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

idk, it *is* a letter, and greek ones are common enough in crosswords. overspecifying it would give the game away too much imo.

would go for "... letter in greek ..." if necessary tho.

mystical? or sounding stupid? (6 wotd)

Probably pretty easy, wotd:

To begin with, kitten starting school is tacky (6)

:) quite like it tho

Ooh, just got it

Today's wotd, keeping with my feline theme!

Hypothesis, for the sake of argument: needle the kitten takes energy (11)

Dammit, that's not what I wanted.

Assumption, for the sake of argument: needle the kitten takes energy

It's a verb so I'd change that to 'Assume'.

All suggestions for improvement welcome:

One furiously torn by anger without any conclusion - put these together?! (wotd, 11)

Fun quiz, can you guess what in this clue I'm not entirely happy with?

Southern parvenu finally getting in with the stars (wotd, 7)

(yesterday's wotd was 'interrobang' wtf!?)

'the stars' suggests a noun, where you want the adjective?

you unhappy with 'with the stars' as an indicator for the key adjective? I don't think it's bad.

^ correct, i mean really ideally it should be 'from' or 'of', right? not sure that substituting other random prepositions is entirely acceptable.

ikwym, but first def in chambers is 'belonging to the stars' and I think that gives you a bit of room for prepositional drift.

After Tuesday regret being faithful (wotd, 4)

nice.

i never know the wotd, feel like i'm drifting away from this thread ;_;

so TRUE, funny how it seems...

hmm maybe i should ignore wotd and just guess as normal i spose. neat clue.

of course they're normal clues, the wotd thing is just a handy resource for getting new words to clue, and it means people (yourself excepted, it's sad you have a shitty nokia) can look up the answer instead of bumping the thread with 'more letters please' which was always tedious and unproductive.

otm, i *do* have a shitty nokia ;_;

granted case-by-case? (10)

i'm stumped.

wotd has made u soft imo

I finished the whole guardian crossword in less than a pint yesterday. (with the help of two colleagues.)

give us some fuckin letters anyway

_ e _ _ _s _ _o _ i'm too soft meself

per mission

well i mean obv

nothing to do with suitcases then.

look again

nah just kiddin

suitcases

Was trying to fit "appellation" or related into 10, myself. And now I would like a nice case glass of wine to while away the morning.

(No, it doesn't really work, but I am easily distracted into thoughts of drinking)

Dog bit fatigue? (9)

lassitude

not havin that, no 'sounds like', where's the 'e' in lassie (stuff your 'bit')

Doesn't the question mark indicate a "sounds like" or "ok I'm fucking with the convention here a wee bit"?

"fucking with the convention a wee bit" yeah but discarding the entire clue-type indicator is more than a wee bit of fucking with.

Question mark is fair-ish i thought, i wrestled with the clue for ages but cdn't get a fully satisfactory one.

not havin that, no 'sounds like', where's the 'e' in lassie (stuff your 'bit')

"Lassie chewed"

i stand by the criticism, i got the soundalike but imo the clue needs to reference this and i don't forgive the missing 'e', this i never forgive you hear?

sounds like highland girl ate mechanically

mechanically?

crossword beef, jesus d'you remember when ilx brough more to the table than this?

surface doesn't really make sense imo

spent five secs on it, tbf

surface on mine i thought, which doesn't, whole clue sucks tbf.

sorry i meant the surface in nv's one

yep xp

i remember we used to go all capslock about the origin stories of gypsies, now it's fuckin inkblots from ten paces man what happened

'whole clue' doesn't suck but you're better than this imo, high standards etc