Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

1 Keep yourself alive, Liz! (5)

And for your bonus,

2 Sacreligious film star month (5,3)

3 23rd Pope-cleric (4,6)

4 Have it off with Liz (5,6)

5 Flintoff's element (7,7)

Solutions are linked

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Devious hen scams Queen, for example (8)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Producing talk about chessman (8)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

By the way, can someone explain "stronghold" to me? I'm no closer to understanding it than before I knew the answer

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

It's an anagram ("bomb") of THOUSAND KILOGRAM without the letters ("misplaced") UK AIM A.

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

ah!

[Sean of the Shed]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Insect's reach spawning ground. (8)

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

dubious central dynamic snapper held responsible for wingspan?

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Duncan Gardner wrote:

2 Sacreligious film star month (5,3)

Deliberate typo?

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Ah, no, got it: Brian May. Sorry, carry on.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Sean of the Shed wrote:

Insect's reach spawning ground. (8)

Nice!

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Nefertiti2 wrote:

dubious central dynamic snapper held responsible for wingspan?

We need a letter count, Neffers.

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I knew I'd forgotten something

Dubious central dynamic snapper held responsible for wingspan?

(5, 9)

[Nefertiti2]

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_ _ _ D _

_ _ C _ _ _ _ _ _

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Often, Linda McCartney's part crazy: bin our meat? (10)

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Leader banned tambourine- that's taking the piss! (6,5)

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Oh - and page

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Don't quite get the clue, but I think I have it.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

But it's me teatime; play through!

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Unrepresentative body set up by leader Oliver Tambo earns rebel pain, unfortunately (9,10)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Where the Barebones Parliament fell on its arse...(4)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Elected member initially joins poet in America after Rump Parliament (8)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ _ _ _ B _ Y

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Pretty sure I have had the correct solution to this since about 5 minutes after I first saw it, and subsequent clues have reinforced that opinion, yet I'm still unsure of how the answer is obtained, so am keeping it to myself.