# Crossword Clue Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 25, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818 "2020-10-25T07:00:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 51

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1001 "2021-06-06T06:49:25Z")

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1. Phelps specialty
2. Baby’s modus operandi
3. Bottom-of-screen news

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1002 "2021-06-06T07:33:45Z")

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**Panache** got some good ones, so I got a little creative.

1. Creatherworker’s crool?
2. Expressway traffic condition
3. “She’s a ‘Close Relative’? Aw, 'ell!”

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1003 "2021-06-06T13:36:49Z")

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1. You must do this before you walk
2. One pub after another
3. Four on the floor?

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1004 "2021-06-06T14:23:43Z")

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1. What to do into The Gap
2. Space shorter than basement
3. Traverse from one pub to another

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1005 "2021-06-07T07:48:08Z")

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After some deliberation, I’m going with this:

> [@FastDan1](#):
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> Four on the floor?

Take it away, **FastDan1**!

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1006 "2021-06-07T20:41:39Z")

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Thanks SunUp.

Let’s go with **TRIP**

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1007 "2021-06-07T20:58:30Z")

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1. Puzzle designer Payne
2. The \_\_\_\_\_, 2010 film featuring Steve Coogan
3. Light Fantastic verb

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1008 "2021-06-07T22:23:04Z")

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1. It’s taken down memory lane
2. LSD might lead to a bad one
3. Trump is often on an ego one
4. Leads to Stumble and Fall

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1009 "2021-06-07T22:29:38Z")

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1. Can be road or acid
2. Lead in to -let or -lane
3. Cruise or ride

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1010 "2021-06-08T00:01:44Z")

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1. Three urinations?
2. Something taken
3. Long, strange one

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1011 "2021-06-08T11:54:02Z")

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1. intense visionary experience
2. With ‘trap’, what the Billy Goats Gruff did over the bridge
3. ego or power
4. type of ticket for there and back, with ‘round’

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1012 "2021-06-09T04:21:09Z")

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It took me a minute to figure out Three urinations? 🤦‍♂️

But we will go with:

> [@Spoons](#):
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> Long, strange one

@Spoons, you’re it.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1013 "2021-06-09T04:36:13Z")

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Thanks, **FastDan1**. That one was a challenge. This time, let’s try …

**FRAME**.

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1014 "2021-06-09T05:41:07Z")

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1. Spin
2. Set up
3. Step with studs

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1015 "2021-06-09T06:21:46Z")

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1. Mona Lisa or Guernica has one
2. Comic strip square
3. Baseball inning
4. Snooker rack
5. “An Angel at My Table” author

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1016 "2021-06-09T11:48:49Z")

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1. The 10th one could have 3 X’s
2. Outline; plan
3. Entrap

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1017 "2021-06-10T03:53:10Z")

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This one is either obvious at first, or not obvious until you get a few cross letters.

> [@Rebo](#):
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> The 10th one could have 3 X’s

Nicely done, @Rebo! And it’s your turn.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1018 "2021-06-10T04:03:57Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> - Mona Lisa or Guernica has one

Just a quick note – I didn’t think Guernica had a frame, and so far as I can tell, it doesn’t.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1019 "2021-06-10T11:44:17Z")

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Thanks!

Let’s go with **ROLL**.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/1020 "2021-06-10T11:59:31Z")

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1. California or Philadelphia, for example
2. Player piano player?
3. Drum rudiment
4. Start of an Alabama cheer

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