@Will Potential CCCC solution (not too confident): NUTMEAT. The definition is the whole thing (&lit), and the wordplay is to anagram (as indicated by "perhaps") "tan minute" into iNUTMEATn, and then take the kernel (inside) to get NUTMEAT.

Right answer, incomplete reasoning. :)

Note which letters are unused.

I see that it could be "in nutmeat" (or "nutmeat in"), but I don't see how that helps with the indicators.

If "kernel" doesn't indicate taking the middle, what does it indicate?

the kernel of a nut is called NUTMEAT, so it is "in nutmeat, kernel"

perhaps tan minute (iNUTMEATn*); kernel (def)

Huh?

^

Isn't it an &lit?

Yes.

hm

/prepared for groans

So how is "kernel" involved in the wordplay? I don't get it.

it's not. or, it's not a &lit.

or we're both deeply confused. :)

It is, and it is.

And you are.

Ok then :)

then I'm not sure why GPR's initial answer is wrong.

^

I only offered mine as a crappier explanation given you said the first one wasn't it. I'm now quite confundled.

As am I.

Look at where the letters in TAN ended up.

Beginning and end of NUTMEAT. So?

and the rest is

UTME

and here are the groans

???

@Rubio, do you follow?

not in the slightest

@Will, you might have to spell it out, unfortunately...

hm

So it turns out my attempt to make a comma significant to the wordplay did not work at all.

oh god

@GentlePurpleRain M IN UTE

perhaps tan minute -> UTME in NAT ... somehow ...

but still not getting kernel?

I'm lost. @Deusovi please to explain :)

oh

GOD.

M in UTE is the "kernel" of TAN* (ie it's placed in the center)

I just just got that

full clue parse should be "anagram of TAN (with) (M in UTE) placed in the center"

That is not kosher.

indeed is ok

Yeahhh. Most of it's fine, but MINUTE --> M in UTE isn't

MinUTE, i'm pretty sure is not.

hehe

Like I said, INDEED is questionable, but typically allowed because "indeed" comes from "in deed"

Here's another one of the same variety:

Minion wearing knockout getup (6)

kimono

K(I(M)ON)O

Easy when you know the gimmick.

I'd maybe accept that as part of a variety cryptic. But definitely not a regular one.

I'm interested to see your opinion on the final clue of the latest meta

CCCC: Criminals take sanctuary, having at muses. (12)

Finesse contest starts with "Go ahead?" (5)

(the meta)

I hope it's not BLUFF

Can someone fix the stars for me? I'm on mobile.

Sure.

It isn't bluff

oh, Rubio got it

good. I was bluffing there ;)

Hm, I can't think of anything immediately.

I won't spoil it, but I do have to put my phone down

GRACE?

poor phone. do be sure to give it a proper burial. maybe say a few words.

damn.

yeah, definitely GRACE

that's gotta be it

G_ + RACE

may I put that in my answer, with due credit?

Go ahead. ;)

Is the quotation section kosher?

Totally

Ehhhhhh. I don't know.

I wouldn't use it.

why wouldn't it be?

Why would it be?

ahead instead of head?

yeah, using "ahead" as "head"

Glad you agree haha

it's... questionable

Meh. I guess that is dodgy. But I was looking at it cluing G, so I guess it was effective if not proper. hehe

I mean, there was no oh god moment haha

lol. true that.

The green light clue is what I asked the lit question about

Yeah, I don't think that would be valid.

There's no def there.

So with the "Yo dawg", I really wanted the contest to be one of the epicrapbattlesofhistory.com

With go ahead responding to unfinished business

If you managed to fit "response to" in there, then that'd be fine, but in this case it'd mess up the wordplay

Right

The yo dawg is from the xhibit meme from pimp my ride

Hm... I was going to make another variety cryptic, but I can't think of a good way to implement the current rebus theme.

Hang on, the fortnightly theme doesn't have to apply to the WHOLE puzzle does it?

Nah.

As in, it's alright to have a puzzle in which only one section is rebuses

Alright, cool

If anyone has been meaning to upvote/accept something of mine and not bothering, doing it in the next 25 minutes will enable me to be an Epic Visual Necromancer. (This is not a request for any rep I wouldn't have got at all otherwise. The Epic badge can wait for another occasion if need be.)

wow, that was quick (or maybe it had nothing to do with my comment above) :-). Actually, it looks like today I'm a Nice Epic Visual Necromancer.

You're welcome

Nice. Grats @GarethMcCaughan!

(though it hasn't actually given me Epic yet; I assume it takes a little while before one part of the system knows what another is doing)

heh. Whoops @BeastlyGerbil thanks for the metacryptic correction :)

aha, now I'm officially Epic. (One of only three on Puzzling; no prizes for guessing at least one of the others. The corresponding gold badge is Legendary and I think it'll be a while before even Rand gets that one.)

Congrats!

For some reason, I don't repcap much.

@Deusovi Just glancing at your profile, it doesn't look as if you do so much less than I do. You can't be too far from getting Epic, surely?

Oh huh, I'm at 48/50.

aha!

And here's me on 11/50

It's much harder to get lots of rep from good questions than from good answers

and that makes sense on most of Stack Exchange where the answers are (kinda, mostly) the valuable thing

Most of my rep comes from answers, even though my questions have a lot more work put into them. :/

but it's bonkers on Puzzling where, in effect, the setters are providing entertainment for the solvers

:) doesn't help that I'm not a very frequent poster (of questions or answers) in general

and the solvers get rewarded

Yeah, my highest voted answer is 12 words long.

595 worth of rep

wow!

and such a crappy question to get all that rep for answering, too :-)

wasn't there at some point a bit of a movement to squelch questions that were "merely" jokes rather than puzzles that happen to be funny?

Yeah. I remember a discussion that came up around the same time as I answered that one.

Speaking of high score-to-content ratios, this is my favorite answer on Math.SE:

(probably not the only one)