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September 05 2011
CALENTURE (KAL-uhn-cher) – tropical fever where often the sufferer can see his deliriums as real [From Spanish via Latin, calentura, heat] At the height of uncle’s calenture, he took his spectacles as his dentures.
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Comments
Boniface — 05 September at 12:40AM
Tropical fever's remedy including a period of fasting (9)
RobT — 05 September at 06:56AM
Raving butchers cut leaner (9)
RobT — 05 September at 07:00AM
Amended:
Raving butcher cut leaner (9)
SK — 05 September at 07:24AM
Tropical adventure mostly ends in illness!
RobT — 05 September at 07:25AM
Triffids record tune: clear out!
SK — 05 September at 07:36AM
A tongue-in-cheek swipe at ourselves...
Delusions of grandeur by "Rent-a-Clue" mob
RobT — 05 September at 07:52AM
Cryptic clue: ardent doff reality!
RM — 05 September at 08:22AM
A new lecture about hallucinations
Boniface — 05 September at 09:22AM
Here's another angle:
It drives one crazy Renault, crashing into church.
RobT — 05 September at 10:47AM
Violent Cretan duel: nod to Argonauts' risk
RobT — 05 September at 12:08PM
Tuna creel provide entree to albatross
RobT — 05 September at 12:08PM
Ouch.
Tuna creel provides entree to albatross
SK — 05 September at 12:24PM
Headline from a recent news story-
Delirious about recall of "Crunchy Nut" cereal
Em — 05 September at 02:06PM
Hallucinations creepy and lurid at first, weird and strange but presumably real second!
RobT — 05 September at 02:22PM
Cast a cruel net: gone troppo
RobT — 05 September at 02:38PM
Tweak:
Caught up in a cruel net: gone troppo
Sam — 05 September at 02:45PM
Underground musician's tuner played Fever
KM — 05 September at 03:22PM
Lancet to regret bungling hotheaded diagnosis
Boniface — 05 September at 03:38PM
Oh-oh. Who's gonna be first to jump on KM for an indirect anagram? Won't be me - I like them, within reason.
RobT — 05 September at 03:47PM
What's an "indirect anagram"?
SK — 05 September at 03:51PM
@RobT, it's where the anagram fodder is "hinted" rather than the actual letters appearing. So in KM's clue "regret" must be stated as "rue" to get the judge's approval
KM — 05 September at 04:10PM
The Spanish centaur's broken fever
KM — 05 September at 04:12PM
Ah, so indirect anagram's are a no-no? I'm still learning...
KM — 05 September at 04:13PM
Please ignore that apostrophe^ - brain snap!
SK — 05 September at 04:26PM
Don't worry KM. Like golf, some of the rules aren't always obvious. And I felt your pain recently on careless apostrophe usage...
Fever-pitch reluctance over carbon tax?
RobT — 05 September at 04:27PM
Oh yes. I can see where that would be a problem.
Can I ask how it goes with Spoonerisms...does the spelling need to be precise or is a homonym sufficient a la DA's usual efforts?
KM — 05 September at 04:48PM
Trouble in paradise when church embraces a religious festival with ultra right beginnings
SK — 05 September at 05:06PM
Nice one KM.
RobT, Spoonerisms are more liberal...it's all about the homophone. The main trick is to make sure that the pronunciation isn't too "tortured" (eg somebody clued a Spoonerism in last week's storm for MASKED OWL through reference to ASKED MAL. Questionable whether MAL and OWL rhyme)
RobT — 05 September at 05:25PM
SK: thanks.
Ps i thought MASKED OWL quite brilliant! ;)
RobT — 05 September at 06:48PM
'fah-renzy' for butt!
RobT — 05 September at 07:00PM
Sounds like a 'fah-renzy' for the butt!
JPR — 05 September at 09:48PM
See centaur prancing around? Seminole fever!
rick — 24 September at 12:54AM
heat, to be warm,hot. a tropical feaver with delirium.