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

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)

tell a student 'come as you are' (8)
no idea

informal.

What candy reveals if floating (4,5)
life saver?

Yes.

Who is Al?

A L, a learner. (Common over here, 'L' plates on cars indicate learner driver.)

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

Smelly and amusing state (5)
--n-- (Previous hint was messed up)

Dies outside icu, sadly (7) (previous numbering was messed up)
--i----

Top monkey times (4)
--e-

Mobile man around tree (6)
----e-

Apex. A pedant writes: ape is not monkey!

I know, but I wanted to use "Monkey Time(s)"

Oh, I wondered if the N was in the wrong place. "Funky"

Suicide

Yes and yes.

Did I ever ask you this one?

Ape aches inside for beauty (5)

No I don't think so.

A propos of nothing at all, my work did a Christmas prize crossword, with some winter festival themed clues, and I can see that one of them must be Diwali but I can't figure the clue out at all, which means I don't know whether they want the W spelling or the V spelling (non-intersecting square). Bah!

Anyway, it'd be unsporting to ask you guys, but still, I thought I'd complain here where people might understand my annoyance.

Why don't you post clue?