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

could have made it a little more graceful in deference to thread imo

stick a bit of that lubricant up your bum backwards, you fruit (7)

didnt solve it, lol'd anyway

--L-A--

sultana

^

utter rubbish tbh, booo etc

I don't quite get all of that.

I thought of this on the train this morning and liked it.
Scope of anger management (5)

ha i rly want to set that as a clue now.

xp range

xxp that lubricant in anus, reversed. you may quibble with the extraneous 'your'.

ok with slight amendments tbf

future rubbish, boo etc tbh - 5,2,2

Ah, I was looking for anal rather than anus.

(out of context bait right there)

(calling your own out of context postings stops it happening, right?)

range is correct.

That sultana v nice, I got stuck repeatedly trying to get KY or a bit of oil in ass.
'botch to be'?

ya, throwaway effort, and prob ought to have been hyphenated now i look again

3 away from finishing the big easter saturday guardian crossword.

Galloway's people profess no other partiality (7,2,7)

R E S P E C T | O . | P . . . O . S

(is that last bit an anagram of 'professno'?)

Organs for the crowd (5)

P . E . .

(plebs?)

Flowers in the shade (4-4)

. . . . | P . N .

respect of persons

which makes that R . . . | P . N .

RIVE PINS?

(Groping guess based on the painting Pins sur la rive by Georges Lacombe.)

rose pink, something like that?

and press

Tried to download Easter Guardian, forgetting that it would break my iPhone

thankyou. not sure i understand either entirely but...

(and if anyone else needs a solution just let me know)

I think: roses & pinks both kinds of flower, 'rose pink' a shade. Nice, I think. organs = 'organs of the press', press = crowd. Not as sold on that one.

is 'pink' a kind of flower? that's the bit i'm iffy with.

yeah it is

[citation needed]

pink1 noun 1 a light or pale-red colour, between red and white. 2 an annual or perennial plant, eg a carnation or sweet william, which has stems with swollen nodes, grass-like bluish-green leaves and flowers with a tubular calyx and five spreading toothed or slightly frilled pink, red, white, purple, yellow, orange or variegated petals

thanks

was looking for yesterday's on the guardian site and a search for april 2011 gave me this, from 1932!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/597

(did they reprint it?)

actually,

25 Website for domestic servant? (4,4)

did they have websites in 1932?

there are also clues referring to the "Fab Four" and "Nixon" so i suspect the date's wrong

still stuck on four in the lower regions of saturday's araucaria.

PIG EON

pod, train, town, and bird, are the problems here.

the pod is odd - 2nd half of it's easy

town i still can't figure out, but wikipedia gives you the answer. i wonder whether you can spell it a different way that matches the clue better.

american bird. you will kick yourself.

is the train the writer one? think that's another kicker.

-NE- BEAN, i figure. not up on my opera centres though.

American bird - as in a broad? A dame?

OH IT'S A FUCKING HIDDEN WORD

PULLMAN

snap bean? idgi

These (including koogs' post yesterday) are not really convincing me of Araucaria's genius, which iirc everyone else itt was quite determined of

just sayin etc

Intermittent genius, I would say. It can be hard to see the genius in a well-written and totally legit clue when you've been banging your head against it for hours. Otoh I'm not so impressed with convoluted 20+ letter anagrams, especially when there's no definition part in the clue. That "six clues are of a kind and not further defined" thing can fuck off imo.

snap bean is a thing, and american thing. SNAPE being a place they do opera, B from born, AN from AN.

yes, tinamou? who knew!

i got the theme by pure luck, just thought of something that fit, the (1, 9, 5, 6) one.

> These (including koogs' post yesterday) are not really convincing me of Araucaria's genius

yeah, these are the dregs though. that said, PLACIDNESS?

xp we got "the glass" (already had 'the', + good girl), and bingo.

today's guardian:

Be cool and calm when hot in lilac, unfortunately getting cross (7)

(clue straightforward, but am a bit o_O about the answer)

I got the answer but don't get the "unfortunately" bit

I quite liked "Fancy lad and me tied knot! (4,9)"

i am failing badly at the bottom half of yesterday's crossword, including the fancy lad, despite it being an obvious anagram. (that said, 50% is 45% more than i usually manage on weekdays)

and the 'unfortunately' bit is just another anagram indicator - anagram(lilac+h)+x

Hint for that one: it is topical, innit.

I breezed through the top half, very unusual for me especially on a Friday, and then my delusion of genius was destroyed by the bottom half. Have since finished it by cheating on several of the bottom half clues and mostly gone "ohh, of course", with a couple of "blimey, I'd never have got that but it works", so nothing desperately unfair or annoying.

Liked the puzzle on the whole, but maybe that was just because of the ego boost of the top half!

that 'be cool and calm' answer fun. Got it & figured it would be Paul, the scamp. Didn't see the paper but will have a shot at it online now.

Oh man it's saturday I could buy the times and spend the entire bank holiday trying to do the listener.

Hot to catch a girl with nothing on? (5)

I got the answer, LASSO, but do you think 'hot' was a typo for 'how' or am I missing something? (Trying to work 'hot' in hung me up for way longer than it should have!)