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

Huk's is Arctic.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ooh, Markelby, is it "luck of the Irish"? That's great!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

Haha excellent!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

I have to say that mine's not an original - it's an award-winning crossword clue I found on the information superhighway. But it is good :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's also out of date, due to the introduction of the Euro, but hey, it's still good :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

I like easy ones. Like this:

Ape can hide this nut (5)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

pecan! go to bed man.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

another easy one: sheep with wonky nose, the first punk band (3-7)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ailsa's one above is unlaced. And the punk one - sex pistols? I have no idea why.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 08:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

The Ramones

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 09:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

Gah, I just got it!

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 09:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

Surely that's "(3, 7)", not "(3-7)".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 09:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah :(

could someone explain 'unlaced'? I get the shoe bit obv.

new clue!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 11:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Anag of "and clue", "loosened" is the anag indicator.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 11:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

Far from perfect but the best I could manage:

Guess ABBA will break up now they've lost a member? (9)

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

doh! cheers for the explanation.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

i'm stumped.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well it is kinda lacking a definition - it only works 'cause it's topical (or popical, hint hint).

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

sugababes!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

that's really nice actually.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

writer of novels, essay and verse (6)

(not mine for once)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

poetry

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

new blood!

new clue!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

Meet the new blood, same as the old blood.

Here's a clue I just made up:

Jerry-built, backwards, note: in hell, almost. (8)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 23:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

Here's another one I made up:

Call them for replacing a doorknob and piercing a veil! (8)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 02:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

Please have a go at my crummily crafted clues when you wake up, cryptic AU/UK peeps.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 07:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

Of course, Chris can try too if he comes home late.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 07:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

I have stared at them with little to no comprehension.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 December 2005 08:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

Sorry. You know the "turns" I put in the other clue a while back? That was there as a false reversal indicator, to throw you off the trail and to make the surface reading seem more like a dream, which I hope I can get to sleep and get to have one of.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 09:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

A false reversal indicator? That's hardly fair!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 09:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

Homemade

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

Bloody hell ledge! I don't think I could have got that in a month.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

Argh, I even got as far as thinking h----ade, but nothing came to mind after. Doh.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

I thought it had to be h---made, then I just needed to get a four letter word for note beginning with m. Am stumped by the other one though.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

I sort of want it to be 'handlers' but why?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh well, here's an article to read while we try to figure it out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1672293,00.html

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Girrus letters Ken!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

H------n

A false reversal indicator?
This was perhaps an exaggeration. You want I should have said "shrink wife mountain"? What am I, Tarzan?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

Here's another one

My bird for a kingdom! (3)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

handymen?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

DING DING DING!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

oh! BRILLIANT

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

Shrink leads wife into mountain maybe?

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

This bird clue is hard!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wait, no it isn't. Auk!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

Is it my clue now or onimo's or ledge's or all three?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

Auk! D'oh.

Well, whoever comes up with one first I guess.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

ok, my brain is dead so newspaper one:

pub arranged to have meals in every bar (6)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

upbeat

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

While I was away, I came up with this

Mad scientist's fearless leader worked to recognize his large mug (12)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:32 (7 years ago) Permalink