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

unmoved, yeah (inertia=lethargy); moves uniformly, yeah (1st law of motion); not sure about the middle one.

inert, IA (ilx term)

u love it i can tell

no news is good news

totally thought "amnesia" was for the "curiously moved" one, possibly via anagram of "animates" with some letters missing in a way that I didn't understand yet

i'm a dick in various threads, i try not to be itt tbf

I am well used to not understanding things and try not to put it down to anyone else being a dick tbf

(don't always succeed, but on the crossword thread I usually do)

we are of divergent personality types imo

I thought it was inertia but was hung up on one of the 'moves' meaning 'it's an anagram' and couldn't get it to work

someone?

gave up tbh

never mind, caved and bought the guardian

I've lost my mojo

re: the guardian, did anyone do araucaria's easter prize double? i'm sure he thinks running the clues together is terribly clever but the surface reading just ends up being garbled nonsense.

A good 'un in today's Guardian:

Lothario, or Spooner's soles (5-5)

my brain is stuck going 'novar cassa' which i'm pretty sure is not a thing

right lines...

and one from the observer at the weekend - Newspaper job (5)

demon lover, nice.

yep, well done! took me a while but I was really happy when I got it...

Just got there myself and made a little noise halfway between a groan and a snort of laughter out loud in the office. Which was awkward.

Not got koogs' yet, though...

what's the answer then koogs?

theft

which i only got as i had letters 1, 3 and 5. 'job' being newspaper headline speak for a big robbery, but that seemed unsatisfactory, like it was missing something. took 10 minutes to realise that it's also 'the FT'.

yeah nice one!

from the latest games magazine

500 = 100 = 0 (4)

got it. won't spoil it.

also, like it.

very neat

took me a minute as I mistook 500 for 50

50 + 1 + 100 + 1000 = total (4)

One in crows nest reportedly is egomaniac (5-5)

---K

--V--/-A---

LICK

what was
500 = 100 = 0 (4) ?

DISC

Yep

the sum of 50, 1, 100 and 1000 would be MCLI though. you mean the concatenation...

+ is a concatenation operator...

D IS C "is"

Oh but ledge set another, which onimo solved. Carry on, Cluru.

Irrationally revere courses containing seed of giant sequoias, e.g. (9,5)

I figured out the answer, but I'm still not sure how the clue works.

anagram ('irrationally') of 'revere' with first letter (seed) of giant in it, followed by 'entrees' (= courses).

ahhh, I was doubly screwed: never got entrees, so I was working on another way to get 'courses' via greens (like golf courses) and I have never seen 'seed' to mean first letter. Is that common?

Get greens via courses, but anyway...

never seen 'seed' iirc, pretty sure i would grumble if i came across it in the wild.

yeah i don't like it

tho it's kinda obvious what it's doing and since you're likely to arrive at the answer before you break down the clue i guess it's okay

didn't know sequouias were evergreen i must admit

don't think I've seen it before, it does a bit feel off.

I think it *would* have been obvious if I had gotten 'entrees,' but my mind never went there.

Depicts, ultimately, under false pretenses. (10)

The way 'ultimately' works in this doesn't work for me, but I defer to the experts.

Pretty easy, but fun I thought, from today's Guardian:

Off limits, like an exhausted kangaroo? (3,2,6)

Ha