Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[seand]

Sounds like we had Mr Brightside playing to get rid of the dandelion (11)

- E - - - - - - - - S (11)

[Kevin S]

Even weedkillers and coconuts give something with bite (9)

[Duncan Gardner]

1 Their crocodile hunted many- bench one perhaps? (4,3,3,8)

And for your bonus

2 Deadly tailor (3,6)

3 Evol... (4,2,4)

4 ...no mo'! (7,4)

5 Sailing with OMD (5,4)

Linked solutions can be learned and sung

[Kevin S]

Pours a lot of brewed tea with Echo and the Bunnymen (7)

[seand]

Even weedkillers and coconuts give something with bite (9)

Help me out here, I'm struggling to get crocodile from the first half of the clue......

[ad hoc]

I think it is an anagram of the even letters of weedkillers - EDILR with COCO

(nuts being the anagram indicator)

[Kevin S]

[Kevin S]

Pours a lot of brewed tea with Echo and the Bunnymen (7)

__ __ __ __ E __ __

[Kevin S]

Pours a lot of brewed tea with Echo and the Bunnymen (7)

__ __ C __ E __ __

[Kevin S]

Pours a lot of brewed tea with Echo and the Bunnymen (7)

__ __ C __ E __ S

[Duncan Gardner]

Echo bonus solutions

2 THE CUTTER

3 [BACK OF] LOVE

4 [KILLING] MOON

5 (on the) SEVEN SEAS

[Kevin S]

Pours a lot of brewed tea with Echo and the Bunnymen (7)

__ U C __ E __ S

[Kevin S]

Pours a lot of brewed tea with Echo and the Bunnymen (7)

__ U C K E __ S

[ad hoc]

Scratch that. Utter bollocks

[Guy Profumo]

General quickly found one of the Buckets? (5,5)

[ad hoc]

So, Kev, can you explain buckets? (I get "pours" as a definition, but the rest I have zero clue, even though I've know for a while that was what the answer was)

[Kevin S]

Pours a lot of (= definition of BUCKETS, verb)

brewed = anagram indicator
tea = T
with Echo = E
and the Bunnymen = BUCKS (male rabbits)

[ad hoc]

For me that falls foul of the "having to find a synonym before you can do an anagram" rule (the BUCKS bit especially)

[Kevin S]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Well, they can, but there are kind of unwritten rules (probably written rules, actually, known to the likes of Duncan Gardner) about how far it's OK to go.

For example, one we've talked about on this thread, and its predecessor, is the use of synonyms together with full-fledged anagrams, something that's generally agreed to be too hard. Synonyms together with simple inversions or truncations, on the other hand, you see all over the place.

Mea culpa. Apologies.

[Guy Profumo]

_ _ I _ _ / _ _ I _ _

[irony towers]

Finally develop two further episodes: Aristocratic Hyacinth (Clive Swift vehicle) (7)

[Duncan Gardner]

Lethargy at heart of Motor Porsche (6)

[ad hoc]

In dodgy pub, torpor on the plane (9)

[Guy Profumo]

Finally develop two further episodes: Aristocratic Hyacinth (Clive Swift vehicle) (7)

Now that one I do like!

[ad hoc]

In dodgy pub, torpor on the plane (9)

_ _ _ B _ _ R _ _