Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

C-cut, mark, score, this obtuse batsman (6 ,11)

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Mock the side at Marcus Trescothick's home ground (7)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

In Taunton, surprisingly, I get the nod (8)

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Nutation I modestly returned, shielding game piece (6)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Domino effect during Four seasons? (5)

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Ingredient of pizza I research in the old country (5)

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Modern day Zaire curtailed by a tacky dance (5)

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Mixed conga line? That's agreeable (9)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Congenial? Takes the essential characteristic (10)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ T __ __

[Wyatt Earp]

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I have a candidate, but I'm not at all confident about it. So much so that I'm going to request another clue.

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

More help needed here I think.

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I say if Dunc doesn't show up soon we just go with your candidate answer and hope it's right.

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Yeah, I agree.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I'm reluctant, I must admit.

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I'm going to have a stab (without a great deal of confidence).

Charge president, though empathetic, after losing Vietnam offensive badly (7)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Either everybody's so unconvinced by my answer that they don't see the point of pursuing this cruciverbal cul-de-sac (whereas I tend to think that even if it is such a blind alley, there's no reason to not go up it until such time as it proves to be so, just for the sake of enjoyment rather than perfection), or the clue's too hard. So, I'd like to edit:

Charge president, though strangely empathetic, after losing Vietnam offensive (7)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

It was the former in my case...

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Morning campers. The solution to my (admittedly poor) clue above was CONGENIAL.

Suggest we go with Wyatt's?

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Congenital was indeed my guess, but I was only about 1% confident.

I think we should go with "congenital", but I await a consensus.

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

go for it

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Astringent secretion of plants that's mostly congenital and recessive (6)

Edit: oh, wait that doesn't work. Wait while I fix it, or jump in on "congenital", either one.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Astringent secretion of plants that's mostly congenital, recessive and, initially, neutral (6)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Tea, anyone?

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Or perhaps a glass of red wine?