DEBAUCHERY
Rush Hour Orpheus Pearly Gate Seventh Circle Purgatroid Beelzebub Holy Mackerel Hotel California High Water Persephone Lucy Feral Vote 1st (3 points) & 2nd (1 point)
It's displayed by each rude degenerate!
[ &lit ; 'degenerate' (anagram) BY EACH RUDE ]
Revolutionary bed archery on switching Romeo's turn, caused sex riot
[ deb = 'bed' reversed ; substitute 'u' (turn) for 'r' (Romeo) in 'archery'
to make 'auchery'. ; def = sex riot ]
Excess cheer, a buddy removed from ground
[Excess (def); anagram of 'cheerabuddy' - remove 'd' from]
Orgy where you sleep around with a movie star in uniform. Yes !
[ Orgy = def ; "where you sleep" = BED (around = DEB) with A ;
"movie star" = CHER in U (uniform) & Y (Yes) ]
Cure head by ditching excess [ anag of CUREHEADBY ] Nearby douche swung, kicking on at orgy [anag of NEARBY DOUCHE minus ON] Exciting breach due to base revelry? [ &lit ; Exciting=anagrind ; fodder = BREACH DUE ; to base revelry = Y ] English Baroness (originally a smart PM that's now departed) buried in Derry outskirts, causing a riot [a riot = def; English = E ; Baroness, originally = B; a = A; smart = U (as in stylish); PM that's now departed = THATCHER ‐ THAT = CHER; all in DY (being Derry outskirts) ] A drunk cherub about to take no part in; deny bacchanalia. [ CHERUB* around A replacing the N in deNy, def = bacchanalia ] Ditching pole dancing, saucy deb hides her depravity [anag of SAUCY DEB minus S (ditching pole) around HER; def is depravity] Did Essendon boys actually use cerebrolysin? Hird even? Starts with poor integrity, ends as wild abandon [starts of DEBAUCHE with ends of RY] PANDEMONIUM
Vote 1st (3 points) & 2nd (1 point)
Beastly cry of pain starts to emerge. Sounds like hell.
Rush Hour [ beastly cry of pain = panda moan ; starts of emerge = E.M. ;
sounds = homophone ; def. = hell ]
Men and opium - result: Hell!
Orpheus [ fodder = men and opium ; anagrind = result ; def = hell ]
Criticize? I hesitate - a Melbourne fan in turmoil.
Pearly Gate [Turmoil (def); PAN (criticize) IUM (I hesitate) with DEMON in (a Melbourne fan)]
Delirium, insane, mad. Pneumonia without end.
Seventh Circle [ Delirium = def ; insane = anagram indicator ;
MAD PNEUMONI = fodder ; without end = drop the final a ]
Purgatroid Spooner rode a horse with some hesitation...it was wild ["Manned a pony" + UM ] Beelzebub Loudly slammed Latrobe ending kinky uni love‐in ‐ 2000 racket ['panned' + E + UNIO anagram in MM] Holy Mackerel Outrage! An imp in my skull took credit for first place. [ DEMON inside CRANIUM ; swap 'CR' for 'P' = PANDEMONIUM ] Hotel California Terrible man with opium den racket [anagrind: Terrible; fodder: MAN OPIUM DEN; racket = def] Persephone Set upon maiden, then another, creating uproar [anag of UPON MAIDEN then M (another maiden); def is uproar] Lucy Feral Moonee Ponds megastar returns in afternoon, starts offering news, infotainment , upstaging Micallef's "Mad as Hell" [EDNA back in PM; starts ONIUM] A bad don Swept in smelling salts, sounds returning, confusion... ["panned ammonium"] (shaded submitters didn't officially lodge a final set) (*WILDCARD*)
Rush Hour IMPASSIVE Orpheus PERSONA Pearly Gate JUBILANT Seventh Circle PERSONA Purgatroid Beelzebub Holy Mackerel ENJOYABLE IMPASSIVE PERSONA Hotel California JUBILANT Persephone DISREGARD Lucy Feral Purge a Tory A bad don PERSONA DISREGARD PERSONA Vote 1st (3 points), 2nd (2 points) & 3rd (1 point)
Not worried about gap between contractions.
