EGALITARIAN (E + GAL + I(TAR)I + AN)
Cuckoo lover is full of life. (7)
ANIMATE (ANI + MATE)
+++++
Messing about outside is boring (7)
TEDIOUS (anagram)
Martin sings a couple of words from The Sound of Music tune as he loads (9)
Martin sings a couple of words from The Sound of Music tune as he loads (9)
STEVEDORE (Steve + do + re)
+++++
Endorsed unconventional one like Rudy (3-5)
STEVEDORE (Steve + do + re)
I like this version better:
+++++
Endorsed misfit like Rudy (3-5)
RED-NOSED (anagram of ENDORSED)
The Pope disapproved of and shattered the endless geode (4)
DOGE (anagram of GEODE - E)
+++++
Spring cleaning at Elsinore. After placing the runner on a branch, she beats the treed rug. (8)
Spring cleaning at Elsinore. After placing the runner on a branch, she beats the treed rug. (8)
GERTRUDE (anagram)
+++++
Taking something to someone after the first of December’s relieving somehow. (10)
DELIVERING (d + relieving)
Injecting oxygen in Einstein? That’s clever. (9)
INGENIOUS (IN GENIUS + O)
We and she will escort you. (5)
USHER (us + her)
+++++
Terrible rhyme about Ethiopia’s first toymaker/dentist. (6)
HERMEY the misfit elf (rhyme + e)
Leaky rum ruined headpiece. (8)
YARMULKE (leaky rum)
The boss is talking like the boss (6)
The answer is a homophone where both words indicate something being in charge of other things.
And they have have both a different number of letters and a different set of starting letters, so only one of them can be the answer.
Kernel (colonel)?
Keyser? (as in Söze. Even though Kaiser doesn’t have a different number of letters.)
Best I can think of is EMPLOYER (Implore ya) but of course that’s not it.
Yep.
The Kernel is the boss of the operating system. The Colonel is the boss of a regiment.
(And I wouldn’t have gone for Keyzer because that would be too obscure for the clue as given.)
As a guy who has a hard time distinguishing the meanings of “bit” and “byte,” I submit that the clue as written is also a little obscure.
Anyway, @Oly, you’re in the hot seat.
Word is, in tiny land one can get tasted in big mug (13)