Community Event / Creation The Elite Cryptic Crossword

[Zieman]

Microsoft

No.

A hint: think Elite (if not original, then current wip incarnation...)

 

[Zieman]

Ho-hum.

34X: was once upon a time 'soft' (5)

Make that Xxxxxsoft.

Across horizontal intersection of 34th hole surface normal in the standard 6D Calabi-Yau quintic manifold. Nothing complicated.

A hint: think Elite (if not original, then current wip incarnation...)

Another clue: 1999

 

[kilvenny]

I give in. Five clues and all I know is its a 5 letter word which I knew at the start.

 

[Zieman]

The word I'm looking for (in sufficiently cryptic way ) has connections with C64, FE2, FFE, E: D & 1999.

 

[kilvenny]

Never had a C64, only played Elite and 1999 I spent looking for Y2K bugs and our third child was born so wasn't gaming.

 

[Zieman]

Never had a C64, only played Elite and 1999 I spent looking for Y2K bugs and our third child was born so wasn't gaming.

Fictional 1999.

 

[Zieman]

The word I'm looking for (in sufficiently cryptic way ) has connections with C64, FE2, FFE, E: D & 1999.

Add the Moon to that list.

 

[G.T]

Lunarsoft?

Spacesoft?

 

[Zieman]

Lunarsoft?

Spacesoft?

Nope.

Remember, we're looking for a 5-letter word, that can be combined with 'soft' as the latter part, the combination bearing relevance to people who know Commodore 64's shades of grey...

 

[Yaffle]

Nope.

Remember, we're looking for a 5-letter word, that can be combined with 'soft' as the latter part, the combination bearing relevance to people who know Commodore 64's shades of grey...

Fifty?

 

[Cody]

Fifty?

<groans>

 

[Zieman]

Fifty?

<groans>

Laughing Out Loud !

 

[G.T]

Err... Llamasoft?

Remember gridrunner from the c64 from them!

 

[Frank]

Landisoft?

 

[Cody]

<sniggers>

Eagle?

 

[Zieman]

<sniggers>

Eagle?

Eagle (Long Range Fighter) has landed. Eaglesoft cracks Space: 1999 and flies the Eagle Transporter off the Moon.

 

[kilvenny]

Finally - Cody your turn ! <breathes sigh of relief, ambles back to his 150MB/s broadband and start browsing for Star Citizen.

 

[kilvenny]

Cody - where are youuuuuuuuuuuuu?

 

[Cody]

Resting! I ain't been too well lately, and my cryptic brain definitely ain't in gear.
I'll have a little think though, rustle something up - the show must go on!

 

[Cody]

2048A: imperturbable stillness? (7)