Gurth's Cryptic Clues

[gurthbruins]

Note: This thread gets updated daily as I add more clues to it.

241. Funny chameleons? (6)

2411. ... loved by players of ---- ----. [soln: XZTW ZNPG]

2412. What twins sometimes become (4, 5) [soln]BMOI GDWHV

2413. If she got a new gun for a day, she'd be able to help the sick (4, 4)

241o. She's lower-class, so dominate her! (3)

241p. When you get there, intimidate the German workers, says the lisper (11) [soln: GRBHHSFHFXK]

241q. Where the less dead loop the loop [9]

241r. Close organs in town (8) [soln: HBJQRZXK]

241s. Relatively close (14) [soln: GRSWDSKXNRHTYV]
241t. Relatively closed (4) [soln: DOEU]

2431. If he is this, he does this (5) [Soln:GRZRW]

2432. Notable game for the sedentary? (7, 6) [soln:PZWLHEO HLDNVV]

2433. Sleeping draught? (5-3, 5) [soln:NSSFP-SXY TXSGK][/color]

2434. Notable matter (5) [GRZRW]

243b. Parole the first eight of this crowd! (8)

243i. In this village a Red Bull might be a particularly welcome thirst-quencher (3, 3)

2445. Cleary's country (8)

2446. Are these comments mainly metaphors? (9) [YORGCQJTF]

2447. He peruses Casanova's Memoirs, in which he reads about "love's little -----" (5)

245e. Come over the heart (6) [JBGHAU]

246c. Fish paste? No idea! Paste fish! (7) [CQBNWKR}

247. Anagram Blue M? (6) [TDYLNZ]

248. Turned down, with two animal organs on his head? (3-5) [XBQXCDVA]

249. He's in and out of the ABC of music, before and after flattening his nose (4) [xsF]

24a1. Joan's gift? (5, 8) [zoQ-e2<CVF]

24a2. What one of these eye-openers will do to the other? (5) [CpiG]

24b. What's your number? (8)

24c1. Eponymous heroine from a smaller town? (5, 8) [KTFJK WBUNKLKD]

24d8. The NODE gives only let, late, lent, la and ---- (4) [DPESX]

24dq. Obsolete British coin worth seven others (5, 6) [WENFJ QLUINO]

24e4. Love-twenty at Wimbledon? (10, 5) [MZPEXQZBNS LODWB]

24e5. A no-force soother? (7) [XLMOUMS]

24g. Motor bicycle with no front wheel, and no back wheel either! (6, 7) [QRVZLQ JDIJWBT]

24g1. On the menu at the Marine Arms? (8, 4) [CHFQUCIK TCEE]

24h. Group intent? (7) [XCBKFDE]

24i1. Why Gemini is a younger sign? (2, 2, 6) [PJSL VQENCU]

24i2. Juvenilia? (7, 6) [ZUWALMG SPQNRN]

24i3. Grave exercise? (7) [GBUCXNG]

24i4. Pay at length (4) [ODSM]

24i5. Grave pioneer? (4) [JYNH]

24i6. What a benefactor may do, after going down the drain? (4, 3, 11) [PUZDGVYJBQRUCHA]

24j1. And in this you see he hears to perfection (7) [DEWPXMG]

24j2. It has the ring of a fool, so it will be trampled (8) [MYNCUDRY]

24j3. To settle matters, kick the bird in the beak! (4, 3, 4) [ETICXFK MVHT]

24j4. Good place for obstacle races? (10) [WREGLPDQEI]

[alice]

thoughts ...
2411. WORD GAME ?
2412. STAR SIGNS ?

[gurthbruins]

2411: The ... stand for the answer to 241, so you'll probably need to solve that first.
2412: Becomes much easier if you've done 241 and 2412.

2413 is entirely separate. It's a bit too hard, so I'll give a letter: I--- ----.

[alice]

2411. Oh I thought it might be 'S' as ... is S in morse code that's why I thought people in a word game would love it!
What are the blue letters showing after some of the clues look like the answer in code, are they meant to be there ?

[gurthbruins]

... = S? Brilliant idea, I must use that in some future clues, maybe you want a royalty?

The idea of putting the solutions there is that I tend to forget them, and the puzzles are then beyond me! I have several of my old clues lying around which I can't solve - an embarrassment.

But where to put the solutions? If I put them anywhere else, I'll probably soon forget where they are! So I thought I'd put them in code and insert them after the clue. The code had to be simple, quick and easy to encode and decode, and to remember how to do that.

And if anyone wants to decipher it, well that's just one more puzzle for them, which they might also enjoy. Doesn't really matter to me if they break it! Otherwise I'd have made it harder.