[ def = not worried ;
gap = (mountain) pass ; between contractions = inside I'M and I'VE ]
Milton appears so Omnian when read regularly.
[ def = Milton
appears ; odd letters of 'appears so Omnian' gives persona ]
Extend bail reform, nefarious initially caught flying.
[Flying (def); anagram of BAIL + N, caught in JU-T (extend)]
Bergman film: "Whispers on a Cold Heart"
[ Bergman film = def ;
WhisPERS ON A Cold = container ; Heart = Hidden identifier ]
Can Jay Leno be entertaining? [anag of JAYLENOBE ] Cool one quietly stabbed monster [I+M(P)ASSIVE] Casting aspersion is out of character [casting=anagrind, fodder=ASPERSION minus IS, def = of character] Backward politician plugging silly jaunt over the moon [Backward politician = BIL; plugging = containerind; silly = anagrind; jaunt = fodder ie JU...ANT; over the moon = def = JU(BIL)ANT] Ignore 'S' in grid read incorrectly [Def is ignore; S in an anag of GRID READ] No spare change? And you are who? [anag] "Made in Scotland from girders" (ad) ‐‐ Take no notice Novel character? Cutting-room floor (where mortally wounded 'fourth clues' go to die...)
Aliases removed to save space... and protect the guilty.
DEBAUCHERY: Crumble a cube into Lawrence's very short black, delicious! [ACUBE mix in DH ERY ]
DEBAUCHERY: Hear INXS, Cure by headsets? ["In excess" = def, CUREBYHEAD = fodder. Is "sets" ok
as an anagrind? ]
DEBAUCHERY: Retro rock gold, with revolutionary track "Life In The Fast Lane" [retro BED = DEB +
gold AU + revolutionary CHE + track RY ]
DISREGARD: Look after Sid's back? Forget it. [sid's back = DIS, look=REGARD]
DISREGARD: Rides off, back trouble slight
DISREGARD: Slight drawback after dries out
ENJOYABLE: Happiness found in charge? (to charge someone can mean to enable them)
ENJOYABLE: It's pleasing playing the good part of Leyenda, accompanied by banjo [ playing = anagrind
the good part of Leyenda accompanied by banjo= (LEYE + BANJO)* ]
FRAGRANCE: A scrap of cloth in the country of Cologne [ RAG in FRANCE, def=Cologne ]
FRAGRANCE: Spooner's muted country scent [Grey France]
IMPASSIVE: Little monkey bum! I have no response. [IMP + ASS + I'VE ; def=no response ]
JUBILANT: "Diddle" nearly stopping fiddly jaunt over the moon? [ Diddle nearly = BIL(K) ; stopping =
containerind ; fiddly = anagrind ; jaunt = fodder ie JU...ANT ; over the moon = def ]
PANDEMONIUM: Criticize Satan in Underworld marks start of chaos [Criticize = pan ; Satan = demon ;
first letters of 'in Underworld marks' ; chaos = def]
PANDEMONIUM: Hardly bear strike ending corruption of union conracted in 2000 – such a racket
[PAND/a + E + UNIO/n anagram in MM]
PANDEMONIUM: Trouble ahead, inner demon took credit for first place
PANDEMONIUM: Unhinged man enters shonky opium den, all hell breaking loose [Anagram : MAN
OPIUM DEN]
PERSONA : The Beano's reputation reflects a hidden social role
PERSONA: Spooner loses heart, goes to pieces before a mask
UNDESIRABLE : Not wanted, unhappy Napoleon starts Elba experiment (rides away in between)
UNDESIRABLE: Lean, bruised, battered, unfit [anag of LEAN, BRUISED ]
UNDESIRABLE: Unable to contain endless desire - awkward!
UNDESIRABLE: Blue Sardine Cocktail? Not recommended!