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

didn't stop them with "bi"

Ha true, it's just I can't even think of a way to clue that without adding like a sentence to the clue

It's not sufficiently clear or accurate ("having no preference in bedroom" is obv super-accurate) but the first thing that came to mind was e.g.

Pope's father gets first point as assigned (7)

(I'm not verr good at these; mostly do quicks/GKs these days tbh, over booze w/a cryptic-hating companion)

that's nice. the SJW crossword movement proceeds apace

Annoying one in front of king and son in capital city (7)

i had I _ K _ O _ _ and really wanted this to be INKTOMI but it wasn't to be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iktomi

that must've been irritating ;)

The answer looks really obvious but I can't parse the capital city part?

somewhere in Italy

yes indeed

did all but one of that one on the train on sunday with an eyebrow pencil. left with 'Overall employment system', N_T_O_K, I daresay it will come to me five seconds after typing this...

nope.

cheated. kicking myself. not sure about 'overall' though - seems like exactly the opposite?

I think it works

overall
adjective
ˈəʊvərɔːl/
1.
taking everything into account.

I agree with ledge, it's hard to see the relationship between 'overall' and the answer

on the earlier one, d'oh. I was thinking of R as 'king' and trying to work around that.

Net = taking everything into account, it's like a straight definition

yeah that's fine IMO

I can see how that works but:

2: covering or including everything

my salary, including everything (ie tax) = gross

So it's ambiguous - imo - but legit.

Did that puzzle this morning on the train. I thought "overall" was fine, but elsewhere "ending in rubble" = E threw me. I kept trying to put "dreams ending" (S) into a word for rubble.

Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,644, 13 Down: Actors awarded stars? Done! (9)

Classic Paul but so does "done" mean this? Is it a farming thing?

Haha I'm working through this grid atm, Paul is king of the xword dadjoke

Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,644, 11 Across: Insect in diminutive temple, might you say? (8)

Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,644, 21 Across: Behind — behind London it's sung out loud? (8)

Classic Paul but so does "done" mean this? Is it a farming thing?

more of a family pet thing. "we're going to have him 'done'"

I've never heard of that. Fixed, yes.

there was a great clue in Saturday's Guardian crossword:

One attached to an arrangement of holes? (8)

v good. christ i hardly ever get clues when they're posted out of context in this thread.

the previous week's prize crossword was also very good, once you get the theme http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/26645

I completed the most recent prize crossword but couldn't get anywhere with that one

btw:

Activities of writer surrounded by cocks (6)

HA! That didn't actually get published, did it?

No that was me

On another note, a setter used UFFIZI as part of a clue last week. Seems a bit arcane, or maybe my world gallery knowledge is not all it could be.

what was the clue? Uffizi is one of the world's greatest galleries...

Went on securing gallery, ejecting one unknown thug (7)

Save this nonsense for a bank holiday imo

(Actually I'm enjoying this grid more since I figured out there were special instructions that don't show up in the app)

Awful din that is not linked to major label (5)

Ha!

One of the few I got this week.

Pls can someone explain the uffizi one?

RAN containing UFFIZI

yeah that seems fair enough tbh

Oh yeah, totally fair. I'd just never heard of Uffizi.

I think my other problem with this is Uffizi is *a* gallery, but it's not a synonym for gallery.

Guardian Prize crossword No 26,669, 14 Across: Labouring obsession in creation of an icon, barmy? (11)

^liked this, finding the rest of this one hard to crack tho

yeah just came to post that one!

Desert Youth's broadcast for intermediary of fly fisherman's cousin, perhaps (3,2-7)

Obvious, inelegant, and UK only reference. Thumbs up!

OK, helped by the fact that is on TV as we speak...

I thought broadcast was an anagram indicator, not a homophone indicator... Makes some sense though.

that is ridiculous. yeah thumbs up.

idgi

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fly-Fishing-Memories-Angling-Days/dp/009177909X

Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,691, 11 Across: Vicious, regressive Blairism, without originator strangely different (10)