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

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)

Googling Blairism leads to Atlanticism. so that

Paul being corny again, like it

Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,692, 18 Across: Singer rated worst, two-starred, and rotter with wads to splash around (3,7)

fell asleep before I got to the end of the clue

It's the exact opposite of elegant clueing but I appreciate this guys tendency to go for the groan

Btw isdg the fly fishing one

LP Hartley, author, could be cousin to JR Hartley, fly-fisherman. LP Hartley wrote...?

Aiaiai

I know right

don't get the "Desert Youth's broadcast" bit?

Gobi tween

sorry (not sorry)

jeez, would never have gotten that. seems unnecessary? clue would have worked just as well with just "intermediary of fly fisherman's cousin, perhaps"

i aspire to greater things than rufusian minimalism

The homophone is the best part of that one

I have to confess I used that exact homophone for a pictogram round when I ran a music quiz. (In the plural, for the Gobi Tweens.)

(I also used Wand Erection in the same round. I am a terrible human.)

I like doing Rufus puzzles because he's pretty easy, but too many purely cryptic clues.

Also, for as long as I've been doing these you'd think I'd have learned that monarch, or similar, can = ER. Catches me every time.

I enjoyed this clue in today's Graun:

Start of parenthood: man and woman having swell time? (9)

lol

very elegant, no?

yep, i like it when the clue ties in with the def without going the full &lit.

Just got, A+

another good Paul clue today:

On which a squatter may be counting back two from 6 June 1944, fancifully speaking? (5)

as usual with paul i don't know where to begin.

OK I GET IT

bit perplexed by 'fancifully speaking'

fancifully speaking = sounds like. seems pretty necessary to me.

yeah I think so too

fancifully, though? maybe he favours the la-di-da french pronunciation.

Yeah fancifully has no purpose there

ilx would crucify woman in conversation as a means of keeping out unwanted intruders (10)

Fanciful, I think, In that there's no such thing as B Day, it's made up for the sake of the pun. I never would have gotten that one.

I figured this one out by process of elimination, but I have never heard the idiom "thin on the ground" in my life.

Britishism perhaps

Unsettled night last night, every time I half woke up I tried in my semi-conscious state to write a sounds-like clue for the middle row of a qwerty keyboard, 'acid if jekyll'. Except a) I thought this was the start of the alphabet, not the middle of a keyboard; ii) I forgot about g and h; and 3) 'acid if jekyll' wtf.

ilx would crucify woman in conversation as a means of keeping out unwanted intruders (10)

is this still up for grabs? i don't have a scooby.