Tennis Player - Cryptic Clue Thread

by time please Fri 24 Feb 2012, 12:39 am

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

by **laverfan** Sat 07 Apr 2012, 4:19 pm

carrieg4 wrote:Can't even find the clue I was answering LF

I swear my browser plays tricks on me. It was something about an old duck but that could be weeks ago!

THis is the latest clue - 'Lenny's feet hurt when he walks.' - Retired Male. It is an anagram.

by **laverfan** Mon 09 Apr 2012, 5:28 am

by newballs Mon 09 Apr 2012, 12:08 pm

Well Agassi's feet always looked a bit funny when he walked or was it just his back that hurt him? Not in the anagram anyway!

by **laverfan** Mon 09 Apr 2012, 2:34 pm

Agassi's walk get ridiculed and compared to duck 'waddle'. Wink

It is not Agassi. We have used this player in the previous incarnation of this thread, IIRC.

by reckoner Tue 10 Apr 2012, 10:28 am

Lennart Bergerlin?!!!

by **laverfan** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 12:18 pm

reckoner wrote:Lennart Bergerlin?!!!

Not Borg's coach. Sorry

The words in the clue are part of the anagram that makes up the players name.

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 1:07 pm

An anagram of lennyachewalks?

by **laverfan** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 1:11 pm

JuliusHMarx wrote:An anagram of lennyachewalks?

You almost have it. Perhaps a different word for 'ache' would get it closer. Wink

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 2:00 pm

'sore'?

by **laverfan** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 3:40 pm

JuliusHMarx wrote:'sore'?

Yes.

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 4:12 pm

Kenny Rosewall

by reckoner Tue 10 Apr 2012, 4:16 pm

I would NEVER have got that gaaah.

JHM way to go! clap

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 4:37 pm

Jack's of London?

by **laverfan** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 5:01 pm

JuliusHMarx wrote:Kenny Rosewall

Correct.

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 5:05 pm

laverfan wrote:
JuliusHMarx wrote:Kenny Rosewall

Correct.

I assumed so Smile

- hence my earlier new clue

by **laverfan** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 5:10 pm

JHM... does your 'Jack's' clue have anything to do with the Royal Wedding?

by reckoner Tue 10 Apr 2012, 5:20 pm

.. as in Jack Wills?

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 5:23 pm

No.
No.

by **laverfan** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 6:59 pm

I assume it is related to Wimbledon, somehow?

PS: A grooming shop? chin

by **laverfan** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 7:11 pm

I can think of a famous Jack, Kramer and Tennis player?

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 7:36 pm

Guys called <first name> can also be called Jack.

Surname = ? of London - a company name

by **laverfan** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 8:44 pm

John McEnroe, Jack Kramer, Mark Edmondson, Henri Leconte, Guy Forget? Quite a few linguistic variants. Jacques?

Are any of these close?

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 10 Apr 2012, 8:51 pm

Mark? Henri? Guy?

Jack is well-known alternative for guys whose real name is ?
(e.g. Jack Kramer, but the first name isn't Jack and the surname isn't Kramer)

by time please Wed 11 Apr 2012, 1:12 am

John Lloyd?

by **JuliusHMarx** Wed 11 Apr 2012, 8:30 am

time please wrote:John Lloyd?

Correct

by **laverfan** Wed 11 Apr 2012, 1:22 pm

TP...

Your turn.

Knowing the solution makes the clue look easier to understand. Wink

by time please Wed 11 Apr 2012, 4:04 pm

Hi LF

- I'm just all out of ideas at the present, sorry to be a wimp, but you and Julius think up some brilliant clues so could I pass my turn to you???

Also only in and out over next few days so even if brain cells did allow me to conjure up devilish clue, I might not be around to respond.

by **laverfan** Wed 11 Apr 2012, 4:23 pm

OK... let me come up with a clue.

by **laverfan** Wed 11 Apr 2012, 4:30 pm

Clue - We curl against the beast in confusion.

by **laverfan** Thu 12 Apr 2012, 1:54 am

by reckoner Thu 12 Apr 2012, 10:01 am

Morning! Love the tumbleweed emoticon lol.

So, it's an anagram of "We curl against the beast"?

