Intermediate Cryptic

The problem with skeleton staff? (4, 4)

It's tiring using a colander (8)

Only pups are barking in a casual teaching job (2, 6) (This may be a British-only term. Sorry!)

At four, I spit on nose regularly, creating twists (8)

Slander - it's why you go to the dentist (8)

Launch attended mainly by beastly couples (5, 3)

No panini, strangely, but don't feel hurt (2, 2, 4)

Telephone at home - that's what an angler does (8)

REMEMBER! (1) Any word meaning "peculiar", "mad", "disorganised", "being rearranged","falling apart" etc. can be a clue to an ANAGRAM (2) "Regularly", "occasionally", "now and then", "evenly", "oddly" = only the odd or only the even letters in a phrase in the clue spell out the answer, e.g. "Oddly, BrEaD - iT Is MaE's moment to go to sleep (7)" = BEDTIME (3) TWO-CLUE PUNS give TWO definitions for the same word or phrase (e.g. "One perspiring in pullover (7)" = SWEATER) (4) BUT the clue will often mess with your head by making you think a noun is a verb or vice versa (5) BEASTLY = to do with animals (6) MAINLY = to do with the sea (7) ONE-CLUE PUNS only provide one definition, but the way it is phrased is highly ambiguous

thank you - yes, that's the only true one-clue pun in this puzzle

Intermediate Cryptic

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