Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[irony towers]

Tweaked for the surface reading:

'Mercy', a project to house outcasts with no limits, is a regular feature at Christmastime (6,5)

_ _ R _ _ _ / _ _ R _ _

[irony towers]

_ _ R _ _ H / _ _ R _ _

[Duncan Gardner]

Mariah 'Queen of Xmas' Carey lives up to Tremeloes hit after years of waiting (4,2,6,3)

M<(p)ARIA H(s)> CAREY (anag)

[irony towers]

Performers of (Call Me) Number One appearing in Strawberry Fair (7)

[Duncan Gardner]

Blondie's La's cover? (5,2,5)

[Guy Profumo]

… both ate inspiration for Heart of Glass? (4,3,4)

[Guy Profumo]

_ _ C _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ _

[ad hoc]

Bob Dylan recorded and remixed "Rock The Boat" on LSD (5,2,3,6)

[irony towers]

Very nice clue, ad hoc.

Blood on the Tracks' original stance (8)

[seand]

[FONT=Calibri]‘Blood on the Tracks’, like every Dylan universal production, starts with pent up emotions (7,2)[/FONT]


dammit............

[ a beaut of a clue from ad hoc, there indicentally ]

[Guy Profumo]

[FONT=Calibri]‘Blood on the Tracks’, like every Dylan universal production, starts with pent up emotions (7,2)[/FONT]


dammit............

[ a beaut of a clue from ad hoc, there indicentally ]

Quite.

(As was Dunc's reference to the Blondie cover.)

[Duncan Gardner]

Thank you Sir

[irony towers]

Blood on the Tracks' original stance (8)

_ _ C _ _ _ _ _

[ad hoc]

Thanks all

[Guy Profumo]

Blood on the Tracks' original stance (8)

_ _ C _ _ _ _ _

Have we hit the buffers with this one?



<sorry>

[irony towers]

_ _ C _ _ _ R _

[irony towers]

_ _ C _ S _ R _

[Duncan Gardner]

Some FYROM ancestry (or some Portuguese or Catalan) (7)

[ad hoc]

Pass out romance in a tin (5)

[ad hoc]

(PS can I have some help on IT's clue?)

[Duncan Gardner]

ANCEST(anag)/R(ailwa)Y

[ad hoc]

And "original" implies ends?

[Duncan Gardner]

I read it as

Original stance = ANCEST
Tracks = RY
Blood = ANCESTRY

[ad hoc]

OK. Thanks. Yes seen Ry before. Didn't catch the anagram indicator (though I have been known to play fast and loose with anagram indicators myself so am not complaining)

[Duncan Gardner]

Ry for me is a charming town in Denmark's Lake District at the foot of the country's second highest mountain. Which took about 5 minutes to climb