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by **laverfan** Thu 12 Apr 2012, 11:24 am

It is an anagram of part of the words that you have. Wink

by **laverfan** Fri 13 Apr 2012, 3:44 am

by time please Fri 13 Apr 2012, 10:37 am

anagram of we curl and the beast or of we the beast?

I will try and play later laver, but brain not on straight atm Wink

by lydian Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:48 am

lol...think you need a curved brain for these mind twisters TP Wink

LF...is it Carl Uwe Steeb?

by reckoner Fri 13 Apr 2012, 3:20 pm

Surely that's it lydian!

I found the clue too ambiguous, I'm sorry to say. If it is indeed Carl Uwe Steeb then "against" and "the" just confuse matters. Including unnecessary words in an anagram clue makes it unsolvable for me...

by **laverfan** Fri 13 Apr 2012, 3:24 pm

lydian wrote:LF...is it Carl Uwe Steeb?

Indeed.

reckoner wrote:I found the clue too ambiguous, I'm sorry to say. If it is indeed Carl Uwe Steeb then "against" and "the" just confuse matters. Including unnecessary words in an anagram clue makes it unsolvable for me...

I wanted a sentence which made sense. Sorry

that it threw you off. I will try and do better with my clues next time.

So Lydian's turn now.

by reckoner Fri 13 Apr 2012, 3:28 pm

laverfan wrote:I wanted a sentence which made sense. that it threw you off. I will try and do better with my clues next time.

So Lydian's turn now.

laverfan, I hope you took my comment in the gentle spirit in which it was meant. Tennis Player - Cryptic Clue Thread - Page 13 769663

I know from experience how hard it is to set clues...

by **laverfan** Fri 13 Apr 2012, 3:31 pm

reckoner wrote:
laverfan wrote:I wanted a sentence which made sense. that it threw you off. I will try and do better with my clues next time.

So Lydian's turn now.

laverfan, I hope you took my comment in the gentle spirit in which it was meant. I know from experience how hard it is to set clues...

Yes, indeed. Hug

I need to 'improve every year...' Wink

by reckoner Fri 13 Apr 2012, 3:43 pm

laverfan wrote:Yes, indeed. I need to 'improve every year...'

perhaps a new coach might help... Run

by **laverfan** Fri 13 Apr 2012, 5:10 pm

reckoner wrote:
laverfan wrote:Yes, indeed. I need to 'improve every year...'

perhaps a new coach might help...

Waiting on my Lendl to be available. Perhaps I should wait for Federer to retire. Wink

by lydian Fri 13 Apr 2012, 5:36 pm

The jackal doesnt like something that sounds like an alternative milk source.

by **laverfan** Fri 13 Apr 2012, 6:06 pm

Carlos (The Jackal from Frederick Forsythe novel) Moya (sounds like Soya Milk).

by lydian Fri 13 Apr 2012, 9:53 pm

Hey! oops...that was too easy....but well done.

by **laverfan** Fri 13 Apr 2012, 11:01 pm

Clue - Cleopatra's lover in 'art' is a part of a IT comic strip character.

by time please Sat 14 Apr 2012, 5:00 am

lydian wrote:lol...think you need a curved brain for these mind twisters TP

LF...is it Carl Uwe Steeb?

lol indeed - mine is depressingly not curved in the right way! clap

btw - would never have got that one in a month of Sundays.

Afraid feeling too dim for latest clue as well laver Wink

I presume Cleo's lover in art is either Mark Anthony or Julius Caesar???? But I know nuffink about IT comics.

Is this peep, a current or retired player and are they male or female?

by **laverfan** Sat 14 Apr 2012, 2:59 pm

Marc Anthony it is as far as Cleo's lover is concerned.

Lydian and Reckoner should know about IT comic strips, I think.

Retired Male.

by **laverfan** Mon 16 Apr 2012, 1:26 pm

by lydian Mon 16 Apr 2012, 1:52 pm

Sorry LF...I got the Marc Anthony bit..I presume the IT strip bit is Dilbert.

Part of Dilbert.....Bert? Albert..?

Hmmm...still struggling...

by **laverfan** Mon 16 Apr 2012, 3:58 pm

lydian wrote:Sorry LF...I got the Marc Anthony bit..I presume the IT strip bit is Dilbert.

Part of Dilbert.....Bert? Albert..?

Hmmm...still struggling...

Dilbert is the correct comic strip. thumbsup

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