Cryptic crossword thread

Yes, it's harder without the grid.

Yes, Kitty! At least in the actual grid you often have one or two letters already there to help a bit.

Anyone else finding these harder because they are not in the grid itself?

I was clutching at straws, Lucky! The Paperboy is a US novel and movie and I thought it was worth a try...

But where's the US guy in that?

Paperboy... PAY + PROBE (something which can be 'popped in'....?

Ah, I hadn’t thought of guy rope. Rope of course is there in perbo, but there’s still a b left over...

I thought the US guy one might be something like Gratuity.... But does guy mean bloke, or joking, or rope as in tent?

My son and I used to compete to do the Monday Guardian cryptic. We had to stop because nothing much got done on a Monday till it was finished.

And bro’s in there for US guy? Leaving pe. No, still stumped.

Love the S0S - that is genius!

Well there’s pay around it for to give money. Leaving perbo. Perbo?

I think it might be paperboy becausethe last letter is y. But I can’t see why.

Oh I struggled with that one! I can see that this is going to take up a lot of my time

Eglantine’s is a hard one. A US guy.....

I still mourn the demise of the Guardian's Araucaria! I sometimes find that a clue I can't quite fathom in the morning presents a solution at bed time!

I can always see where the answers come from but just not always before they are printed the next day!

Even when you see the answer you can’t work out how it got there.

Hoping this thread will help to educate me .
Answers need to come with explanations!

Love this thread. I do the i cryptic crossword most days, or at least I struggle with it till I can complete it. That may take more than a day. Re the Grauniad, I agree some are easier to get to grips with than others - which for me remain forever inscrutable.

I haven't done any cryptic crosswords for years, so I'm rather out of practice. Struggling with your one Eglantine, but I'll keep trying.

This could be fun

Yes Eglantine and Jangran. Good, innit?

Jangran I'm not convinced there is a plural form of the word - or indeed a need for a plural form! But this was a clue in a respectable broadsheet newspaper many years ago, so who am I to disagree

Look away now if you don’t want to see the suggested answers.

Naughtinesses?

Naughtinesses?