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

Oh yeah, sudden flash of insight - that kind of poached.

ahhhhhh

vg

A++

A good one from today's Guardian:

Spice Girl on tour topless, one topless in Australia (9)

from sunday's observer

Fight fire in Bergen? (8)

My Spice Girls knowledge not being all that great, I was trying to make "Posh" or "Sporty" work before backing into the answer. That's a fun one. (xpost0

yeah it works well doesn't it!

Ooh, just got the Spice Girl one. Nice!

Got a lol out of the other spice girls clue:

Was there nothing Ginger Spice accomplished that's musical? (10)

haha!

Songster of happiness perished in lake (8)

Certain i've got this answer right but have no idea why. Also:

Rocky part of sail (4)

is the only clue i haven't got today and i've had enough

nevermind the first one, i've just twigged. idiot.

kasabian? pizzaman? wikipedia not helping here.

I think I have the 1st, no idea on the 2nd

the first is fractionally unfair imo, odd use of grammar

if it's what I think it is, shouldn't the answer be 2 words? also I hate the word "songster/songstress" so

a clue that really really pissed me off a few weeks ago by enigmatist(?) I can't remember the details but is "light crick" really a spoonerism for "right click"?

no it's one word, i looked it up after i worked out why it was right.

ah. assuming the 2nd is a sailing thing, so there's zero chance of my getting it

Independent puzzle was really fun today. Great theme.

Something related to a gasket that is useful for keeping water out. (8)

S_A_ _ _I_

sealskin
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Pale imitation amongst performers at z-list event. (6)

nice

Oh Haha I just got it, duh. I kept seeing the hidden word "steven" which threw me off.

I have to confess I needed the answer key for 'sealskin'; I had 2 of the checking letters wrong. Sometimes the punniness is too much for me.

'Pale imitation' one is great.

someone put me out of my misery

/shoots ledge

...ers at z...

fuck it i had ersatz and cdn't figure out why

hidden word clues are the lowest of the low

shit! (not the clue, i thought wins' post meant it wasn't a hidden word.)

hidden word clues are only bad because they make you feel like an idiot for not spotting them.

exactly

I like them as the foot-in-the-door for barred grids - initial taste of hope in impossible crossword.

can admire showy ones too

What's in Latin sign, if I can translate, is of no importance (13)

(reading draft of friend's crossword book, took that from there).

also nice!

From today's Guardian:

Fickle Charlie Clark ingesting drug? (10)

nice

Siamese twin taken in by audible element of debt scam (11)

Man, I just went to The Guardian to see the answer for Fickle Charlie Clark and my brain exploded, not only from that one but TAPSTER? COURGETTE?

Never in a month of Sundays would I come up with CHAN and GABLE from Charlie Clark.

Glad I'm not the only one!

yeah but changeable was pretty obvious from the get go, then you work backwards

I actually tried to think of Charlies and Clarks, managed Chan and Gable, from there it was easy.

Courgette is the British word for zucchini, and is pretty common.

Fish can do on lines (4, 4) (observer yesterday)

A sailor tours museum for manifestation of a god (6)

Guardian, today. Thinking on yours koogs!

I had to get most of the checking letters before I got the fish. Nicely misleading (although the 'lines' should give it away really).