The official bored-at-work cryptic crossword pass it on thread.

OK Chris, your turn.

Cryptic snaps:

Your mom is like some Oklahoma city after a tornado has hit! (1, 4)
Your mom is like taffy that's been pulled too much! (5)
Your mom tried to eat Switzerland! (5)

Oh jeez, I screwed up the second one! Don't try to come up with these things before coffee.

Your mom is like taffy that was pulled so much it broke! (3)

Your mom tried to eat Switzerland! (5)
This is very sophisticated., Chris.

Your mom is all about a fish, I see? (8)

I think there's a Jim Thompson novel about that one.

Your mom fills the world with these ladylike skills! (5)

^ can only get two of those

Rash appearance leads some young medical practitioner to opine 'Measles!' (7)

Which ones can't you get? Some are tricky (and some could use more work (and there is some overlap)).

Symptom. Cute!

i've got 'a slut' and 'fat' (i think?)

aha, and 'bitch'!

I got what ledge got

--c------

I'm not sure the other one is really that hard!

Oh, yeah I had got that one too.

Upchucking stale chew-it in burger joint (5,6)

White Castle.

Yes.

Come as you are essay by grad student (9)

Oh, grad

or maybe "returning student"

hot Spanish cold (5)

re: your mom - alcoholic. can only think of whore for t'other one bit can't figure it out.

Alsatian painter, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace and delineating FACE, for example (8)

Maybe that other one is "warts"?

So close!

tell a student 'come as you are' (8)

sorry, couldn't help it. am i thinking along the right lines? can't come up with any synonyms that would fit...

wiles?

Alsatian artist, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace delineated FACE, for example (8)
---e----
hot Spanish cold (5)
This is pretty easy. No letters today.

OK, maybe I'll give some letters soon.

Alsatian artist, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace delineated FACE, for example (8)
---e--i-

hot Spanish cold (5)
--i--

What candy reveals if floating (4,5)

Smelly and amusing state (5)

chili for hot/cold. clueless on rest.

Not chili. Try again.

ah whaddaya mean it's not chili!

chili is noun, hot is adjective

s-i--

i'm up to my eyelids with flu, so tbh i'm cutting my losses. so gutted about chili.

Alsatian artist, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace delineated FACE, for example (8)
-r-e--i-

What candy reveals if floating (4,5)

---- ---e-

"Hot Spanish cold" is "spicy" and I am too braindead to offer a new one, sorry. Happy new year to the cryptic thread massive, though.

Yes.

Something illogical after Norway and Sweden get point and give up original (3,8)

non sequitur

Odd steps around rapper's girl's footwear (5)

__O__

shoes? though I don't get the steps bit, rapper's girl = ho.

odd steps = the odd letters, s e s.

Healthy, sick or broke (6)
Five-0 almost got rapper to talk (5)

The second one's voice

Yes.

What's the first one, ailsa?

Also still have these two
Alsatian artist, for example, greeting American soldier with embrace delineated FACE, for example (8)
-r-e--i-

What candy reveals if floating (4,5)

---- ---e-

And this
Smelly and amusing state (5)
(might be easier for someone in the US)

arpeggio (figured out '--eggi-' and then cheated)

Great, thanks for getting that over with.

Healthy, sick or broke (6)
-----t

What candy reveals if floating (4,5)
---e ---e-

Smelly and amusing state (5)
---n-

Dies outside icu, sadly (6)
Top monkey times (4)
Mobile man around tree (6)