Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Guy Profumo]

How about a collaboration? IT offers the solution, then I work it into a clue saying something rude about Priti Patel?

Or just say something rude about Priti Patel anyway...

[Duncan Gardner]

"Fuck off Priti Patel", I shouted hoarsely. Start like a twat...(7)

[Guy Profumo]

I take it that was a side bar bonus Dunc.

There's still the three letter word to get, IIRC

[irony towers]

EFT transaction to make fast growth on the hoof (7)

[Guy Profumo]

Bad surgery trepans the bone below the fetlock (7)

[irony towers]

Termination of racehorse with fractured pastern: getting over this is hard to put into words (9)

[irony towers]

_ _ P _ _ _ _ _ _

[irony towers]

_ _ P _ _ _ N _ _

[Guy Profumo]

Oh very clever.

<modest ripple of applause from the Long Room>

[Guy Profumo]

Swirling Bernie (mort) wanted to take Esperanto in Joburg?

(4,5)

[Guy Profumo]

(and with that, I've got today's earworm)

[Capybara]

I don't get the EFT one at all. But I have Dunc's Priti Patel effort.

[Guy Profumo]

Electronic Funds Transfer.

Also eft, the immature stage in the life cycle of a newt

[irony towers]

Justin Welby, leader of Eddy Grant's band? (5,5,6)

[Duncan Gardner]

First among Equals? Stove to bury Peel's (6,5,5)

[irony towers]

Abridged translation of Primus inter pares runs a replacement for subject useful for 18th-century literary work (8,6)

[Guy Profumo]

It's Iike stepping back into the fucking 1950s when a knowledge of Greek and Latin was required to solve cryptic crosswords.

Yer bastards.

[Guy Profumo]

PE 662

Police force: "Let's spread guts" (6)

M . A . L .

Help!

Measly?

[irony towers]

It would work if you had M _ T _ L _.

It's Iike stepping back into the fucking 1950s when a knowledge of Greek and Latin was required to solve cryptic crosswords.

Yer bastards.

And there was I thinking you'd chosen your nom de guerre as Latin for 'I am in favour of smoking'.

[Guy Profumo]

It would work if you had M _ T _ L _.



And there was I thinking you'd chosen your nom de guerre as Latin for 'I am in favour of smoking'.

The "A" is from Cranmer

Protestant martyr, subsequently recruiting Irish militant leaders (7)

C _ _ _ M _ R

[irony towers]

While we're on the Latin theme, you need to halve the value of the first letter for that one.

[Guy Profumo]

Aha!

[irony towers]

Meanwhile...

Abridged translation of Primus inter pares runs a replacement for subject useful for 18th-century literary work (8,6)

_ _ _ S _ _ _ _ / S _ _ _ _ _

[Guy Profumo]

Beer Tristram Shandy is not going to accept or order in the first place (7)

[ad hoc]

Saluting dodgy Tsingtao (8)