Tennis Player - Cryptic Clue Thread

[time please]

First topic message reminder :

First person to get the confirmed correct answer gets to post the next clue. No need to give the number of characters in the name, but the clue must be for the first and last name (although variants of first name are allowed e.g. Andy or Andrew)

E.g. Delivered without Jay, a robot, without Cy = Bjorn Borg

[JuliusHMarx]

e-vert? (vowel + French for 'green')
Not sure how Chris = speeding tickets.

[lydian]

Bingo JHM!

CHRIS Huhne (and his wife) is currently being investigated for irregularities around a speeding ticket incident in 2003.

[JuliusHMarx]

Bad software, by George!

[laverfan]

JHM, your turn now.

[JuliusHMarx]

JHM, your turn now.

See above

[laverfan]

Bad software = virus, crap, bot, porn?

By George = Grigor, Gregor, Gerogiev, Goerges?

Lukas Gregorc? Julia Goerges?

[JuliusHMarx]

Close with bad software, but not got the right word yet (it's 'something'-ware)

It's a famous George.

[laverfan]

It could be 'mal'-ware?

Malivai (George) Washington?

[JuliusHMarx]

It could be 'mal'-ware?

Malivai (George) Washington?

Yep

[lydian]

Sounds like latin grounds of fertility could meet moorland plains

[laverfan]

Terry Moor?

[lydian]

nice try....! Right kind of lines...

[laverfan]

If I use fertility to mean fecund, the closest I can get is Facundo Bagnis? Not sure about the spelling.

So Terra (or a derivative) something?

Pretty sure this is heading for a moment for me.

[lydian]

haha...no, you're getting colder now with the fertility direction...but types of "terra" is definitely warmer!

[JuliusHMarx]

Moorland plains - Pete Pampas!

[lydian]

Hey...JHM, you're on a roll!

Peat Pampas!

[JuliusHMarx]

Sounds like Strauss is up it, without a paddle.

[lydian]

Johan Kriek!

(I think you were being a bit easy on us beginners there )

[JuliusHMarx]

OK - try this one - might also be a bit easy

Brain is confused by (unbiased) educator

[laverfan]

Brian Teacher?

AO 1980.

[JuliusHMarx]

Yes - these are too easy!

[JuliusHMarx]

Here's a tougher one, I hope.

Ruin animation or IPhone's system.

[lydian]

oh...and one from me too!

"Regional UK man becomes incarcerated"

[laverfan]

Ruin Animation = 'Mar'
IPhone = iOS

Marko Djokovic? Mario <something> ? Too much Tennis.

Lydian's is much harder, imo.

[lydian]

Mar...io An..cic?

Mine can be....
Regional UK guy is stopped short of being taken by the force

[JuliusHMarx]

Not Mario or Marko.
Retired Male.

[time please]

All too hard atm for me I need at least another eighteen coffees before I attempt

[lydian]

For mine...think of types of regions in UK...what people are called from those regions....

I'm still pondering JHM's.

[JuliusHMarx]

Geordie? Scot? Taff? Scouse g!t?

[lydian]

Right lines there JHM!

[JuliusHMarx]

Paddy (or Pat?)

[laverfan]

Pat 'imprisoned'?

[lydian]

you're getting in right ball parks for 1st and 2nd names...
The actual player doesnt have a UK name though, its a play on the regionality.
And its taken by the 'force'....not taken by force.

[laverfan]

Ah the Star Wars 'force' angle?

For JHMs clue, it could be 'Mar'iano Puerta?

[lydian]

Sorry LF, not Star Wars...its more what members of the force do...

[JuliusHMarx]

Not Puerta - you need to get 'animation', then it should be obvious. It's a very exact clue.

[newballs]

animation...

Pixar? Disney? Nick Park?

[JuliusHMarx]

No - it's something used during animation (cartoons)

[time please]

Lydian's clue - taken by the force/incarcerated = arrested, jailed, locked up???

I can't think beyond - Paddy, Scot and the other suggestions - Kent? sounds like that could possibly be a name of an obscure US player. Geordie - Jordi or Jordan


Julius - ruin = spoil, trample, break, crush, destroy

something used during animation - toons??? computers, artists, paint, graphics, actors?????


very hard both of you - my head hurts

[JuliusHMarx]

'Mar' has already correctly been mentioned, as has 'iOS' as the IPhone system.
It is something used during the making of a cartoon - old-style, before computers.
There is also another word in the clue - and it's a very exact clue (as they all should be!)

[laverfan]

We need more hints, pretty please.

[lydian]

TP....you're very warm...you're almost there in the words you have used!

[JuliusHMarx]

Ruin animation or IPhone's system.

Mar - animation or - ios

What's the word that's not 'animation' and where would it go in the answer?

[laverfan]

For cartoons, the old process is to draw cartoons on a set of cards (story boards) and then show them in a sequence which produces the sense of motion.

I assume JHM is looking for the term that studios use for these set of steps.

If Mario is the correct first name, the other one (apart from Ancic) that I am aware of is Mario Rincon, a Colombian player.

[laverfan]

Marcelo Rios?

[JuliusHMarx]

Marcelo Rios?

Correct! - Mar cel or ios
It was all there in the clue! I'm proud of that one.

[laverfan]

Now let us try Lydian's clue.

Pat (rick) something?

[lydian]

Well done LF on JHMs...

For mine, TP was barking up the right tree!

[time please]

Marcelo Rios?

Correct! - Mar cel or ios
It was all there in the clue! I'm proud of that one.

Well done LF

Clue v clever - I certainly haven't completely got the hang of the cryptic clue yet - will have to study this thread again....carefully.

Lydian - I'm still floundering. Is this guy active?

[lydian]

No, not anymore. He is famous for winning a medal...

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