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

i'd have agreed with you on the clues until ledge pulled the rug under our feet with positive theo, now i'm wary

I knew ledge would come good. Shall I post more, or do people want to crack on with morbid fear/ given in embarassment?

no more fear and embarrassment for me (i wish)

more pls

Isn't morbid fear parsed? It's just a really awkward clue, somewhere between double definition and &lit.

More!

> Beholde withe how fewe single pure and easye institucions cryste orned & not onered his chirche.

were they having a sale on 'e's?

A blooming spanish bayonet perhaps (5)
Firth of Forth rock fish (4)
One up on a major saddle (3)
Old enough to start earning immediately (4)
Practically everything here seems to be £1.99 (6,3)

wait I really DO get #4 this time!

lhppn
onff
pby
rabj
arneyl nyy

ha i'm not touching those this morning, i think i broke my brain last night

the major saddle is fairly straight fwd- one up on a major, a geographical feature between two hills.

rabj is an archaic word for enough, first letter just stands for earnings (this may be an economic/accounting common abbrev but tbh i'm not sure)

#1 - Spanish Bayonet is a variety of the answer

sorry, of lhppn

onff is double def.

practically everything is straightforward enough, but tbh the nyy part i would have expected to be the roman numerals for 200 to make any sense. i'm prob missing something fairly straightforward

yy = old ££

ah ok

first letter just stands for earnings (this may be an economic/accounting common abbrev but tbh i'm not sure)

'to start' tells you just to use the first letter.

xxp congrats to woof for writing that far more succinctly and coherently than i could ever have done.

fairy nuff

Oh wow - forgot that 'yy' usage!

So those are all done now!

More?

no, i'm busy!

xxp - ty, cncsn is the aim.

I too am trying to be busy. But I guess some more could just sit there, and no-one would have to look at them if they were worried abt getting the sack say.

oh bollocks that's not how it works and you know it

Junkie's dead: dictionary contains the answer? (6)

addict

Quite right. Must stop. Prob shouldn't be scribbling 'junkie' and 'addict' on the corner of proofs I'm meant to be correcting.

wait why did it stop?

I lost the book.

I found the book.

Article in cornet shape pertaining to the clergy (9)
Perturbed about tinned fish (6)
Thoroughfare prepared for traffic (7)
Kind of sale sought by potter (9)
Part of Spain where some horseplay is in purpose (6)
Give patient attention or shout (5)

Oops, #5 is "Part of Spain where some horseplay is in progress" (6), not 'purpose'

pnabavpny (totally get this now :)
funxra
ebnqjnl
pyrnenapr
nentba
gerng

got the first one anyway
got the wrong kind of fish for the 2nd, tripped me up!
third one very straightforward, kind of threw me tbh
don't get potter one at all! apart from the sale part.
don't get the shout part of the last one

i'd have got th spain one but don't understand it tbh

is #2 a type of tinned fish?

Potter = snooker player

Wow!

#2 fa= chemical symbol for tin (don't think I've seen that before. Nice.)

Wow!

Never mind get these right, I don't think I could ever even independently deduce half of these from the solutions.

Can someone explain #3?

but fa doesn't appear in answer? (am i being dumb here?)

i read the four central letters of the answer as the fish

i think no 3 is almost not cryptic, unless i'm missing another *level* mayne

tinned fish = type of fish inside chemical symbol for tin (sn)

spain one quite funny.

shout in the sense of 'it's your shout.'

xposts

oh FA why didn't you say!

i'm meh on the shout aspect tbh

"it's your treat"?

not cryptic clues always throw me, are they actually allowed?

xps

Sorry, maybe sticking in rot13 is confusing things, fa=sn, so the fish is 'in' tin.

#5 horseplay = n ent + in progress = ba

xp it's a double definition, that's legit.