Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Duncan Gardner]

Somewhere Racine masturbated- it's an artform (6)

[irony towers]

Late-60s release in cinema about marriage, with poorly-drawn characters (8,2,10,3)

[irony towers]

_ _ C _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ C _ _ _ _ C _ / _ _ _

[irony towers]

_ _ C _ _ _ _ S / _ _ / _ _ _ C _ S _ _ C _ / _ _ _

[irony towers]

_ _ C _ _ _ _ S / _ F / _ _ _ C _ S _ _ C _ / _ _ N

[Duncan Gardner]

1 Tabloid diamonds follow up Pictures of Matchstick Men (3,2,3,3)

And for your bonus

2 McHairy (2,2,5)

3 Expensive toilet (4,4)

4 Two seats won (5,3,5)

5 Odd job man (6,2,2,6)

[ad hoc]

Ridiculous Q: "Ice In The Sun" - lost in skills? (10)

PS Wikipedia tells me that actually the follow up to PoMM was called "Black Veils of Melancholy"

[Duncan Gardner]

A rather than the follow up Professor Karpaty

BVoM is basically the same tune as PoMM

Bonus spoiler

2 [IN MY] CHAIR

3 DEAR JOHN

4 AGAIN AND AGAIN

5 LIVING [ON AN] ISLAND

[Duncan Gardner]

Some techniques to rile Lisbon suburban resort (7)

[irony towers]

Shifting sand carried last part of wreckage, with sea lapping Estoril (6,2,7)

[Guy Profumo]

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[irony towers]

_ _ D _ _ _ / D _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _

[irony towers]

_ _ D _ _ _ / D _ / _ _ S _ _ _ S

[Duncan Gardner]

Andrea de Cesaris to stop eventually- it's fabulous (5)

[ad hoc]

From story of Aesop, learn of flying machines (10)

[Guy Profumo]

Hog sweaters made from “Paper Aeroplanes”? [2,3,6]

[ad hoc]

I think I am too thick for IT's clues. I have no idea how all of that leads to Andrea de Cesaris (I get the "lapping Estoril" bit, and can see how shifting sand carried will probably work, but beyond that...I got nothing)

[Guy Profumo]

I know I am.

[Duncan Gardner]

Apologies for possible poor taste suggestion in mine- I hadn't realised that ADC was killed in a road accident

(I cant parse IT's either alas)

[Guy Profumo]

Apologies for possible poor taste suggestion in mine- I hadn't realised that ADC was killed in a road accident

(I cant parse IT's either alas)

hwee?


Nor I.

When was this?

[irony towers]

It was in 2014, in a motorcycle accident. (I too was unaware of this until looking it up.)

Shifting sand carried last part of wreckage, with sea lapping Estoril (6,2,7)

Anagram ('shifting') of SAND CARRIED (wreckag)E SEA; Estoril was a Grand Prix circuit during the 80s and 90s.

[Duncan Gardner]

It's elegant and fair- just hard

[Guy Profumo]

_ _/_ _ _/_ _ O _ _ _

[Nefertiti2]

We are ghosts that haunted every death on Golgotha, beginning a phoney war by phoney men.

(3,3,3)

[ad hoc]

Particles (trendy) of heroin kill the bloke in Wag The Dog (6,7)