Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

In drink, setter would become banal (7)

[Sean of the Shed]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Pale, insipid, Marxist at heart. (8)

[Sean of the Shed]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Pale, insipid, Marxist at heart. (8)

_ _ _ N _ _ _ _

[Sean of the Shed]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ _ N _ _ _ D

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Midfielder tracks outside or inside, but then blanched after being upended (4,5)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ _ Y / _ _ _ _ _

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Ah, very nice clue.

[ad hoc]

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Rory Delap tackled, took out QPR defender Bradley. Bravo! (6)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Played for Man United, but not Northern Ireland, which is very surprising (8,2)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

(as an aside - I wanted to not include the word "Bradley in my clue, and at the last minute decided to as otherwise I though it might be unfair. Do you think it would have been?)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Everton player fetches undreamt of fee (6)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Yeah, I think you made the right choice. It's tricky, because you don't want to make it too easy, but that would have made the number of links in the solving chain a bit too long, for my money.

But I seem to set easier-than-average ones on this thread, I think, so perhaps I need to toughen the fuck up.

[Mumpo]

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Toffee-nose BBC chief meets Queen and becomes full member (6)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Hot toffee, minced nuts: once a popular idea in Washington (3,6,5)

[Mumpo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Sorry

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

No probs. Unconvinced by mine anyway.

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I'm not sure. I suppose the instinctive reaction when you see your clue solved in five minutes is that you've made things to easy, but I don't think it's necessarily so. For me, the pleasure in solving a crossword clue derives from two things: the satisfaction in overcoming a challenge and a delight in the elegance of a well-worked clue - and I think the latter outweighs the formed. I take much more delight in a clue that is well-wrought and witty but which clicks into place quickly than one that takes days (and lots of hints) to unravel and leaves you with a bit of a "is that it?" feeling at the end.

As a setter, I feel I've failed a bit if I have to give hints.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Agitating Will's todger urbanely, somewhere in Kent (5,9,5)

[Balderdasha]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Intoxicated woodlands put Royal Tunbridge Wells inhabitants on edge (4,5)

[Sean of the Shed]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

ad hoc wrote:

Everton player fetches undreamt of fee (6)

Joleon would have fitted that clue as well.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Drawing a blank here.

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I've an answer that I'm less than totally confident about, but I'll give it a go.

Region where beauty is not as High Weald, Stan conjectures (9)

[Duncan Gardner]

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John's and Jack's in T.S. Eliot Wasteland (7)

[ad hoc]

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Gene Eliot wrote "Wasteland"? (10)

Arse

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Mastiffs in the middle ages and in the toilets (7)