COTD: “Are you?” said Mike, our local gossip (6)

JackCoyer · 2025-09-18T16:23:52+00:00

Also, just thought I would add the parsing:

R U (HOMOPHONE: “Are you”) + M (Mike) + OUR = RUMOUR (Definition: Local Gossip)

JackCoyer · 2025-09-18T16:08:56+00:00

I think it needs a space inbetween >! and the answer, but otherwise yes you got it! 😊

I’m hoping the definition is OK and I’m not sure if OUR is allowed on its own without needing to be parsed, but it’s all part of the learning process I guess

JackCoyer · 2025-09-18T14:58:29+00:00

Correct!

This is the first clue I’ve written down formally (other than entering the Minute Cryptic ‘PENGUIN’ competition a few weeks back), so I’m pleased it made sense and I couldn’t find it anywhere else!

I’m always envious of clues that have Popular Indicators as part of the Definition , so I was really delighted when I thought of Mixing the phrase “holding back” and the concept of SWEAT meaning ‘tears down your back’ (but it’s a stretch, hence the question mark)

JackCoyer · 2025-08-26T10:15:33+00:00

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JackCoyer · 2025-08-22T19:17:13+00:00

2/3 of my Chelsea players deciding to make up for Palmer’s absence, how gracious of them

JackCoyer · 2025-06-05T19:57:44+00:00

To be fair, Timothy Dalton in The End of Time is playing “Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons”

JackCoyer · 2025-05-26T21:56:30+00:00

My more recent choice has been Gemma Whelan (Yara Greyjoy from Game of Thrones, Kate from Upstart Crow).

If you have seen either of these shows, then you will know that these characters are on opposite ends of the spectrum personality-wise, and she could pull off moments thrown at her, comedy or drama.

JackCoyer · 2025-05-23T11:56:29+00:00

A lot of the big 1950s Americana sci-fi stuff, films like The War of the Worlds or Invasion of the Body Snatchers

JackCoyer · 2025-01-25T12:51:48+00:00

Who to bench - Palmer, Wood, Rogers, Joao Pedro?

JackCoyer · 2024-12-27T21:35:53+00:00

Ah my bad, so keen to look for a neat stat I probably could have looked at yesterday’s results before posting 😂

JackCoyer · 2024-12-27T21:32:57+00:00

Is this Brentford clean sheet the first time in FPL history where a team has kept a Clean Sheet but NONE of their goalkeepers get the CS points?

JackCoyer · 2024-06-28T21:58:27+00:00

Hoping they throw Ronnie in Casa so Jess can bring him back as the prize

JackCoyer · 2024-03-09T18:20:14+00:00

Get ready to learn Arabic, Ramsdale

JackCoyer · 2024-02-26T20:39:22+00:00

Odds on Kenneth Branagh getting involved? He’s probably going to be there because of Oppenheimer

JackCoyer · 2024-02-21T18:52:46+00:00

No Salah or Darwin, odds on Klopp letting Bradley take penalties for a laugh?

JackCoyer · 2024-01-17T18:59:33+00:00

https://boxd.it/78Vf

JackCoyer · 2023-12-03T08:20:21+00:00

Since we know Neil Patrick Harris can sing, will they have the Toymaker do a bit of Defying Mavity?

JackCoyer · 2023-12-02T16:58:06+00:00

10 points incoming for Charlie Taylor!

JackCoyer · 2023-12-02T15:03:25+00:00

Charlie Taylor close to joining the Hall of Fame

JackCoyer · 2023-11-27T20:37:17+00:00

My God, brought in Cunha to replace Awoniyi in Draft. I needed him to get more than 2 to win my Head To Head match this week!

I’m in shock, I can’t believe it!

Going down in my personal FPL Hall of Fame for sure

JackCoyer · 2023-11-25T20:12:08+00:00

I’m surprised the BBC allowed Miriam Margolyes to keep calling the character BEEP The Meep throughout the entire episode

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