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

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

just noticed how appallingly photoshopped that pic is.

yes go ahead, take all the acclaim and plaudits.

well woof already got it so

NOTEBOOK (veto = NO, short football player = TEBO(W), alright = OK)

that's, imo, quite terrible 8)

perhaps there's mileage in doing this the other way around - someone chooses a word and others come up with clues for it. maybe 'genuflect' would be a good starting point.

Gentle cuff nearly creates obeisance.

not quite perfect, hurrying

Fence glut is fashionable for the action of bowing and scraping?

need number of letters for both of those

Well the answer's in the previous post! But for the record 9 in both cases.

oh I'm sorry, I forgot we were creating clues for "genuflect", I thought those were new clues

as you were

That's an exercise I sometimes do myself when bored - trying to construct crossword cryptic clues for a particular word that is rattling around my brain.

xp no problem!

xp you should post 'em here then!

clunky as usual:

pleasure reflected in gentleman's first special action taken for marriage proposal

letters?

or is that genuflect? cos

do keep up, dear

heh

problem is genuflect is a verb so "action taken" doesn't really work cos it suggests a noun

show reverence for old fashioned guy with poxy fule caught inside

missing a "c"?

"c" for caught innit?

oh yeah missed it

bent leg etc. fun!

(hmm, not sure there isn't something missing there, or it's too twisted up in itself. bent and fun could be anagram indicators but fun is part of the anagram. bent leg being the definition but leg also part of the anagram... plus the english isn't great.)

it almost works as a semi &lit, araucaria e.g. is always pretty happy to play fast n loose with those.

problem is genuflect is a verb so "action taken" doesn't really work cos it suggests a noun

painfully aware of this but gave up on trying to fix it.

i guess the real test is whether anyone could solve these clues.

Returned suitor's put-down: you spattered paint, one hears, to bow

(ho hum)

genuflect?

(yes. don't mind me, rolling in several hours late with my terrible word-manglings)

idk is genuflect a great word for this experiment, which is otherwise a v interesting one imo

we didn't do too badly IMO, but yeah it's not the easiest. Throw one out there then!

yes, someone suggest another word

srsly whenever i'm put on the spot i can only think in obscenities

Dodgy PC flaunts lippiness? (4,5)

filth

that's the only one I've gotten in ages