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

correct - have a gateau.

damn no-one mentioned gateaux for winners

This thread rolls like a dead moose.

Gent will wear this in city, take it off in wood (8)

Still don't know what that is.

Salamander rose on circle in front of patch of land (7)

Axolotl! axoLOLing at "rose" etc

As I said I can't do these, but I ought to try to earn my gateaux somehow, so...

One can stray endlessly next to insect wanderer (9)

There, that's pretty shoddily constructed. Just so you're warned.

mine: P--------

d'oh! it's (9) not (8) ;_;

Itinerant

Correct! Have a blancmange while I consider this new information.

Sophisticated poster gets fork, followed by pen, another fork and shortened key for Song of Tomorrow (2,5,7)

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, March 26, 2007 9:21 PM (9 months ago)
The answer to this was

My White Bicycle

if anyone was wondering.

I know I was.

You need to work on your surface readings

Thanks for the advice.

Here to help!

How about helping with another letter for yours?

P-N------ !

pinstripe

yay

To summarize one point before crazy aunt's torment (2,1,8)

In a nutshell. You might be able to make that clue less awkward, though.

My flow is not glowing like phosphorus these days. But you gets wanna criticize, you provide an improved version of the clue.

Well, the best I've gotten with it so far is:

To make a long story short, crazy aunt's between Gary's home and the underworld.

Which is maybe better, but not there yet.

Short story beginning in crazy aunt's place in New York with kitchen

To cut a long story short, at home, crazy aunt's torment

doesn't work cause it needs to be crazy aunt is torment, not torment of crazy aunt.

To cut a long story short, it's awful inside a cashew :)

Wilson accepts genuine German theatre style. (9)

Brechtian

Nodding Colonel, we hear, leads soldier (6)

Dunno.

Fat man getting one hot wind (7)

Chronicles about saga of cheese (7)

i miss this thread. but unsolved clues should get an extra letter a day, or it just dies.

i remember looking at a list of named winds for that one four months ago. just tried again, still no joy.

-a-----

(Although, now that I look, apparently this spelling is not considered correct by many)

is that the cheese chronicle or the fat wind?

Taleggio?

Nope. The fat wind.

Fat man getting one hot wind in Baja California (7)

-a---n-

(note again that this now seems to be considered a variant spelling)

Chronicles about saga of cheese (7)
c------

Please to solve these clues before snarky remarks from Casuistry.

cheddar

Please to explain reasoning?

edda is a norse mythology (saga), chr for chronicles (common abbrev. used for the book of the bible).

santana, santa + an ('santa ana' the more common rendering)

Yes and yes, thanks.

Small houses for too much, in pounds (8)

Ah, thanks. Had been trying to fit "IH" into santa (for one, and hot)unsuccessfully there. Did not know the edda thing, though had considered cheddar as a possible answer.

I do like this thread, and I'm glad it's back.

-----g--

cottages?

Yes! OTT in cages. I hate when you stare at these for ages and can't get them, then someone else does and it's really really obvious.

I thought about cottages yesterday, but I could see how it worked. I still didn't understand the OTT until you just capitalized it.

go teamwork! *high fives*

Stir tuna around, hesitate to season (6)

Nature.

Sorry, I mean Autumn don't I?

yup!

Mass protest raised about pork - could this bring the ire of Muslims? (8)