Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

.....I....I..

[HindleA]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Five leave reactionaries to become a shadow of their former selves?(5)

[HindleA]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

---C-

[HindleA]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

It was the five leaders which reformed.

-R-C-

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Bump / Help?

(This thread won't reach 1,000 pages by itself, you know!)

[HindleA]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Sorry crap clue.I'm no Araucaria

TR-C-

Def: shadow

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Put perverse replacement in for Christopher Trace? (5, 6)

[Guy Profumo]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

HindleA wrote: Sorry crap clue.I'm no Araucaria

TR-C-

Def: shadow

None of us are youth.

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Daft Peter Purves chucks Evert before evening date (6)

[HindleA]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Vindaloo and rice made the last supper (8,2,5)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

My hot pal appears to like Leonardo da Vinci (8)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Rich polymath urges treatment- here's one in your eye! (10,7)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Rubbish ophthalmic surgery revealed game piece (6)

[HindleA]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Be in charge of the Bishop residence.(7)

[HindleA]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

---S---

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Preside over furniture theft

(6,3,5)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

That letter count is correct?

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Taking the chair, I'm a born finisher- like Gerd Muller or Miro Klose (6)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Christ knows why I was desperately searching for an infinitive of the verb there...

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Electing a German leader (7)

[Duncan Gardner]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

ad hoc wrote: Christ knows why I was desperately searching for an infinitive of the verb there...

Perhaps I should have specified a guess there. Nef will clear up but meantime I suggest we play on?

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

"Taking the chair" is [strike]correct[/strike] what I had in mind. Apologies for any confusion. Changed my mind at the last minute for what seemed at the time like a better surface reading..

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

_ _ N _ _ _ R

[Nefertiti2]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Not sure about this, but

Awkward sperm racketeer came from Hanover to Holloway.

(3, 11)

It's getting more and more exciting here in Cryptic Crossword land -whose will be the post that hits four figures?

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

No, not Hannover or Hanover.

Let's try....
Selecting a German leader (7)

Possibly slightly fairer