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

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.

i don't get 'canal'?

c (circa) before anal (uptight) = trench

d'oh, I should've got anal

^ poor attempt for 'quoted out of context' thread

dough around wood (4)
open, strong and smelly (5)

cash

Yes.

I think for the second one I should have worded it

open, loud and smelly (5)

Frank (got it before the rewording, but confirmed further)

Loud Smiths album to electrocute sound system and big mother (5,5)

Frank Zappa! Nice.

I can't really do these, and I'm not happy with this (may be so poorly constructed as to be insoluble) but I am bored, so, feel free to point out flaws... gently.

Root of all conflict three points behind deceased prizewinners (8)

does it end in 'dens'?

I don't think I'll get that one, not after these two beers.

This isn't mine but it's a memorable one:

Enmark? (4,2,3,3)

Sorry, that should be:

Enmark? (4,2,3)

does it end in 'dens'?

Almost, but two of the "points" are the same, because I am not good at these. That is one of the flaws, but sadly not the only one.

Letters for the above two?

Old man from 1000 A.D. (7)

grandad

Enamrk is Land of Nod I think... How about this one 'Non-nude barnacle for sailor' (4)

Nod, No 'D', I get it. Had to google that. There's a fine line between cryptic clues and bad puns, that one crossed it.

nah, that's a good clue.

sweet

http://cryptics.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_anagram_indicators

Cool, thanks.

Oh dear, boredly (drunkenly?) posting inept clues and then forgetting about them. Please note disclaimers/apologies in previous 2 posts. Anyway, letters.

Root of all conflict three points behind deceased prizewinners (8)
-W----E-

awarded?

awardees, yes?

nice clue, would never have got it in a million years without pointers in the right direction.

Yep, "awardees". Glad it was gettable eventually!

way to count the letters, darragh. :P

cheese danish carrying vehicle (5)

glad that one's solved (awardees). i'm not sure about the root of all conflict = a war. could split it award-ees = 'prizewinners gift three points', although gift=award is questionable.

good stuff though. it annoyed the hell out of me for a long time. :)

sedan. like it.

This one was apparently never solved:
Crab time in monastery (9)

root of the word all = the letter a, then conflict = war, was how I read it.

Was that clue inspired by a viewing of In The Loop?

Rocky state follows holy man with nothing (5)

ailsa: yup

Rocky state follows holy man with nothing (5)

Omaha

??

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