Cryptic Crossword Thread

[novice]

Sorry. Eight letters.

[Horace*]

'Tea consumed in here! (5)' is indeed &lit and a double def, but I primarily intended it to be taken as CHA (=tea) around (consumed) IN. In retrospect something like 'Tea cups in use here!' would have been smoother.

[Horace*]

Incidentally, Novice, shouldn't that be more like '... amazes inhabitant, we hear?'

[novice]

[Quailman]

Hint?

[novice]

Monitor I/O error amazes inhabitant, we hear. (8)

The answer is topical to GL, as I already alluded to.

One wordplay indicator is I/O error

[get a clue]

Forgot about this one...
Answer is minotaur
-Suspence
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

Next one is: "Quiet!!! Order please!!!" (6)

Disclamer: The exclamation points are not an &lit indicator. I just imagine a judge yelling the surface reading, thus the punctuation.
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

That was: Asleep

Next:
Early division? (6)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

That was COUNTY, though I'm not even sure how I figured it out.

New one:

Your old hides even more irritable (6)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

That was t(etc)hy.

Next:
Close friends provide false positives in scrumping lineup. (2,5,2,7)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[Suspence]

I wanted to include an apostrophe in mine, but I think that would have been frowned upon, no? Could be viewed as an &lit, I guess:

Your old hide's even more irritable! (6)
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[novice]

An apostrophe might have been a bit dodgy - I would have let it slide though.

The explanation to Early Division is Earl-y = Count-y, in case you were wondering.

[Suspence]

So just a double definition, interesting.

I actually got to it by thinking of it as Earl-y division, as in a division made/overseen by earls.
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[novice]

[Suspence]

Is it still puzzle time? Either way...maybe some help?
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[novice]

A cryptic definition is involved.

[Elethiomel]

I think "scrumping lineup" could refer to Adam and Eve, but I still don't see it.

[novice]

What/who would provide a false positive in a scrumping lineup?

[get a clue]

Ok... I got it. Kind of. Can't really figure out the wordplay yet, but I'll claim this anyway. :)

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

[get a clue]

That was: As thick as thieves (I still can't fully explain it, to be honest.)

I'll post an old one to avoid holding this up. Sorry for recycling old stuff, Novice. :)

Warning: Not a completely traditional cryptic, but shouldn't be very hard.

Overconfident lions travel late one summer, and may come to regret it. (5,4,6,1,4)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[novice]

[LordKinbote]

[novice]

Where's the challenge in that?

[get a clue]

That was "Pride goes before a fall" New one shortly.
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

Error sounds like my enemy, Dad. (4,3)

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

[get a clue]

Last was faux pas

Sounds like first antagonist favors horror writer, fittingly. (7)

Thok
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

Got it, but not via the wordplay. I'll leave it unchanged unless I can figure it out.

EDIT: That was APROPOS. First antagonist = A, favors = PRO, horror writer = POE.
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

President strips deranged lifeguard of uniform (8)

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

[Thok]

You've got the wordplay. I don't claim it's one of my better efforts.

[Suspence]

I think it's interesting how one clue often leads into another. I originally guessed APROPOS based on the fact that FAUX PAS was French, and APROPOS worked well with French and "fittingly".
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[get a clue]

That was: Garfield (lifeguard anagram dropping U)

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

[get a clue]

Poor sap drowns; knight escapes in secret. (8)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

That was password.

Standard pot bag. (11)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

That was boilerplate

Communal meal engenders endless lines. (10)

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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

That was messengers (mess + eng(end)ers).
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

Paddle peddling. (6)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[get a clue]

No? Ok how about

Paddle drug peddling. (6)
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Password is lowercase and has no spaces or punctuation.

[Zag]

Well, that does make it kind of obvious. If it's still there tonight, I'll write one.

[Suspence]

I got it too, but I'll leave it for Zag since I have nothing ready and he was here first.
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