Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

1 Strength of rural South-east produced pub rockers (3,10,4)

And for your bonus

2 Hire filmmaker, working with solver (3,1,4,2,8)

3 Dance in misspelt (4,3,6)

4 Madame Signora (8,6)

5 TV channel meeting log (4,7)

Solutions are linked

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Slobs have strength and cunning? Yeah, right! (4,5,3)

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Arse.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

The only thing that seems to fit is the name of a band followed by a number. The band concerned also fits with my answer to the first bonus clue, which I'm pretty sure about. But "the name of a band followed by a number" doesn't to correspond to anything.

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Yeah, I also got the name of a band followed by a number when I tried to unstrangle it, but googling didn't return anything for the phrase in question so I assumed it wasn't that.

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Ha, I shall leave my Freudian typo in place.

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Well, I suppose there's the Roman numeral on the cover of their debut long-player.

I think I'm about to make the most pedantic point in the history of otf: the letter count for Clue 2 should be ((3,1) 4 (2,8)). There, I've said it.

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

And number 3 should be (4,1,6), which would also require a different clue.

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Well, I suppose there's the Roman numeral on the cover of their debut long-player.

Well if it's the name of the album that's required then that would mean the definition in the clue wouldn't fit.

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Ha ha. The cigar to Andy C.

The number appears on the debut album cover, so I think we can assume it referred the (then) full name of the band.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Andy C wrote:

Well, I suppose there's the Roman numeral on the cover of their debut long-player.

I think I'm about to make the most pedantic point in the history of otf: the letter count for Clue 2 should be ((3,1) 4 (2,8)). There, I've said it.

I was going to make the same point, but refrained because I couldn't decide where there should be commas. Which is the most pedantic reason not to make a point in the history of otf.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Some Bloke Off The Internet says:

No this wasn't The Stranglers fourth album, but their debut. Tagging it IV was their playful way of causing confusion on its release.

I regard him as authoritative. That, and I'd forgotten that Rattus Norvegicus had an IV on it.

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

To continue the pedantry, "The Stranglers Four" returns no Google results, while ""The Stranglers IV" returns only references to the album - there's no suggestion the band were ever called ""The Stranglers IV".

Anyway:

The Stranglers Four (Roman) strangled, with no small nerve, under night time illumination (9)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Except in Toulouse, mostly come like The Stranglers' four (8)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Hofzinser wrote:

To continue the pedantry...no Google results (9)

How exactly did you manage before it was invented?

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I often wonder how anyone managed before Google.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

The German in Starlight Town (10)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I do beg its pardon; inexplicably enough, it seems that should have read

The German in Starlight City (10)

I was unconsciously editorialising, perhaps.

[Duncan Gardner]

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Sunderland's evil had day out (5,5)

(Is there no end to your regional bickering, man? I've now got a 'Fog on the Tyne' earworm, bonny lad).

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I often wonder how anyone managed before Google.

You try and tell the young people today that we had to use Alta Vista, and they won't believe yer.

[Kusal Flyer]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Gardner has asked me to deliver your bonus clues

2 1's home- destroy unknown shag, we hear? (10)

3 Kill Kielty near 2 (11)

4 Yr. nearby metropolis, 3 (5)

5 Feeney's gaff down the road from 4 (11)

[Andy C]

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Birthplace of David Healy - behemoth scrambles away. Ahoy! (9)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Christendom to rely on Bethlehem and its environs (3,4,4)

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Tentatively:

Preserve ragu cooked in city of the Holy Land (9)

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I don't think that's right. Rather:

The West Bank ruler - fuel, we hear, for the singer (3,4,4)