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

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

Yeah, I just looked up peach on thesaurus.com - still couldn't make it fit into an answer, right enough.

this is total new word def day for me. Wait! Very!

still can't get #2 to parse but friday evening settling in at this stage

Ey thanks and kudos to GP for this shot in the arm btw

Cor, also did not know about bead = sight on a gun. This is very informative (and pretty obscure) stuff all round.

Can someone explain 'lately indebted'? I get #1 and the 'bang' one now, thanks guys.

and i'd like to thank the makers of the chambers iphone app for helping me find these ridic words

Lately indebted basically other way of saying overdue, no?

I think it's just an &lit: 'lately indebted' = late on your debts = arrears

that was xp

I knew bead = sight on gun, but didn't click.

yeah arrears just late on debt

'wearer of a necklace' not really sure bout this part though

necklaces have beads. sometimes. this is the weakest thing yet imo.

yeah the rest of that batch are pretty solid clues tho