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

Greetings, found my way here from the dead cryptic thread. (Thought this one was specifically for creating your own and passing it on, but I'll stick my general noob queries/befuddlements here.)

So, if you haven't seen, The Nation has 5 puzzlers vying to replace the late Frank Lewis:

http://www.thenation.com/article/159126/five-vie-puzzlers-mantle?page=full

I solved my first-ever complete puzzle today (Nestor Nightspree's) but I gather from online pundits that this one was easier than the norm, and not particularly well written.

finished nestor's (except for the bismarck clue). pretty facile, but not unfair. never come across that spelling of 'cigaret' before though.

Yeah, facile's the skill level I'm at at present. (This still took me a couple days, off and on.)

well you beat me, if you got the bismarck one!

never come across that spelling of 'cigaret' before though.

Watch Countdown More.

would that i could...

don't worry it'll still be going when you've retired

how to dispose of a gospel (6)

I want to say remark, but not sure I can justify that meaning "how to dispose"

i'd like to see you do that, certainly

Nah, for "not sure I can" read "I definitely can't"

something about a "john"?

nope

it's at this stage i begin to agonize over my clue tbh

renews

remark, reluke, rebook, resomethingorother

nope

that last one doesn't even fit ffs

aretha ( sounds like urethra?)

i mean lol

when has one of my clues ever been so erudite

dispel?

golpes! (It's a bilingual answer-clue combo)

remove

way too much credit tbh. I can hear the groans for this one already

Just get it over with and tell us.

forget - forge it

Please baby baby please

p----t

pulpit!

haha

andy carroll-like strike rate, this lad

Nodding Colonel, we hear, leads soldier (6)

From 3 years back, unsolved apparently.

and by way of a remix:

Silent soldier heard freak (6)

not a clue

eh, that's not actually a criticism of the clue, which realise it looks like

first one begins with a n, second one begins with a m

2nd one: mutant

correct

yay!

sure the other one is something to do with nut but i just can't get it.

finished (well more or less) the next two of those nation crosswords. they're getting harder, but not much better. some good clues, some bad, pretty average over all. *spoiler* '44' as a definition for 'barack obama' is a real teeth-grinder.

u are on the right track and the other clue shd help and a dictionary also

nutant (hurray for dictionaries!)

:) CORRECT love that word

kinda horrible but fed up staring at it. also easy i daresay.

For jellyfish stew: puree with gusto and serve with turnover slice raw on a muffin (10, 3-1-3)

Portuguese man'o'war.

Haven't looked at the cryptic bit yet, but feeling pretty solid on jellyfish... (10, 3-1-3)

clue starts well, but 'turnover slice raw on a muffin' is fugly, in sense and for wordplay.

Wait did you write that? Sorry if I was rude I thought it was from a newspaper.

struggles over the line imo

nah i wrote it and yeah it's fugly :( what would you suggest?

jellyfish- 10, 3'1 3