Cryptic Clues

[Hotwire]

Yup.

Finally!! You got my 1st one, care to give the other 2 a shot??

 

[Halcohol]

2: Pssh... umm... something about being "flambeed"?
3: Like a Virgin?

 

[Hotwire]

2: Pssh... umm... something about being "flambeed"?
3: Like a Virgin?

nope and nope

 

[Halcohol]

3. She Talks to Angels

 

[Hotwire]

3. She Talks to Angels

Got it. #2 is a Metallica song.

 

[Halcohol]

Jump in the Fire?

EDIT: No, it's Blackened!

 

[Hotwire]

Jump in the Fire?

Try again

 

[Dangerous]

Er I don get this thread.

 

[Babs Gordon]

We give a clue for a song or movie title. You have to figure out which one.

 

[TKing]

I don't know any of them.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Now for a change of pace, here we have clues for movie titles. Some of these are pretty easy I think.

1. white house, señor Casablanca

2. the initiation of homo chiroptera Batman Begins

3. peace ad somnium

4. an osteichtian, christened after Ms. Sykes A Fish Called Wanda

5. Ritchie, Fawkes, Barbie, and Ann Guys and Dolls

6. The Angels, just between me and you

7. “Waiter, my salad has no dressing!” Naked Lunch

8. the extra-jurisdictional J. Cymru

9. Abel

10. Pre-Olympian Titanic

 

[Hotwire]

Now for a change of pace, here we have clues for movie titles. Some of these are pretty easy I think.

1. white house, señor

2. the initiation of homo chiroptera

3. peace ad somnium

4. an osteichtian, christened after Ms. Sykes

5. Ritchie, Fawkes, Barbie, and Ann

6. The Angels, just between me and you

7. “Waiter, my salad has no dressing!”

8. the extra-jurisdictional J. Cymru

9. Abel

10. Pre-Olympian

2. Batman Begins
4. A Fish Called Wanda
5. Guys and Dolls

 

[TheJaberwock]

1. white house, señor

Casa Blanca

 

[Fledermaus]

6. Angels Among Us
7. Naked Lunch

 

[Hotwire]

Now for a change of pace, here we have clues for movie titles. Some of these are pretty easy I think.

1. white house, señor Casablanca

2. the initiation of homo chiroptera Batman Begins

3. peace ad somnium

4. an osteichtian, christened after Ms. Sykes A Fish Called Wanda

5. Ritchie, Fawkes, Barbie, and Ann Guys and Dolls

6. The Angels, just between me and you

7. “Waiter, my salad has no dressing!” Naked Lunch

8. the extra-jurisdictional J. Cymru

9. Abel

10. Pre-Olympian

I'm stumped, mr. kane. Could we get some hints?? Maybe the actors who were in these movies??

 

[C.F. Kane]

3. peace ad somnium

all in the translation

6. The Angels, just between me and you

Part of this must be translated and abbreviated

8. the extra-jurisdictional J. Cymru

for help with J. Cymru's surname, try running it through Wikipedia

9. Abel

Adam
Cain
Abel

10. Pre-Olympian

Know your mythology. What was before the Olympians?

 

[Hotwire]

10. Remember the Titans
Cymru is a Welsh dictionary. You sure you got this dude's name spelled right??

 

[Hotwire]

Help!! My post was cloned!!

 

[C.F. Kane]

10. Remember the Titans
Cymru is a Welsh dictionary. You sure you got this dude's name spelled right??

You're on the right track, but the clue for 10 was an adjective.

And yes, that is the correct spelling of Cymru. Translation plays an important part in many of these clues

 

[Green Lantern]

10. Titanic

 

[C.F. Kane]

10. Titanic

yup

 

[Dangerous]

I don get this thread

 

[Hotwire]

I don get this thread

We're taking song and movie titles and rewording them to make them cryptic. Like taking the song title, "Freebird" and changing it to "an avian lifeform that is unrestrained". We post the cryptic version and everyone else tries to guess it. Give it a shot. Here's a song title...

Acts of questionable integrity performed for discount prices

 

[TheJaberwock]

Acts of questionable integrity performed for discount prices

Cheap Trick?

 

[cryptic name]

We're taking song and movie titles and rewording them to make them cryptic. Like taking the song title, "Freebird" and changing it to "an avian lifeform that is unrestrained". We post the cryptic version and everyone else tries to guess it. Give it a shot. Here's a song title...

Acts of questionable integrity performed for discount prices

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