Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Esthete in Harlem embraces the man inside after pastiche, not slang.

(8, 6)

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Although I remember reading an analysis of Morecambe and Wise's humour and what made them special. It concluded that they'd started out as a conventional double act, but when Eddie Braben took over from Hills and Green as their sciptwriter he changed the dynamic so that Ernie Wise essentially played the role of a funny man who wasn't funny (all that "the play what I wrote" stuff and so on), with Eric Morecambe as the straight man who was funny.

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

I think all that would have made the clue more confusing though.

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Esthete in Harlem embraces the man inside after pastiche, not slang.

(8, 6)

_ _ _ G _ _ _ _

_ _ G _ _ _

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Esthete in Harlem embraces the man inside after pastiche, not slang.

(8, 6)

_ _ _ G _ T _ _

_ _ G _ _ S

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

At Pyreneean community, see conversation on "esthete" Langston Hughes often started by Brazilian writer (5,6)

[Hofzinser]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Sweet old Paulo Coelho starts to get involved in dirty movies (7)

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Popcorn makers cook the turbot (3,6)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Hot butter-like (7)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

G _ _ _ _ _ _

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

G _ _ _ I _ _

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

G _ A _ I _ H

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

A prince, debauched, goatish (7)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

The caprine condition, perhaps? It's Health and Safety gone mad! (5,5)

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Aristocrat from the nanny state, Spain (7)

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Aristocrat from the nanny state, Spain (7)

_ _ _ _ D _ _

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Spanish grandee went underground with American politician: no longer about! (7)

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ _ _ _ G _

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ _ A _ G _

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Distort, as the Hidalgo says, the working attendance figure (8)

[irony towers]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Bugs or suchlike appearing when you elongate container towards one end (7)

[irony towers]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

C _ _ _ _ _ N

[irony towers]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

C _ _ T _ _ N

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Long cartoon, Crazy Fat Auntie, remade (8,7)