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

actual poster in question is actual noted fast food connoisseur, actually

chicken cottage

yay

great clue btw

thx - i was just on my way to work this morning and the name of my new local cc establishment was half obscured by a road sign, saw the 'ken c' and went from there.

doesn't really work but you should get it anyway

I would shortly knock out cup juggling dates here (2,5)

OK cupid

✓

nice.

Since there seems to be a bit of a lull, I'll jump in with another clue to get the ball rolling again.

Other team halted development of thrash (5,5)

death metal

i can't come up with them but here's one from today's paper that's stumping me:

Don't say anything like "spradget" (1, 3, 4)

oh, wait, i just got that. haha it's awful

and should be (3, 1, 4). i fail at this thread

You were right on my one of course.

still haven't got spradget one.

ha!

not a word

put forward something that could be positive or negative, true or false (9)

today's paper confirms that yesterday's was in fact 'not a word'

put forward something that could be positive or negative, true or false (9)
assertion?

Vein getting one cc shot? (7)

assertion correct

vaccine

take this as correct (11)

appropriate

i'm playing it very safe after the last couple of gaffes. appropriate, any way you look at is, is correct.

yay!
OK I had to nick this from the paper, probably a bit easy:

Return a chunk of wood (5)

Balsa?

yup

Pregnant pause (9,5)

expecting delay. just throwin it out there, tbh

Not what i had in mind....

fully aware of that. i'm typing out loud here, gimme a break.

Maternity leave

oh ffs, open goal

You're too damn good ailsa. Do you do them in the newspaper every day too?

shoulda got that, what with everyone i know being on it.

One isn't that woman, but someone else (7)

another?

aye

Played in the round? (5,2,3,7)

has anyone got anywhere on today's araucaria in the guardian? it's very araucaria-ish.

"Tyre problem - the same by Shakespeare (I'm amazed at your boast!) when year off - brings humourous acceptance of sweet talk (8, 4, 3, 3, 8)"

brevity is the key to a good cryptic crossword clue. that's rubbish.

long ones are good when they make sense. unlike that one.

I'm a huge Auracaria stan but that looks a bit unwieldy. Otoh, it's generally hard to take 1 clue from his puzzles without context.

I have enjoyed a few Araucaria puzzles immensely, but I hate it when more than one or two clues contain references to other answers, which Araucaria puzzles almost always go overboard on and the Guardian seems to love in general.

Generally if I turn to the crossword and see a sea of "2 15 3" in the clues I cannot be bothered to start it at all, because it limits your starting points so severely, and you don't even get anything to puzzle over or admire in half the clues until you've cracked the other half.

(Also because I am shit, and so am probably never going to get enough of the referenced clues to have any chance. OK, mainly that, really)

what all crossword do we do, folks? crosaire in the irish times would be my drug of choice, for obvious enough reasons.

I tend to fail terribly at the Guardian one Monday to Friday. I think other setters might be more amenable to me but I can't be arsed changing paper at this point.

The answer to the Araucaria clue above was really disappointing.

"Tyre problem - the same by Shakespeare (I'm amazed at your boast!) when year off - brings humourous acceptance of sweet talk (8, 4, 3, 3, 8)"

Flattery will get you anywhere

(crap clue as it's not a common phrase)

I don't do a crossword on the reg any more. There was a couple of years in the early 90s when the best half of my day consisted of beers and working through all of the broadsheet crosswords with a friend.