Sex Changing

A couple to kick off-

Located pile (5,5)

Forge? (4,4)

When nuclear fusion is definitely not available? "Fission: If possible"

Some more;

Bog bodies (3, 3)
Meal cover (6, 6)
Cheshire cat? (5, 5)

An even raunchier version of a famous 80's soft-porn music video- "Girls on MILF"

Attic (4,4)

Classy effort JPR, switching both M and F in the on title. Though that's not a mandatory miracle. I'm still fond of this precis:

Babysitting submariner = MINDING NEMO

And after your elegant make fake and found mound, SK, try these tougher two:

Calibre of courage
Minor tweak?

tangentially (there's a word to conjure with) if I may:
one-"word" clues to movie/book titles eg:
RustyCate (5, 4)

DA is your first Might fight?

Middle fiddle, DA?

Bigger things (6,6)

His bio is on a chocolate wrapper (7,7)

Close SK. Think Dopey, if you don't mind the inference.

And Sam, the calibre of courage is (6,6).

Is there a notable Mantale on a Fantale?

Ah yes, the old midget fidget. Nice.

oh - mettle fettle!

Sk was your attic roof/room?

Yes it was Sam.

How about-

Defend against shock (7,7)

SK - Fantale Mantale

Boxing day sale hazard (4,4)

Eel expedition (5,5)

Brainiacs get answers quicker? (11,11)

And an old chant from the hippie era, though I'm sure it wasn't meant this way...

"Fake love, not war"

Aim of accelerated learning (6,6)

How Frosty experienced spring (4,4)

Got both, Mr X, I promise, but I'll let others have a crack. Accelerated learning is a jewel.

So too MORAY FORAY, SK. Shades of the Parramatta peoples. And Masterminds own fasterminds, oui?

Surely the Boxing Day hazard ain't a MYER FIRE? Are we turning to homofones?

One for the homies: Delivery Status Error

Boxing day sale hazard was more generic than that - no homophone, although I do like Myer Fire...

Mr X - Faster master;
Felt melt.

On the movie front, I'm looking forward to the 2012 comedic parody: Meet the Mockers

I may be using a dubious definition here but:

Lower level (4,4)

Boxing Day must be mall fall?

And I was thinking about Masterminds having faster finds, but either answer works.

dull wiggle (4,4)

I'm awake to your skulduggery, Mr X. Unlike some.

That last one leads to a whole other Wiggly puzzle. Combine the non-skivvied part of the double above with a 2nd Wiggle to reveal a famous Australian whose (3rd Wiggle) of expertise is as a celebrity (4th Wiggle). Plus his place of business is something the Wiggles have won plenty of times.

endure the heat (6,6)

We are at the moment. (Bring on football season.) Nice to use a double too.

Re your Wiggles poser, I may need to apply the Number Rumba.

Oops, just realised my "lower level" was included in the intro.

Too good, Mr X...

Dull wiggle is MATT FATT, no doubt because he falls asleep alot.

Which makes your conundrum answers:

Matt, Moran, Field, Cook and Aria...

Christmas with my nieces clearly came in handy for some things!

Two more, the second in Mr X's iffy vein:

Wood spirit
Second bar

correction to an earlier one:
harbour meal

following on from Mr X:

Drag shock-absorber

Sam, I just twigged to your FOGGY MOGGY...nice.

DA, is your second bar MOMENT FOMENT?

BUMMER BUFFER (and a nice follow-on from the sweltering clue...)

No, but you have the right sense of 'second'. While Sam - how does FARINA MARINA float your boat?

And to distract you in the meantime:

Turducken

indeed it does, as does your Meat Feat?

Brad and Angelina take the kids shopping in "Legends of the Mall"

Mel Gibson returns settlement documents to Oksana's lawyers in "Mad Fax"

DA, your previous two must be

Elm elf; and
jiffy jimmy (and hence the 'iffy' refernece)

Turducken is just plain confusing and will no doubt keep my brain occupied tonight.

Hawthorn fairy

Couch potato?

Sex changes: turning Manny the tranny into a Fanny?

