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

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

Assassin of sci-fi mob of Iowa (6)

btw mine was 'represents.' But anagramming pretenses it requires an extra 'r' -- so they're getting that from "ultimately under?" (Last letter of under?)

The way the clue reads seems like it should be the last letter of depicts (s) under anagrammed 'pretenses', but that doesn't work. Completely wonky, or just me?

wonky, but fair I reckon. I think the confusion is by design, so that's irritating. Don't like it tbh - don't really like that kind of word (lots of super-common letters, boring sequence), clue feels abstract, weightless.

(obvs just bitter because I didn't get it)

Actually, the theme of this puzzle was E; every word used only that vowel. Once I caught on, it made the puzzle much easier, but LOTS of super common letters.

Assassin of sci-fi mob of Iowa (6)

letters?

-o----

trying to think of a sci-fi assassin ending in 'ia'...

or not.

borgia.

ha! got hung up on the sci-fi mob being "nova" which was probably overthinking it

from today's Guardian:

Pubs' motto, possibly? (7,2)

nice

a good thing about cryptic crossword clues is that they don't have to be difficult to be satisfying to solve.

no, that's just pleasurably concise

Baffled here:

Philosopher's telephone assistant, keeping money, rejected no taxis? (3,7,5)

S_R_R_N_I_B_C_N

Got the answer easily enough, but I have no idea what's going on with the most of the cluing.

http://aframegames.com/puzzles/Teleportland.pdf

i think it's this:

Philospher's (Sir Francis Bacon) telephone assistant keeping money SIR(FRANC)I rejected no taxis = NOCABS backwards

if telephone assistant really refers to a fucking android app then fuck this clue imo

And if I can't even tell what it really refers to, then ditto.

And what would indicate that iris is backwards in addition to nocabs?

Okay, I see, there's SIRI as well as IRIS.

ah, didn't know about SIRI. still ridiculous.

50 into 500 sheets makes 18 (5)

Got the answer, REALM, but don't get 'makes 18.'

I kinda hate 'rejecting' for backwards. Is that an okay thing?

it's okay, it immediately makes me consider that backwardness will happen.

Dan, what's the answer to clue number 18 in that crossword?

PURVIEW (Reach sexual deviant you reported)

purview = realm, i suspect

That works. Never dawned on me to look at clue 18. D'oh!

One more since I'm on a roll. I guess I figured this all out properly, I just think it's lame that George Sand is female and the clue goes on to use 'his.'

George twice uncovered his lights in Hawaii, formerly (8,7)

SANDWICH ISLANDS (wasn't that hard.) But: George SAND, (t)WIC(e), his is just that, HIS, and lights = LANDS.

"Veto the short genuflecting American football player, alright?" goes into journalist's pad (8)

Don't know where to start with that one. Clue please!

got it (thanks site new answers for keeping me up-to-date with foreign sport)

googling the key noun phrase is not unhelpful.

having no luck and I'm someone with a basic knowledge of NFL :/

http://www.chicagonow.com/lists-that-actually-matter/files/2011/11/tebowing.png

I got it, are you supposed to post the answer