Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[irony towers]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ I _ _ _ _ M

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Model firearm - a mere toy (6)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Coffee trifle speciality (6)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Have filter-tips before looking sad (5)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ R _ _ _

[irony towers]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

As the French say, "A trifle directly after a starter is a swindle" (7)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Somehow you're about 2 clues late on that IT

[irony towers]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Oh crumbs, yes...erm, it was late, I'd seen "_ R _ _ _", miscounted and thought we were still on 'trifle'.

It was quite a neat one, too; another for the pile of Clues To Be Used Sometime, which has just been augmented by a lorryload when I tried to create a circular puzzle and got the format wrong.

[irony towers]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Back on track now:

When listening, be intent: oddly clammy with frown (4,3)

[irony towers]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ _ P / _ _ _

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Beatle nearly cut camp out (4, 9)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

By the way, I feel your last clue didn't really have a definition in it, IT. Felt a bit like two cryptic halves leading to the same solution. I dunno if that's within the bounds of the unwritten cryptic crossword rulebook

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Need a little help from your friends?

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Don't rush us, we're coming up with a response.

[Sean of the Shed]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Don't you mean we can work it out?

[Sean of the Shed]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Paul McCartney in concert, as well as leasing gaming equipment (4,3,3,3)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Same journey, different result in Live and Let Die (4, 7)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ N _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ R

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Jane Seymour's lad then? Dry our tears (5,5)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Here, victoriously, Henry Tudor struck a blow - hordes fit (8,5)

[seand]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Did Douglas and Turner feature at Bosworth Field? (3,2,3,5)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

80's Song describing conflict such as the War of the Roses in bloody, extremely savage detail to begin with. (3, 6)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

1 Two Tribes smother Southern Irish 80s pop diva (8,5)

And for your bonus,

2 Gordon Brown's much-loved economic strategy (4,8)

3 Exclude woman with points (8)

4 Chislehurst chip shop, actually (4,4,6)

5 Ending with a sharp drop, why both do you pass here? (5,5)

Solutions are linked in a contingent

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

As an historical pedant, I should point out it was the Wars of the Roses which concluded at Bosworth.

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Though the film referenced in seand's clue was called The War of the Roses.