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

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

word of the day: primrose

Blooming proper get-up!

(wouldn't that need to be past tense?)

yes, damn you, yes (weeps)

Stand around border regarding first flower

Proper pink flower (8)

was trying to get rim within ("outside inside") prose but couldn't think of a decent synonym for prose

also, april 19th = primrose day. more interesting that just 'flower'

"prose" = "writing" was what i was working on, was considering using "yellow" for "primrose".

Disturbed improviser drops the sixth flower

Does "vi" mean "the sixth" there?

Yes, that was the idea. As in Henry VI. Not sure it quite works.

If we wanna keep this going we could just use
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ or http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/

happy enough with that one, tbh

might be an idea to tag these posts with WOTD if you're posting a clue to a known word (either from those websites or nominated). another thread altogether is another.

1 Ceres might be red (6, WOTD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_%28dwarf_planet%29

(would 'shift' work as an anagram specifier? 'red shift' would keep the astronomy thing going, if in a slightly nonsensical way)

Before ecstacy, cries popped French cherry. (6, WOTD)

colour of cherries i rectally inserted backwards (6, wotd)

would 'shift' work as an anagram specifier?

last araucaria had 'demands' as anagrind iirc. i don't even.

http://cryptics.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_anagram_indicators

Crazy con lead caper to steal chinese pottery (7 WOTD)

(could i use caper as an anagram indicator? could then drop the crazy...)

what does the 'to steal' indicate?

nothing. it's just there to make the two parts of the clue into something resembling a sentence.

wotd seems to be themed throughout the week, but a lot of the colour names have other or more specific meanings.

webster word of day for yesterday was peripatetic. but it was late...

xp you can't do that!

Every. Word. Must. Count.

http://cryptics.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_linking_words_and_phrases

obv there are good clues and bad clues, but i'm a purist about that shit

it's also why writing clues is damn hard, and anyone who can churn out well-formed clues with decent surface readings on a daily basis gets massive respect from me.

one of the least-regarded art forms of our time imo

webster word of day for yesterday was (REDACTED). but it was late...

Travelling Dr Who companion miserable without heroin (11, belated WOTD)

(just seeing what the Who/cryptic thread crossover is, like)

nice!

rockists.

if yr gonna link with extraneous terms you gotta make them bland/innocuous imo, 'steal' would have my eyes tearing to do somethin with it

First time I've ever attempted writing a clue, does this work for WOTD?

Excessive loss of energy after dark creates wave (8)

works for me.

Yay me!

yeah that's a decent clue :)

Thanks, I was proud that it it incorporates three elements that often trip me up as a novice solver: having to solve one word and then subtract from it, single letter abbreviation, and noun/verb mismatch for wave.

Polite hero turns purple (10 wotd)

(tried working in the creator of brazilian jiu jitsu but just couldn't)

Light brown tops of elegant chiffon, raw, unbleached (4,wotd)

Wow, I got that one quickly. I'm getting better at these.

nobody tempted by 'diapason', 'coetaneous' or 'tartuffery'?

I'll give one a (maybe farfetched) shot:

Organists' group reject help, loudspeaker systems activated. (8)

not at all bad

Thanks, this is really fun, I've never attempted to think up my own. I'd never heard of diapason. Rules-wise, could 'with' be added before loudspeaker to improve the surface reading?

sure, with works in the 'put these together' sense.

I can't come up with anything for those other two, though.