Cryptic caves

[andybrooks]

Shuffle to secret target in the Pyrenees (6, 8).

 

[andys]

Grotte Casteret?

 

[andybrooks]

C'est lui! Tout à vous . . .

 

[andys]

Have a go at this one then....

"Ancestral whistle set played in County Clare?" ( 2,10,7 )

 

[rm128]

Is it a little-known entrance somewhere between St Catherine's One and Aran View Swallet?

 

[andys]

Yep, its somewhere in there - and that makes it your go!

 

[rm128]

How about this then:

"Collection of top-tier Scottish football teams enunciate Corporate Responsibility around law" (8, 5)

 

[rm128]

Time for a clue then. You're looking for a short, very small section of passage in the Dales.

 

[ChrisB]

With your clue, I'm halfway there, definitely 'something' Crawl, but I don't know enough details of Dales caves and all I can get for a Collection of top-tier Scottish football teams is Premiership, which is obviously wrong.

 

[rm128]

With your clue, I'm halfway there, definitely 'something' Crawl, but I don't know enough details of Dales caves and all I can get for a Collection of top-tier Scottish football teams is Premiership, which is obviously wrong.

You’re definitely on the right track. Think of an acronym for the Scottish premiership.

 

[ChrisB]

I have never been to Spectacle Pot, but Splutter Crawl fits the clues (reading about it, it doesn't fit much else!)

 

[rm128]

It fits very small cavers. And it is the correct answer. Over to you...

 

[ChrisB]

Since I'm new to this game, there will be a brief pause while I read 280 cryptic pages to see what's already been done…

 

[ChrisB]

A mixed up non-musical life partner makes a space at the end of the day

 

[ChrisB]

I should add, it's 6, 4.

 

[ChrisB]

Time for a clue then. Somebody non-musical might be considered tuneless. Also to clarify that the clue is in two parts, either of which leads to the answer.

 

[rm128]

Ahh. I've suspected for a while that the solution is Sunset Hole, but I couldn't make it fit with the first half of the clue. Would I be correct in thinking that "other half" is sometimes abbreviated as OH? Devious!

 

[ChrisB]

Yes, Sunset Hole indeed. I understood OH to be a well known abbreviation, apologies if not. Over to you.

 

[Fulk]

Well . . . an anagram based on letters that didn't actually appear in the clue – as rm says, that is devious!

 

[ChrisB]

Apologies, it's called an indirect anagram. Wikipedia suggests they are now considered unfair, so I won't do any more!

Being new to the thread, I made the mistake of solving the previous clue without having one ready to post, so was under pressure and all the previous clues I'd thought of looked too easy.