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

"O" = disc
"/" = over
"s" = s

groan...

guardian today was a bitch fyi, made worse by fifteensquared.net being all "this did not trouble me at all". punk = tinder? ok grandad.

i've half a desire to become an public official (8, wotd)

neat but very simple imo

make fake (5)

forge

model also nearly kinda sorta works.

Spectre revealed by sycophant as monster. (8) WOTD

one of my fave films :)

Nice one!

there have been some nice unclued words lately - eidolon, mawkish, loup-garou, cantrip

untearable, tricksy (7 wotd, it's right there, look)

Supreme happiness of topless dude pursuing proto hippy generation with sex appeal (9, wotd)

trademark ledge clue there...

you mean an awkwardly worded and obvious charade? ;)

lots of words chiselled into bits and reassembled.

they're the most fun to come up with imo, but i should branch out a bit.

> lots of words chiselled into bits and reassembled.

like a 1-d mosaic

hexagonal bit causes conflict (4 wotd)

(not a word i knew tbh)

Dutch rave music, unusual at first, is confusing source of irritation. (7 wotd)

oof. that's like you're double encrypting something. is a step too far.

ah, gabber. yeah indirect anagrams are a big no-no, shame as it's a really nice surface.

(fyi it's just considered unfair to expect the solver to guess a synonym and then anagrammise it.)

From today's Guardian:

Ointment for a Frenchman round the bend? (7)

one of my favourite words.

could've just put Gabber in the clue above tbh, made it a straightforward anagram.

^^^ yeah, I should've done it that way. Still learnin'.

Practice makes perf... uh, better than the last one?

Edible stem, cob lie scattered (10, wotd)

Solid.

Araucaria today, had to look up three or four (obscure queens: zenocrate, hippolyta) and look up the explanations for another four or five (odyl = a hypothetical force, who knew?)

I think this works. wotd

Ecosystem Wind Erosion: revealing, stirring speech. (4-6)

(fyi it's just considered unfair to expect the solver to guess a synonym and then anagrammise it.)

― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:31 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i swear the guardian setters do this all the time

Nah man I do the grauniad every fucking day and if they pulled that shit i would fucking do one.

yeah you can turn 90 degrees once and once only imo

(fyi it's just considered unfair to expect the solver to guess a synonym and then anagrammise it.)

Not synonym exactly, but this one from The Nation is kinda in that ballpark:

Sort of where the partridge was at Christmas? That's clever! (8)

i think if you can work them out (repartee, right?) and understand how you've worked them out then they're at least technically legit

Yeah. You guys are better at these than I am, and I guess there's only one obvious answer for this (peartree) vs. Dutch rave music, but I stared at this for a long time before I figured out it was a solve and then anagram clue.

tbh Dutch rave music only ever equalled Gabber to me when i read yr clue

lols at today's words of the day...

maybe try to combine them somehow...

could you re-up the links for word of the day? i never know where i'm looking

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday

http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day

this also useful:
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

ta

reveal breasts after attractive woman goes bottomless (wotd 7)

er i mean (8)

Confess hell rests on boobs (8)

grauniad is getting more and more risque btw:

Bird gets to lick syrup around man's rear (7)

Bird's vitals gets ILB all aflutter. (7 wotd)

mmmmmm

Ok ok, should've thought a bit longer.

Swift's contents gets ILB all aflutter

got it, nice! One for the US people this week...