The Cryptic Crossword Clue Thread

[Wowbagger]

When doing crosswords with Phyllis, every so often I give supplementary terrible-joke-style clues if she's struggling with a solution. I felt quite smug with one of my efforts this evening. The clue was

1. Position of special prominence (5, 2, 5).

My supplementary was "What you get if you cross lions with flatfish."

OK, I know that the word for flatfish isn't spelt the same way, but that doesn't really matter when you are trying to jog someones brain. Phyllis appreciated it, anyway.

[citoyen]

Probably not original but I came up with this earlier...

Those who put stitches in drainpipes. (6)

[citoyen]

My supplementary was "What you get if you cross lions with flatfish."

I like it.

[hellymedic]

My supplementary was "What you get if you cross lions with flatfish."

I like it.

Sounds like a name for a chippie...

[Legs]

I always thought Sole Trader would be a good name for a chippie.

[Wowbagger]

An especially prominent howler in today’s Graun quick crossword.

Ecstasy (7).

Jan had already suggested RAPTURE, which the software declared to be incorrect. We solved all the other clues which left us with R-P-U-E. I tried RAPTURE again just in case I had mistyped it previously. Still wrong.

Knowing that these quick crosswords are put together very rapidly, almost certainly by computer, and that the checking is pretty crap, I tried, on a whim, RUPTURE. “Congrats! You solved it!” Said the IPad, in the manner of an enthusiastic child that has just been given a conjuring set for its birthday.

 

[Nuncio]

You think that's bad.

How about this from Sunday's Everyman?

'Rising sun soon heated coastal resort (8-2-3)' where the answer is a place that exists, as far as I am aware, only in your imagination.

[Mr Larrington]

Nagasaki On Sea?

[HTFB]

Conservative leadership battle.

1. Tory leadership found inside devious schemer - very not right. (6,5)
2. Chap dropping Charlie for £1000. (4)
3. Get hair more tangled than Johnson (4,7)
4. Resistance with Tory "addled waster" leader moving to far right. (4,7)
5. May after hesitation departs, and Johnson's leader. (3,3)
6. No leader as mad? Wrong. (6,7)
7. Midair bacon crashed. (7,4) [bonus question for regulars]
8. Chase after Corbyn! (6,4)
9. Stooge. Known for his pluck? (4,6)
10. Bullshit gets Trump partisan into ruinous Number Ten. (5)

[Wowbagger]

I'll put this in spoilers and work on it.

(click to show/hide)

1 Esther McVey
2 Gove
3 Matt Hancock
4 Rory Stewart
5 The Saj
6 Andrea Leadsom
7 Dominic Raab
8 Jeremy Hunt
9 Mark Harper
10 Boris (?)