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

Thanks everybody. This morning I started worrying that maybe the plural of 'shaman' was actually 'shamen.'

+es are good

T/S: http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9959/88tp7l.jpg vs http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4900/tco2165.jpg

(wd start this on ILM for real if I thought more than 3 people would've heard the latter)

yeah there's a reeeeaaal lack of niche muso weirdos on ilm alright. 10/1 odds that not only would you get 30 votes, but the band nobody's ever heard of gets 27 of them.

Caution about bladder problem (3)

UTI

You got it.

Now trying to come up with an & lit clue, but can't quite do it:

You got it around blah blah blah (3)

ITU? telecommunications, = blah blah blah?

should be 1,1,1 if it is an initialism shirley.

OK. (1,1,1)

Wild pool rove around pole cheese (9)

provolone

he's eager, the boy.

eager to cry (4)

keen

eager for the hunt (4)

idk but can i add this before i forget

keen on a horse that loses a predator, it's clear (7)

crystal

She gets to hit everywhere (6)
French revolutionary sweetheart for short and long run (8)

French revolutionary sweetheart for short and long run (8)

marathon

crystal

yup

just for the sake of the surface i don't think it would have been too unfair to change it to keen on a horse that escapes a predator, it's clear.

it would have been a little laboured, but hey i set the stinkers that make the whole thread moan so...

marathon
Yes.

I'm gonna reclue the other one as

Woman's got to hit everywhere (6)

-l----

Oh, here's a cheap one, should be no problem if you've just read the same thread as me:

Prince drops $1000 for toilet paper (7)

(No idea, sorry Baron. Had to check that that was an L and not an i in your clue - it is the former, if anyone else wasn't sure)

charmin. i want to say slapper for the other one, except it's a) sexist and ii) wrong.

Yessir (barely worth confirming but still)

slapper works though!

really? how does per=everywhere?

hitting everywhere as in smashing everything, was a possible reading

Oh! It's "global", no?

Can't really do these but here is a shitty thing that wandered through my mind as I was pondering the above, hence being a less convincing take on the same construction:

Russian province to hit next to nothing (6)

Here's another, unrelated one that doesn't really work:
Loving? It's a business proposal (6)

Oh! It's "global", no?
Yes!

Shoot relatives with fruit (7)

Spooner's crooked Keane sells his assets regularly (4,3)

Rent Boy.

Yes. What about the other one?

Reclue:

Fruit heart relatives (7)

-----i-

that's even worse!

Finally! That was hard. It's pumpkin! Ugh got totally lost looking for standard plurals, should have known better.

I now owe the thread two. Will get onto it during this boring week at work.

(wait - Two or three, since Spacecadet's 1st is oblast.)

Slate lawyer's car? (5)

Red State, almost (6)

Aho! I had considered "kin" and failed to make a fruit out of it; am now groaning at both myself and the clue (in a good way, I think).

Two or three, since Spacecadet's 1st is oblast.

It is indeed. I was sort of going to disown those, but since you mention it, here's a letter for the other:

Loving? It's a business proposal (6)
-e----

I think that may be an inappropriate use of ?, but there we go.

Sorry about the bad clue. Really I was just trying to get ledge to post
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2545/4056709528_ee4418aa01.jpg

haha, you know I actually looked up the list of oblasts on Wikipedia without actually twigging that oblast itself was the answer :-(

How does it work exactly?

Oblast = Russian province. To hit = blast, next to "o" which is nothing .

Yep, what ailsa said. Kind of clumsy, sorry, but I got preoccupied with hit->blast for your "global" clue, then the only 6-letter word I could make out of it was that, and it wouldn't leave my head. Is "next to" bad form for "after" or is it OK on either side?

Oh, I thought this was the answer to "Red State, almost (6)"