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

this is only telling me just how fucked my head is at the moment tbh

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lol

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ah the fist image didn;t show up for me at first!

labradoodle

anagram of adorable old

OTM, a really elegant clue! NV will be kicking himself...

i did look at the anagram but i got hung up on "blood" as part of it.

'labradoodle' is never a legit answer in a serious crossword imo

I don't get how Graham Norton is a clue? Does he own one? Do people generally know this?

he does, idk if it's common knowledge. i've just seen him with it on the street near where i work a bunch of times.

can a ledge be against autodefenstrationism? Surely it's more a matter for the latch, the frames, the panes etc

'labradoodle' is never a legit answer in a serious crossword imo

why not, it's a thing

lacks appropriate gravity imo

whole reams of smutty and slangy clues would be out of bounds by that logic.

Doesn't seem to be in Chambers which I thought it had to be

In The Times, maybe, they have strict rules like no names of living people. Guardian is a lot more slack. And smutty.

it's a legit answer i think

Candidate for a Daily Mail clue:

Intelligence with sex appeal is what makes this country great (7)

oevgnva?

without visiting rot13.com it think it's safe to say yeah.

(just use vim and ??)

I liked this one in today's Guardian:

Strategy to get Penny into Javanese orchestra (4,4)

I got the answer then had to Google to work out the clue.

it's a good one!

Prefer Balinese gamelan meself.

Preserve from harm and interminable suffering with a narcotic (9)

---m-l---

Can't do it yet.

Was there a recent grauniad about Ealing Comedies or was somebody pulling my leg?

That is a lady who had a song about her, I do believe. If we are trying to be all non-spoilery now and whatnot.

I liked the Javanese one, if the Wire magazine ever does a crossword they should call that guy up

Marmalade. Thanks for hint

correctamundo

there is a new crossword compiler in the irish times

he is shit

Help! The clue was: Shrub or rub (5)

Answer was Wahoo. I understand the shrub reference, but what's the rub?

s'thing to do with burro???

idg the shrub reference, wikipedia tells me it's a fish.

Chambers says it's also an ornamental shrub and a kind of buckthorn 'which yields cascara sagrada' (a laxative). I still dgi.

From the Guardian before Christmas:

Arch, perhaps, to correct — getting better (2,3,4)

'emend' is 'correct' which leaves you with the month of m arch.

wonder if the oed is any help on wahoo...

1. wahoo, n.1 view full entry 1770
...The N. American shrub Euonymus atropurpureus....

2. wahoo, n.2 1909
...A large marine fish, Acanthocybium solandri, belonging to the family Scombridæ and found in tropical seas....

3. wahoo, v. 1936
...intr. To shout ‘Wahoo!’....

thanks for that.

Thnx Ledge.

that march/month thing is some bullshit imo

if the clue hadn't been easy enough to get through other means i would agree.

sophistry mere sophistry

Bollocks or bullshit about everything (5)

balls

fuck you

Looking for more? Might be a little time. (7)

:)

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