DOUBLES:
Agonise this season (6)
Employer stutter (7)
Change brightness? (6)
Softens hardships (7)

Homofone- Red drink? (6)

Ah, I see bummer/buffer has already been done.

Instigate instant (6)

Skim carefully, Nib. As FOMENT MOMENT has also been done - though admittedly as a false stab.

I like STAFFER STAMMER - a lowly sequel to The King's Speech?

Stalling for time on your others.

Was attempting a 'mafia'-related switcheroo and stumbled across a nice find for the Contraband Countdown from a few weeks ago:
FamILIAL

Kosciusko spring (8,8)

Fountain mountain - a gem we'd all overlooked.

A few more:

Panelbeater?
Fake flautist
Nanny agent

Fender mender, DA.

On a similar track, how about-

Impact of speeding, and how to avoid penalty?

...and I think we have all been very well behaved, and have avoided the elephant in the room. But somebody has to do it-

Make a complete hash of the last day of school (no need to post answer)

Ahem, speaking of elephant in the room, I wonder if Powderfinger fans know this guy's schtick?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Manning

sticks grub
dubious pad
pinch cow
Bryan's cheerful

Faggot maggot, moot foot, ?, merry Ferry

Nib, one of yours was differ dimmer?

DA, is your fake flautist a mimer fifer? Great split double!

^ Yep.

Pinch cow- filch milch?

sweet soldier

and yes to above Nib

Herman knows how to party (7,7)

(Nib: I liked your SUFFER SUMMER, but Mr X beat you to it with "endure the heat".)

Is nanny agent Minder Finder?

I could go x-rated on this one, but let's keep things nice:

Muhammad Ali (6,6)

Trumpeting centaur? (7, 3-4)

Muhammad Ali = fitful mitful? :P

@Nib fanfare man-mare!
Fitful mitful is cute but not what I was thinking.

Tick - FIFER MIMER
Tick - MINDER FINDER

And Sam - TOFFY TOMMY - or the homofone version, like Nib's COMMIE COFFEE?

Still to snare Robskee's Ali. And a lovely morsel from overnight:

Cocktail bar

DA, I was thinking of Toffy, apparently you can spell it this way too, according to an older dictionary?

Maybe I should have added a question mark:
Muhammad Ali? (6,6)
or else made it more straightforward:
Honorific boxer (6,6)

Shock absorbers for bad trips? (7,7)

Is the cocktail bar a mixture fixture ?

Tis, X - well done.

And Boniface, BUMMERS BUFFERS has done the rounds in earlier posts.

Any takers for Robskee's Ali, or some of Sam's set? Or this gnarly customer:

Keep shame

Mister fister

And apologies for the oversight. A busy topic DA which should supply you with plenty of Spoonerism material to muck around with!

That's it Boniface.

In this universe of ForM perhaps Irvine Welsh gets to have written Harper Lee's classic.

Fortify mortify, DA (I put it out there earlier as "defend against shock")

I posted 3 of Sam's 4 earlier....I'm starting to lose track of what has been solved and what is still out there...

Bad outlaw (6,6)

Does get addling after a while, I agree SK. Hard to think of a system that keeps the unsolved clues on the table.

My own solution was FORTIFICATION MORTIFICATION, but didn't mean to flich your thunder.

Aha, Boniface: MORBID FORBID. Nice. Also could be clued as 'Keep happy?'

School break

Under-prepared soft drink? (6,6)

Hey, did anyone make any progress on Turducken? If not, any more hints, DA?

Here's a couple of my others with word-length hints, plus another-

School break (4,4)

Impact of speeding, and how to avoid penalty? (7, 5, 2)

Red in the bed? (5, 5)

King's doom ? (4,4)

Would that be mate fate Mr X?

Lucille Ball (4,4)

It would.

Hello, who smokes? (4,4)

Mags fags.

(I was thinking of a variation...."GQ perhaps (3,3)", but thought it may offend...)

Now combining F/M play with Spoonerism:

Sally laughing at Scot's wet body (5,5; 5,5)

A nod to SK for part of this.

