Cryptic Crossword Thread

[Zag]

Malevolent nihilist holds back assistance. (4)

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On reflection, that wasn't a well-crafted clue -composed in a bit of a rush. Let's try again:

Prepare for a kiss -there's money in it (5)

MAG
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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That was purse

which leads to:
Prepare for a kiss - I hear it's first class (5)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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D*mn. I just got the previous one, and came on here to check it... too late.
Fortunately, I got this one in about half-a-second :)

That was: pukka (pucker)

Next:
Overdue for a kiss - you sap! (5)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Last was late + x
Levels kisses with time for a hundred (8)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[Amb]

I've been toying with a clue in my head for a few days. I wanted an opinion on how to improve it etc.

Elected in Russia! (5)

Answer: Putin

[Jack_Ian]

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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Last was smoothes (smooches with t replacing the c)

Waste collector bungled tee-off (4,6)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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That was: dung beetle - bungled tee (anag)

Next up:
Left in to prepare goose for Xmas, even? (7)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Doh! That was F(L)ATTEN

Next: On the streets ... in everlasting kiss (8)

(Bonus credit if you recognise the lyric ... but it won't help solve the clue!)

MAG
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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This clue was born to run! [e(x)ternal]

Next up:
Kiss and make-up curtailed by both ends of original song? (4,5)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Very clever!

Solution:xmas carol

Method:"kiss" = x
"make-up curtailed" = mascar(a)
"both ends of original" = "o" and "l"


Next:

New note tells a story. (7)

-- Victoria Silverwolf
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Last one was novel + la

Regarding: band housed in school of the future (3)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Amazing how a three-letter word could be so tricky and so clever! :D

Solution:roe

Method:"regarding" = "re"
"band" = "O" (housed in "re")
"school of the future" = definition. (Get it? Fish eggs -- roe -- will become a school of fish in the future.)

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Drinks for one hundred headless horsemen. (6)

-- Victoria Silverwolf
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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I agree about "school of the future." Very clever!

This one was also clever, with a nice surface reading: ciders: 100=C + Riders without R

Drink back stuff (4)

-- Zag
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I have an answer for this, but it doesn't seem to work, so maybe there's another answer.

My answer:cram
"marc" is a drink, a sort of brandy made from the residue of grapes after they have been pressed for wine. (Thanks, on-line dictionary!) "back" signals a reversal, yielding "cram."

I guess it would work the other way, too, with "cram" going backwards for "marc." Neither seems to let me log in.
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Reality is a crutch for people who can't face up to science fiction

[Zag]

Right approach, wrong word,

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that was gulp (/plug)

next one:

Hoping to finish off painkiller (7)

[/b]
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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That was:
aspirin(g)

This is:

Pals show appreciation (8)

MAG
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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That was: backslap

Next up:
Man angry when I left for drug doctor (10)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[Zag]

[Scurra]

That falls into the same sort of group as GEGS - it's a perfectly reasonable clue, but I suspect that if it showed up in a "proper" puzzle the setter would probably be advised to change it
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_{still Quiz Olympiad champion. Must get a life.
New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon}

[Oscar]

Go wrong in my church? Stir, stir up boy's message to all Cryptic Cluers! (5,9)

Oh, and
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[Oscar]

[Salty*]

Exasperated! That's also what I was for a long time before it struck me.

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last was adulterate -> adult + irate with e in place of i

Dodgy clue

e.g. seasonal drink (6)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Last was eggnog (egg, no g)

Write "Not the Ursula's tuxedo?" (7)

--rm
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[Oscar]

[Salty*]

I was referring to mine! Your clue was lovely.

[ralphmerridew]

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Last was penguin: 'write' = pen; 'Ursula - the' = guin (a play on sci-fi writer Ursula Le Guin, where 'Le' = 'the' in French.)

Worth saying again: "Polars, polars, polars..." (5, 9)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Last was bears repeating

I could have looked at the previous one for weeks and not gotten it.

New one is:

Urges a boy to make lunch (3,5)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Solution:egg salad

Method:re-spacing and double definition of "eggs a lad"

Next:

Let's go around mixing cute salad greens. (8)

-- Victoria Silverwolf
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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last was lettuces

next one is:

Brief romance results after single member of the round table was on a sun holiday we hear (3,5,5)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

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Last was one night stand (sounds like "one knight's tanned")
Member of the round table: "I can be flexible and undulate." (7)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[groza528]

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