The official bored-at-work cryptic crossword pass it on thread.

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That is funny, but I although I could work out what “toffiest” means I’ve never heard it used. For that matter, I’ve never heard anyone say “toffy” meaning posh (or manifesting as posh). Toff, by all means.

Tim, Monday, 31 July 2023 14:37 (nine months ago) link

five months pass...

Doing cryptics every few days I encounter a new slang term I’ve never heard before. Today it’s budgie smuggler.

Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 02:29 (three months ago) link

Pretty much universally understood here in Australia, expressions like this are what we have instead of culture (with apologies to our First Peoples)

meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 05:53 (three months ago) link

four weeks pass...

Lots of them in this week’s Quiptic: clobber, beanfeast, browned off, as well as discovering that spaghetti on toast is a thing.

Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 03:34 (two months ago) link

I would imagine it's mostly done with tinned spaghetti, similar to beans on toast (obviously i am far too well bred to have ever had such a thing myself).

ledge, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 09:37 (two months ago) link

That’s it exactly, looks particularly nauseating with SpaghettiOs.

Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 13:16 (two months ago) link


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