[johnx2]

Setting's the fun bit init?  Anyway that answer's not so hard to work up into something. (You could simpy use it to refer to an individual, or some element of that individual's oeuvre. I don't mean one of those obliquely referred to in the clue. Then again perhaps not everyone's as encumbered with early 80s pop trivia as I find myself to be.)

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Setting's the fun bit init?  Anyway that answer's not so hard to work up into something. (You could simpy use it to refer to an individual, or some element of that individual's oeuvre. I don't mean one of those obliquely referred to in the clue. Then again perhaps not everyone's as encumbered with early 80s pop trivia as I find myself to be.)

Except

“Stateless souffle mishmash for embryos in Paris. (5).”

is souf[-FL]e = oeufs. And although a common and well-known French word isn't commonly used in English. So is Verboten

[johnx2]

@ARFC - I agree with that ruling and thanks for the explaination. My comment was on JH's comment on my clue, which has a long (but I thought obvious) answer:

A request by flawless singer Panayiotou and President Reg to be spared oral relief from Mohan’s organ (4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2, 2)




(ETA yes common French words are fine, but i couldn't see how the earlier clue worked.)

...christ, no marks for brevity!!  Damn, I always get confused by long clues......   

... actually would you say "oral relief from" or "oral relief by"? Can't tell now I'm thinking about it.  I'll stop thinking about it.

[johnx2]

Is the issue here lack of knowledge of pop cheese? Or original names? Or fleet st editors? Footy club life presidents? Apathy? Or some combination of the above?

[john horscroft]

Is the issue here lack of knowledge of pop cheese? Or original names? Or fleet st editors? Footy club life presidents? Apathy? Or some combination of the above?

Pop cheese?     Original names?     Fleet street editors?     Footy club presidents?     Apathy?   

[john horscroft]

Phew!

Don't let the sun go down on me?  No point!  I'd mess up hun sting!  (8,3)

I had to cheat to get it though.... 

My clue's going to get a kicking from the disciplinary committee though....   

[john horscroft]

Phew!

Don't let the sun go down on me?  No point!  I'd mess up hun sting!  (8,3)

I had to cheat to get it though.... 

My clue's going to get a kicking from the disciplinary committee though....   

Move along, move along, nothing to see here................   

[tommytwotone]

Unrelated to cryptics, but last Saturday's Quick in the Guardian had a clue where the answer was "Subfusc"...in a quick!

Am I alone in thinking that's a pretty tricky one??

[john horscroft]

Unrelated to cryptics, but last Saturday's Quick in the Guardian had a clue where the answer was "Subfusc"...in a quick!

Am I alone in thinking that's a pretty tricky one??

My missus is the Guardian quick devotee, but she often goes, "You what!?" at some of the clues!

[johnx2]

...and sometimes the Rufus on Monday is barely cryptic at all (meaning I have a chance of finishing), unlike the current one. Where's the definition?

[john horscroft]

...and sometimes the Rufus on Monday is barely cryptic at all (meaning I have a chance of finishing), unlike the current one. Where's the definition?

.....ahhhhhh, thought this was going to land me in trouble.  The definition is the first part and the answer could conceivably have 'land of the' in front of it......

Now I KNOW I've said too much.....   

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

...and sometimes the Rufus on Monday is barely cryptic at all (meaning I have a chance of finishing), unlike the current one. Where's the definition?

.....ahhhhhh, thought this was going to land me in trouble.  The definition is the first part and the answer could conceivably have 'land of the' in front of it......

Now I KNOW I've said too much.....   

[john horscroft]

Now I KNOW I've said too much.....   

Come on the ARFK, put me, and the rest of them, out of our misery.......... 

[johnx2]

a bit of the answer in the clue...?    I know, everyone's a bleedin' critic. ARFC you have until 13:10 before the world feels the might of my next shit short one...

EtA  all suits and meetings today so I can wait no longer. This should be a quick one. I just can't seem to lose the smut:


Land of the midnight sun’s arousal by land of the setting sun’s long distance writer (9, 4).

[johnx2]

ah shit, rising! I meant rising ...

Land of the midnight sun’s arousal by land of the rising sun’s long distance writer (9, 4).

[john horscroft]

a bit of the answer in the clue...?    I know, everyone's a bleedin' critic.

Damn, I knew I was going to get it in the neck for that.....   

[johnx2]

Land of the midnight sun’s arousal by land of the rising sun’s long distance writer (9, 4).

The words 'long distance' are superfluous, I thought they might help only because they're what I first thought of when I thought about the author of the work in question... 

[john horscroft]

Land of the midnight sun’s arousal by land of the rising sun’s long distance writer (9, 4).

The words 'long distance' are superfluous, I thought they might help only because they're what I first thought of when I thought about the author of the work in question...

John, I'm afraid it's still a big fat      so, clue me baby........

[johnx2]

okay, I could have clued this as a song but instead went with a recently filmed bestselling 'cult' novel...



more?

the land of the midnight sun is in which country? One of the best known authors from the rising sun place, besides the novel in question wrote "what I think about when I think about running."

These clues don;t really work if, having got them, you don't think "aha that's obvious."

[SA Chris]

Norwegian Wood?

Actually scatch that Norway isn't the land of the midnight sun is it, was just misled by the arousal / wood bit.

[johnx2]

no, sorry Chris that's the right answer. And now you must set one.

[SA Chris]

OK, I though Iceland was the land of the midnight sun, will go scratch head and have to come up with something easy. Sorry forgot I had to make up next clue

(btw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Midnight_Sun - i only googled after honest).

[johnx2]

I'd always thought it was Lapland, where the dancers come from,m Wikkipedia says it's loads of places, including Norway. 

[slackline]

Here.... (currently > 66° 33′ 44″ lattitude)

[SA Chris]

A Norwegian would would be irked by the start of famous comedy Greek (9).

(sorry that's pretty pants - I'm better at solving them than setting them).