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

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.

yes, when buying rounds in pubs. it's my shout - i'm buying these, these are my treat.

Spain - think of a student ___ week, the main surviving example of this usage - like that one more than the rest but then it's the only one I got

(xposts, oh well)

Still hate #3.

#5 amazing work!

dropping 6 at a time turns this thread into some kind of piranha word puzzle frenzy, i love it.

Ok new lot coming!

Fashionable dress-silk (7)
Old watchman to hang fire (4)
Exceptionally bright light at the front (4)
Indeed name a hundred, already named! (9)
A drop of water that mars one's view (8)
Obliged to worry constantly about a wild horse (7)

nynzbqr
jnvg
irel
qrabhaprq (this is the now-obligatory one I get as soon as I type it)
pngnenpg
zhfgnat

#1 is double definition

As is #2

pretty archaic first def tho.

i know, it says "old"

these ones i'll admit to struggling with- i've tried looking up types of silk but only getting a similar spelling to the answer for the first one.

rest of em? baffled

don't get #3, #5 is nice - double def basically.

xps

Yeah it's listener/azed level arcane vocab - last definition in Chambers.

indeed = in 'deed'