

Here's an alternative (G-rated) clue for 66.

Weary chicken farmer's action (4, 4)

100: SHARP SCARP

and is 101 a variation of 100?

101 SHARPER SCARPER

Has everyone gone away for the weekend - it's a bit lonely here today - or do most of us play at work?

From, so for successfully, looking at 98 here's

103. Floppy insult (4, 4)

Should be

103. Floppy holder (4, 4)

@PRS: The blog wasn't accepting comments on Friday afternoon, so it went a bit quiet.

103: Disc dish.