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

Shadowy song for a cheap meal (6)

Ventures offering fifty thousand getting into wild drawn out noisy start (4,4,3)

Shadowy song for a cheap meal (6)

Apache

You oughta know, chief.

How?

Ventures offering fifty thousand getting into wild drawn out noisy start (4,4,3)

Walk Don't Run. But certain parts of the clue are confusing me. Also, someone else will need to do the next one, as I'm no good at these.

I was using M instead of K for "thousand" :(

Oh, one of the bits that confused me is no longer confusing me. I wasn't sure where I got the 'l' from but it's from the beginning of 'loud'. I'm still not sure what the 'fifty' bit is about, though. Am I being really stupid?

No, L comes from Roman numeral for fifty. K = thousand then "drawn out" then n from _N_oisy start. I think.

Oh man, yes, I completely invented an extra 'n' there. Wouldn't have got it if I hadn't known the song and the format of the previous clues.

How?

Sorry. I guess "How" was not Apache word, but just a Sioux word that caught on in the Hollywood Westerns.

Hau

Hot butter instrumental in adult material being on no computer (7)

Popcorn!

Now I have that stuck in my head.

Way out alien abducting eleven (4)
Great Scot, I'm moonstruck! (5)

Exit

Yes.

Rum Michael Jackson album with vehicle crashing into me (7)

Bacardi

Yes.
Frozen soiled buried around in a hard nut (6)

Still waiting on "moonstruck" one.

Slight reclue:
Frozen soil packed up in hard nut (6)

tundra?

Yup.

[i]Great Scot, I'm moonstruck! (5)[\i]

-n---

This top class thousand fewer wouldn't lead you anywhere. (7)

great scot - ben?

-n-m-

onimo?

:)

How one would announce the lead in to a confused dictator?

(9)

aimless

^7

too easy, i knew it.

Heavy sound shatters river (6)

How one would announce the lead in to a confused dictator?
No idea about this one.

How one would announce the lead in to a confused dictator?

introduce

i don't get the 'confused' bit.

duce is italian translation of dictator. that's all i can think it is.

So it looks like it should read:
How one would announce the lead in to r confused dictator?

a lead in is an 'intro', was the thinking. 'duce' is the ictator, 'confused' a reference to the anagram.

What anagram?

eh. now i'm confused. move on, move on.

a lead in = intro

to a = i.e. joined to the next part of the clue

confused dictator = duce (confusion as in it's a translation of 'dictator')

it's a pretty shit clue tbh. using 'confused' to designate a translation of a word is just fcking lazy. but the setter didn't put 'mussolini' in the clue because it would have made the answer too obvious and he/she couldn't be arsed to come up with something better.

i think you could just drop the 'confused', and trust people to figure duce = mussolini = dictator.

yup, it's a shit clue.

easy tiger

here you go in chaos courted (9)

it's a pretty shit clue tbh. using 'confused' to designate a translation of a word is just fcking lazy. but the setter didn't put 'mussolini' in the clue because it would have made the answer too obvious and he/she couldn't be arsed to come up with something better.

meh. i've seen better, i've seen worse. it's certainly neither worth twenty posts of criticism/analysis nor the amount of ire it appears to have generated in your good self.

i've already pointed out that 'confused' was an error on my part, as there wasn't an anagram- it wasn't substituting for translation. the rest of it seems sound enough, tbh.

Spanish circle jump (6)
Uptight around before trench (5)

Spanish circle jump (6)

spring

Uptight around before trench (5)

canal

yes and yes.