Rude Cryptic Clue Thread

[starrkers]

Damn, I was trying to be too clever.

 

[jomar]

I've gotten a couple of these, but haven't been sure it was right. I assume it will help once I get my head around the rules and can think in cryptic clue.

 

[NoJo]

Two Orgasms? Surely you jest! (4,4)

 

[Bramblethorn]

Two Orgasms? Surely you jest! (4,4)

Come, come.

(thanks for reviving this! I enjoy cryptics and hadn't seen it before)

A tricky one:

Boss to drain double mix (10).

 

[Kumquatqueen]

That must be Dominatrix (boss)

Oh - 'to drain mix', the word mix doubling up as an anagram indicator. Very good!

 

[Bramblethorn]

That must be Dominatrix (boss)

Oh - 'to drain mix', the word mix doubling up as an anagram indicator. Very good!

And here was me wondering if I'd made that one too difficult. Evidently not. Let's try something different, then:

Executing nonentities is a fruitless recreation. (8,6)

 

[Bramblethorn]

While people are thinking about that, an easy one:

Sperm ruined ladies' hair-dos. (5)

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Perms.

Stuck on the previous one. I'm guessing a phrase meaning worthless person that with first letters removed means masturbation, but it's not getting me anywhere.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Perms.

Stuck on the previous one. I'm guessing a phrase meaning worthless person that with first letters removed means masturbation, but it's not getting me anywhere.

Not quite. Decapitation is not the only form of execution...

I'll give it another twelve hours or so, and if nobody's got it by then I'll give the answer.

 

[NoJo]

Ok just checked in to lit. It's an anagram... still working on it

..while on it,

Domme misbehaves in California - she's making money online (3, 5)

 

[Kumquatqueen]

CAM MODEL (domme rearranged in Cal.)

Running/firing synonym, blanks? I can't get an appropriate 8hletter word.

 

[Bramblethorn]

CAM MODEL (domme rearranged in Cal.)

Running/firing synonym, blanks? I can't get an appropriate 8hletter word.

SHOOTING BLANKS, yep. In hindsight I could probably have trimmed that to "Executing nonentities is fruitless".

 

[NoJo]

that was a cool one - went down the anagram rabbit hole on that one

 

[NoJo]

over-chastity resulting from Democratic parties ? (4,5)

 

[Bramblethorn]

over-chastity resulting from Democratic parties ? (4,5)

BLUE BALLS.

 

[Bramblethorn]

See, mother? Drunken group sex. (9)

My favourite ever cryptic clue was something like:

17 across: (8)

The answer was CLUELESS. Sadly I've forgotten who came up with that one.

 

[NoJo]

See, mother? Drunken group sex. (9)

My favourite ever cryptic clue was something like:

17 across: (8)

The answer was CLUELESS. Sadly I've forgotten who came up with that one.

I came up with that one a very long time ago (as have other people) in a crossword I set: the two 15 letter lights were:

17 Across: (1,6,3,1,4)

and

21 Across: Like 17 across or 21 Across? (4-11)


The answers being,respectively, "I haven't got a clue" and "self-referential"

 

[NoJo]

See, mother? Drunken group sex. (9)

My favourite ever cryptic clue was something like:

17 across: (8)

The answer was CLUELESS. Sadly I've forgotten who came up with that one.

3some

 

[NoJo]

Londoner's health inquiry regarding parent's sex (4,4,6)

 

[Bramblethorn]

Londoner's health inquiry regarding parent's sex (4,4,6)

I'm stuck on this one. I can get LORD NELSON (4,6) with "londoner's" plus an extra L, but I don't think that's what you have in mind.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Me too. I mean, 'alright, motherfucker?' would meet the definitions but not the word lengths, and anagrams haven't got me anywhere.

 

[NoJo]

Well it looked as though I was setting the bar too low -- For "Londoners" read "Cockney", so it's very much a UK type clue (I didn't find any cryptic crosswords when I lived with my brother in the US in the 80s, and we had our parents post us a goody bag of cut-out crossword puzzles, Sainsbury's tea and crunchies every few months)

Re-reading it, it's not a fair clue, but I think would just about pass: The answer is "Hows Your Father"

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Re-reading it, it's not a fair clue, but I think would just about pass: The answer is "Hows Your Father"

No, that's perfectly fair. Double definition clue: Londoner's health enquiring regarding parent = sex. Well done.

Though I don't think the phrase is even specific to London, is it?

 

[Bramblethorn]

"Try it the other way round?" he asked Margaret gingerly. (7)

 

[Kumquatqueen]

PEG (short for Margaret) + GING = PEGGING (trying it the the other way round!)

I think it needs a structure indicator like 'half-gingerly', but great use of appropriate adverb there.