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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.

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.

haha

I can start revealing letters if ppl want, it's maybe not amazingly formed

i'm thinking we/us/forum + sounds like woman's name + an x in there somewhere (crucify = hang on or nail to a cross, don't really know what to do with that), = portcullis or drawbridge or something. but yeah, letters.

-e---i--e-

-ee--i--e-

btw had to share this from earlier in the week:

Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,727, 17 Down: Fifty-fifty to catch Frisbee when laughing out loud (3)

Is this the most pathetic clue of all time?

very poor

just got yours btw, i like the definition

thx, I think I might get a telling off from ledge for one element but I was going for the laugh

I hate everything about that Frisbee clue but actually using "laughing out loud" as the definition is appalling. It's like having idk "shortening of the hooter for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (4)". Sackable imo

thx, I think I might get a telling off from ledge for one element

Seems terribly corny and perfectly fine to me.

too much time on ilx

Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,734, 22 Across: Entertaining female describing athlete's foot, perhaps? (6)

"Chinese Leaves" showed up in the Everyman recently. Is that really what Britishes call bok choy? I'd never heard that one.

We call bok choy bok choy (or pak choy), Chinese leaf is something else (sometimes called Chinese cabbage). Not sure what the "proper" name is

Google clarifies: napa cabbage

Yeah, GIS gave me one image that was napa cabbage, another that was baby bok choy,

xxxp lol good clue

Guardian Cryptic crossword No 26,766, 24 Down: Plan polkaing periodically (4)

Whoops