In one.

Wise place to go for a holiday – sagacity?

Senselessness is brilliant/totally evil.

Starts to cope with manic depression (3)

Which ones do you want ? start and end will give it away IMHO

Just give us the other ones then 😉

a clue from todays Paul in the graundian

Possible breakfast gems, cold bangers damaged your health, perhaps? (9,4,2,5)

the answer to the previous clue was Stocking Fillers, and doing a countdown, Stocking Fillers.

cym

scrambled eggs on toast

cym

Close enough.

– – d – – – s –

Not Godzilla then 🙁

not madhouse ?

no its not

whats the clue?

god running amok
8 letters
the clue was it is capitalised in normal usage.

cym

Close enough.[/quote]

Spelling fail! 😳

im gonna stick 3 words in and hope for the best 🙂

started looking at the capital aspect and thinking that God was the proper clue as that would more than likely be capitalised, or a place.
so gods with d as a 3rd letter led me to buddha, so came up with budapest, buddhism or buddhist.

cant see how the clue works, but are any of those 3 correct? :-/

we have a winner….finally

Budapest

Mashed up a dub step place.

I don’t see how Budapest works for ‘god running amok’?

nope, me neither and it was me that got it, dont know whether my thinking process was along the right lines or not.

Certainly not a proper crossword clue. ‘City where we hear god runs amok’ maybe

City where we hear god runs amok’ maybe

i still wouldnt have got it from that…… how does pest sound like running amok?

EDIT: and FWIW i still dont agree with the senselessness clue i got right earlier 😀
maybe pedantically im thinking ‘sense less ness’ should have some part of the clue alluding to ‘ness’ being mixed up. because ‘ness’ isnt in there as is. like i say, maybe looking at it expecting it to be exact, but arent they supposed to be?

Bud[dha] a pest
Not sure why its so unclear

that’s an awful clue hows does Budapest relate in anyway to god, running or amok ?

that’s an awful clue hows does Budapest relate in anyway to god, running or amok ?

s’wat i was thinking, surely there ought to be part of the clue relating to budapest itself?

Should have some reference to city in the original clue, but apart from that it works. Without it though it’s what me and my dad would have called a Bad Clue, and annotated accordingly.

Yeah, that’s what’s thrown me off – I’d been running through capital cities in my head (since before JY explicitly suggested it was that), but was still expecting some part of the clue to refer to the whole word. Budapest clearly works with the clue, but the clue is incomplete.

so moving on – if you don’t have to solve before you set – here’s a well known one. Not classically ximinean but fair:

Of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of (10)

(oh aye, and for Budapest easy clue how about “Mate copies start of trouble in combined city”?)

Oftentimes!

Easy one for you

Dry sandwiches a cold delicacy (4)

tact

Oftentimes

😀 😀 😀

What you’re after then, I found in airport (8)

solution

I visited my parents today and rather liked this from the Radio Times:

The last meal of a drowning mouse (6,3,6)

(My mum, bless her, had tentatively filled in “?????? and cheese”)

roffle
bubble and squeak

An Insect from near Wigan (6)

earwig

There was a clue in last week’s paper that had a code I’d not seen before:

Tea is served in this posh service (3)

Probably common knowledge to the crossword cognoscenti, but I’d not seen that usage of posh before.

Urn. U and non-U, though I can’t remember what the U stands for. Plus RN = Royal Navy.

Ah.

U and non-U English usage, with “U” standing for “upper class”, and “non-U” representing the aspiring middle classes, was part of the terminology of popular discourse of social dialects in Britain in the 1950s. Wikipedia

Character in the Iliad with light sort of weapons (7)

here

makes the answer urn

sorry for repeating your answer gecko 🙂

Crafty edit on my part, not sure if the link worked though, and yours is more helpful.

Curious to know the answer to Lester’s Wise Place To Go For A Holiday (8).