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

no that's it i think

not American: "my light is green" = "I'm a go"

so not "I'm-a" but "a go" = can go

i think that is it, though i don't think they're aiming for "i'm-a go", but "i'm a go"

oh, xpost

i got 'i'm a go' but didn't bother looking up 'imago' lol lazy

ah, I suppose that works (file under things nobody I know says)

hooray etc

Been burned by IMAGO before.

Did anyone do that Mersey Beat themed Guardian a few weeks ago?

do the grauniad most days but don't recall that one.

i quite liked

"Seat of empire (7)"

Ottoman!

From Sunday's Everyman:

Special peers, triumvirate reforming economic policy (11)

Perestroika, nice

Lots of possible avenues of enquiry with the way the clue is set, but the solution makes perfect sense. Very satisfying!

SPOILERS!

Sorry koogs, I was unusually (by my standards) quick to answer your clue...

(i meant 'perestroika'. i had the ....s.r.i.a but...)

aha sorry!

so, how is your knowledge of oil terminals? i think i prefer the cricket clues...

Volume so staggering around large oil terminal (6,3)

obvious anagram, but the answer's a proper noun meaning that it could be anything.

and as for 26 across...

O? (4,6)

(please, no spoilers)

I had trouble with the oil terminal clue too, the answer is this though (link disguised to avoid spoilers!) http://bit.ly/opPoJ8

Annoyingly it's not a direct anagram either...

ha, hadn't spotted that. i just wiki'd up a list of oil terminals and picked the obvious one.

what letters do you have for the "O" clue? I've had an idea...

two more than i had this morning, but it's still in the wilderness there in the bottom right.

. o . e / . e . . . .

Ah. I get it.
http://bit.ly/3ufq3S

love letter

beaten to the punch

spoiler alert!

Uh isn't this the thread for answering crossword clues? Seems a bit pointless to not answer them.

koogs specifically said no spoilers above...

ah ok, sorry koogs

(though why post? just sharing the pain?)

no spoilers is a bit against the spirit of this thread, but I assumed it was something to do with Everyman being a prize crossword.

now we know the answer, why "love letter"? "letter" I can see, obv...

love (tennis) = 0 = O.

aha of course!

'no spoilers' is a bit of an ask when posting a clue itt tbf

> but I assumed it was something to do with Everyman being a prize crossword.

not really. i like to do these myself* it's just that it usually takes me til thursday before i give up on it.

* actually, not true. will happpily do them in the pub on a sunday. but that's real people, not internet mentalists (no offence!)

> no spoilers is a bit against the spirit of this thread,

i posted it because it was unusual.

not sure i like the answer though. 0 is not a letter and O is not 0.

is there another thread?

for unusual crossword clues you don't want solved?

not sure i like the answer though. 0 is not a letter and O is not 0.

I agree, but then I don't have a problem with it being reversed and "love" signifying "O" (think that was mentioned upthread somewhere).

I liked this one from today's Guardian:

Language sounding like a vegetable when drunk (7)

(s(w(e(d)i)s)h)

nope

but close

SPOILER DO NOT CLICK
???

yes well done!

Shouldn't (mightn't?) this clue Language sounding like a vegetable when drunk (7) have a ? at the end to signify its groan-inducing punniness?

i don't get the real answer (mine was better!)

(hint) Shay, buddy, can you shpare a quarter for a drink?

koogs, I had same problem - answer is not title of linked article, but in second sentence.