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

mustang is a wild horse, nag is ang 'about', must is the 'obliged'

OH RIGHT

xps

Could maybe get 1, might need checked letters. The other two, not if it was a regular xword. Don't expect lunatic dictionary digging tests outside barred grids.

Oh, I somehow dropped the "obliged" in my mental wranglings. Still don't really get it. Maybe knowing where all the bits come from is missing the point. It certainly would be with today's Telegraph crossword, dunno the 80s.

All done? Alright, one more batch then.

(Is the modern Telegraph considered terribly debased?)

Wait, must + nag(anag) doesn't cover the "worry constantly", unless that's an anagram signifier, but we already have 2 potential anagram signifiers.

If I'm being very thick let me know and I'll shut up

I dunno, my grandparents stopped buying it because a) the crossword had gone downhill and b) even they'd noticed it was a bit righty, so I thought so, and the few occasions I did the modern Telegraph crossword I could happily go through the whole thing thinking "this answer doesn't account for half the words in the clue, but it's a synonym of either the first or last word and it fits the letters I've got"

...unlike this old Telegraph clue, where I can't get any of them, and when you give us the answers I'm still wondering where half the words went

obliged = must, worry constantly = nag, about = anagram (of nag), wild horse = definition.

telegraph was hella easy last few times i tried, also overabundance of one type of clue (e.g. anags one day, hidden words the next) - but didn't think the clues were bad or wrong.

I've forgotten how to write English and have to resort to posting 4 incoherent blasts in a row, it must be a Friday afternoon. No wonder I can't do crossword clues

Thank you ledge, got it now, I can go home happy. Or I wish I could. 40 minutes...

Think telegraph is usually easiest of the traditional broadsheet xwords (imo difficulty is more or less: Hard Guardians > Indie = Times > Easy Guardians >> Telegraph. Dunno abt FT or Standard)

Where rosiest apples are displayed in peach cover-up? (4-5)
Foresight exhibited by the wearer of a necklace (4)
House value not appreciated by the council, possibly (10)
Something to which one is lately indebted (7)
Bang-on-time style of journalists (11)
Some racehorses of fibre (6)

and the few occasions I did the modern Telegraph crossword I could happily go through the whole thing thinking "this answer doesn't account for half the words in the clue, but it's a synonym of either the first or last word and it fits the letters I've got"

WELL DUUUUH

Wife is sick so I'm gonna head out & get stuff for her, answers when I come back, mad props to anyone who solves & explains in the meantime...

now we're talking!

freestyling while these are no doubt solved in the meantime

I'm thinking something about beards in first one maybe
Third one something about depreciation of a council house i guess
Fourth one funeral or some other cost of dying
something like starter's pistol

i'm just free, free styling

was thinking something about eden or similar for the first one? and/or maybe 'cover up' is the def.

This got real.
Stable's a stretch, maybe, for the last one.

So uh I'm a moron - Bang-on-time style of journalists is (9), not (11)

sorry for being rubbish

GRAHGHGHAGHA

It still doesn't make any sense, though.

word for hit, word for time, word for style maybe, def is journalists or style of journalists.

yeah i can't front i'm not actually even close to any of these

bang on time- detonator?

"Ah Willie, Willie, was my love less worth
Than apples with their green leaves piled above?
I counted rosiest apples on the earth
Of far less worth than love."

nope.

darragh - nope.

i like the garden of eden angle but after that ....

c'mon let's get some answers, i've got five minutes left here...

doesn't really make sense as a cryptic clue, but is the journalist one "deadlines"?

fubc-sebag
ornq

reporters?

haqreengrq
neernef

bead- i thought beady eyed, but tbh

ercbegntr
fgevat

alarmists?

damnit i THOUGHT the council house answer!

shoulda got the journalists one tbf

lately indebted one threw me but is a good clue

wait did we get the journalists one yet?

yup. xp might need that explained...

i was close to it!

i kinda get #2, don't get #1

Journalists one is nice. Quite like the 4-5 too.

Crucial for #1: peach = betray, accuse

^ my new thing learned for the day

^ !

Ohhhh.. #2: double def, front sight of a gun