Cryptic Voting - HYDRANT posted

[Suspence]

TRIVIAL PURSUIT:
Six getting into trouble following a board game.
six = VI
trouble = TRIAL
VI getting into TRIAL = TRI(VI)AL
following = PURSUIT (following taken as a noun)
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[novice]

TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Quiz Top Model competitor about one loud pleasure outfit.

Explanation:
Definition: Quiz
Wordplay:
Top Model = T (Ford)
competitor about one = RIV(I)AL
loud pleasure = PUR
outfit = SUIT

[Elethiomel]

TRIVIAL PURSUIT:

Six wedges, open examination - a sound habit! (7,7)

Definition: &lit.
Wordplay: six = VI, examination = TRIAL, a sound = PUR, habit = SUIT
Containment indicated by "wedges open": TRI (VI) AL PUR SUIT

[Suspence]

Anyone else planning to write a clue? This word was a bit tough.
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[Amb]

Sorry about that I like a challenge with Cryptic writing

[Scurra]

TRIVIAL PURSUIT:

Big game outfit ends with virtual rip when torn (7,7)

def: Big game (well, it was the biggest game on the planet at one point!)
virtual rip (anag. indicator "torn") followed by (ends) suit (outfit)
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[Suspence]

5 clues in...poll is up.
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[Scurra]

I'm interested that two people have used the same word as part of their clue but I'm not sure it's actually valid ("purr" has two Rs on the end, not one.)
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[novice]

I think you can spell the infinitive with one r.

[Suspence]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pur

Seems to work, though I've always seen it with 2 Rs.
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[Scurra]

It's interesting that dictionary.com has it listed, but thesaurus.com does not (but has no problems finding entries for the double R version.) And if I do a standard google search, only the longer version seems to turn up in any other major dictionaries. The only ones that seem to have the shorter version at all are all sites that use the 1913 Merriam-Webster as their source. That's not to say it's wrong, of course - after all, crosswords live and die by archaic words! But it does seem to be archaic...
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[Elethiomel]

We've got Wikipedia on our side too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pur

[Scurra]

Which side is that? Wikipedia clearly supports the 2 Rs position.
(Look more closely at that disambiguation page...)
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[Elethiomel]

The way I read it, it says pur may refer to purr. So they are synonymous.

And if Wikipedia says so, it must be true.

[Scurra]

So how come the main entry page for the word on wiki doesn't even mention the single R spelling (even under an alternative at the start, where it will normally list alternatives), and the disambiguation link on that main page isn't to the single R page (and doesn't mention it)? I think that undermines your case rather than strengthens it.

(Now this is the sort of definitional argument I love, because there's nothing important about it but we can all get ridiculously exercised about it.)
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[DejMar]

The word pur is a word spelling-variant of purr. This word variant can be found in the Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997), in the older Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), and the Century Dictionary Online.

Belatedly, I offer my cryptic for TRIVIAL PURSUIT:
A diversion in legal proceedings about four purloining keeps the first three before court. (7, 7)
TRIVIAL PURSUIT // TR(IV)IAL + PUR[loining]+SUIT
clue definition: a diversion (TRIVIAL PURSUIT)
definition-wordplay link: in
wordplay definition: legal proceedings = TRIAL
wordplay containment indicator: about
wordplay definition: four = IV
wordplay letter deletion indicator: keeps the first three {target: PUR[loining]}
wordplay positional indicator: before
wordplay definition: court = SUIT

[Scurra]

[DejMar]

I would have pointed out that the the word may be archaic if not for appearing in the Random House Unabridged Dictionary. As it is indicated, it is a 1997 edition, only about 15 years old. Which I consider to be "current".

[Elethiomel]

*hiss*

I'm ready for a new one.

[Amb]

At 5 votes, I'd say the winner is pretty decided.

[Amb]

In the meanwhile: If you are bored - code the word Tornado for fun. No votes or anything - as that would rob Suspense of the joy of picking the real next word.

[novice]

TORNADO: Tandoor destroyed in typhoon.

[Zag]

Tornado: Whirlwind ripped a door in half.

[Suspence]

I'm fine with TORNADO.
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[Suspence]

TRIVIAL PURSUIT poll results:

Board game facts to almost follow in short literature.
0% [ 0 ]

Six getting into trouble following a board game.
71% [ 5 ]

Quiz Top Model competitor about one loud pleasure outfit.
0% [ 0 ]

Six wedges, open examination - a sound habit!
28% [ 2 ]

Big game outfit ends with virtual rip when torn.
0% [ 0 ]

New word is TORNADO
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[DejMar]

TORNADO: Vacillating, bustling windstorm! (7)
Vacillating stir of activity! (7)

TORN + ADO = TORNADO
wordplay definition: vacillating = torn
wordplay definition: bustling stir of activity = ado
clue definition: windstorm = tornado
&lit definiton: vacillating stir of activity = tornado

(See later posts for the reason I chose to rewrite this.)

[Zag]

Well, since you picked on "left eye" for E, I'll call foul on "bustling" for "ado." They are different parts of speech. (Seriously, it's fine.)

[Suspence]

BUSTLING could be a noun, like ADO, no?
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[Zag]

Much Bustling About Nothing? Hmmm. I was comparing it to "puzzling," where the noun would be puzzlement, but is there an equivalent "bustlement"?

[DejMar]

TORNADO: Wicked odorant has made one violently active. (7)

(ODORANT)* = TORNADO
wordplay anagram indicator: wicked {target: ODORANT}
definition-wordplay link: has made
clue definition: one violently active = TORNADO

[DejMar]

[Amb]

Tornado: Dots on a floor leaving fools playing Twister.

dotsonafloor leaving fools = dotsonafloor
Playing = Anagram indicator = tornado.
Twister = Definition.


And for the record, I am extremely proud of that clue.

[DejMar]

I do like the clue concept, Amb. But... ...the surface reading indicates that the dots are performing an action instead of the the subject of such, and the subtraction indicator is a bit awkward in identifying its target. How about phrasing it more like...

Fools have left dots on a floor playing Twister. (7)

[Amb]

But you see your one sounds more like the dots are playing twister, than my one does?

[DejMar]

Touché. My point is that there is still a problem in the surface reading that needs to be worked out.

[Thok]

Tornado: Karate expert taken back by bull; spanish wind blows strongly.

Karate Expert = Dan, bull Spanish= TORO, taken back by TOR+NAD+O. wind blows strongly = definition

[Elethiomel]

TORNADO:

Ruptured a beehive, possibly in a whirlwind. (7)

[Scurra]

TORNADO:

Road not taken due to storm (7)
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[Suspence]

TORNADO:
Funnel encoded material into important list.

funnel = TORNADO
encoded material = RNA
important list = TO DO
RNA into TO DO = TO(RNA)DO
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[Suspence]

TORNADO poll is up
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