A few easy ones:

Notoriety arrived (4,4)
Missing post? (4,4)
Insane craze (3,3)
Appetite? (4,4)

And slightly trickier:

Oedipus? (2-2)
Head criminal (5,5)
Blade of grass? (6,6)

Turducken - meat feat.

Meat feat is good to go.

JT, your easy ones: fame came, mail fail, mad fad, food mood.

Among the trickier: mo-fo [classic], melon felon, um...millet fillet?

Sorry, I missed the earlier answer for Turducken (and never having heard of the word, I thought it was some twisted wordplay).

How does "fame came" work? Are we introducing a third gender? (male, female, child?) But Oedipus is excellent.

Paddy gossip (6,6)

Is Lucille Ball - Mame fame? (And cancel fame came - don't know what came over me.)

SK - me too. I thought Turducken was some German word until I looked it up and found it to be a beautiful portmanteau of turkey/duck/chicken. Pshaw!

SK was I was thinking of a version of your last one with 'false law'?

Stargazers? (6,6)

Following on from above a homophone clue:

Two dim sounds mock bird (3,5; 8)

Yes Sam, paddy gossip = false law (sorry did you post that earlier? I'm losing track here).

And correct weight DA on Mame fame.

Still struggling with Boniface's spoonerism. And Stargazers looks intriguing as well. Think I need to go to the nearest fixture for another mixture to unblock the brain cells...

Anybody got "school break" yet, as we we are smack in the middle of school hols?

no SK, was just thinking about it when I read yours and it clicked that you beat me to it

Boniface, was your spoonerism along the lines of:

Forth mirth firth forth?

Haven't got your two dim sounds yet Sam, but it made me think of another-

Made two distinct (human) sounds (6,6)

not sure if that clue works or not SK, possibly should be 'too dim sounds...' anyway, relates to other fabulous North American beasts

SK - Hummed huffed

Sam - two words are right. Now if you were to look at a map of NE Scotland...

... sorry make that NW Scotland...

finch minch? As in the Christie character?

so it would be Finch mirth Firth Minch?

I think you'll enjoy the second half of this song, great wordplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuF6CpML3IQ

Cheeky friendly (6)

well done DA on mine... As for 'notereity arrived', i was indeed intending fame came. Who knows what i was thinking? Small consolation is that i misled you into the same error :)

Sam - not quite. Think Loch Ness...

Boniface, is it mirth foray, firth moray?

Almost. It's foray mirth, Moray Firth (the firth that Loch Ness drains into).

well done SK!

Utterer of mutter butter fingers (7,7)

That would be a FUMBLER MUMBLER, Boniface.

(I've been trying to do somthing with Jimmy Buffett's name, as JIFFY BUMMETT sounds outrageous.)

Yes, and I've left Buffy the Vampire Slayer well alone for the same reason.

As for SK's Red in the bed? (5, 5), is that comfy commy?

School break is TAFE tame, I reckon. Nice one.

Correct on both, Boniface.

Here's a slightly different version of the "Stargazers?" clue as the solution involves some uncommon words. Though derived from DA's original post, the answer is not quite as random as one might think:

Stargazing society? (6,6)

Cut off jawbone? (7,7)

DA, as this section seems to have quietened off, please let me know when it's good to post answers.

Agreed, Boniface. The storm has lulled. With a few unsolved clues in its wake, which can be the upshot of a mad cascade.

Which of your outstanding clues remain outstanding? And is anoyone else out there with privileged inForMation?

Solutions:

Under-prepared soft drink? (6,6)
Prefix premix

Stargazing society? (6,6)
Fandom mandom

Cut off jawbone? (7,7)
Chamfer chaffer

Nice.

I think my only residual was-

Impact of speeding, and how to avoid penalty? (7, 5, 2)

Demerit, defer it

Tough Boniface. PREFIX PREMIX is the swill of choice at the MIXTURE FIXTURE.

DEFER IT - love it. A great quasi-storm.

Cheeky friendly = CHUFFY CHUMMY

bog bodies - FEN MEN
hawthorn fairy - MAY FAY
couch potato? - SOFA SOMA
Too dim sounds mock bird - TOO MURKY TOFURKEY