I would consider that not Ximenean compliant because there is no real way to determine which parts of RIN TIN TIN one is supposed to use. Furthermore “dog” could be just about anything. It takes two steps of wordplay to get from “dog” to RIIN, and both steps are vaguely described.
Thanks for the feedback. If the letters needed were all and only what was in RIN TIN TIN, (I, N, R, T) and the dog were more specified (movie, German Shepherd Dog, etc.) maybe that would work. I’ve definitely seen Lassie and Rin Tin Tin used, where you had to guess them and then use parts of them.
Or Rin Tin Tin would have to be spelled out and clued as providing the letters needed, like the latest Nation one Lipread -> parallelepiped
Oprah in shape, with a changed diet? Beauty queen! (9)
APHRODITE (anag OPRAH + anag DIET)
Peas all over top of dishwasher after train went by (7)
ELAPSED
EL+APSE*+D
×××××
“First People Wearing Sneakers” is title taken by Hindus in 1900 (9)
Bump because this is bugging me. 1900 = MCM ? First people Adam and Eve?
Sneakers - spies? shoes?
First People - indigenous is too long…
argh
Woman crashes board (5)
So, I went to the Wall Street Journal site and found their archive of monthly cryptics. Decided to start with the most recent and work backwards. Printed out the first and actually finished it in a few days. However, there were a few answers where I had enough crossing letters and figured out the definition, but still didn’t understand the whole clue. With some serious mental gymnastics I managed to puzzle out all of them but one.
Started keeping upper floor like a garden trellis (8)
Started on the previous archived puzzle and doing even better, one evening and I’m more than half done. Don’t have the theme and the secret letters yet, but soon.
ETA: Ah, just figured it out.
The basketball puzzle. I have not started that one yet. I just completed “Sandwich Shop,” which was quite enjoyable.
In the backlog of Saturday puzzles, some are labelled “cryptic,” while others are labelled “variety.” I have been checking each catagory so that I do not miss a Rathvon/Cox puzzle. They are not always tough, but they are almost always elegant.
Hint:
“First Person Wearing Sneakers” is title taken by Buddhist in 1889 (9)
Oh, I’m glad I didn’t give the answer then. When you’ve finished, come back and let me know what you thought of it.
And if anyone else figures out that clue, please put any discussion in a spoiler box.
“Surely”, surely? Anyway, DISGUISERS.
xxxxx
CD shows venery?! Nuts. It must be 1984 (4,5,3)
I am fond of the Cox/Rathvon circular grid puzzles. This one (Shooting Hoops) was a lot of fun. I completed it tonight after work. I especially liked this amusing clue:
Manse for Senate aide containing bad lighting? (9)
(Note: If anyone posts an answer to this clue, please use a spoiler box so that those who want to try to complete the original puzzle are not spoiled.)
xxxxx
In a regular cryptic puzzle, the solver first answers as many clues as possible and then uses the information learned from crossing answers to solve the rest. One of the troubles with this thread is that there is no secondary way to discover the answers to the tougher cryptic clues we post. In a crossword or variety puzzle, you can always use crossing letters to help figure out the more difficult clue answers. Help!
I think if an original clue goes unsolved for more than a day or two here, a helpful crossing letter might generously be given by the poser.
Therefore, in that spirit, I will reveal that the second letter is “R” for the answer to this clue:
“First People Wearing Sneakers” is title taken by Hindus in 1900 (9)
Anyone else feeling generous with regard to their unsolved cryptics?
BROAD
Communication is finally reaching a maximum (8)
SPEAKING
S +PEAKING
XXXXX
Young lady pines, they say, for unsolved puzzles (9)
Leftover from a while ago:
Player - to initiate thread: defrag, restart 3 (and a bit more) times. (6)
Since it’s been in play for quite awhile, I’ll solve it – it’s obviously homebrewed.
To start or restart in computers is BOOT; a bit more than 3 is PI. defrag that, and you get the name of the Player who initiated this thread: BIOTOP.
And here I was playing around with Pi and x (times) or “defrag” but with a different initiating letter. Sigh.
MYSTERIES
anagram (MISSY+TREE)
Woohoo I got one! I’ll get back to you when I have a cryptic done. 
What makes this one difficult is it’s another case of an anagram not being explicitly spelled out in the clue itself (and thus not Ximenean compliant). There’s just too many possibilities when the anagram requires guessing the words the author is going for.
It’s kind of like playing an old Sierra point-and-click adventure game. Eventually you just look up the answer because you can’t read the designer’s mind.
Duly noted. I’ll work at it.
I would surely like a hint on this one.
Pit Jimmy Carter (6)