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

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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I always thought that Omaha was a state, but it looks not, so I have the answer wrong.

My thinking, other than that, was nothing=O, holy man=maha

OK. That might be clued as

Indian great after nothing on beachhead (5)

Stony!

Omaha.

No time to post a clue at the mo, sorry.

Eliot's dessicated scholar plays on abacus (8)

should've been playing for extra minor ambiguity.

I guess actually being in the midst of reading Middlemarch might have given me some funny ideas about how obvious a reference point it would make.

C-------

Ah, thanks for dredging up long-forgotten memories of English lit classes...

(had to google the name though)

which is...

sorry - Casaubon

hooray

One out - out for a ride (4)

...auto?

Yes.

Gold princess ring sound (5)

audio

Yes.

Beef up agents following gold pursued by teahead (7)

augment

Nonchalant worker backs new coin in chemical company (10)

I want to say Monsanto, but of course that doesn't work.

insouciant. nice work.

Rebel disturbance envelops country for more than one time (8)
Girl that's into tailoring (4)
Warrior's natty head in Jamaica (5)

girl = toni? 'lori' works too. if that's a real name.

It is for the purposes of this thread.

Rebel disturbance envelops country for more than one time (8)
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Warrior's natty head in Jamaica (5)
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reusable

Yes. What about the other one?

ninja. ja for jamaica? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Sorry.

New idiot coal miner runs every which way (15)

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Want to say indiscriminately, undiscerningly, but they don't seem to fit. Also omnidirectional.

third time's the charm

Ah, I've been thinking that since I first saw it, but was confused by the use of the "new".

yeah it's not the best clue.

No, it was a good clue. But by US rules, you wouldn't make "new" mean "N" and then throw it into the anagram, it would have to be the start of the word, whereas it seems like in the UK that kind of thing is accepted.

imo it's the kind of clue that breaks a couple of the stricter rules (wordplay into anagram, "run" is a weakish anagram indicator), but passes because it's fun overall (good surface, "runs any which way" is a great anagram indicator, even though it doesn't turn the whole into a proper &lit).

i'm just disappointed i couldn't work clint eastowood and/or an orangutang in there.

The thread would have explode.

anatole otm.

Around around around (10)

Any complaints, well, I was half asleep when I came up with it.

and a kind of flipside to that:

Only barely fair (4)

Just

Still thinking about the other one.